Red Dead Redemption 2 Clip Highlights Unexpected Encounter With Bear

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With a vast expanse of terrain to explore, quests to complete, and game to hunt, Red Dead Redemption 2 offers the terrifying realness of wild predators among the many facets that make it an incredible addition to the gaming world. The open-world western setting of Red Dead Redemption 2 provides insight into outlaw Arthur Morgan's life in 1899, fraught with many perils and forcing players to stay on their toes if they don't want to end up in a potentially fatal situation.

Hunting is offered as a substantial part of gameplay, with players able to both hunt and then sell their prizes, and so Red Dead Redemption 2 has many different predators who are more than willing to take a chunk out of Arthur Morgan as he hunts them down. One that consistently makes top rank for deadliest is the grizzly bear. Reddit user Wardroid1 managed to capture a strange grizzly encounter in a game clip.

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The video clip shows Arthur atop his horse at a slow trot through a tunnel, stopping to read some ominous graffiti on the wall. Suddenly, the silence is broken by an unmistakable roar. The camera quickly shifts to a bear behind the player, menacingly approaching along the train tracks. Wardroid1 spurs quickly into action in order to move away from the bear, with Arthur giving an in-game vocal command to his horse that is timed, rather nicely, to sound like a startled yell. Strange and unexplainable occurrences with the creatures of Red Dead Redemption 2 have happened before, but this was definitely more than a little startling.

The fact that the bear is in the tunnel is odd by itself, but the shock value comes from there being no warning other than