Playable both as a third-person shooter with elements of FPS, you are Arthur Morgan, a gunslinger and lieutenant of a gang of outlaws, playing a pivotal role in the gang's survival and flourishing through missions that span across shootouts, heists, hunting, and some RPG elements involving non-playable characters. It is at the turn of the century that Modernization swept through the continent, to the disdain of free-raging bandits and gangs. A prequel to the events of the original Red Dead Redemption, RDR2 has an 1899 period setting spread across locations inspired by parts of the Western, Midwestern, and Southern United States that hadn't yet seen the urbanization or industrialization of the coasts. IntroductionRed Dead Redemption 2, or RDR2, is the third entry in the feverishly popular franchise of the open-world, story-driven action-adventure series from Rockstar Games, the same people who brought us Grand Theft Auto.