By Callum Brown
The lead character from rockstars spectacular 'Red Dead Redemption' is in my opinion one of the greatest cowboy characters ever created, the cool silent type (most cowboys) is often hard to relate too, and sympathise with, they are moody, cool, quiet, men of few words, and with only a few hours of screen time it is often hard to relate to these characters. However Red Dead gives us a classic character and plenty of time to get involved with him, understand him, his harrowing tale that we play through really makes you feel like your living his story. The incredible environments and fitting soundtrack help to bring the world to life, and therefore make the experience more real, all helping the audience to really get attached to this character. His violent backstory and twisted yet understandable ways of describing his former gang which he is now hunting in return for his family brings a whole stretch of history and character arcs to him, his ways are brutal but the way he describes the west and people in it is ahead of his time, again so he will be likeable to the audience, all of this I think helped to build one of, if not the most iconic Cowboy since westerns faded from our screens.
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