Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

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  1. chuckdnguyen
    Nov 26, 2018
    4
    Too slow a game. Honestly, I know it's realistic like the actual time period, and it's not grand theft auto (also by rockstar) or far cry / other open world 3rd person shooters where you can fast travel, but riding on a horse takes forever, and you can barely run, and picking up items takes minutes at a time. I know it's realistic, but I sure don't have the time to do every little actionToo slow a game. Honestly, I know it's realistic like the actual time period, and it's not grand theft auto (also by rockstar) or far cry / other open world 3rd person shooters where you can fast travel, but riding on a horse takes forever, and you can barely run, and picking up items takes minutes at a time. I know it's realistic, but I sure don't have the time to do every little action without being able to do it quickly. It's a video game, let me skip some tedious stuff... Quit it after 3 hours. Played the first and beat it, enjoyed story, but also ridiculously slow travel time on horse.… Expand
  2. Nemo888
    Dec 23, 2018
    4
    It feels like the game keeps punishing me. Didn't I pay for this? One lucky shot after getting legendary hides and the game takes them. The game design is creepy and controlling. I'm an adult and my time is valuable. Wasting it grinding only to have it taken away by chance is lame. So much is good about this game but me and my friends agree it is unplayable. It feels like work.
  3. Stuvok
    Dec 25, 2018
    4
    after over a dozen hours I can say the game is painfully overrated. It has a very slow start with a crazy amount of very slow walking and talking. Even once the open world opens up to you... all you do is basic tasks with incredibly long trips. Ride 10 min to punch a guy who owes money once than ride 10 min back to camp. Then do that 3 more times! Ride 10 min to pick somebody up toafter over a dozen hours I can say the game is painfully overrated. It has a very slow start with a crazy amount of very slow walking and talking. Even once the open world opens up to you... all you do is basic tasks with incredibly long trips. Ride 10 min to punch a guy who owes money once than ride 10 min back to camp. Then do that 3 more times! Ride 10 min to pick somebody up to ride 10 min to drop them off then ride back to camp. Ride 10 min to a hunting spot than hunt 1 animal than ride 10 min back to camp. If you hated FF15 and it's car mechanic well it's the same here. Bad boring mission design in a shockingly empty open world. The experience is also hampered by terrible movement mechanics. You walk at a snails pace as if your in Gears of War 1 talking on the radio and you can hold the sprint button to speed up... but you go to full speed automatically and as soon as you let go you are a snail again. Some how there is no jog option so you end up running past things you want or crawling up to them slowly. Shooting feels awful made worse by a awkward implementation of a cover system and the poor movement controls. The game also never seems to remember what weapons I have equipped. It always takes my long arms off my body even though they are hanging on my back not just keeping them on my horse but removing them forcing me to reopen the horse inventory. Maybe the game will improve if the story picks up. But right now it's painfully boring with long drawn out conversations about nothing important with idiots who's names I can't remember. As for the supposed amazing graphics... the best way to describe the game is blurry very blurry.

    I have now beaten the game. It will not be a game I remember fondly. There is only 1 mission in the whole game that I will remember and that was when you rolled up to that house to find the kid. I was really feeling that mission... too bad once you get there the shooting it terrible. I have serious problems with how nearly every single mission is designed and how almost all the story is delivered throughout the game. Everything is tedious without an upside after you bother going through it all. Less than half way through the game and I had all the money I would ever need and fully modified guns, horse, and clothes that I would never need to change. After that almost every side quest in the game was a absolute waste of time with a tiny bit of mediocre story that wasn't worth the travel time. I started to avoid everything and do a straight line for the necessary story line missions because I was done with the game but wanted to know the story. I wouldn't say it was bad but as it started to end I was disappointed with so many actions of the main character that I was totally taken out of the experience. In the rest of the game you can do whatever you want and totally create what type of person you are with your interactions with people. But in the main game I'm thinking "**** you shot that person I liked you are dead". I shoot him mission failed. You also have to just shake your head at how stupid the major fight scenes are. You get 10 hours of 100 people shooting at you as you guys barely move or slowly ride away completely exposed and not a single ****ing person can hit anybody or your horses. It's too absurd for my taste... they needed to design fights better but the AI is so simple they have to throw waves and waves of enemies at you to even force you to move your character. Nothing in this world ever reflects anything that happens. You kill 5 times a towns population and then return the next day and everybody is there. You fight a rival gang that apparently has 1000 men and you have 20. Nothing makes sense.    … Expand
  4. WastedBean
    Nov 4, 2018
    4
    I've put about 20 hours into this game so far, but that's as much as it's getting. Red Dead looks amazing and is technically very impressive, but it is just utterly boring. It's bad enough that you have to bathe and shave, but why make it so painfully slow? Getting around the world is tedious, making even the otherwise fun activities like hunting a chore (you can only carry one carcass atI've put about 20 hours into this game so far, but that's as much as it's getting. Red Dead looks amazing and is technically very impressive, but it is just utterly boring. It's bad enough that you have to bathe and shave, but why make it so painfully slow? Getting around the world is tedious, making even the otherwise fun activities like hunting a chore (you can only carry one carcass at a time and have to drop them off at your camp,and you move glacially slowly around the camp). The controls are awkward and combat is weak. How it has 97 from the pro reviewers is a mystery, but it probably involved pots of money. This game is just a waste of your time, money and 100GB of disk space. A real shame because if you removed all the junk and tweaked the controls and combat there's probably a decent game in there.… Expand
  5. Imperium101
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    The controls in this game may be the worst I've ever experienced in a "AAA" game - Arthur moves like he's stuck in quicksand and the menus are convoluted and fidgety.

