Red Dead Redemption 2 launches a few days ahead of Halloween and there’s still much we don’t know. Story details trickle out every so often, but information in that regard remains scarce. The multiplayer aspect is arguably the game’s most mysterious, however. Take-Two’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick, refuses to divulge anything substantial. Yet, that hasn’t stopped him from teasing the Red Dead Redemption 2 online experience as something spectacular.
During an earnings call, the same one in which Zelnick lauded RDR 2 as a game changer, the CEO said he thinks Red Dead’s online suite will “shatter expectations.”
…When we first released Grand Theft Auto V and we had Grand Theft Auto Online on its heels, we had never done anything like that. We Take-Two, we Rockstar Games, had never done anything like that. We didn?t know what to expect. And the cadence of its ongoing extraordinary success too is new to us. Does it inform how we look at titles that come after" Well, naturally, it does. But the nature of our approach collectively, specifically, the nature of Rockstar Games approach, is never to be derivative and always to shatter expectations. And my belief is that Red Dead Redemption 2 will shatter expectations and that the online experience also will be extraordinary, but unexpected. And my view is that all great hits are, by their very nature, unexpected.
So that?s the goal. There is an expectation around the table, here of ...