HARD WEST AS GOOD AS DEAD PS4

Even robbing one of the most profitable targets - a train - requires a ton of logistics. Worse still, most shops won’t sell to anyone with bounties on them. Bounties also stack, with multiple offenses adding up to even more money you’ll have to pay to get the heat off you. Committing crime in a town or city is even trickier. Get up to no good, and you’ll spend an inordinate amount of time chasing after a random traveler who spotted you. Red Dead Redemption 2 boasts a lot of characters and typically someone will spot you doing something nefarious. This is easier said than done, especially when it comes to holding up stores, banks, and people on the road. But if there are no witnesses, then there’s no punishment you can get away with your crime scott free.

Once you commit a crime, you become Wanted and have a bounty placed on your head. Yet, the reality of crime in Red Dead Redemption 2 is far harsher than it appears. Given how difficult it can be to make money in the game and how theoretically simple it is to just take it instead, Red Dead Redemption 2’s seems like another game where evil is an expedient route to power. In BioShock the mechanical differences between good and evil don’t feel significant and the only impact morality makes is in the story and characters. Whether it’s through the promise of easy money or incredible power, being a jerk rarely punishes the user in any significant way. Games like Fallout 3 or Infamous make being the villain easier on the player. Where Red Dead Redemption 2 diverges from games with similar ethical systems is the difficulty born of choosing a life of crime.

Throughout the game, your choices will dictate whether protagonist Arthur Morgan is an honorable cowboy or a cruel ne’er-do-well. The morality system in Red Dead Redemption 2 is simple and binary. Yet somehow, evil is still the best way to experience Arthur Morgan’s story and the world of Red Dead Redemption 2. Red Dead Redemption 2, however, goes in a different direction and uses its gameplay to reinforce a single, unexpected idea: Being evil is not worth the effort. This made Red Dead Redemption 2 so enticing, as it promised yet another go at the life of an outlaw in the grand Rockstar tradition. But the possibility remains for future releases.įind out what all the critics had to say with our Horizon Forbidden West review roundup, and look out for TechRadar Gaming’s own thoughts later.Whether it’s as a treasure-hungry pirate in Sea of Thieves or a member of the Black Hand in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, I’ve always enjoyed picking the villainous path. It doesn’t look like that compression tech has been implemented here, however, with Horizon Forbidden West actually demanding an extra gigabyte on PS5.

HARD WEST AS GOOD AS DEAD PS4

Subnautica, for instance, requires 14GB of space on PS4 but only 3.5GB on PS5. Using Sony’s in-house compression tech Kraken, next-gen games can be developed to eat less of your SSD.

On top of the additional storage space, many PS5 games require fewer gigabytes than their PS4 versions.

Of course, if you picked up the PS5 digital edition, then your console won’t be able to read any discs at all. They have a lower storage size of approximately 50GB, which means larger games like Horizon Forbidden West have to be split across two of them. The PS4 meanwhile, is only compatible with standard Blu-ray discs. The PS5’s disc drive can read Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, which have a maximum storage capacity of 100GB. So, why does the PS5 version of Horizon Forbidden West require only one disc? As you’d expect of the next console generation, hardware improvements mean two discs simply aren’t required. Analysis: PS5's Ultra HD Blu-ray struts its stuff

Hard west as good as dead