Summary
ARed Dead Redemption 2fan found something very interesting in their childhood home. It’s an old photo that might look familiar to anyone who has playedRed Dead Redemption 2.
Rockstar Games, a development studio known for their attention to detail, is excellent at recreating real-life locations as the setting of some of its games. This is seen heavily in theGrand Theft Autoseries, which primarily features fictionalized versions of real major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, as settings. But Rockstar also drew inspiration fromreal locations inRed Dead Redemption 2, whose five states—Ambariono, New Hanover, West Elizabeth, Lemoyne, and New Austin—are all based on real states in the U.S. Even though the game doesn’t feature modern recreations of these places, there are a few locations that are still recognizable.
A Reddit user named pablopolitics shared a discovery they made while cleaning out the house they grew up in. They found what appeared to be an old photo of a plantation. However, the plantation shares a striking resemblance to theBraithwaite Manor inRed Dead Redemption 2.
Many of the replies pointed out that what pablopolitics found was a photo of the Oak Alley Plantation, a popular tourist attraction in Vacherie, Louisiana. The plantation is a popular filming location, with various productions, such as TV shows, movies, and music videos, being shot there. It was also one of Rockstar’s primary inspirations for the Braithwaite Manor inRed Dead Redemption 2, which is why it looks so much like it.The level of detail Rockstar Gamesput into the recreation of Oak Valley is nothing short of impressive. Some might even mistake the game for real life if they didn’t know any better. Unlike the manor that it inspired, however, Oak Alley is still standing.
It’s an interesting thing to see how real-life places are recreated in video games. As much as games are a great way to escape into foreign worlds, they can also provide a different way of experiencing what’s familiar. Whether it’s thepost-apocalyptic ruins of San Franciscoand Seattle in games likeHorizon Forbidden WestandThe Last of Us Part 2or historically accurate versions of places like we see in theAssassin’s Creed franchise,video game developers often recreate these locations with an acute precision that makes the worlds they’ve made all the more immersive for players to experience.
Red Dead Redemption 2
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America, 1899. The end of the wild west era has begun as lawmen hunt down the last remaining outlaw gangs. Those who will not surrender or succumb are killed. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. From the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America at the dawn of the modern age.
