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    Red Dead Redemption

    Game » consists of 23 releases. Released May 18, 2010

    Red Dead Redemption is the spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, featuring a vibrant, open world set in the decline of the American Wild West. Players take on the role of former outlaw John Marston, who is forced to hunt down his former gang to regain his family.

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    #1  Edited By Winternet

    Wait, didn't Giantbomb review Red Dead Redemption?

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    #2  Edited By Yummylee

    ....I don't get it. Is this for the quest?

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    #3  Edited By KennyPowers

    no

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    #4  Edited By alistercat

    No they didn't.

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    #5  Edited By zombie2011

    5 stars. 
     
    I'm reviewing this thread, not RDR.

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    #6  Edited By august

    There's like 5 threads on this topic.

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    #7  Edited By scarace360

    it got 10 stars.

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    #8  Edited By ch13696

    Of course they did. Didn't you see it? It's there. You just have to keep looking.

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    #9  Edited By Winternet

    Why didn't GB review RDR?

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    #10  Edited By SethPhotopoulos
    @Winternet said:
    " Why didn't GB review RDR? "
    They didn't get a review copy and it would take too long to beat for them to even write when it's relevant.  
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    #11  Edited By nautical_hero

    Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast.

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    #12  Edited By JJWeatherman
    @nautical_hero@yahoo.com said:
    " Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast. "
    Plus Bradley stated that it's probably his game of the year on the most recent zombie QL. A review isn't necessary, really. There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one.
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    #13  Edited By Winternet
    @JJWeatherman said:

    " @nautical_hero@yahoo.com said:

    " Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast. "
    Plus Bradley stated that it's probably his game of the year on the most recent zombie QL. A review isn't necessary, really. There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one. "
    C'mon, I am not asking for a review. I just asked why they didn't do it. And that argument is not valid. "  There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one." That goes for every game. So GB should stop doing reviews, because if you really want one there is plenty of them around?
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    #14  Edited By SethPhotopoulos
    @Winternet said:
    " @JJWeatherman said:

    " @nautical_hero@yahoo.com said:

    " Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast. "
    Plus Bradley stated that it's probably his game of the year on the most recent zombie QL. A review isn't necessary, really. There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one. "
    C'mon, I am not asking for a review. I just asked why they didn't do it. And that argument is not valid. "  There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one." That goes for every game. So GB should stop doing reviews, because if you really want one there is plenty of them around? "
    They didn't get the review copy son so they didn't have it early!  It took so many podcasts for them to even get to an end!  By the time they write the review people that would have bought it would have bought it and it would've been useless.
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    #15  Edited By JJWeatherman
    @Winternet said:

    " @JJWeatherman said:

    " @nautical_hero@yahoo.com said:

    " Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast. "

    Plus Bradley stated that it's probably his game of the year on the most recent zombie QL. A review isn't necessary, really. There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one. "
    C'mon, I am not asking for a review. I just asked why they didn't do it. And that argument is not valid. "  There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one." That goes for every game. So GB should stop doing reviews, because if you really want one there is plenty of them around? "
    The Giant Bomb staff have unique voices and write in a way I appreciate. Other than that though, other site's reviews serve just fine. I don't come here for the reviews alone, but if you do, then you should realize that it's a team of three editors that have to pick and choose what they cover extremely carefully. They're not going to get to everything unfortunately. So in this case, there are plenty of other sites, and you can go read a review there, or not at all. 
     
    And as mentioned above, they said the reason it never got done was because they were not sent a review copy. By the time they got the game and could get a review done, lots of other games were releasing and it would have caused a domino effect of everything being pushed back. That's according to Jeff at least. There are multiple threads about this review (or lack thereof).
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    #16  Edited By Winternet
    @JJWeatherman said:
    " @Winternet said:

    " @JJWeatherman said:

    " @nautical_hero@yahoo.com said:

    " Yeah, they said it's amazing only about a hundred times on the podcast. "

    Plus Bradley stated that it's probably his game of the year on the most recent zombie QL. A review isn't necessary, really. There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one. "
    C'mon, I am not asking for a review. I just asked why they didn't do it. And that argument is not valid. "  There are plenty of other sites out there if you really want one." That goes for every game. So GB should stop doing reviews, because if you really want one there is plenty of them around? "
    The Giant Bomb staff have unique voices and write in a way I appreciate. Other than that though, other site's reviews serve just fine. I don't come here for the reviews alone, but if you do, then you should realize that it's a team of three editors that have to pick and choose what they cover extremely carefully. They're not going to get to everything unfortunately. So in this case, there are plenty of other sites, and you can go read a review there, or not at all.  And as mentioned above, they said the reason it never got done was because they were not sent a review copy. By the time they got the game and could get a review done, lots of other games were releasing and it would have caused a domino effect of everything being pushed back. That's according to Jeff at least. There are multiple threads about this review (or lack thereof). "
    I understand they don't review everything, but RDR is pretty much on their alley (is this the right expression? Anyone?). But, hey, this was May so I didn't remember the reason for them not reviewing it. I don't remember what I did last week so . . .  
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    #17  Edited By Icadae
    @Winternet:  
     
