Today Rockstar has officially announced Red Dead Redemption, a sequel to 2004’s Red Dead Revolver. The game is set for a Fall 2009 release on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and is in development with Rockstar’s San Diego studio. The game is open world and set at the turn of the 20th century when “the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age.”

“Utilizing Rockstar’s proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open-world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes – each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions. Along the way, players will experience the heat of gunfights and battles, meet a host of unique characters, struggle against the harshness of one of the world’s last remaining wildernesses, and ultimately pick their own precarious path through an epic story about the death of the Wild West and the gunslingers that inhabited it.”

With the game this far along in development you can be sure we will be seeing some media soon, Rockstar seems pretty confident that this game will be a great success. Stay tuned for more information on Red Dead Redemption!