Your horse is your ride in Red Dead Redemption. If you pick a good horse you’ll be able to travel the countryside in style. If you pick a bad horse you’ll have a hard time keeping up with other cowboys and escaping danger. This guide will help you pick the best one.
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In the Red Dead Redemption “Spare the Rod, Spoil the Bandit” mission, you’ll witness first hand the atrocities committed by Bill Williamson’s gang up at Fort Mercer. You’ll also get yourself a free Winchester repeater and an immediate chance to use it for saving a group of farmers.
The first time you meet the snake oil salesman, Nigel West Dickens, he’s laid out on the ground in a pool of his own blood. After that, things get much worse. Get the old coot back to the doctor in town while fending off bandits and driving a wagon. What could be simpler?
In the Red Dead Redemption mission “Justice in Pike’s Basin,” you’ll take the fight to a group of outlaws holed up in a nearby canyon. This encounter is your first large-scale gunfight, and a sneak preview of the Pike’s Basin gang hideout, so pay attention.
The first mission you take from Marshal Johnson in Armadillo provides your first real taste of combat in Red Dead Redemption. Tail Walton back to his hideout, then take out his goons before you decide whether to take him alive or dead.
The title of the Red Dead Redemption “A Tempest Looms” mission pretty much says it all. You’ll have to hurry to help Bonnie get the herd in from pasture before they’re killed by a freak lightning storm. Bring your herding skills, you’ll need them for this mission.
Finally, its time to pick up one of the most useful items in Red Dead Redemption, the lasso. You’ll put it to good use in this mission, breaking wild horses and tracking down a majestic stallion that, if you play your cards right, you’ll be able to call your own.
Your next mission from Bonnie MacFarlane introduces you to one of the staples of ranch life: herding cattle. You’ll move a smaller herd to join the larger group of cows, then put the lot of them out to pasture.
In the “This is Armadillo, USA” mission, you’ll get your first introduction to both wagon driving and the town of Armadillo. There’s much to do in this small city, including a saloon, general store, and your first gunsmith.
