What We Want: A Solid Female Character
Features We Hope Are in Red Dead Redemption, and Ones We Hope Aren’t
Something which has become perfectly clear after the last few games that Rockstar has put out is that it seriously lacks the ability to create compelling female characters. In the last Red Dead Redemption, they were mostly relegated to prostitutes and love interests, and even worse in the Grand Theft Auto series. It’s fine to suggest that a gang of Wild West outlaws would be predominantly male, but it would be great to see a character that 50% of the population could relate to.
The trailers we’ve seen so far do look promising though. With a female member of the Van der Linde gang featuring heavily, but time will tell what role she plays. We may be a ways off from seeing a playable female protagonist in a Rockstar game, but in the meantime, let’s at least present some interesting supporting characters which serve to bolster the game’s narrative.