    Literally half the game is riding from point A to B on your horse, and the side activities feel pointless - you can completely ignore bathing, hunting, weather. Completely superfluous. How can people give this game    The controls in this game may be the worst I've ever experienced in a "AAA" game - Arthur moves like he's stuck in quicksand and the menus are convoluted and fidgety.

    Literally half the game is riding from point A to B on your horse, and the side activities feel pointless - you can completely ignore bathing, hunting, weather. Completely superfluous.

    How can people give this game perfect scores when there is so much to tear apart? The "critics" are useless.    … Expand
  6. samichsupernova
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    It's beautiful, atmospheric, and cinematic... but I don't want to watch a cliche-ridden Western serial. The controls and gameplay are clunky. Inventory management is a chore. A lot of design choices feel half-baked such as the slowness of grabbing items, the messiness of horse controls and having to constantly holster your weapon, or having people continuing to talk to you even when you'reIt's beautiful, atmospheric, and cinematic... but I don't want to watch a cliche-ridden Western serial. The controls and gameplay are clunky. Inventory management is a chore. A lot of design choices feel half-baked such as the slowness of grabbing items, the messiness of horse controls and having to constantly holster your weapon, or having people continuing to talk to you even when you're reading something. Not to mention R*'s practices of overworking their employees... I don't know what went wrong, the first RDR was a masterpiece...… Expand
  7. itmo
    Oct 30, 2018
    4
    For a game based around a gunslinger, it seems odd that the gun play mechanics are just awful. it is most likely that the developers have never shot a gun in their life, because what has been created here, is a joke. Combined with the equally awful control system structure, it hurts this game big time. It's time for consoles to look at developing a better method to control characters,For a game based around a gunslinger, it seems odd that the gun play mechanics are just awful. it is most likely that the developers have never shot a gun in their life, because what has been created here, is a joke. Combined with the equally awful control system structure, it hurts this game big time. It's time for consoles to look at developing a better method to control characters, because the game pad just doesn't work with these type of games. This should have been ported to the PC, and would would have been a far superior game. When the core components of the game are borderline un-playable, it detracts from the overall experience.… Expand
  8. ahh8
    Jun 16, 2019
    4
    Good graphics and characters but the core of the game is bad (the gameplay and the quests) i got bored and I didn't complete it.
  9. zuldo
    Nov 28, 2018
    4
    RDR2:Online review:
    Exactly the same mechanics as GTA:O. Ridiculous prices to incentivize micro transactions. Always on radar blips for every player making it a grief fest once again. Auto aim to ridiculous levels.
    Such a disappointment. I actually thought they would make something more.. "adult". I will not buy a single "Gold bar" and hope others will do the same so that R* doesn't    RDR2:Online review:
    Exactly the same mechanics as GTA:O. Ridiculous prices to incentivize micro transactions. Always on radar blips for every player making it a grief fest once again. Auto aim to ridiculous levels.
    Such a disappointment. I actually thought they would make something more.. "adult".
    I will not buy a single "Gold bar" and hope others will do the same so that R* doesn't profit any more upon this silly gameplay. Give me RDR2 hardcore mode. Survival. RP. Had so much potential..    … Expand
  10. gobhoblin
    Dec 20, 2018
    4
    The game is amazingly boring. You move at a pace that is roughly 7/10s the speed of a normal human in all situations except for the 1 second gunfights where you apparently take all that stored speed and stop time to kill 9 people in a fraction of a second. The entire game is basically following someone on a horse at walking speed while they tell you stories you probably aren't going to listen to
  11. AA2
    Feb 2, 2019
    4
