Roger Clark, who performs Arthur Morgan in Pink Useless Redemption 2, is about to relate an audiobook that appears at American historical past by means of the lens of Rockstar’s Pink Useless Redemption video games.
Clark narrates historian Tore Olsson’s ‘Pink Useless’s Historical past’ in character as Arthur Morgan, protagonist of Rockstar’s critically acclaimed open-world epic.
Pink Useless’s Historical past explores the “wildly dramatic and gritty world” of America from 1870 to 1920. 2010’s Pink Useless Redemption and its prequel, 2018’s Pink Useless Redemption 2, set in 1911 and 1899 respectively, had been praised for his or her genuine portrayal of life in the course of the decline of the American frontier. Within the e book, Olsson digs into the element introduced within the video games and provides context from real-world American historical past.
Right here’s the official blurb:
“Weaving collectively the fictional characters and plot of the Pink Useless Redemption video games with real-life historic vignettes, Olsson reveals that the action-packed violence of the Pink Useless universe isn’t simply spawned from Hollywood westerns however rooted in actual sociopolitical points from turn-of-the-century America.”
IGN spoke with school historical past professor Tore Olsson, who in addition to writing books teaches the world’s first Pink Useless Redemption historical past class on the College of Tennessee, to debate the work. (Try the interview in full for an interesting look into the Pink Useless Redemption video games and their historic “thoughtfulness”, as Olsson places it.) This is a snippet:
“It got here as an epiphany once I sat down within the midst of the pandemic in 2020, and performed Pink Useless Redemption 2 for the primary time. I used to be solely about 10 hours in, and all these historic nodes in my mind are firing left and proper. I can’t flip off my historian id once I’m enjoying. And I’m actually genuinely stunned at how traditionally considerate the video games had been. I’m not a lot obsessive about this query of accuracy that will get bandied round quite a bit, while you speak about historic video video games. I’m extra enthusiastic about thoughtfulness and the methods a recreation tries to seize the temper and the sensation and the vary of choices and the realities of a time interval. And I believed the sport did a surprisingly good job at that.”
IGN additionally spoke to Roger Clark himself, who revealed why he wished to be concerned with the venture, mentioned the making of Pink Useless Redemption 2, and teased what’s subsequent.
The audiobook version of Pink Useless’s Historical past can be printed by Macmillan Audio on August 6, 2024 and can be obtainable at Audible, Apple Books, or wherever audiobooks are offered.
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