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Red Dead Redemption 2: 10 Facts About The Heartless Bookkeeper, Leopold Strauss

Red Dead Redemption 2: 10 Facts About The Heartless Bookkeeper, Leopold Strauss

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the greatest games ever made. Not many are doubting this. Still, like every game, it is not perfect. Even the most legendary games out there can be easily made fun of. If you can't make fun of it, are you really a true

It probably isn't a surprise that a Grand Theft Auto game is on this list, half this list could have been covered by just GTA games! But GTA V is the best (so far) out of the series and the best crime video game. The game's story mode is told through the perspective of Trevor, Michael, and Franklin, three men who each live a life of cr

He was particularly fond of the mystery series by Aldous Filson. One of these books can be found by Arthur at the camp near Hosea's tent. If the player collects this book it can spark an optional mission to gather another one of the titles in the series for Ho

The Saints Row series is a collection of four games. Out of the crime games on this list, Saints Row is the most humorous one as the several of the plot points are written to be funny like the alien invasion in Saints Row IV . In the first game, players join the 3rd Street Saints gang and work to take out the rival gangs in the c

True Crime: Streets of LA came out in 2003. Players follow the story of Nicholas Kang, an LA police officer who investigates a case on bombings in Chinatown. Kang is a tenacious cop and players can play him as either a "Good Cop" or a "Bad Cop" with the choices they m

Sadie Adler tends to do the same type of justifying to Arthur Morgan and John Marston as they see her ultra-violent tendencies. The difference is that behind those character flaws Sadie has the right intentions and wants to make bad people pay for their acti

**** A horse's worst enemy in Red Dead Redemption 2 ; the dreaded rock. You'll be galloping away at full speed, feeling invincible as you make through beautiful landscapes. Then out of nowhere, your horse trips and falls, sending you flying and landing hard on the ground. You'd think there was something you would've seen a mile away. You are wrong because it was just one little measly rock that nearly killed you and your horse. You might as well add rocks to the list of hardest boss fights in the Red Dead ser

Players control Kiryu and Majima, alternating between their side of the story. The Yakuza series is an action-adventure game that has plenty of side quests and minigames that makes the game much more immersive, like running a business and playing arcade ga

He shares a name which an ancient Jewish prophet from Israel, so there's a solid chance that Hosea grew up in a household which practiced the Jewish faith, but as he got older he converted over to Catholic

During the epilogue of the game, the player takes control of John Marston and gets a first-hand glance at the events that led up until the start of the first Red Dead Redemption . The game streaming does a great job at catching the player up with former members of the Van Der Linde gang as they uncover what events have unfol

The Honor system was brought back which affects the options given to Arthur and greatly effects the story. There are benefits, and consequences, for being both honorable and dishonorable. Negative points in the Honor systems give players more when they loot bod

Some video games have players take the role of a hero who does everything within their power to stop injustice, and other video games let players actually be that injustice. There's a big fascination with walking down a darker path and exploring the seedy underbelly of the world of crime. It can be pretty fun to take part in fictional crimes, from heists to assassinati

Well, it turns out only 3 main characters from the single-player campaign can be seen in the online mode. Sadie Adler is one of these people and it's no surprise considering she's a fan favorite and has had the best post-Van Der Linde gang life out of the bunch. If you finish the story and want more Sadie simply jump into the online m

The Mafia series is a collection of games that follows different protagonists as they rise through the ranks of the criminal underworld and fall through them. The first game follows Tommy Angelo who finds himself caught between two warring mafia families. The second follows Vito Scaletta as he tries to repay his father's debt, and Mafia III follows Lincoln Clay on his quest for revenge against a mob fam

Red Dead Redemption 2 is heavily inspired by several Westerns and many other things throughout pop culture. Some of the characters share physical or personality traits with famous fictional characters as either an homage or because they're iconic to the ge

Hosea is quite funny and happens to be one of the livelier members of the Van Der Linde gang despite being the elder of the group. At a young age, Hosea was a stage actor who had dreams of becoming a famous comed

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the oldest member of the Van Der Linde gang also happened to be the resident bookworm. Hosea loved reading and had an appreciation and love for crime novels above all e

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