Dan Houser, co-founder and vice president of creativity for Rockstar Games, revealed in an interview with Vulture that Red Dead Redemption 2 is 60 hours long. It had stood at 65 hours, but a plot that involved protagonist Arthur Morgan…<\/b>
\nDan Houser, co-founder and vice president of creativity for Rockstar Games, revealed in an interview with Vulture that Red Dead Redemption 2 is 60 hours long. It had stood at 65 hours, but a plot that involved protagonist Arthur Morgan pursuing a second love interest was dropped. Houser said: \u201cwe decided one of them didn\u2019t work.\u201d
Several missions, including one set on a train where you had to deal with bounty hunters, were also removed as they \u201cwere never going to work technically or be quite slick enough, or they felt superfluous.\u201d
It\u2019s also revealed that the final script for RDR2\u2019s main story was about 2000 pages long. Houser said that if all the side missions and additional dialogue were included, the pages would stack about eight feet high\u2014 even some NPCs have scripts that run for 80 pages.
The number of characters in the game required 1200 actors, all of them SAG-AFTRA, 700 of whom have dialogue, which meant 2,200 days of motion-capture work. \u201cWe\u2019re the biggest employers of actors in terms of numbers of anyone in New York, by miles,\u201d said Houser. The final game contains 300,000 animations and 500,000 lines of dialogue in total.
What\u2019s missing from Red Dead Redemption 2 are any big-name stars. Houser previously clashed with Burt Reynolds, who appeared in 2002\u2019s GTA: Vice City, and Public Enemy\u2019s Chuck D, from 2004\u2019s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. \u201cWe don\u2019t bring in name actors anymore because of their egos and, most important of all, because we believe we get a better sense of immersion using talented actors whose voices you don\u2019t recognize,\u201d he explained
Red Dead Redemption 2 launches on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this October 26. Still no word on a PC version\u2014the original was console-only\u2014but given the success of GTA V and evidence from earlier this year, expect RDR2 to hit the platform at some point in the future.<\/p>\n

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