Red Dead Redemption Remade In RDR2’s Engine Is Everything I’ve Ever Wanted

✓ Correct! The Van der Linde gang is the beating heart of the franchise — Dutch van der Linde’s outlaw family, including Arthur, John, Hosea, Sadie, Charles and more. Founded in the 1870s and destroyed in 1899, their collapse is the tragedy the entire prequel is built around. Every Red Dead story is ultimately about what happens to these people.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is the Van der Linde gang. The O’Driscoll Boys are Colm O’Driscoll’s bitter rival crew, the Lemoyne Raiders are Confederate holdouts you skirmish with in the bayou, and the Del Lobos are a Mexican border gang from RDR1 DLC. Only the Van der Linde gang is home.

✓ Correct! Arthur catches tuberculosis (called “consumption” at the time) from Thomas Downes — the tubercular farmer he shakes down on Leopold Strauss’s behalf in Chapter 2. His worsening cough, greying skin, and weight loss become one of gaming’s most devastating character arcs. Every mission after the diagnosis is a meditation on how a dying man chooses to spend his time.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is tuberculosis. Cholera, typhoid and yellow fever were all real scourges of the late 1800s, but Arthur catches TB from Thomas Downes during a debt-collection beatdown in Chapter 2. His slow deterioration — and Roger Clark’s performance of it — is what turns a prequel into one of the most emotionally wrenching games ever made.

✓ Correct! RDR2 opens in 1899 — deliberately picking the last dying gasp of the frontier. The gang is on the run after their botched Blackwater heist, fleeing into the snowy mountains of Ambarino. The epilogue jumps to 1907, setting up the twelve-year gap until the original 2010 game begins in 1911 with John Marston hunting down his former brothers.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is 1899. 1876 is the Custer/Little Bighorn era — before Dutch’s gang even existed. 1885 is when Hosea and Dutch are established bandits in flashbacks. 1907 is the epilogue’s time jump. But the main story of RDR2 — the gang’s collapse — unfolds across 1899, the last breath of the Wild West.

✓ Correct! John Marston — former Van der Linde gunslinger — is the protagonist of the 2010 original. Voiced by Rob Wiethoff, his story of being forced to hunt down Bill, Javier and Dutch by the Bureau of Investigation (in exchange for his family’s safety) made him one of gaming’s most iconic leads. RDR2 is the prequel built to contextualise everything John lost.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is John Marston. Arthur Morgan is the RDR2 protagonist (and fills the playable role for the prequel’s main story). Micah Bell is the villainous gang member. Hosea Matthews is Dutch’s right-hand man and a mentor figure. John is the face of the original 2010 game and the playable character in RDR2’s epilogue.

✓ Correct! “I have a plan.” Dutch delivers it constantly — first with genuine conviction, then as self-delusion, then finally as a hollow reflex. The more he says it, the worse things get. By the late chapters, every gang member knows his “plans” are falling apart — and hearing him say it again becomes dramatic shorthand for how far he’s fallen.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is “I have a plan.” “We just need more money” is a recurring gang lament but not Dutch’s signature line. “I have a plan” is what he says over and over as Blackwater, Rhodes, Saint Denis, and Guarma each blow up in his face. By the end, the phrase is a warning, not a reassurance.

✓ Correct! Blackwater is a town, not a state — it sits in West Elizabeth, and it’s the scene of the infamous botched ferry job that opens RDR2. The five fictional states are Ambarino (snowy mountains), West Elizabeth (plains and Blackwater itself), New Hanover (Horseshoe Overlook country), Lemoyne (Louisiana-flavoured bayou), and New Austin (RDR1’s familiar desert).

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is Blackwater — that’s a town in West Elizabeth, not a state. Specifically, it’s where Dutch’s 1899 riverboat heist went catastrophically wrong right before the game opens, putting a massive bounty on the whole gang and forcing them into the Grizzlies. Ambarino, New Hanover, and Lemoyne are all genuine states on the map.

✓ Correct! Micah Bell — the twitchy, blond latecomer who joined roughly a year before the game — is the Pinkerton informant. He plants suspicion, isolates Dutch, and sells out the camp repeatedly. His final fight with an older John Marston atop Mount Hagen in 1907 is one of gaming’s most satisfying revenge arcs, closing out the Van der Linde saga for good.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is Micah Bell. Bill Williamson is a thug but loyal to Dutch to the end. Javier Escuella is a true believer in the revolution. Leopold Strauss is the gang’s shady loan-shark bookkeeper (whose collection jobs indirectly give Arthur TB). Micah is the rat the whole time — and the reason Arthur’s dying words are a warning to John.

✓ Correct! Roger Clark — an Irish-American actor whose weathered drawl became synonymous with Arthur Morgan — won both the BAFTA and The Game Award for Best Performance in 2019. His ability to pivot from easy-going cowboy to gaunt, dying redeemer gave RDR2 its emotional heart. The role took nearly eight years of motion capture and recording sessions.

✗ Wanted, dead! The answer is Roger Clark. Rob Wiethoff is John Marston — both in RDR1 and as the playable lead of RDR2’s epilogue. Benjamin Byron Davis voiced Dutch van der Linde across both games. Troy Baker is huge in game VO (Joel, Booker, Pagan Min) but famously isn’t in Red Dead. Roger Clark’s Arthur won a BAFTA and a Game Award.