I'd be willing to bet that gyro aiming comes next gen.
Pick up God Of War, that game is as good as RDR in my opinion.
I played the original game back in the day but I never finished it. Never played the other ones. Am I missing out on story or anything if I skip to the latest game?
Nah, the original games were pretty simple, one day there was an angry man called Kratos, the Greek Gods kept on interfering with his life and betraying him/making him more angry, so he set out to kill them all angrily. He was really angry. The end.
They're all really good and fun games but the plots weren't really Shakespeare, that is sort of why the new one surprised me so much because the plot is absolutely fantastic, it really took this angry and fairly one dimensional character and made him very sympathetic. Not to say he wasn't a good character in the previous games, like I said those were fun but this is a lot better.