Red Dead Redemption 2

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  1. antenneone
    May 16, 2019
    6
    Una gran decepción. Los detalles están muy cuidados, gráficamente es sublime pero la jugabilidad es muy aburrida. No puede ser que le dediques 40 horas a un juego y la mitad de ellas estes montando a caballo de un sitio para otro. Esperaba una vuelta de tuerca mas de Rockstar (Como hicieron en gta V o San Andreas) pero han dado un paso atrás
  2. FlipSideKiller
    Nov 21, 2018
    6
    Starting off, I really don’t hate this game, but it was VERY disappointing. I preordered this months and months before it came out. Yes, I completed it so shut up. It felt like a chore to beat it, with the story taking me 30 hours even with skipping almost every cutscene. It has jaw-dropping, and beautiful graphics, but a lack of gameplay. I will add however, I was pleasantly surprisedStarting off, I really don’t hate this game, but it was VERY disappointing. I preordered this months and months before it came out. Yes, I completed it so shut up. It felt like a chore to beat it, with the story taking me 30 hours even with skipping almost every cutscene. It has jaw-dropping, and beautiful graphics, but a lack of gameplay. I will add however, I was pleasantly surprised with how fun shopping was.… Expand
  3. dontjimmymejulz
    Nov 4, 2018
    6
    Rockstar make Rockstar games, and it's a blessing and a curse.

    For every amazing detail and character animated cut-scene you get a game-play mechanic that feels outdated and cumbersome. The world is fantastic, as is the music, and some of the writing is right up there with the best in video games. This is an extremely well made and polished game that, sadly, can also be slow,    Rockstar make Rockstar games, and it's a blessing and a curse.

    For every amazing detail and character animated cut-scene you get a game-play mechanic that feels outdated and cumbersome.

    The world is fantastic, as is the music, and some of the writing is right up there with the best in video games. This is an extremely well made and polished game that, sadly, can also be slow, plodding and irritatingly frustrating for large portions of its playtime.

    Look, I'll be honest: I found fun in this game by being evil. I am a very bad man. Very bad! I steal horses so I don't care if they die. I shoot people for **** and gigs all the time. I ignore bounties and make sure I have no money on me, so when I die... and I die a lot, I just don't care. I shoot animals but rarely skin them, because that's a headache in itself.

    In summary, this is a well made game with problems, there's a lot to do in this world, and as long as you find your own fun ( maybe not what Rockstar's heavy handed Dev team had in mind ) you'll get enjoyment from it's HUGE open world and it's many, many, many systems.    … Expand
  4. bolhoed
    Oct 26, 2018
    6
    Yes, it looks amazing and the details like dirty clothes, growing hair and shrinking horse balls are great. But.. the controls are horrible and complicated. The gameplay is repetitive and slow: ride for 5 minutes to kill a guy, ride back for 5 minutes. The open world is huge and beautiful, but also rather empty. You're basically on your slow horse a LOT to go from place to place, gettingYes, it looks amazing and the details like dirty clothes, growing hair and shrinking horse balls are great. But.. the controls are horrible and complicated. The gameplay is repetitive and slow: ride for 5 minutes to kill a guy, ride back for 5 minutes. The open world is huge and beautiful, but also rather empty. You're basically on your slow horse a LOT to go from place to place, getting bored in between. God how I wish there was a fast travel feature like in Assassins Creed.

    The very first time I set foot in the open world I accidentally ran into someone in the streets in Valentine (due to bad controls), who promptly attacked me. I hit him back and was immediately wanted by the police. That just didn't feel very good.

    Every time I get off my horse I have lost my rifles and bow. What the hell? How does that add any fun to the gameplay? Having to brush my horse, clean my guns, chop some wood, do more chores.. again: how is that fun? Having to loot each and every dead body one by one (taking a good 4 or so seconds each), or opening every drawer in a closet one by one.. yes it's realistic but really who has the time for this in a game?

    The shootouts are kinda fun, I am not too bothered by the aim assists, but compared to other games.. it's just not good enough. And again, I think the controls are to blame (at least partly) for this as well.