    Where do I start? First what comes to mind is that this game is really slow and boring. My fingers literally start to hurt after I've raped the x button to make my character run or my horse go faster, because if you don't then it will take you hours to get from one point to the other. And what is up with holding the x or square button for a few seconds to even start interacting with stuff?Where do I start? First what comes to mind is that this game is really slow and boring. My fingers literally start to hurt after I've raped the x button to make my character run or my horse go faster, because if you don't then it will take you hours to get from one point to the other. And what is up with holding the x or square button for a few seconds to even start interacting with stuff? Sure the world looks real and beautiful but it's way too big. Only because you have the technological progress to create massive open worlds doesn't mean that you have to create a real life simulator. If I wanted to spend 15 minutes to get from one point to the other I could walk my dog in real life. I still have a private life, I don't have the time to spend hours on this game. I can only do 2-3 missions at a time after I come home from work because this game is so fricking sloooow. I'm actually forcing myself to play this game. I really want to like RDR2 but it's a pain. Another thing that comes to mind is that at times this game super realistic, like you have to cut your hair, trim your beard, eat, drink, take care of your horse and your gang members but when you accidentally run into a pedestrian he ir she dies and the people standing by accuse you of murder and you get a wanted level. WTF? I can't tell you how many times I paid off my bounty.
    Once again this case shows that big budget or open world doesn't always mean that it's going to be great. Unfortunately we live in a society that got used to the mentality "the bigger the better". But this time Rockstar went beyond normal proportions. I'm disappointed. I even told myself that I won't buy open world games any more.    … Expand
  12. portmanteau
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    I really hope they update with an option to forgo all the slow clunky stuff and experience the narrative on its own. I genuinely want to see the story, but have no interest in grinding slogs and grooming mechanics. It's like watching a thriller and they say "sir, we know where the terrorists are" and then proceed to make you sit through a realtime 40 min car journey and a stop at theI really hope they update with an option to forgo all the slow clunky stuff and experience the narrative on its own. I genuinely want to see the story, but have no interest in grinding slogs and grooming mechanics. It's like watching a thriller and they say "sir, we know where the terrorists are" and then proceed to make you sit through a realtime 40 min car journey and a stop at the petrol station. before you get there. Just because there's 60hrs of story doesn't make it good. if for most of that you're riding a horse for half an hour at a time.… Expand
  13. robomartion
    Aug 5, 2020
    4
    Good graphics plus utterly boring as **** game play do not make a good game. Sorry.

    I bought this game to check out the wild west but so far I have been in a blizzard for at least 2 hours. After watching about 15 minutes of cut scenes with game play sprinkled in between, if you can call it that, I have someone shouting orders at me over and over to hitch my horse on the post. Did    Good graphics plus utterly boring as **** game play do not make a good game. Sorry.

    I bought this game to check out the wild west but so far I have been in a blizzard for at least 2 hours. After watching about 15 minutes of cut scenes with game play sprinkled in between, if you can call it that, I have someone shouting orders at me over and over to hitch my horse on the post. Did anyone think maybe the player isn't interested in hitching his horse on the post in a VIDEO GAME. Anyway now we sit and watch for a bit more and then there's a gun fight. With possibly the worst control scheme I have ever experienced I manage to wield my gun and take out some people who I have no idea why we are killing and then we explore the house they were living in. We find out they killed some guy and I go to check out the barn and then some guy jumps on me and after an extremely drawn out fight I have to interrogate him by choosing whether to talk to or hit him.

