While the original Red Dead Redemption’s map features a (fictional) area of Mexico, which protagonist John Marston heads to for a big chunk of the game, its sequel Red Dead Redemption 2 only lets you head back to the US-based part, New Austin. However, according to some datamines, it looks like the game’s files do include a couple of references to a Mexico map.
User VideoTech UK over at GTAForums (via VG24/7) has taken a look at the game’s files (version 1.0 of the PlayStation version) and discovered that there are models of some of the first game’s Mexico locations hiding within. According to the dataminer, most of the models are “disabled in-game,” and from the pictures posted it looks like they’re very low-detail, providing a basic shape for the towns. Familiar locations like Chuparosa and Sepulcro seem to be included. The user also reveals some textures present in the files, too, though they say that these findings do “not confirm any form of a future Mexico map expansion” – they’re just present in the game files.
WildBrick142, a different dataminer, even found references to those regions in minimap data, which is what the game is/was going to show on players’ minimaps when they visit them. There were even codes leading to several Mexico-based bounties, with the wanted NPCs names and their whereabouts noted in the titles. By the way, you can buy
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At this point, it’s hard to tell if all of this was in development at one point before getting cut, or if it’s something Rockstar is working on adding to the game in the future. A map expansion of that scale would be a big undertaking, and the developer hasn’t been interested in creating new single-player content for its games since GTA 5.
If Mexico is indeed on its way to Red Dead Online, that would make a bit more sense, but it seems bizarre to add such a big piece of content and only limit it to the online portion. Datamined information rarely tells us the whole story, so it’s best to take what’s been uncovered with a grain of salt. Plenty of games contain files for cut content that may never make a return.
