Westerns are about place….They’re not called outlaw films. They’re not even called cowboys-and-Indians films. They’re called westerns. They’re about geography. We’re talking about a format that is inherently geographical…and you’re talking about a medium, video games, the one thing they do unquestionably better than other mediums is represent geography.
Dan Houser, one of Rockstar’s founders, on Red Dead Redemption