In addition to the deep single-player campaign, Red Dead Redemption features a robust online multiplayer component that includes a revolutionary new Free Roam mode that’s unlike anything ever seen before, along with a range of new, innovative forms of classic team-based and free-for-all games.
Red Dead Redemption 1: Multiplayer Modes
RDR1 Multiplayer: Free Roam
Free Roam brings the open-world experience to multiplayer with up to 16 players and the opportunity to form posses of up to 8 players to take on the world's gang hideouts, ambient challenges, and each other. Your lobby is the wide open world with the freedom to roam the wilderness, hunting or creating shootouts before heading into competitive game modes. You can level up with every major action. Each level yields new avatars, outfits, mounts, playlists and challenges!
There are four types of Free Roam sessions available. Private matches inherit the difficulty type from the free roam you choose:
- Normal
- Hardcore - no auto-aim, blips only when players run/shoot
- Friendly - cannot directly kill other players
- Private - just you and whoever you invite in
Posses
Sometimes it takes a posse to take on a gang. Form posses with friends to take on gang hideouts and ambient challenges within Free Roam, or have your posse leader bring you into competitive matches at any time. Posses can hear each other talk via voice chat, no matter how far apart they may be.
Gang Hideouts
Just like in the single-player experience, some areas of the multiplayer world are overrun by bandits. Gather up your posse or any other players in Free Roam, ride out to find the hideouts and take those scurrilous bandits down.
Ambient Challenges
Are you a hunter, a survivalist, or a shootist? The entire multiplayer world is filled with ambient challenges. Whether alone, with other Free Roam players or with your posse, discover unmarked hunting areas to take down waves of deadly predators, track down rare fauna in Survivalist Challenges, or earn yourself the title of Public Enemy by marauding towns and taking on Law Enforcement.
RDR1 Multiplayer: Competitive Modes
Red Dead Redemption's competitive multiplayer serves up classic multiplayer match modes with a distinctly Western twist: every match starts with players eye-to-eye in a classic showdown. Experience team-based Gang matches, Free-For-All Shootouts and classic Capture The Bag modes in specially designed locations within Red Dead Redemption's vast and beautifully detailed open world.
Similar to the ambient challenges in Free Roam mode, the Competitive Multiplayer modes also offer challenges that will unlock experience points and other perks. Weapon-based challenges for getting a certain number of kills or headshots with a specific gun will earn you the golden version of that weapon and additional challenges will reward you with XP and a custom title for your gunslinger.
Shootout
Deathmatch, Western style. It's you versus everyone else - try not to die. Keep an eye out for better weapons scattered across the area and use Dead Eye pickups to refill your Dead Eye meter, helping you take down enemies quickly.
Gang Shootout
Team Deathmatch on the frontier. Work with your team to pin down enemies and rack up kill streaks.
Gold Rush
Your priority is to grab as many bags of gold as you can find, and take them to the nearest chests - killing comes second. You can grab up to two bags of gold at once, but all that weight will slow you down.
Hold Your Own
Infiltration and theft. Each team has a base and a bag. Steal the other team's bag and bring it to your base. In larger areas, strategic use of horses and ballistic weapons placements will keep opponents on their toes.
Grab the Bag
One bag, one chest, two teams. Stake your ground, and defend the chest until a bag appears. Once it arrives, grab it and take it to your base to score.
RDR1 Multiplayer: Co-operative Modes
The Outlaws to the End Co-Op Mission Pack features six all-new cooperative multiplayer missions to play with 2-4 players. The Co-Op Mission Pack is a completely free download available via Xbox LIVE® (requires Xbox LIVE Gold Membership for online play) and PlayStation®Network.
Six explosive and epic missions play out across the game world, including:
The Kidnapped Girl
Another gang has taken over Fort Mercer, and they're holding a farmer's daughter hostage. Charge the fort and eliminate the gang, then fend off reinforcements as you transport the girl by stagecoach to her home at Ridgewood Farm.
The River
Ride a raft down river, taking out rebel encampments along the way until you reach the rebel stronghold of Nosalida and a final epic battle for the town's massive weapons caches. Watch out for Gatling gun-equipped enemy rafts.
Walton's Gold
Walton's Gang have taken control of a mining camp rich with gold. Fight through the camp and load your mine cart with as much gold as you can carry and get out as fast as you can – Walton's boys have rigged the place to blow!
Ammunition
The Mexican Army has the town of Tesoro Azul under siege. Storm the gates under heavy cannon, Gatling gun and sniper fire to destroy the Mexican artillery placements.
The Escape
Attack and steal a gold coach along with a wagon and a Gatling gun. Once acquired, you will be sent to turn them in to the American Army and then must clear out remaining resistance in the town of Tumbleweed. After clearing the town, prepare for an explosive standoff that will take you all the way to Mexico.
The Herd
Cattle rustlers have taken control of Box Canyon. Fight your way in and wipe out the rustlers, then use teamwork to protect the herd as you lead them home to Armadillo while drawing heavy fire from snipers and reinforcements on horseback.
