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Find out why Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare is the best piece of DLC ever made for a video game. Why dive into its aesthetic, gameplay and more to discover why you should still check it out in 2020.

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What’s your favourite type of video game DLC? Are you someone who just wants a few extra maps and guns in the newest COD game? Do you like an entirely new area added to a game you love, which doesn’t rock the boat but serves to extend your time in the game world? Maybe you just want a snazzy new skin or some horse armour?

There’s no getting around the fact that downloadable content is just the norm nowadays – once upon a time DLC seemed to be something that developers made because they had a good idea late into (or even after) development and release. In 2020 it seems to just be an accepted practice that DLC is planned alongside a base game’s development cycle, and in some shadier cases is even cut from the base game purely for later release (not naming any names). It can come in many shapes and sizes, from the not-so-humble microtransaction to the fully-fledged 30-hour additional campaign. Realistically you can’t compare and contrast every single piece of DLC against every other piece of DLC – but that doesn’t stop you from picking a favourite!

Now, there’s no getting around the fact that personal choice is always going to be an element in choosing the best of anything. If you don’t like Skyrim then you’re not very likely to get a kick out of any of its DLC. Equally, no one has played EVERY single video game, though I’m sure there are people out there trying. As such, when I say that I think Undead Nightmare might be the best piece of downloadable content ever released for a video game, you’re more than justified in thinking to yourself ‘yeah, whatever’.

For those unaware, Undead Nightmare was released on October 26th 2010 as an expansion for Rockstar’s Western triumph Red Dead Redemption, which itself had only been released 5 months previous. Upfront I should tell you that, until a couple of years ago, Red Dead Redemption was my favourite video game EVER. In the time since its release, I’ve only ever considered a handful of games to, potentially, be better than it, and only one game has truly surpassed it in my eyes; its 2018 sequel Red Dead Redemption 2. As such, perhaps my own bias leads me to the conclusion I’ve put forward. There is another DLC I’ve played for the first time very recently which is in contention, but we’ll come to that a bit later.

What is it about Undead Nightmare that really sets it above everything else for me then? Well, my first point would be that it feels like an entirely separate game and story which has been built on top of the already existing RDR. It’s not a new map, a lot of the same characters appear and so there’s an immediate familiarity to it upon loading it up. The big difference, of course, is that instead of outlaws and cougars, your biggest worry is a zombie apocalypse, which leads to towns and cities full of zombies, survivors on the roadside in dire need of assistance and fictional and fantastical creatures, such as Bigfoot and the 4 horses of the apocalypse, all running around the map for you to deal with.

To further build upon this, it’s worth pointing out that the expansion could also be bought and played as an entirely separate and standalone game – yeah, theoretically there could be people out there who bought Undead Nightmare who never even played a second of the base game! Its also true that there could be people who played the DLC and loved it whilst having no affinity towards Red Dead Redemption itself...

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