Reports are starting to surface that the release of Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox 360 has a bug that is now allowing the System Link option to work, which means no local play over the local LAN. Apparently, developer Rockstar has yet to confirm the bug, but is looking into the reports.

From what we are able to tell from the reports coming in, when you attempt to launch the game’s Free Roam mode in System Link mode using two Xboxes and two copies of the game, the game does not seem to have the ability to find the other console so neither player is able to enter the other players game.

We have not attempted to reproduce the problem, but it seems that the number of reports of this issue seem to confirm that there is a problem. What surprises us is the number of people that want to play the game together using the System Link option. We suspect that Rockstar will quickly address the issue and we will keep you posted on when the company plans an update.