New York Times Claims Red Dead Redemption 2 Is “True Art”

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been long praised for its breathtaking quality in terms of fidelity and storytelling, as we shared in our review.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been long praised for its breathtaking quality in terms of fidelity and storytelling, as we shared in our review.

It looks like it’s not over yet, though, as someone else has provided his comment about the game’s outcome on PS4 and Xbox One.

That someone is New York Times, which has dubbed the Rockstar Games title “true art” without compromise.

According to NYT’s Peter Suderman, indeed, “the season’s best blockbuster isn’t a TV show or movie. It’s a video game.”

“Like the classic westerns and gangster stories it draws from, it can be crude and violent. But it is also richly cinematic and even literary, serving up breathtaking digital vistas reminiscent of John Ford films along with a mix of deftly scripted stories about outlaws, immigrants, hustlers, con artists, lawmen and entrepreneurs, all trying to eke out an existence on the edges of civilization.

It’s a game about power, violence, frontier justice and murky moral choices — a new American epic for the digital age.

It’s a game, in other words, that implicitly tells its players to grow up — and it’s as sure a sign as any that video games are starting to do just that.”

That’s nothing we’ve not been knowing for a while now, but it’s great to see such level of recognition of what video games are really able to achieve, in terms when they’re attributed with things such as violence and hatred that look like are always depending on gaming.