Ready to go to hoof to hoof with your friends? Seven of your friends to be exact. Well look no further. In RDR’s new DLC pack, Liars And Cheats, you get the chance to finally do some horse racing over the open plains. Supporting 8 players, you can set up different tournament cups and also earn points from where you end up in the pack when you cross that line. And if that isn’t enough to wet your whistle, how about the ability to shoot your friends while racing. Wouldn’t be Red Dead without the ability to eagle-eye a shot on your pal as he nearly claims victory.
In addition to the exhilarating thrills of head-to-head racing on horseback, the new Multiplayer Horse Racing mode brings something else to the track – mounted combat. After a designated brief period of calm at the start of each race, players can draw their guns and take aim at opponents.
At the start of each race, you are given a fixed amount of guns and ammunition and there is no auto-targeting, but players can acquire more by running over weapons that have been dropped by opponents that have been killed. If killed during a race you simply re-spawn with a small time penalty.
To further your interest Rockstar have released four screenshots showing off the new horse race mode. To see any of them larger and in more detail just click them.
Ridin’ dirty?
A cheeky shot will stop this guy winning
It’s like the Grand National…
…with guns!
This Horse Racing Mode is available in the Liars & Cheats DLC pack for Red Dead Redemption. The pack will be coming out tomorrow which is the 21st of September, for both Xbox Live and PSN. It will cost 800 Microsoft points or£7.99 respectively.
