Undead Nightmares

I am so very happy with Red Dead's new DLC, Undead Nightmare. I am so happy about it that I'm going to write about it here. This is the premise: upon a SpOoKy night you're awoken by a zombie. The zombie bites some of your loved ones. You go to the nearest town and find it overrun.

That's about as far as I am now. But here's what's best about the DLC: the atmosphere of the game. You tool around and everything's normal and then you stop along the woodline to rest your horse and in the treeline you see the shambling almost-still figures of 12 or 13 zombies, splashed with morning sun and almost invisible until one of them breaks into a dragging lurch for you. Then the moans sound and you're pulled from the saddle and swing your torch or pull your gun and you're surrounded. You take out the zombies and gallop off and notice the zombie cow alone in the fields or the strange silhouette of a zombie horse far off.

Which is to say that UN takes what I really enjoyed about Red Dead--the detailed atmosphere, the little surprises you almost miss until they're upon you, the vastness of the world--and filters those things through the zombie machine and what comes out is pretty good, so far.