You eye ballin' me bovine?

If you have ever watched Law and Order you well know that the maltreatment and harm of animals by nasty little kids is usually early stage indications that the little twist is a sociopath experimenting with their lack of empathy for living things before moving on to harming and possibly murdering human beings. Creepy no? You know that boy on your street who likes throwing rocks at cats, yeah, don’t let him date your sister.

Red Dead Redemption looks like a good early stage detector of a future Ted Bundy in the making. The game lets you kill everything, every single creature, great or small. It’s like Grand Theft Auto but with rabbits instead of people. PETA are going to go bonkers when they find out.

Someone's fixin' to get a whole lot deader

It’s not clear yet from the most recent info from Rockstar if you have unlimited ammo to go on indiscriminate wild life shooting sprees but at the least there is some purpose behind putting holes in your evolutionary inferiors. Skinning as an occupation can earn you a few extra dollars to spent on whiskey and syphilitic bawdy ladies. Ah, the circle of life. The game actually features a pretty comprehensive ecology system and in your travels you’ll see foxes chasing rabbits, mountain lions killing dear, bears stealing picnic baskets and giant squid battling mega sharks. Possibly not the last one.

Red Dead Redemption will also have a ‘fully functioning economy’, which I assume means that when you rob the local bank its going to impact trade in the area and you won’t get quite as much for your stinky rabbit skins as you would have in a stronger economy.

Okay here's one, begins with T and sounds like rain robbery

There will also be a law breaker status level similar to the famous GTA star ranking that will list your crimes which can be anything from stealing a horse to shooting a lawman. Depending on the level of your crime the locals might just try and lasso you up and throw you in the clink for a few nights, or they may try and string you up a bit more permanently. Get you to do the old brown boots jig at the end of a rope. Either way you’ll want to be careful who you shoot at.

Here’s the bad news though, Red Dead Redemption isn’t due out till sometime between February and June next year.
I don’t know if I can take the wait, I may have to skin an adorable puppy right now to tide me over.

I'd like to claim a bounty on this here gentleman, and if there ain't a bounty, I'd like to borrow a shovel

Whoa, Fallout flashback