An avid player of the first Red Dead Redemption game, when he was asked to wear cowboy boots, he put two and two together about what he was getting himself into.

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It was fascinating to have to say this line as an ***hole or a man with integrity and make that work.вЂќ With the honour system, the way you play the game directly affects the narrative. вЂњNo two players are going to play the game the same way. But thatвЂ™s where comparison ends with the medium. вЂњI guess it would be like a five or six season television show in terms of the volume of the script. вЂњI canвЂ™t compare it to anything IвЂ™ve ever done,вЂќ says Clark, who had mainly worked in theatre before RDR2. The use of high-tech camera sensors now allows for the capture of more subtle facial expressions, allowing much greater depth to video game acting performances than ever before. Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan, the lead character in RockstarвЂ™s hit video game Red Dead Redemption 2. Balls are located on specific points, where joints are situated, and a rigging suspended from the ceiling has sensors which translate the data into an algorithm within the screen.Д®verything in cut scenes and many of the gameвЂ™s interactions happen this way, everything from jumping stunts, even to one of the characters Javier Escuela, played by Gabriel Sloyer, playing the guitar with the sensor balls on his fingers. Rather, the vast majority of RDR2 is filmed in performance capture, where the actor wears a tight suit which outlines their body.

That was achieved by Roger Clark and his colleagues, with a script running about 2,000 pages long and five years of development.Д¬lark is at pains to debunk the common perception that video games like RDR2 use only voice acting, with an actor in a booth with a script, where their lines are added to the animation. A game so vast still needs a structure and quality story to make it work. I canвЂ™t compare it to anything IвЂ™ve ever doneД«ut what really makes the game stand out is the quality of the writing and the acting performance.

There are many things about RDR2 that make it an exceptional piece of work: the vast open world where more than 200 species of animal and thousands of people co-exist in intricate detail the honour system which changes the game depending on how well or badly you behave within the world the beautiful cinematography from the snow in the mountains to the balmy plantations of the south to the polluted old-world city of Saint Denis. From riding horses in McGarryвЂ™s Stables in Co Sligo as a teenager to traversing the Wild West on horseback as Arthur Morgan, the lead character in RockstarвЂ™s hit video game Red Dead Redemption 2, Irish-American actor Roger Clark, has had quite the journey.Д«orn in the US, raised in Ireland and trained in Wales, Clark has drawn on all these experiences to produce a magnetic performance as Arthur in what critics deemed the best of last year in the recent Game of the Year awards.Д¬larkвЂ™s performance was one of the many reasons why RDR2 achieved the rare distinction of commercial success and critical acclaim, earning $725 million (в‚¬643 million) in its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing opening weekend of any entertainment product ever, and achieving a 97 per cent average rating on Metacritic.

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