Maps can also reveal a lot about the game itself. Red Dead Redemption 2 has an old-fashioned in-game map designed in a style that is suitable for the era the game is set in. The player character, Arthur Morgan, will even draw on points of interest that the player comes across in the game’s open world.

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The era specific detailing of Red Dead Redemption 2’s map has inspired a cartographer on Reddit named patrickmcgranaghan to create multiple maps of real-world locations in the style of RDR2’s map. Their latest RDR2 inspired map depicts the path of a solar eclipse that is scheduled to happen over Texas in 2024. The map is a faithful depiction of Texas and its surrounding states that is done using Red Dead Redemption 2’s various distinctive fonts and color schemes. The Reddit user then shows clearly where the path of totality falls across the state which is where the solar eclipse will be visible from.

Patrickmcgranaghan’s map would look right at home in Red Dead Redemption 2’s map screen. The map is also especially suitable since Red Dead Redemption 2’s world is a compressed amalgamation of areas from the southern United States, and many of these locations can be seen in the Reddit user’s eclipse map.

A detail that makes the Reddit user’s map even more impressive is the accurate scale bars in the bottom corner to show just how wide the eclipse’s path will be. There are no solar eclipses to be found in game, but one certainly wouldn’t seem out of place among all the other spooky and mysterious Easter eggs that can be found in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Red Dead Redemption 2’s map is representative of the kind of map that could have been used in 1899, while still being user-friendly for the player. Many games will try to be so visually distinct with their in-game maps that it undercuts the main purpose of the map, that is to be easily read and understood. The map in Cyberpunk 2077 is a 3D digital scan of the Night City, which fits well with the game’s cyberpunk aesthetics, but the deep blues and reds can make it difficult to read clearly.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is available on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.

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