It was a PS3 game.
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Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to iOS on Dec 2
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It was a PS3 game.
It is a PS3 game. Textures have been upgraded, but it’s very much the original code and resources for the most part.
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Holy .. Finally this M5 chip can be used to its fullest gaming potential 🙄
Nice. I wonder if it makes sense to connect the iPhone to a TV and play using a game controller?
It might be an old game, but this is a new release - the article states it's comming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 as well (i.e. all the current gen systems). I think the point is more about companies trying to wring as much money out of old games as possible (rather than letting people play existing copies through back-compat)
If you have some land, buy a horse! They are fun and friendly animals.
I’d say it’s fundamentally the same as the PC version release in 2024 (it never came out on PC before then ).
Really wish a big enough company could make a truly native, Apple-first game engine designed for Apple's hardware. Make it natively use Metal, and not just repackaged DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan or whatever other language wrapper. Show what Apple hardware can really do.
What about MacOS
Rockstar Games has announced that acclaimed open-world game Read Dead Redemption and its Undead Nightmare expansion pack are coming to iOS and Android early next month.
The December 2 release on mobile is part of a larger rollout for the epic Western on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and Netflix.
Red Dead Redemption launched in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It follows John Marston, a former outlaw forced by federal agents to track down the remaining members of his old gang. Its successor, Red Dead Redemption 2 – released in 2018 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One – acts as a narrative prequel.
From Rockstar's website:
According to Rockstar, the new versions feature the complete single-player experiences of both games with mobile-friendly control options, and they also include bonus content from the Game of the Year Edition. It's not clear yet what the hardware requirements are or how much the games will cost to buy.
Red Dead Redemption earned multiple Game of the Year awards when it was released, and it is widely regarded as one of the best open-world games ever.
Article Link: Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to iOS on Dec 2
A medium that doesn't disappear when you stop paying.
13 inch might be Ok, but these games are all about the big sky and wide landscapes. I played through RDR2 on my Mac Pro 5.1 ( with a Vega 56 gpu) on a 27” at 1440p - looked and plated great. A lot of the effect and atmospheric here would be lost on a smaller screen.
I wish they’d port more games from that era to mobile. Motorstorm 3 or Fable 2 would be incredible on mobile. If they can pull off Mirage then Assassin’s Creed Black Flag would run just fine….
You "can" mirror the screen to Apple TV, i've tried this (with my backbone controller) on other games and there have been slight input lag, although it might work ok for this game.
Yeah, it is awesome. But not available on Mac or Apple TV, so no big screen experience. I assume you can cast to the TV, and I will try that. Hopefully it will work properly.
At least you can play it on iPad.
Well, let me you in on a big secret then...
Why waste time doing that, when most major game engines already do that?
"Coming soon to iOS ... Games that ran on 19 year old hardware!"
Pretty much sums up "Apple" and "Gaming".
Will they disable this on the visionOS store? I would love to play RDR in Vision Pro on a huge screen.
Unreal Engine (which is used by many AAA games) exports natively to Apple Silicon and Metal for years. Apple even used it and Fortnite to showcase Metal for macOS in 2015:
And then no big enough game developer would ever use it. At least not for the kind of games we’re missing. Besides, Unreal Engine and Unity already use Metal natively, but they are lagging with Metal 3 support though.
I still think the real problem is the hardware more than anything else. Apple doesn’t offer anything suitable for gaming. For Apple, serious GPU power is reserved for pro users. The base M5 may be much faster than the M4, but in a 5 year old game like Cyberpunk 2077, it still only barely hits 60 FPS at 1080p on high settings. Sadly, it’s no surprise we keep getting old, reheated games.
Back in 2013 I successfully finished GTA San Andreas on my 4’ iPhone 5, something I was unable to do on my computer. Later I did the same with Vice City and GTA III. It was comfortable enough, and the one thing that was most comfortable is that I could literally lie down on my couch and play it on portable device. Even better on iPad, I still have all the games on my Air 2 and they still run great btw, ~60FPS.
Playing RDR on modern shovel-sized iPhones would feel very good. Surely iPad or something like Switch 2 is better, but not everyone has money to build this huge ecosystem these days, so if game would be 15-30$ it would sell like hotcakes and would be very popular among young gen of players
Putting some obvious cynicism aside for the moment, you don't find it impressive that a game that huge with all it has in it is currently running on a celluar phone regardless of it being released nearly 20 years ago?