It seems like that the new trailer just confirmed what the previous leaks were mentioning…

The video, which was confirmed to be captured on a PlayStation 4, according to PlayStation’s Twitter account, featured Arthur Morgan and the Van Der Linde gang. Interestingly, the name Arthur formerly got confirmed by somebody! Simo on the NeoGAF forums has found the said post, which talks more than what we have seen in the videos so far!

„You play a gang leader named Arthur. The biggest change made to the game is you have a posse. If I remember correctly, the story kind of starts when you find out someone in your outlaw gang is a Pinkerton spy. The Pinkertons end up having you on the run through most of the game. You acquire lots of members of your gang such as John Marston, Abigail, little Jack, and others. The core mechanic of the game is having to maintain and continuously move your outlaw camp. When you go on a mission, you will choose who to take with you, similar to mass effect or dragon age. The game spans five zones. A directive they keep getting is to make the environments more interactive like Skyrim. Whatever that means.”

We’re taking a break from quoting the post to say that MAJOR SPOILERS are coming.

„There is kind of a game plus like like the last one had. You end up at Beechers Hope and switch control to John Marston. There are then lots of quests etc. dealing with building up your ranch. You literally will do x And Z to build a gazebo. I heard someone designed a mini-game where you help a mare give birth that had people laughing.”

SPOILERS END HERE.

„The last I heard, which was a few months ago, the game was kind of stuck in development hell of sorts. Then team kept remaking a vertical slice demo for the leaders of Rockstar, and they aren’t impressed… They didn’t find it different enough or innovative enough. Hopefully, they got out of that rut.

I’ve also heard that since Grand Theft Auto V, morale at Rockstar San Diego had been bad. Long-timers are quitting. Lots of turnovers. Lots of frustration. That’s all I can remember off hand.”

Woah. The end is quite sad. Let’s just hope that we won’t see a repeat of Mass Effect: Andromeda. And maybe this development hell might explain just WHY Red Dead Redemption 2 was delayed to Spring 2018 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One… hm. Have a few images from the trailer.

Source: Twitter, NeoGAF forum, WCCFTech