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Over the next two weeks we'll be bringing you our pick of the games of the generation. Today we're looking at Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar's western that provided a surprisingly sombre take on the open world genre when it launched in May 2010.Free roaming games weren't invented during this hardware generation, but they certainly came of age thanks to the increased processing power that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 offered. It's an evolution that reached its peak with Grand Theft Auto 5, a staggering technical achievement that conjured a living, breathing city and its surrounding landscape from mere ones and zeroes.
Yet when I look back over the last eight years, it's not Rockstar's urban crime opus that resonates most strongly. It's Red Dead Redemption, the developer's western spin on the genre they popularised.
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