America, 1899. The age of outlaws is ending, and Arthur Morgan knows it better than most. As the Van der Linde Gang flees the botched Blackwater job with Pinkertons and bounty hunters closing in, Dutch's promises of one last big score wear thinner with every camp they abandon. Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition brings the full Story Mode, Red Dead Online, every Special Edition bonus and a set of online extras together in one package, so you ride into Rockstar's frontier with the complete set of Special Edition and Ultimate Edition content from the first day on the trail.
An Outlaw's Last Ride
You play Arthur Morgan, Dutch van der Linde's most trusted enforcer, raised in the gang since boyhood and loyal to a fault. Across six chapters the gang drifts from the frozen Grizzlies down through the cattle town of Valentine, the plantation country of Lemoyne and the smoke of Saint Denis, always one step ahead of Agent Milton and the Pinkertons. What begins as a story about outrunning the law becomes a story about what loyalty costs when the man you follow stops making sense.
Your choices shape Arthur along the way. The Honor system tracks how he treats strangers, lawmen and the people he robs, and it shifts how the world reacts to him, what he says in cutscenes and which version of the ending you see. Gunfights are deliberate rather than frantic: weapons need cleaning, revolvers can be fanned, and Dead Eye slows time so Arthur can mark targets across a saloon before the first shot lands. Behind it all, Arthur's journal fills in with sketches and private doubts, one of the quietest and most affecting pieces of characterization in any Rockstar game.
A Frontier Built to Be Lived In
Rockstar's open world is less a map of objectives than a place that keeps turning whether you are watching or not. Weather rolls in over the Heartlands, trains run on schedule, and the people you meet on the road remember what you did the last time you crossed paths.
- Hunting and the wild: track deer, bears, alligators and legendary animals across five distinct regions, skin pelts for the trapper, and learn that a clean shot with the right ammunition is worth more than a bigger gun.
- Your horse: a bond built over time rather than a vehicle to summon. Feed, brush and calm your mount and it grows braver under fire, learns new maneuvers and answers your whistle from farther away.
- Camp life: contribute supplies and cash to the gang's ledger to upgrade the camp, hear the stories around the fire, and watch the mood shift as the gang's fortunes rise and fall through the chapters.
- Frontier pastimes: poker, dominoes, blackjack and five finger fillet in saloons, bounties posted at the sheriff's office, and stranger missions that turn a chance encounter on the road into hours of side story.
Red Dead Online
The same world carries into Red Dead Online, where you create your own character and forge a path on the frontier solo or with a posse. Run moonshine, take on bounties, battle rival gangs and lawmen, hunt the wildlife, and settle scores with other players in competitive PvP or team up for cooperative missions. It is an open-ended companion to the story, and the Ultimate Edition's online bonuses give your character a running start.
What the Ultimate Edition Includes
- Story Mode extras from the Special Edition
- The Bank Robbery Mission and Gang Hideout add a heist and a hideout to clear, while the Dappled Black Thoroughbred gives Arthur a fast mount from early on. Talisman and Trinket gameplay bonuses, gameplay boosts, cash bonuses and shop discounts ease the gang's constant need for money, and the Nuevo Paraiso Gunslinger Outfit dresses Arthur in a look borrowed from south of the border.
- Red Dead Online bonuses
- Bonus Outfits for your online character, Rank Bonuses to move through the early ranks faster, the Black Chestnut Thoroughbred as a dependable horse from the start, and free access to the Survivor Camp Theme so your camp on the frontier looks the way you want it to.
- Additional Weapons
- Free access to Additional Weapons in both Story Mode and Red Dead Online, widening the arsenal Arthur and your online character can draw from before the first big job is even planned.
The gang is packing up camp and the Pinkertons are not far behind. Pick up Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition, whistle for your horse, and find out how far loyalty will carry you.
