Earlier this month, Rockstar confirmed the end of any major support for Red Dead Online, with the developer shifting its focus to Grand Theft Auto 6. This left many cowboys disappointed (to put it mildly), to the extent an in-game funeral was held to mourn this loss.
While Rockstar may be jumping ship and swimming away from its Red Dead franchise, modders are not. In fact, a mod for Red Dead Redemption 2 will let you play as a totally new character of your own creation, give you a new skill tree to fill up and allow you to take on all-new heists.
I appreciate I said ‘new’ quite a lot there, but it fits the bill. This is no small undertaking by the modding community.
The mod in question comes from CruelMasterMC (via PCGamer) and is called, very appropriately, Life of Crime.
It all starts off with your character (who can be male or female) breaking out of Red Dead Redemption 2’s maximum security prison Siska Penitentiary, before getting started on their new, well, life of crime – see, I told you the name was appropriate.