Pointed out by the folks over at RPS fanzine PC Gamer, Pig Rider isn’t being coy with its name. The work of modder JulioNIB - who’d previously modded Grand Theft Auto V to let you lark about as The Hulk, Iron Man, or a bleedin’ Shark - Pig Rider lets you romp about RDR2’s frontier on a range of comically supersized brutes. Despite the name, Pig Rider has ambitions for more mountable beasts beyond those horse-sized piglets. JulioNIB plans to let you roam the wilds on all manner of beasties, with the mod page showing off wagon-sized cougars, bears and wolves. That pig, though, that’s the real star of the show. A horse may be lean, elegant even. But your particular Arthur Morgan may be more suited to the sheer brute force of a four-legged pork battering ram.
It is decisively the most (resident RPS beastmaster) Nate Crowley goddamn Red Dead Redemption 2 mod I’ve ever seen. Your man’s currently in the business of reviewing all 234 animals in Rockstar’s cowboy epic, and I’m curious - where does a truck-sized boar rank compared to its more modest barnyard kin? If an American Alligator (Small) is worth only half as much as an American Alligator, does a ten-ton cougar rate ten times as highly? While currently still in development, budding boar-jockeys can have a pop at Pig Rider by pitching in $5 or more over on JulioNIB’s Patreon. Yee-haw. Disclosure: My partner is a programmer at Rockstar North, which - under the whole lockdown thing - now means that an entire room of our flat is off-limits as a makeshift Rockstar home office. Rude.
