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You play as Red Harlow, who after being violently orphaned at a young age becomes a bounty hunter in classic [[Man With No Name]] tradition, hunting down [[World of Ham|colourful outlaws]] for whatever money he can get for them. A chance encounter puts him on the trail of the man behind the death of his parents, and the game climaxes in a huge battle to finally bring him to justice.
 
Sound vaguely familiar? That's because the game's an extended homage to the classic [[Spaghetti Western]], as least as much as its predecessor ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]'' was to film noir. A lot of effort went into the atmosphere, including giving an oversaturated and 'grainy' cinematic quality to the visuals and building a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|fantastic score]] heavily influenced by (and almost indistiguishable from) Ennio Morricone's best.
 
Despite having very little hype and a disjointed production poking into the gameplay here and there, with its superb atmoshpere, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|large and memorable cast]] and extremely fun multiplayer on its side Red Dead Revolver got good reviews and became something of a [[Cult Classic]]. In 2010, it was followed by the huge hit and critical darling ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', which borrowed the game's Western setting but gave it a sandbox framework.
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* [[The Archer]]: Shadow Wolf.
* [[Arm Cannon]]: Colonel Daren has one after certain events in the beginning of the game.
* [[Arrows Onon Fire]]: Shadow Wolf's special move.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The AI is quite buggy in places. Most notably, Annie Stoakes (when you have her as an ally in single player) has an annoying habit of shooting you in the back with her explosive special ability - usually while shouting "Keep going, Red!" - and there are several multiplayer maps where AI opponents will just stand around where they spawn or time-consumingly climb to high places.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The exquisite pair of Scorpion pistols that Nate Harlow and Griff have custom-made are also the most powerful in the game. One bullet was enough to sever Colonel Daren's left arm from its socket.
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* [[The Dragon]]: Colonel Daren to General Diego.
** Also Jason Cornet to Governor Griffon, to the extent that the former is the last bodyguard Red faces before going up against Griffon himself.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: Though it is implied, {{spoiler|Jack Swift is apparently killed off ''entirely offscreen'' at the end of the game. You don't even see the fight that kills him; he just goes off with Annie and doesn't come back.}} However, in ''Red Dead Redemption'' there is mention of him, as well as being able to use him in mutli-player.
* [[Dual Boss]]: Happens very frequently in the game.
* [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Jesse Lynch.
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** Also "Little Oaf" Whitney, who began being called "Loaf" after he turned out to be quite a bit larger than his father, "Big Oaf".
* [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet]]: Said by one of the mooks in Shadow Wolf's level.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Getting set on fire does a huge amount of damage in single player, and while you're running around trying to beat the flames out you can't defend yourself. In addition, anyone on fire will set anyone they bump into on fire, [[Disaster Dominoes|who will set anyone they bump into on fire, etc...]] meaning that one flaming attack can cause utter carnage with a bit of luck.
** One of Dr. Perry's cronies is a fire eater who puts his skills to deadly use against the player. You'll also acquire throwable "[[Molotov Cocktail|Fire Bottles]]" and Shadow Wolf has the ability to shoot [[Arrows Onon Fire|flaming arrows]].
* [[Knife Nut]]: Clyde [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"The Blade"]] Slade, a member of the [[Circus of Fear]].
** Also Fawkes whom you encounter in the [[Train Job]] -level.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: In multiplayer mode, it's often the most poorly-armed characters who have the most devastating special moves.
** Inverted rather amusingly in the case of Sheriff O'Grady - his special move is the almost-useless 'Hot Coffee', (you throw a bottle at your enemy, doing minimal damage, and they dance around for a second while their clothes steam) but he starts out armed with a stack of [[Kill It Withwith Fire|Fire Bottles]].
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: [[Acrofatic|Pig Josh]].
* [[Locomotive Level]]
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Pig Josh.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: Colonel Daren, [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max|at least in a certain cutscene]].
** To specify, it's one of the opening cutscenes. A young Red Harlow take's his father's gun and fires, messily blowing off Col. Daren's arm.
* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: Mr. Lynch.
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** The Saloon girls combine this with [[Stocking Filler]].
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Besides Red, all of the different playable characters are only usable for one level.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: The Duellist.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: The voice actor for Red can't really decide whether or not he wants to use a "western" accent, and since Red doesn't speak very much, the accent used for Red changes in pretty much every scene that he does speak in.
* [[Pistol-Whipping]]: An option for melee combat.
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* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: A pretty well-executed game play mechanic. It's also {{spoiler|how you finish off the [[Big Bad]]}}.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The saloon's player piano keeps going during the bar fight level so you get glassed and thrown through tables to the perky sounds of 'Oh, Susannah' and a ragtime version of 'Flight of the Bumblebee'.
* [[Take That]]: One opponent in the duelling contest seems quite closely based on [[Leonardo Di CaprioDiCaprio|Leonardo Di Caprio's]] cocky young gunfighter from ''The Quick And The Dead''. Red guns him down and don't even give him a respectful tip of the hat.
* [[Train Job]]: Red stops one in the first [[Locomotive Level]].
* [[The Trope Kid]]: Kid Cougar.
* [[Urine Trouble]]: One of the outlaws in Widow's Patch gets peed on by a dog. [[Shoot the Dog|He doesn't take kindly to it]].
* [[Whip It Good]]: Bad Bessie's special move.
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: The [[Quick Draw]] tournament is a reference to Sam Raimi's ''[[The Quick and Thethe Dead]].''
** Interestingly, Red Harlow's name is a reference itself to the '''book''' ''The Quick and the Dead'' by Louis L'Amour (there's no relation between the movie and the book beside a name, however), where the main antagonist's name is Red Hyle.
* [[The Wild West]]: [[Captain Obvious|The game is set during the Old West.]]
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