    Now all of that done with, some more cut-scenes and now we are free to do as we please. Wild west here come. Or so I think. That however won't be the case because there's missions to be done. In fact it would seem the game is primarily about doing missions. So we start the next mission. Now we are walking/riding at nought miles an hour trying to shoot a bow while our character cant keep the bow still to save his life. Oh and then the aim-assist kicks in when the target starts moving. Which is it going to be noodle arms or auto aim? Keep in mind this isn't while it's drawn back just holding it he can't keep it still. He seems to be able to hold the gun still just fine. So now I've killed the deer with no help from the wildly inconsistent controls and now I have to wait for my horse to return while I hold the deer on my shoulder. Wouldn't you just wait until your horse returned and then pick it up? What's the point in making an open-world game where you utterly on rails and the game play is utterly laborious? Do Rockstar only play their own games so they've never heard of a thing called an RPG? Don't they realise players aren't horses and don't need to be led by a rope to their hitching post? The environments and graphics are good but what's the point if you can't actually explore them of your own volition. This is too much like GTA with cowboys instead of the open world exploration game it should be with actual freedom. Seriously so much work and effort into this game so I can what, hitch the horse to its post?    … Expand
  14. djball
    Jan 23, 2019
    4
    Big beautiful world, incredible lighting, smooth acting, solid story, 8/10. Then you realize..... seriously GOD AWFUL slow motion game play, broken controls, broken inventory, and utterly USELESS rpg elements. Next you're gonna ride a LOT of horse, that is actually NO FUN TO RIDE at all! The controls are horrible, I mean horrible tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap! Then you're gonna rideBig beautiful world, incredible lighting, smooth acting, solid story, 8/10. Then you realize..... seriously GOD AWFUL slow motion game play, broken controls, broken inventory, and utterly USELESS rpg elements. Next you're gonna ride a LOT of horse, that is actually NO FUN TO RIDE at all! The controls are horrible, I mean horrible tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap! Then you're gonna ride that broken horse long distance for stupid fetch/kill missions. Maybe you will search Orchids for 7 days, wow awesome hat to go with that fancy useless revolver. You can't even drop crappy weapons from your inventory, so they just clog up that frigging clumsy wheel. Simply ridiculous on so many levels for such an expensive production. Game play 0/10… Expand
  15. 36thDisciple
    Jan 24, 2019
    4
    Super slow paced and heavily scripted, with average graphics, clunky mechanics and a confusing, choresome health and stamina metering and maintenance system. I want my money back.
  16. BIGTIMEMASTER
    Nov 12, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Here's a brief description of one mission.

    Your mission is to rob a train. First step is to steal a wagon with an oil barrel on back, which you are going to put on the railway and light on fire so the train will see it from far away and come to a stop. Then you can rob it.

    So you look at your mini map and it tells you where to go to steal the wagon. You ride your horse there. This takes 5 minutes. Real world time. Just riding a horse. Along a road you have gone up and down probably 20 times already doing various errands.

    The wagon is in an oil field where the workers shoot on sight. Because sometimes the game is realistic to a fault, and then suddenly it's not. You jump the fence, hop on the wagon, get shot a few times -- doesn't matter, you have at least 50 different healing items that restore full health pretty much at all times -- you repeatedly mash X to gallop away to safety. You ride for another 5 minutes to drop off the wagon where it's supposed to go. That was easy, though it did take me three times because once you get close to the wagon area, if you move away too far the mission fails. So my initial idea was to scope the place out, then take cover on some high ground, pick dudes off, lose them in the woods when they come after me, and then drop back into the oil field after drawing most of them out. But nope. So much for open world freedom.

    You ride another 5 minutes back to home base to tell home boy you done your job, and he says "cool man." Then you have to complete another mission before you can continue. So you take a kid that talks like the worlds most generic child fishing, and he say's it's boring, and I wholeheartedly agree. Besides the boring nature of the game mechanic, what does fishing do for you? It gives you more health. I already have more health items than I can carry. It's not worth enough to sell, and I don't need money either. The only things to buy are clothing items, everything else the game gives you anyway...

    So you do that stupid mission which, start to finish, will chew up twenty minutes in which you are basically doing nothing. Now, back to the train robbery. So you ride back to where you stashed the wagon -- 5 minutes. Then you watch a cutscene, then you got to ride with the gang to the ambush site. This is another 5 minute jaunt, but this time you got the crew trying their durndest to tell side-splitting funnies, but it's typical game dialogue that feels disjointed and unnatural -- like the voice actors recorded at separate places and times. And the dialogue can be ignored, because it's just banter -- it doesn't build characters or move story, it's just non-sense "tough-guy" talk, because everybody knows all tough-guy train robbers do is talk trash to each other constantly, and especially before pulling off a big heist.

