Red Dead Redemption in 5 Minutes

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00:00:02.750Red Dead Redemption 2 is upon us these

00:00:05.940are massive story driven games with huge

00:00:07.890cast of characters so there's a ton to

00:00:09.570get caught up on this is the story of

00:00:11.280Red Dead so far

00:00:14.719rockstars journey to the Old West began

00:00:17.010with Red Dead Revolver the tale of

00:00:18.779bounty hunter red Harlow but the series

00:00:20.850really came alive with Red Dead

00:00:22.289Redemption and the story of John Marston

00:00:24.210in the year 1911 the Wild West is

00:00:26.789becoming less wild and retired

00:00:28.380gunfighter John Marston has a problem

00:00:30.210blackmailed by government agent Edgar

00:00:32.250Ross John is tasked with hunting down a

00:00:33.930killer and former friend named Bill

00:00:35.670Williamson but Williamson is holed up

00:00:37.530with a gang in a nearly impregnable for

00:00:39.570John's conversation with Bill goes

00:00:41.550pretty badly terribly wounded and left

00:00:44.850for dead he's rescued by rambunctious

00:00:46.469Rancher Bonnie McFarlane well you're

00:00:48.360alive Bonnie helps John recover in an

00:00:50.460exchange he does some work around the

00:00:51.960ranch but to become fast friends

00:00:53.730he also befriends Bonnie's father true

00:00:55.500hero it'll be welcome here

00:00:57.120after healing up John heads to armadillo

00:00:59.250and meets Marshall Leigh Johnson

00:01:00.780they share a mutual interest in taking

00:01:02.250down Bill's gang your persistent little

00:01:04.260Gus age bill doesn't take kindly to this

00:01:06.299and kidnaps Bonnie John rescues her from

00:01:08.280the noose and assembles a strange cast

00:01:10.020of allies snake-oil huckster nigel west

00:01:12.360dickens grave robber seth briars and a

00:01:14.909con man named irish together they rig a

00:01:17.250wagon with a concealed Gatling gun and

00:01:18.960bluffed their way into the fort

00:01:21.409they eradicate the gang but williamson

00:01:24.000escapes that's the last up we still

00:01:26.759can't find Williamson anywhere John

00:01:28.530learns the bill has joined another

00:01:29.700former ally Javier escuela and the two

00:01:32.040are hiding somewhere in Mexico

00:01:33.450John crosses the border in pursuit and

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00:01:41.600Jon meets a retired old gun fighter

00:01:43.500named Landon Ricketts who teaches him a

00:01:45.330few tricks before he knows that John is

00:01:47.070playing both sides in an ongoing Mexican

00:01:48.930revolution working with the rebels and

00:01:50.490the government alike as he searches for

00:01:51.930Bill and Javier after rescuing

00:01:53.820revolutionary leader Abraham Reyes from

00:01:55.500the firing squad John is betrayed by

00:01:57.000captain vicente de santa rays returns

00:02:02.160the favor and saves john from being

00:02:03.660executed john catches up with the santa

00:02:05.640and deals with him and accompanies

00:02:07.410raised in an attack on a fort or

00:02:08.850escuelas waiting John takes escuela and

00:02:10.950turns him over to Ross the revolution

00:02:13.620reaches its climax and John finds

00:02:15.240himself in the thick of the battle

00:02:16.320outside the palace of the tyrannical

00:02:17.970Colonel Allende after a pitched battle

00:02:20.370John spots williamson escaping in an

00:02:22.020armored wagon and rides him down after a

00:02:25.680final encounter he leaves Bill's body in

00:02:27.570the dirt returning to America John is

00:02:33.780strong-armed by agent Ross into tracking

00:02:35.610down the leader of his old gang dutch

00:02:37.020van der Linde

00:02:37.830cornering dutch doesn't prove easy the

00:02:39.720old outlaw is wily preying on

00:02:41.220desperation he's recruited a powerful

00:02:42.870gang including many young Native

00:02:44.220American men looking for a better life

00:02:45.799Dutch has long dreamed of creating a

00:02:48.030sort of better outlaw society outside of

00:02:50.130regular society's norms but he's

00:02:51.660gradually become mad and murderous with

00:02:55.500the help of a Native American named

00:02:56.610nasta Sand a disgraced and Craven writer

00:02:58.500named Harold MacDougall John manages to

00:03:00.360locate Dutch he's almost killed for his

00:03:02.190troubles as a bullet fired by Dutch

00:03:03.690glances off the binoculars John is

00:03:05.250holding several encounters with the fan

00:03:08.430der Linde gang follow in which nastas is

00:03:10.110killed in MacDougal is driven back east

00:03:11.810finally John and Edgar Ross corner Dutch

00:03:14.190in the Hills using a machine gun in an

00:03:16.019armored wagon John overcomes Dutch his

00:03:17.880small army and pursues him up a mountain

00:03:19.769and through a mine in the end the old

00:03:21.570outlaw commits suicide long time has

00:03:23.580passed John returns home to his small

00:03:28.980ranch to find it in disrepair there we

00:03:31.290meet his family his wife Abigail a

00:03:33.030former sex worker and associate of the

00:03:34.680gang as well as their son Jack who spent

00:03:36.600much of his childhood raised by outlaws

00:03:38.190hello sir we also meet a cantankerous

00:03:40.320old gang member named uncle who lives

00:03:42.150under John's care

00:03:44.100to warm and tender embrace John tries to

00:03:46.800rebuild his shattered life after his

00:03:48.090long absence he returns to the mundane

00:03:49.920tasks of the farm by his cattle from

00:03:51.600Bonnie McFarlane chases off crows and

00:03:53.490tries to rebuild the rift that's formed

00:03:54.930between him and his teenage son but

00:03:57.000before he can get things back in order

00:03:58.380of vast posse appears under the command

00:04:00.300of agent Ross looks like things is about

00:04:02.100to get settled once and for all

00:04:03.780John is betrayed uncle is killed John

00:04:06.150holds off the army long enough for

00:04:07.350Abigail and Jack to escape stepping into

00:04:09.360the open to face his fate John draws

00:04:10.980fires his final shots and his gun down

00:04:19.880three years later Abigail Marston is

00:04:22.200also dead Jack now a young man says

00:04:24.480goodbye at his parents gravesite and

00:04:25.980picks up the trail of the retired Edgar

00:04:27.570Ross he finds the angry old man hunting

00:04:29.700beside a pastoral Riverside the two draw

00:04:31.830on one another jack is faster and Ross

00:04:33.690Falls oh and then there was also an

00:04:42.060alternate timeline where everybody was a

00:04:43.470zombie and that's where the story of Red

00:04:45.270Dead stands so far if you're late to the

00:04:47.280party don't worry because Red Dead

00:04:48.660Redemption 2 takes place way back in

00:04:50.5201899 before Red Dead Redemption 1 where

00:04:53.190we'll meet younger incarnations of a

00:04:54.630number of the characters we know and

00:04:55.800love as well as some new ones see you

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00:04:58.050for everything Red Dead keep it right

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