PC Gamer Annual - UK (2022)

RED DEAD

REDEMPTION

FIRST RESPONSE

Be the law with this RDR2 mod. By Christopher Livingston

Sometimes they come quietly,

sometimes they don’t.

EXTRA LIFE

singleplayer game. Just walk into the

sheriff’s office in any town (you’ll see

the star on your map showing you

where) to begin your shift. Also

inside the sheriff’s office you’ll see a

wardrobe you can use (if you want)

to change your clothes into the

sheriff’s uniform you like most, from

the classic St Denis cop uniform to a

marshal’s outfit to just normal

cowboy clothes that have a shiny star

pinned to the vest. You can even

change your character model, if you

want to get into the roleplaying a bit

more, and cycle through randomised

lawmen until you get one you want.

When you go off duty, your character

will switch back to Arthur Morgan.

I decide to begin my law

enforcement career in the tiny, dusty

town of Tumbleweed, imagining I’m

a brand-new deputy with no

experience. And if I do some good,

I’ll eventually promote myself to a

nicer and bigger town. I walk into the

jail, activate the mod using the ledger

on the sheriff’s desk, then visit the

wardrobe to choose my lawman,

finding a scruffy old coot with a

moustache. Perfect! I look like the

least-drunk of the town drunks, the

guy a sheriff would swear in as a

deputy simply because he was the

best out of a bunch of awful choices.

As I stroll around town, a citizen

runs up to me to report a crime. That

I

t’s not that it’s

impossible to do some

good deeds in Rockstar

games like GTA V and

Red Dead

Redemption II. It’s just that more

often than not, you’re on the other

side of the law. Doing crimes.

Getting chased. Fighting the cops.

Being an upstanding citizen isn’t

really the aim of any of Rockstar’s

playable characters. (And most of

Rockstar’s law-enforcing ‘good guys’

are just as terrible as the crooks.)

But in worlds built on crime and

criminals, it can be fun to play from

the other side of the handcuffs from

time to time. Red Dead Redemption

First Response (RDRFR) is a mod that

lets you play as the law. Be the sheriff

in a small town. Serve as marshal and

hunt down outlaws. You can even be

a copper in the city of St Denis. It’s

similar to the mod for GTA IV and V

that let you fight crime as the police.

And conveniently, once installed,

you can choose to activate the mod

whenever you want in your

I DECIDE TO BEGIN

MY LAW

ENFORCEMENT CAREER

IN THE TINY, DUSTY

TOWN OF TUMBLEWEED

MOD JOBS

Other professions I’d like to see in Red Dead Redemption II mods

FARMER
Just let me pitchfork poop
and carry hay bales all the
live-long day, and I’ll be
happy as a clam.

STAGECOACH

DRIVER

A ticking clock, a nervous

passenger, and lots of

ground to cover.

POSTMAN

Can’t think of a better way

to explore the world than

with a big sack of mail and

a list of addresses to visit.

PHOTOGRAPHER

I’m obsessively taking

pictures in RDR2 anyway.

It’d be nice to be able to

frame ’em and sell ’em.

DIARY I MOD SPOTLIGHT (^) I REINSTALL I WHY I LOVE