Funny Red Dead Redemption 2 Clip Shows Player Pulling Off Impressive Horse Trick

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is considered by many to be the quintessential western genre video game. Most popular games that come under the western genre were already mixed with sci-fi aesthetics, but it is unlikely that any AAA developers will soon be attempting to make a historical open-world western game knowing it will be immediately compared to the unbelievable detail and scope of Red Dead Redemption 2. However, RDR2’s massive amount of interlinking game systems does sometimes cause bizarre moments.

Red Dead Redemption 2 works very hard to accurately depict its western time period. As horses were still the primary method of transportation in 1899 when the game is set, an extreme amount of care went into designing the look and movement of theseRDR2 horses.

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However, despite their photorealistic designs and movements, it is very easy to crash Red Dead Redemption 2’s horses and send both player and horse flying. But in a bizarre moment shared by Reddit user Accomplished-Gur-69, the player does not go flying. Instead, the player is seen being launched into a full backflip in midair, before locking into the animation that would usually allow players to jump onto their horses from above. This leaves the whole moment seeming like a strange acrobatic trick that isn't clear if it was performed by Arthur or by the horse.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is huge in scope but also extremely polished, which means the bugs that do occur in-game are often extremely situation-specific. It is extremely unlikely that a horse could register a crash, and be standing again by the time the player came to land. Although this could technically be seen as a bug it is not entirely