Red Dead Redemption Coming to Xbox One on Friday Via Backwards Compatibility

Written by Brandon Hofer on July 05, 2016

News: Rockstar Games and Microsoft have both announced that you can play Rockstar’s popular title on Xbox One beginning on Friday.

Microsoft and Rockstar Games have just announced something gamers have been waiting a long time to hear: Red Dead Redemption is going to be backwards compatible beginning this Friday, July 8. Earlier this year there was a “leak” on the Xbox Store where some games showed up and were available to download before they were ready. We wrote all about it in our “Red Dead Redemption and More Backwards Compatible on Xbox One” story but Microsoft quickly took it down, despite reports that it seemed to be ready for prime time. Well the wait is almost over for gamers wanting to visit Rockstar’s Western world and what makes it even better is that Red Dead Redemption is on sale this week for $7.50 during Microsoft’s Ultimate Game Sale.

Red Dead Redemption recreates the American West at the turn of the 20th century: a violent and turbulent time of rapid growth and change. Players become the partially reformed outlaw John Marston; blackmailed by the government, his family threatened as he is forced to traverse the vast and unforgiving expanses of the Western frontier in search of members of his former gang. In a dangerous world full of opportunistic criminals, corrupt officials and settlers battling the elements in a struggle to survive, Marston’s journey takes him from the dusty and lawless frontier to the civilized towns of the North, and down into a Mexico on the brink of a full-scale civil war.

“This is our vision of the American West: beautiful, bloody and action-packed. The game is a true epic, and has been developed with the same production values and attention to detail we put into all our projects,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “Red Dead Redemption represents another milestone for us in the development of open world games."

Will you be playing Red Dead Redemption on your Xbox One on Friday? If you don’t own it, will you be buying it during Microsoft’s Ultimate Game Sale? Tell us what you think below.