Red Dead Redemption 2 Map Assigns Regions to Real US States
A game's map can be one of the most important aspects of development for a title and can determine everything from how immersive the world feels to what kind of experience players are signing up for. In the case of Red Dead Redemption 2 and its predecessor, development at Rockstar Games was fortunate enough to have the real United States to use as a template for the game's Wild-West atmosphere.
While the actual game map in Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't exactly a one-to-one recreation of the western states of America, much of the topography, climate, and wildlife can indicate the general relation between in-game regions and real-life locations. One player has now shared a new map that overlays several of the regions found in the game and places them on their respective states throughout the western United States.
The map takes into account a number of locations found in the most recent prequel of Red Dead Redemption as well as New Austin and Nuevo Paraiso from the original. As most fans would expect, it places Saint Denis as New Orleans and Bayou Nwa as Louisiana, but the map goes as far as to pinpoint the real-life regions for Big Valley and The Grizzlies. It shows how much of where players explore in the game is meant to represent a large portion of the United States, with much of the series taking place to the west of the Mississippi River.
Other fans have been quick to point out several issues with this latest interpretation of the map, however, pointing out the placement of New Austin and Tall Trees as incorrect, among others. For one, New Austin has much more in common with Arizona, as that is where many of the Western films that the original Red Dead Redemption draws from for both the story and setting. So, this version of the map isn't a perfect representation of the game's regions in comparison to real-life locations, but it does still show exactly how much of the country the open world is supposed to represent.
Pinpointing the exact locations from Red Dead Redemption 2 into the real-world is difficult, considering the way that Rockstar had to condense huge parts of the country into a more manageable map. Unlike Grand Theft Auto, which recreates full cities as the entire map, taking on multiple Western states means that there can't really be a one-to-one recreation of any one place. It still goes to show how well development of the map went that so many fans can pinpoint the general region that each section is meant to represent based on even the smallest details.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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