    Alright, so now, finally, it's train robbin' time. You're ready to get all sweaty palmed and squinty eyed, because you're here to do what you came to do. You've worked almost an hour doing monotonous crap to get to this point. The big dramatic train robbery! Now's the time when you don't mind that big, drawn out cutscene with the tense chord and the beady eyes twitching and the trees drawing long shadows as the train blares it's horn with it's headlight coming round the corner... hell yeah, you can feeeeel it coming...

    But wait.. something isn't right. Remember the oil wagon you were going to set on fire? Well, they just put it on the tracks, and hero character stands on top of it with his rifle. What? That wasn't the plan. And the corner the train is coming around clearly isn't far enough away to give the train time to stop... Why did I steal this wagon again?

    The other gangsters hide behind the trees, and then real sudden like a generic action track starts up, you get a real fast sweeping shot of the gang in the trees, then the train comes and see's the wagon all of a sudden and just stops. No squeeling brakes, no smoke plumes, no dramatics -- nothing. Then there is a bunch of yelling, and even though you are in charge of this heist somebody is hollering "hey arthur, come do this! Come do that!" So you try to hurry over, but the game has locked running for right now, so you have to walk slowly over to the guys shouting to hurry.

    You follow behind your bro who is holding a goodie bag and demanding people to point money inside. Every third person says "no" and you press B when it tells you to punch them in the face. You can't do that or anything else until you are prompted to do so. So you do that for about a minute then the game tells you to go help somebody else. This time bad guys jump into the scene, you hold the trigger which auto-aims onto anybody on the screen, and you pull the other trigger to shoot them. You do that for ten minutes, then you go on another 10 minute horse ride. Mission over. What do you get for all of that? Money that you don't need.

    I cannot recall a more poorly designed AAA game than this.    … Expand
  17. legat
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    For me, it's overhyped... While playing Witcher3, after 10 hours I don't wanna turn off console, wvery day after work playing to 2-3 am, every day thinking what I gonna do in game...
    In RDR2 after first 4 hours I was tired, 2 days later another 4h and again stopped playing.
    Now I'm after ~20h of game and it's little bit better, but still for me Witcher is 10/10, and this game? max    For me, it's overhyped... While playing Witcher3, after 10 hours I don't wanna turn off console, wvery day after work playing to 2-3 am, every day thinking what I gonna do in game...
    In RDR2 after first 4 hours I was tired, 2 days later another 4h and again stopped playing.
    Now I'm after ~20h of game and it's little bit better, but still for me Witcher is 10/10, and this game? max 6/10... Maybe if I will finish game It will be higher, will see.
    + world, world in this game is AMAZING, it's true, simply beautiful.
    - controls... omg sometimes I was feeling like I need to one more finger on my hand... or spamming X X X X X X X to ride horse fast... like many people said: it's Horse Riding Simulator.
    - game is very slow in case of action... sometimes after 2h playing I realized that I did nothing, visited 2-3 places, found map, hunted deer, done, 2h lost :D

    And, I dont understand so many 10/10 scores (also 0/10), there is 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10!!!! Think about it, be objective...    … Expand
  18. dypsomaniart
    Jan 26, 2019
    4
    A great simulation of a boring world that hates you.

    I'm only 55% through the story, but I'm struggling to find motivation to play any more, and have been for a while. A game should be exciting and rewarding, not tedious. If I wanted to play dominoes, go fishing, play poker, cook food, do chores, ride a horse for hours on end- over and over, clean a horse, clean my weapons, run    A great simulation of a boring world that hates you.

    I'm only 55% through the story, but I'm struggling to find motivation to play any more, and have been for a while.

    A game should be exciting and rewarding, not tedious. If I wanted to play dominoes, go fishing, play poker, cook food, do chores, ride a horse for hours on end- over and over, clean a horse, clean my weapons, run errands for a bunch of miscreants, talk endlessly to npcs, etc etc, I would be doing those things in real life, not trying to escape that boring cr@p by playing video games.

    This game is a huge slow burn time waster with very little payoff or challenging gameplay, there is no satisfaction for any achievements, no real progression, no real incentive to do anything in the game. I keep going back and trying again because I paid good money for this game, but after an hour or two I reach a point where i just cannot force myself through the mindless tedium of travelling to the next objective.    … Expand
  19. Zerfyx
    Oct 29, 2018
    4
    Where to start. RDR2 has some amazing things in it, but it is not a good game beacouse of it. While some things are amazing, others are among the worst i've seen ever in any game, genre or system.

