The first Red Dead Redemption seems to be anything but dead based on a recent rating by the folks over at the ESRB. As one of those iconic open-world games of the Xbox 360 era, that’s good news for those who remember it fondly and those of us who stubbornly still haven’t gotten around to playing it.
With an M-rating indicating all the messy blood and gore a Rockstar game typically comes with (h/t Eurogamer), the filing indicates the presence of zombified action as well, so it seems natural to expect Red Dead’s popular Undead Nightmare expansion to be included:
This is an open-world action-adventure game in which players assume the role of a reformed criminal capturing the remnants of an outlaw gang and combatting a zombie plague.
The first Red Dead Redemption received Switch and PS4 versions in 2023, and a PC release a year later, though it did not come to Xbox Series consoles.
The game’s highly praised sequel, arguably more available due to its backwards compatibility of modern consoles and the 2019 PC release, has also been slow to receive any kind of major graphical update in the way Grand Theft Auto V did only two years following its premiere on PS3 and Xbox 360. Then again, RDR2 is still a visual treat several years after its release, while its predecessor is certainly long in the tooth by now.
