Red Dead Redemption 2, at first glance, is not a historical game, at least not in the Assassin’s Creed sense. Ubisoft’s multi-year RPG shows growing interest in its different settings and time periods, culminating in the addition of a special Discovery Tour for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, in which players can explore their respective game worlds based on Greece and the Vikings, like a kind of virtual tourist, reveal information about landmarks, famous people and ancient culture.
Admittedly, there is a well-intentioned educational quality here: aside from the Discovery mode, the Assassin’s Creed series has earned a reputation for offering a more valuable gaming experience than some of its sandbox rivals, ostensibly offering an intellectual reward as well as a more mechanical. . But the learning style that Ubisoft’s stealth sandbox offers is somewhat shallower than what Red Dead Redemption 2 offers. The games have very different approaches to presenting story and historical themes, but one is far more successful. than the other.
When I was an English teacher, I was naturally responsible for explaining how to write essays correctly. There are a lot of rules, but one of them applied to all grades (and really all essay-based subjects) and that was to keep interpretations of quotes, very narrow but very deep characters, or narrative themes. . .
Taking a small part of something and examining it in detail is more interesting and compelling than a truncated look at a lot. If you want to know what Shakespeare is trying to say in Hamlet, for example (a bit pompous), analyze each line of the famous monologue “To be or not to be”. If you want to understand, for example, the unfairness of the American legal system, do what hundreds of Netflix documentaries have done, pick a case and keep digging, digging, digging. It’s what we might call in video games a vertical slice, the idea that you can isolate a particularly rich section or level and use it to convey the point of the game. This is how developers pitch top games years before release to attract investors.
And it goes with the story. You can teach someone a hundred facts about a hundred different places, people, or events, but if you give them a particularly rich story about a time or person, that’s what they’ll remember. I don’t remember all the facts and figures about the Crimean War, although I took a whole course on it, but I feel, feel and remember that it was cruel and terrible because I heard about Florence Nightingale. And that’s where Red Dead Redemption 2 excels in Assassin’s Creed.
Focusing on a single character from Arthur Morgan, or even a small cast of characters from Dutch van der Linde’s gang, Red Dead Redemption 2 consistently and vividly illustrates the realities of its particular time period. There are no landmarks in Red Dead Redemption 2, no Pantheon, no Acropolis, no Stonehenge, but there is a constant battle over money, and the looming threat of tuberculosis, and a very believable and recognizable group of people talking to each other about how they feel now is the end of the 19th century. This, I think, is much more powerful than the larger version of the story offered in Assassin’s Creed.
Arthur Morgan’s emotional journey, and how far Red Dead Redemption 2 goes in terms of exploring his feelings, psychology, and personal experience, does more to say what those times were really like for people than a wealth of information. from Ubisoft’s flagship RPG series.
I wish Assassin’s Creed took place over six months instead of an entire era, or in one region instead of the whole country. I wish Assassin’s Creed didn’t focus on trying to include all the important parts of the story, like when you arrive from a ship from England in AC3 and immediately meet Ben Franklin, but on a more unusual and deeply researched personal story. . It may be a cliché, but the most resonant and relevant story is ultimately the story of individual people and experiences, something that Red Dead Redemption 2, with its devoted focus on characters, deeply captures and transcends Assassin’s Creed.
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Source : PC Gamesn