    The good: The world is amazing, I spent several hours just riding around, hunting, chatting with strangers and helping out people i met on the road. The story's good, not great, but    Where to start. RDR2 has some amazing things in it, but it is not a good game beacouse of it. While some things are amazing, others are among the worst i've seen ever in any game, genre or system.

    The good:
    The world is amazing, I spent several hours just riding around, hunting, chatting with strangers and helping out people i met on the road.
    The story's good, not great, but serviceable, as are the characters.
    Voice acting is impressive, but the random conversations you can strike up with anyone still sound weird, very much like how oblivions conversations between NPCs would sound.

    The Bad: Controls are a mess, always have been in Rockstars games, appart from, for some reason, RDR1.
    It's buggy, Several times i've been unable to continue on in a mission, being forced to throw a dynamite at my feet to reset it.
    QTEs somehow made its way into the game, and it's worse than ever before, being that you don't even get told what button to press, nor does it make sense for the action you do with it. My most remembered case was a woman charging me with a knife while i was trying to lasso her. Instant kill. I reload and do it again, this time pressing block when she attacks. Instant kill. Last time, i got pissed off and tried to punch her in her face, and my character sidestepped her, tripping and disarming her. Bad design.

    The UGLY:
    The bounty system is the worst i've ever seen in a game. The idea is cool, and when it works, it's amazing. You do a crime, someone sees you and they report you to the law, you can stop them by either threatening or killing them. Sounds good, right? Problem is, say you kill a guy on a road, you leave and someone stumbles onto the corpse. he then tells the law that he found a body and you INSTANTLY get a bounty on you. Despite being long gone when anyone showed up, despite never been seen there. Another example, you try to rob a train, you go there, start taking out the guards, having stopped the train in the middle of noware. Suddenly, there's lawmen there, having had the "Crime reported" as the games calls it. You get a bounty, roughly 200-300 dollars, for earning maybe 80. Here comes the worst part though. The only way to get ridd of a bounty is for you to pay it off. So, you rob a train, you get 200 dollars bounty and 80 dollars of loot, that's a loss of 120 dollars. It doesn't make sense. Even worse, is that if you have a bounty, you get lawmen or bounty hunters looking for you. If they kill you, they take some of your money (seems to be around 10%), you wake up.... and you still have the bounty. Say that you kill the lawmen or hunters? Well, your bounty goes up for each you kill, even if you kill every single one, so no one can report it back to them. As i said, the bounty system is the worst ever made. Fix that, and i'll raise my score to close to an 8    … Expand
  20. Streps
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    "A Masterpiece, a 10/10, a Perfect game"I need to get a hold of the drugs the reviewers/gamers must be consuming to give this average game that lacks any innovation a 10. Gunplay = Horrid for a game that has a core element based around gunplay. Menu system = Twister with my fingers, did they even bother to test this out before releasing it?. Realism = Lacks in areas it should be, but"A Masterpiece, a 10/10, a Perfect game"I need to get a hold of the drugs the reviewers/gamers must be consuming to give this average game that lacks any innovation a 10. Gunplay = Horrid for a game that has a core element based around gunplay. Menu system = Twister with my fingers, did they even bother to test this out before releasing it?. Realism = Lacks in areas it should be, but put into other areas that don't add anything to the immersion. Story = Average, it is just about non-existent. Graphics = Good but not the best on console by a long way. Music = Very average, not one track is memorable. Better than RDR1 = Nope. The fact that this game is so far from being a 10, really empathizes the corruption within this industry, and the mindless morons that will defend a developer because they made a game a few years ago that they really liked. I am really astonished at the number of people that are lying through their teeth about this game.… Expand
  21. cooperman2016
    Dec 18, 2018
    4
    This is one of the biggest dissapointments in games (for me personally) First off the positives - The game looks amazing on every level , probably the best on the PS4 pro,though HDR needs turning off to prevent blurry graphic but when you do this everything looks fine. Next the music is also high quality and the SFX of the guns ect excelent.The small details in the world and variedThis is one of the biggest dissapointments in games (for me personally) First off the positives - The game looks amazing on every level , probably the best on the PS4 pro,though HDR needs turning off to prevent blurry graphic but when you do this everything looks fine. Next the music is also high quality and the SFX of the guns ect excelent.The small details in the world and varied wildlife to hunt and strangers to meet I cannot find fault. The acting is also great especially the main cast. But here's my gripes , the story and pacing is so slow it killed any excitement I had. The better missions were few and far between and I stopped caring about Arthur, John or the rest of Dutch's gang. The gameplay just didn't feel responsive,in the missions its hard to describe other than it felt clunky. I really tried to love this game, I've been a Rockstar games fan since Gta 3 on PS2 and have enjoyed every single game they have released but Red dead 2 is the first I have disliked. To sum it up it looks amazing but is just too realistic, lacks fun and the stories a bore… Expand
  22. visiblelight7
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    Yes it looks like quality. It's detailed(visually).

