OXCGN had a chance to spend some hands-on time with the latest build of Red Dead: Redemption the other week, and here's the results of that experience.

Come and check the game out, and what could possibly be the next GTA series, but with a definite Western flavour . . Slip over now and check it out, images and vid available.

I’ve wondered about Rockstar San Diego’s Red Dead: Redemption since seeing it some time ago.

Being a huge western fan, and having played other western genre games in the past, I’ve had mixed feelings about the game as to how it will be accepted by the console gamers of today.

Most of whom are used to blazing machine guns, grenades, RPG’s, high powered sniper rifles and the like. Not to mention constant on-going action from go-to-whoa. Plus wanting to see how the mechanics would work on the 360 console and that they could be carried off successfully.

I’ve had the privilege of seeing Red Dead: Redemption at two previous hands-off showings and Q&A sit downs with Rockstar, and now time had come to get my hand dirty with the very first hands-on that Rockstar had organised for the game media.

So with all this worry about how the gaming fraternity might take the game, combined with my anticipation of how it would play in the hands of someone who loved westerns, in the hope that it would play true to its genre and do the whole genre justice of course, plus knowing that the game would be pitching its self as the western equivalent of GTA:IV, I set about heading off at sunrise to catch up with John Marston, our reluctant protagonist in Red dead: Redemption, at Rockstar Australia’s Sydney Office, with some trepidation.

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