Rockstar Games | Rockstar News Wire | Pre-Order Red Dead Redemption with GameStop to Get the Deadly Assassin Outfit

The people have spoken - and the Deadly Assassin has won the Rockstar Games and Gamestop Red Dead Referendum by a landslide - beating out The Savvy Merchant and The Expert Hunter to be the top vote-getting outfit and officially making it the exclusive Gamestop pre-order bonus for Red Dead Redemption.

The Deadly Assassin Outfit causes your Dead Eye meter to regenerate at twice the speed. With more Dead Eye, you have more time to place each shot with total accuracy, making you the deadliest gunslinger in any fight. Watch the video above to see the Deadly Assassin in action and visit www.gamestop.com/reddead or read on below to get more info on the outfit and its special gameplay advantages.

People that pre-order from Gamestop will be able to unlock the Deadly Assassin outfit via the following in-game challenges:

Win a duel in Armadillo
Travel to the town of Armadillo, and accept any challenge to fight a duel. Just make sure to win.

Capture or kill Mo Van Barr
While in Armadillo, find the wanted poster for Mo Van Barr, accept the Bounty Hunting mission, and bring this notorious member of the Walton Gang to justice, dead or alive.

Solve the mystery of the missing townsfolk
People have been disappearing for weeks from the outskirts of Armadillo. Track down the clues, solve the mystery and live to tell the tale.

Search Coot's Chapel
Find the ruins of Coot's Chapel in the wilds of Cholla Springs, and search for treasure.

Complete the Twin Rocks hideout
Find the legendary criminal hideout of Twin Rocks, located North of the town of Armadillo to complete this final challenge.

Of course, our friends in the UK can also get the Deadly Assassin by pre-ordering through Game. For a roundup of pre-order deals available across the US and UK, check out www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/preorder.

Previously:
Red Dead Redemption Exclusive Pre-Order Bonuses
Vote for the Exclusive Gamestop Pre-Order Bonus Outfit in the “Red Dead Referendum”

36 comments on this article

THE-PAYNE

June 3 at 8:56am

I got the Limited Edition and couldn't wait for the extra dlc but the MO VAN BARR challenge is bugged. I dont seem to be having the same problem as everyone else where he doesn't appear in armadillo, I can accept the bounty just fine. Its when I actually capture or kill him and complete the bounty it doesn't tick off the challenge for the deadly assassin outfit. So basically I can do the bounty but it doesn't complete the outfit. I payed good money just like everyone else for this dlc and I expect it to work. ROCKSTAR instead of only taking note of your site problems howabouyt give a word to the people with the GAME problems? Help/support and customer service is diabloical.

Neurodrill

May 30 at 6:44pm

I have this version of the Special Edition, and the outfit has never worked. It tells me with a message in game I've unlocked it, it tells me on the Downloadable Content screen I have it installed, and the outfit requirements page has never showed up. It isn't that Van Barr isn't there, the outfit literally does not appear in my outfit list. I've cleared my cache, I've restarted my game, I've done everything suggested, and nothing has worked. Yay for exclusive content, boo for paying for exclusive content and never being able to use it.

10003219

May 29 at 1:54am

YO ROCKSTAR
First off Great game. Looks good feels good and muey muey fun. Really only one beef, well two kinda, but one you can help with. The Deadly assassin outfit. Mo Vann Barr bounty wont appear for me im too far into the game to restart and read on other random forums that other ppl are having the same prob. I tried a kind of hot fix posted by what was claimed to be one of your employees on a forum that involved making a new save playin up to the point of the lasso then killing the walton gang guy for the marshel not capturing him then reloading my original save. It was a no go mo vann bar popped on the new save but not the one i had played into a ways. PLEASE RELEASE some kinda update to fix this it you know you can do it and Im sure are looking into it..
Oh yea WTF ppl you shoulda voted for the hunter outfit. and rockstar how come no warhorse and guns for us violence loving Americans. Keep up the good work Rockstar

dragonmoontail

May 27 at 9:16pm

I can't find Mo Van Barr

Cartman28279

March 15 at 10:04pm

can you drag people with the lasso if you walk around i know you can with a horse but can you on foot also i wanted to say great work been waiting a year for this and R your my favorite company

2KrazyHonkie

March 11 at 6:35pm

@R* Q/R*
have you guys ever thought of remaking the warriors game becuase i thought i was a graet game and i think alot of people whould love it if you guys did...

cant wait for Read dead redemption... sad the the release date was cut back to may 18
i was realy looking forward to it coming out next month oh well.

stangbaby89

March 10 at 1:11pm

Wow I really like the side missions for unlocking the Deadly Assassin Outfit. I like working for my prizes! Makes them all the much better when you get them :)

Mog4death

March 10 at 12:06pm

Question- are there in game chalenges to unlock the golden gun and warhorse, and can you lose them or store the like puting the horse in a stable and the gun in your luggage for example, because teir is not point getting the golden gun for example if you have to replace it for a mission and lose it because of this plus i would like the option to use the extras or not without losing them.

jackfischer102

March 8 at 9:50pm

i think the challenges look cooler than the outfit

GeorgeOscarBluth

March 8 at 12:48pm

my person who i voted for didn't win but i guess thats ok i like this one and ill be assassinating everyone lol

Adigta4

March 8 at 12:32pm

I want to buy it , but for PC, so give us a PC version.

bmb0815

March 8 at 1:20am

@ Jojo_Jojovich
They kind of half a** did mention a special edition. Go here.

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/landing/rdrvote/

Jojo_Jojovich

March 7 at 11:22pm

How about releasing the Special Edition in the US? I'd pay more to get the one that has the outfit, the horse, and the guns. Why haven't you announced this for the US yet, and only for Europe? What gives?!

Hemisrt6.1

March 6 at 6:44pm

Will gamestop pre-order come with a code to put in and then complete the challenges to unlock the outfit?

kobrak1ng

March 6 at 4:57pm

10/10 AWESOME R*!

xXxMANCOxXx

March 6 at 3:18pm

Looking forward to the `inventions` article. The aeroplane was invented around the time of RDR, I hope we`ll something like the Bleriot Monoplane, which Texan LL "Shorty" Walker replicated and flew over the state in Sep 1910

I had some more trouble posting yesterday, wonder if it`s something to do with the date of birth fields on the official site now that comments can be posted there too. I get a message saying `required fields not entered`

-OPAZO-

March 6 at 1:11pm

Awesome!

ATTENTION!

Join the official fan forum for Red Dead Redemption!

www.RedDeadWest.tk

JOIN NOW!

R* Q

March 6 at 12:20pm

Thanks @russelljones

We're looking into the issue right now and should have it fixed shortly.

MemoryDream

March 6 at 12:19pm

For other people (not UK or US) it's the same thing? I'm italian and i have pre order from gamestop italy the collector edition. What is my pre order bonus?

p.s. please let we see a ps3 video of gameplay ^^

hokkster

March 6 at 2:34am

Is this pre-order thing in the swedish gamestops too?