    But the gaming industry needs a slap in the face. This is just another Open-World Fetch quest but newer graphics and coboy skins. Wasted 80$Cad thinking this was going to be heaven's gift to mankind based off all the reviews. Never again! Looks like reviewers are given free copies in exchange for their "cooperation". No way in    Yes it looks like quality. It's detailed(visually).

    But the gaming industry needs a slap in the face. This is just another Open-World Fetch quest but newer graphics and coboy skins.

    Wasted 80$Cad thinking this was going to be heaven's gift to mankind based off all the reviews. Never again! Looks like reviewers are given free copies in exchange for their "cooperation".
    No way in HELL this game is 9.7/10 .

    It's not bad. But if you played Witcher 3, GTA 5...etc You've played this game! Go fetch this and come back here. Go there save this guy, okay come back. Is this games nowadays??    … Expand
  23. pinofas
    Nov 4, 2018
    4
    Outstanding graphics and Art direction. Awful game design.

    The game is just boring. You spend most of the time riding a horse from A to B pressing X repeatedly while listening conversations. At the beginning, it's ok. After playing it for 20 hours... it's just extremely boring. Controls are awful. Everything feels slow and clunky. Every single action, such as looting, has an animation.    Outstanding graphics and Art direction. Awful game design.

    The game is just boring. You spend most of the time riding a horse from A to B pressing X repeatedly while listening conversations. At the beginning, it's ok. After playing it for 20 hours... it's just extremely boring. Controls are awful. Everything feels slow and clunky. Every single action, such as looting, has an animation. That's cool at first. But then you realize why most videogames don't have this characteristic: it makes the gameplay extremely slow. I think Rockstar forgot this is a videogame after all, and videogames should be playables and fun. So, as I said, technically the game is outstanding. But videogames should have a good gameplay as well and RDD2 doesn't have it.    … Expand
  24. jpacor
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    Disclaimer here, I did not finish the game, I made it a bit past 10 hours in, but could not take it anymore and dropped it.

    Red Dead Redemption is tied for my favorite game of all time, and very well could be. I played it a few months ago during my hype and anticipation for this game, and it has still held up incredibly well and was an absolute blast, I have probably beaten it 4-5 times    Disclaimer here, I did not finish the game, I made it a bit past 10 hours in, but could not take it anymore and dropped it.

    Red Dead Redemption is tied for my favorite game of all time, and very well could be. I played it a few months ago during my hype and anticipation for this game, and it has still held up incredibly well and was an absolute blast, I have probably beaten it 4-5 times total and have enjoyed it every time. Needless to say, I was hyped for RD2, and picked it up on opening night, planning to lose many hours to this game.

    Well, that didn't happen. This is the most disappointing game that I have ever played.

    Let me start off by saying that the production values, plot, voice acting, and environments are phenomenal. The world is truly beautiful, and attention to detail exceptional. The plot and characters are mostly excellent as well.

    But my lord, the gameplay is bad. The control scheme is horrific and extremely outdated, where you still have to smash X to run instead of clicking L3. There is an input lag of one to a few seconds, so you rarely shoot or reload in the way you want to. Taking cover often doesn't work or happen, resulting in you potentially climbing over objects instead. Picking up guns, clothing, or items have three different buttons, resulting in frequent confusion. Knowing which weapons you have on you, switching weapons, and trying to use supplies buried in menus is often confusing.Arthur runs slowly, and your horse is also slow.

