History VideoGame / RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare

* BadassBandolier: Just like in the main game. However, here you have it from the start - and you'll need all the ammo you can carry.
* BadassGrandpa: Landon Ricketts continues in this role from the main game. The town he lives in is designated a permanent safe zone, meaning it's one of only three settlements in the entire game that can never be overrun by the undead. The other two are secure, heavily fortified military installations that can only be accessed by ladder. His settlement, on the other hand, has no walls, no defenses, and no other guards - the doors aren't even locked. He literally keeps the town secure and zombie-free single-handedly - he's ''just that good''.
** GenderFlipped with Mother Superior.
* BagOfSpilling: Even though the game takes place late in the story line of the original one, John Marston doesn't start with all the guns.
** Maybe he sold most of them to help get his farm running again. He's left his old life behind, so wouldn't need quite so many exotic weapons.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Meta-example: After completing the main game many fans were upset by the [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent ending]][[spoiler:, with some even forming petitions for a patch or update that returns John to life. In Undead Nightmare, that wish is granted and John rises from the grave... as an unintelligible zombie. Enjoy!]]

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: While it is possible to kill them with body shots, the amount of bullets required to kill just one will leave a massive dent in your ammo supplies. The quickest and most efficient way to put down the Undead terrorising the Wild West is to blow their brains out. Anything else besides [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]]m [[KillItWithFire fire]], [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Water]] or the Blunderbuss will stun them at best.

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: While it is possible to kill them with body shots, the amount of bullets required to kill just one will leave a massive dent in your ammo supplies. The quickest and most efficient way to put down the Undead terrorising the Wild West is to blow their brains out. Anything else besides [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]],[[KillItWithFire fire]], [[HolyHandGrenade Holy Water]] or the Blunderbuss will stun them at best.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jack's dog Cain is briefly seen running early into the game, but once you're free to roam he is nowhere to be found.

** ->''"Bears aren't the scariest thing in John Marston's west anymore."''

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: You can briefly hear Jack's dog Cain in the first stage s of the game, but once you start roaming he is nowhere to be found.

* WeirdWest: It's a ZombieApocalypse set during the TwilightOfTheOldWest, so [[CaptainObvious yes, it counts.]]

->'''Narrator:''' After months away, John Marston has returned to his loved ones. While trying to rebuild his ranch, and win back the trust of his family, Marston awaits whatever life will throw at him. As he drives home one evening from an errand, he ponders whether a man can ever escape his past. He is a man who is ready for anything!

->...''Almost'' anything. [[EvilLaugh Hmhmhmhahaha!]]

* SoProudOfYou: A non-spoken, internal version occurs in the first mission. Jack starts to explain the story he's reading to John, and as the view changes to John, the audio begins to fade and is replaced by light piano notes, implying John lost his concentration in favor of [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming admiring his son]].

* BlackComedy: Being a parody of 1970s {{BMovie}}s, the game often takes this tone.

* XMeetsY: TheWestern meets ZombieApocalypse

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the scrawled signs in Blackwater says "Close The Borders," indicating early on that the zombie plague came from across the Mexican borders. It features prominently in an early mission.

* GenreSavvy: John, who picks up ''very'' quickly what to do in these situations even in times where he clearly has no idea what's going on. In a very early example, once he sees Abigail bite Jack he immediately figures out that whatever happened to her is about to happen to him. It certainly helps that even in the main game he was loaded up with a lot more common sense than the average man.
** Nigel West Dickens briefly has some of this when he presents the blunderbuss to Marston. Marston sniffs at a weapon that was out of date half a century ago, but West Dickens rightly points out that the weapon completely blows enemies to pieces in a cone of destruction, making it even ''better'' than the shotgun, the zombie-hunter's weapon of choice.

* MoodWhiplash: The unicorn which emits butterflies when stationary and leaves a rainbow in it's wake when it runs.

* ZombieApocalypse: The premise of the game is John Marston against a zombie plague. [[CoolVersusAwesome Fuck]] [[SoCoolItsAwesome yes]].

* LostForever: If all the survivors of a town under attack die, the town is permanently overrun. You can still come back and clear out the zombies for a place to stay, but it wont stay clear for long after you leave.

* NighInvulnerability: Pestilence. It ''can'' be killed, but this is highly unlikely due to its massive endurance. Not even ''cougars'' can fell it easily.
** And then there's Death, which literally ''can't'' be killed unless it falls from a great height or [[SuperDrowningSkills falls into a lake or river]]. And even then, you automatically gain its horse deed once you acquire it, so if it ''does'' die, you can just respawn it.