Summary
An intrepid fitness enthusiast andRed Dead Redemption 2player has completed a major journey across the game’s map using a treadmill to control Arthur as he walks across the whole in-game world.Red Dead Redemption 2won praise upon its release in 2018 for having a massive open-world map filled with naturalistic detail.
Though it has been nearly seven years since it first released,Red Dead Redemption 2continues to impress players, with fans continuing to find creative ways to have fun in one ofthe biggest open world games around. The adventures of Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang at the end of America’s Wild West era take on a legendary quality when considered against the backdrop of the game world’s massive, photorealistic vistas. Even outside the game’s story and designated activities, players find moments of quiet and humor just by visiting places on the map. In short, Rockstar’s rendition of the fictional U.S. states like New Hanover and West Elizabeth are engaging places just to live in and walk through.
One player, who goes by ShakeMistake on YouTube, shared his literal “walk through” ofRed Dead Redemption 2with the game’s Reddit community. Using the unusual hardware combination of a step tracker, a low-profile “walking pad” treadmill, and an app that remapped the in-game controls to his movement, ShakeMistake was able to walk Arthur Morgan almost all the way across theRed Dead Redemption 2game map. He trekked from the town of Annesburg in the northeast corner of New Hanover to Tumbleweed in the southwest reaches of New Austin, spending the entire time on foot and without stopping.
To accomplish his feat, ShakeMistake used an android smartphone app called StepL, which connects to a PC and can turn gyroscopic input from the phone into in-game movement, similar to the wayfitness games likeZombies Runtrack steps. ShakeMistake streamed the whole journey live on Twitch, sharing the condensed version with Reddit and uploading a more detailed breakdown on his YouTube channel. According to him, it took approximately three hours of walking constantly to move from Annesburg to Tumbleweed, with the app counting roughly 16,000 steps in total.
Players praised ShakeMistake for the feat of conquering the wholeRed Dead Redemption 2map “physically,” and likening the accomplishment to other stunts involving games and fitness equipment, like whenone player turned a treadmill into aDeath Strandingcontroller.
ShakeMistake’s journey of 16,000 steps put the map’s size at somewhere under 8 miles (12.9 kilometers) in distance between two of its furthest points. Despite this, the game gives the impression that Arthur and his compatriots are traveling for days or even months through entire U.S. states and beyond.