    Moving around your camp is super slow, and the camp system is not good or cool at all, the bond between you and your gang is not well established. The systems shown in tutorials are not often how the game actually works (for example, you hunt and bring a live deer to a guy at your camp in a tutorial, but this is not how you give the guy hunted animals going forward). I would spend upwards of 20 minutes walking because you can't call your horse if it is too far away.

    Interacting with the world around you is also super slow, it can take up to 10 seconds to examine items around you, and you will often be tasked with searching for every item in an entire building.

    And, accidentally committing crimes is WAY too easy. A drunk guy stumbles in front of your horse and you run him over: the whole town starts shooting at you, wanted level is $20, have to surrender outside of town. Abysmal. Certain items can only be sold at certain shops, resulting in you spending too much time running to each different shop.

    This game is just a shame. In the original Red Dead Redemption, the combat was quick and responsive, the world around you had attention to detail, intense gunfights, the ability to travel quickly, and selling all of your items at most shops. RD2 adds much more nuances and systems to create a more realistic experience, but this harms the experience mightily, resulting in slower gameplay all around: movement, combat, interaction, exploration. It is a video game, I understand creating a time period environment, but is realism the only thing that matters?!

    Sorry for my long review, I was just more excited for this game than any other in a very long time, probably none since Zelda BotW, and as I mentioned, the original is my favorite game of all time. But this game is flat out boring and slow, and I do not understand the critic review, perhaps the hype has them inclined to leave a positive review?? Either way, I had said God of War PS4 is my most overrated game of this generation: no more. Red Dead 2 takes the cake.    … Expand
  25. deftones034
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    The first time i booted up the game on ps4 pro my heart sank. I had such high expectations for this game in the graphical department but what a letdown! 20 hours in and the game is good no doubt! Controls are a little clunky but what Rockstar game isn't. But, in this age of graphics WARS, when people WANT TRUE 4K!!!!!!!!! Rockstar games should know better then to put out a game for nextThe first time i booted up the game on ps4 pro my heart sank. I had such high expectations for this game in the graphical department but what a letdown! 20 hours in and the game is good no doubt! Controls are a little clunky but what Rockstar game isn't. But, in this age of graphics WARS, when people WANT TRUE 4K!!!!!!!!! Rockstar games should know better then to put out a game for next gen that looks like past gen...way past gen!… Expand
  26. erkmacgurk
    Oct 23, 2021
    4
    Amazing artwork, totally believable animal movement and behavior, but that's it. Dreadful combat, clunky PC controls, moronic writing, one dimensional missions designed by idiots. It's all summed up by the fact that acquiring and improving weapons is an important game mechanism, but the missions replace them with crap weapons because reasons. If they f***ed that up, imagine how bad the rest is.
  27. aleksandrlis
    Nov 16, 2018
    4
    Wonderfull world, weather effects, sunsets, sunrises, birds, horses, foxes etc. But this is not a fun game, this is interactive boring movie with animal reference guide and awkward controls/inventory/crafting.

    P.S. I'm a big fan of RDR. But this game is a great disappointment.

    P.P.S. It's necessary to eat, but it's not necessary to go to the toilet, this is strange. Waiting for patches.
  28. mcsw712
    Mar 22, 2019
    4
    This game is not even fun. At all. I'd rather just live real life. I'd rather go to work than play this game. I literally fall asleep with controller in hand, lol.
  29. Gee1981
    Jan 19, 2019
    4
    Graphics are good..well, that's it basically. Highly overrated. Red Dead redemption ONE is much much better
  30. Esshadow
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    Just like most open world games, the novelty wears off and the world feels dead. It has nice gunplay but it gets repetitive fast and its story is its only saving grace.
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Universal acclaim - based on 99 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 98 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 99
  3. Negative: 0 out of 99
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 14, 2019
    95
    It’s an huge, outstanding piece of art – worth the hard-earned cash as well as countless hours that are needed to get to know at least some of the attractions of Rockstar’s rendition of Wild West. For those who put story first – the biggest virtue of Red Dead Redemption 2 is that it sets the stage for RDR 1 and does it wonderfully. [13/2018, p.40]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 31, 2018
    100
    Amazing not only for Western lovers. No other game has probably offered so many options to express yourself in the open world, and at the same time did not have such an interesting, rough and moving story. A magnificent experience, with a slightly slower start. [Issue#291]
  3. TrueGaming
    Nov 30, 2018
    95
    The first new game from Rockstar for this generation of consoles doesn't disappoint, it is as impressive as you hoped it to be.
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