Red Dead Redemption 3: Jack Marston as a Protagonist Would Be a Chip Off the Old Block

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Two charismatic and morally conflicted characters have held the leading roles in Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. John Marston and Arthur Morgan have both fought for a life in a civilization against them. In the case of a third entry in the series John’s son, Jack Marston, fits the role perfectly.

Jack was not only raised by his parents, John and Abigail, but by the entire Dutch van der Linde gang. As Jack grew up, he learned from the adults in his life and lived by the cowboy lifestyle for better or worse. As seen in the epilogue of Red Dead Redemption, Jack has clearly taken influence from his family and will likely carry on the cowboy way just like his mentors before him.

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Though Jack was first introduced to players in the original game, they are given a better glimpse of his upbringing in Red Dead Redemption 2. They see him born and raised within a group of outlaws fighting for their way of life. As a young child, Jack was innocent and reserved, but was very curious, and cared for his father’s crew who saw him as one of their own.

The protagonist in Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan, had an especially close connection with Jack. The instances where Arthur would travel with Jack or go fishing with him helped humanize Arthur and showed the player that even though Arthur was the right-hand man to his criminal leader, Dutch, he was still able to see the innocence in the world and protected Jack’s innocence until the end. Arthur loved Jack like a son and went out of his way to help the Marstons escape the outlaw life once Dutch started becoming too violent because he knew that a child should be subjected to the chaotic life Dutch wanted.