    I believe the expression is; Right up their alley.
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    #18  Edited By Winternet
    @Icadae said:
    " @Winternet:   I believe the expression is; Right up their alley. "
    Thank you, sir.
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    #19  Edited By maskedarcstrike

    I have to go with giantbomb on this one as well, gametrailers and ign both had their reviews up,  which I'm sure other sites did as well on May 17th, a day before RDR came out which was May 18th.  I mean cmon it's a pretty big game and to review it after release when most other sites had their reviews up a day before just is not viable.

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    #20  Edited By Deusoma
    @SethPhotopoulos said:
    " @Winternet said:
    " Why didn't GB review RDR? "
    They didn't get a review copy and it would take too long to beat for them to even write when it's relevant.   "
    But they put out a review of Dante's Inferno almost a month after that game came out, which was surely after that particular game was still relevant.
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    #21  Edited By invasionone
    @Winternet said:

    " Wait, didn't Giantbomb review Red Dead Redemption? "

    From Jeff's formspring:  
    "  We thought about it for a bit, but with a lot of other things going on and the fact that our review would have been a lot later than everyone else's (we went out and bought a copy on release day), I decided that we should focus on other, more timely assignments.

    No one needs a 20th review that also says "hey, yeah, you should get it" when everyone's already buying it." 
     
    That about sums it up.
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    #22  Edited By Raineko

    This is really a sucky thing about bein a reviewer, you can´t really spend much time on playing one game.

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    #23  Edited By nail1080

    People who said they didn't get the game early enough to review are just making shit up because they are GB fanboys. The fact is that Brad has this game 100% cleared within the first week of it coming out. I don't come to GB for the 'exclusive' first reviews, I come for their unique reviews as I know the personality of the reviewer. There is no excuse, Brad should have reviewed it. Writing a few paragraphs about a great game should be no more than a mornings work for an experienced reviewer such as Brad, unfortunately laziness prevailed and it will always leave a weird missing game in the reviews page, especially if they vote the game GOTY.

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    @nail1080:  
    @Invasionone said:
    " @Winternet said:

    " Wait, didn't Giantbomb review Red Dead Redemption? "

    From Jeff's formspring:  "  We thought about it for a bit, but with a lot of other things going on and the fact that our review would have been a lot later than everyone else's (we went out and bought a copy on release day), I decided that we should focus on other, more timely assignments.
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    #25  Edited By Jack268

    The review was for paid members only

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    #26  Edited By SethPhotopoulos
    @Deusoma said:

    " @SethPhotopoulos said:

    " @Winternet said:
    " Why didn't GB review RDR? "
    They didn't get a review copy and it would take too long to beat for them to even write when it's relevant.   "
    But they put out a review of Dante's Inferno almost a month after that game came out, which was surely after that particular game was still relevant. "
      Invasionone 
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     said: 

    " Wait, didn't Giantbomb review Red Dead Redemption? "

    From Jeff's formspring:  
    "  We thought about it for a bit, but with a lot of other things going on and the fact that our review would have been a lot later than everyone else's (we went out and bought a copy on release day), I decided that we should focus on other, more timely assignments.

    No one needs a 20th review that also says "hey, yeah, you should get it" when everyone's already buying it." 
     
    That about sums it up.    
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    #27  Edited By Winternet
    @nail1080: It feels a bit weird, you're right, just looking to the overview of RDR on GiantBomb and don't seeing any review. It's more an aesthetic at this point, but still.
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    #28  Edited By alternate
    @Winternet: I think pppl are just testy because they remember this Q being asked a lot at the time.
     
    I would expect RDR to feature heavily in the end of year GOTY features.  I know everyone but Jeff (don't think he ever played it) really liked it and this year hasn't really been that stellar.
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    #29  Edited By Winternet
    @alternate: Indeed. Wait, are we really starting to talk about GOTY? Damn, the year is already ending.
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    #30  Edited By Deusoma

    Actually, what I really want to know is whether they're going to review the Undead Nightmare DLC. I almost never buy DLC because there's no way to demo it and see whether it's any good or not.

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