Online Liars’ Dice. I’m in.
I mean, ostensibly, there’s other content to look forward to in Red Dead Redemption’s “Liars And Cheats” DLC, the second piece of paid content released for Rockstar's wild west opus. It’s hypothetical that you’re looking forward to playing online Poker with your cowpolks and cowfolks in bars across all of New Austin. Or maybe you’re interested in some multiplayer Horse Racing action, where you’ll take your Kentucky Saddler and your pistol as you race your friends for cash and XP.
But as far as I’m concerned, that’s all just window dressing, and I’m looking forward to the damn window. Or maybe I'm not! I could be lying about my window. That’s how much I love lying. And Dice.
So, while I’m sitting with the drunks in Thieves’ Landing, shaking my leather cup and lying about how many fours I have (I’ll tell them I have three, but the joke is on them!), y’all can enjoy the rest of Red Dead’s latest content update, due out on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on September 21 for $10 or 800 Microsoft Points. And there’s more content here then you might expect!
== TEASER ==Due to, as Rockstar describes it in the press release, the “platform networks’ restrictions on numbers of free (DLC) packs we can give away”, (which is secret code for, “because Microsoft doesn’t want to give away things for free, so neither platform can get this content for free), Rockstar is not going to be able to release the Free Roam DLC pack--which features comprehensive enhancements to the online Free Roam mode--on its own without charging for it. It sounds like Rockstar intended for that pack to be released as download free. However. as a compromise, the Free Roam DLC is being rolled into the Liars and Cheats pack and released as a single pack. So, it’s still free content! You just have to pay $10 to get that free content.
Here’s the full list of features that your $10 will get you in the Liars and Cheats pack.
- Multiplayer Poker and Liars' Dice Games
- Multiplayer Horse Races
- The Explosive Rifle (along with corresponding single player and multiplayer challenges)
- 7 New Gang Hideouts
- 4 New Hunting Grounds
- Stronghold Competitive Multiplayer Mode (a new Attack-And-Defend team-based mode)
- Posse Scoring and Leaderboards (now your posse has a rank on the leaderboards!)
- 15 multiplayer skins (taken from the single player campaign)
- New achievements and trophies
There’s still some information about features in the pack that we don’t know yet, like if pistol dueling will still play a role in multiplayer Poker (it should!), but that’s still sounds like a pretty sizable chunk of content for only $10. If you’re still playing Red Dead online, it sounds like you may want to give this pack.
Which brings us to the question; are you still playing Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer mode? And, if you are, do you want to play Liars’ Dice with me?