    Overall for me I'd sum it up as such: beautiful, slow, boring, empty, clunky. I very much doubt I'll be spending a lot of my time here.    … Expand
  5. MetalMastodon
    Oct 26, 2018
    6
    About 14 hours in and here's my take so far

    +4 for graphics alone, this is the most points I'd ever give graphics on their own (note I am playing in 2k) +1 for decent, but not stellar gameplay +1 for the size of, and detail put into the open world +1 for the survival aspects -1 for quite a few bugs -1 for drops in frame rate that are honestly more common than I'd expect on my PS4    About 14 hours in and here's my take so far

    +4 for graphics alone, this is the most points I'd ever give graphics on their own (note I am playing in 2k)
    +1 for decent, but not stellar gameplay
    +1 for the size of, and detail put into the open world
    +1 for the survival aspects
    -1 for quite a few bugs
    -1 for drops in frame rate that are honestly more common than I'd expect on my PS4 Pro. There's gotta be some optimization issues
    -1 for lack of diversity in gameplay
    -1 for having this huge world without filling it to the brim with side quests, easter eggs, random things to do even if not for a quest, etc etc. In other words, a massive opportunity missed here to extend the replayability.
    -1 For having auto aim/aim assists and slow mode aiming

    After 14 hours I am left with mixed feelings about this game. It is definitely an above average game, and the graphics are top notch and the game world seems very well crafted. However, especially after the delays I definitely expected a lot more. The story is slow, but that doesn't bother me. However, the gameplay itself lacks diversity and much of the time you feel that you are just doing the same thing over and over. What this does is turn what is a slow, but great story into a tedious one that you just wish would hurry up... because you know that you are only going to see some slightly new stuff from time-to-time. Another issue I have with this is that in most aspects it has not improved on the first game in the series. It feels almost like a massive DLC than a new game. This isn't always a bad thing, but in the case of RDR2 I feel like the developers put all of their eggs in one basket (graphics and game world) and pretty much just winged it for the rest, or rushed through it. What I will say is that I do like the survival aspects in the game, and wish they were even more robust. The combat is standard run-of-the-mill, but not bad... just nothing special and no real skill required for it. Two huge negatives to the combat is this game has auto aim functionality so you don't have to actually aim (thankfully you can turn it off), and it has slow mode allowing you to slow down time for an advantage. Completely lame garbage "features" and I wish these would get taken out of all games, even MMO's. I've run into a good amount of bugs. Some of the bugs from RDR 1 I tested and a few still exist. Meanwhile some new bugs have popped up. I've noticed a few of the AI doing a weird sliding through mid air. Another example of one of these bugs is I shot one of the AI and they just froze in place, meanwhile they were also not injured or killed by the bullet. You will especially notice bugs during the train heist. One more bug I'd like to mention is that while riding a course your character gets stuck in the holstering animation sometimes, and he can't stop pulling his gun out and back in. The sounds are definitely pretty good and I think the music is very immersive.

    I bought mine for $60. Was it worth this price? Definitely not, in fact I am feeling buyer's remorse. I'd say it's something closer to a $40 game.

    People who give this game a 10 have low standards, and people who give this game a 0 are simply trolls. It's definitely an above average game, and it might even be technically "game of the year," but that's not really saying much in 2018. And it's definitely not deserving of any ratings below a 5. I could see someone giving this game a 5 in some circumstances. But 0's? 1's? 2's? Definitely not.

    So I think 6 out of 10 is a pretty accurate score for this game.    … Expand
  6. CornishCracker
    Oct 27, 2018
    6
    I find it very difficult having to mark this title as a 6/10.

    The movement is quite possibly the worst part of the game, everything is such a chore to do. Whether that be looting, getting in to cover and browsing stores. The game starts out at such a slow pace, it's difficult to find the motivation to continue on playing. The game looks absolutely horrible on a PS4 Pro, it's just so    I find it very difficult having to mark this title as a 6/10.

    The movement is quite possibly the worst part of the game, everything is such a chore to do. Whether that be looting, getting in to cover and browsing stores. The game starts out at such a slow pace, it's difficult to find the motivation to continue on playing. The game looks absolutely horrible on a PS4 Pro, it's just so blurry. This is after playing games like HDZ and Spiderman. HDR implementation is clearly broken and makes the image grey and washed out.

    I'm so disappointed.    … Expand
  7. Jeyanm
    Oct 27, 2018
    6
    The story and the attention to detail from Rockstar is great in this game, but the gameplay is just bad, for example the controls seem to be an after thought. Also all these small things you have to do are just not fun, I don't want to spend half my time looting dead bodies, cleaning my horse, shaving, and all the other small things Rockstar has made necessary. Also whose dumb idea was itThe story and the attention to detail from Rockstar is great in this game, but the gameplay is just bad, for example the controls seem to be an after thought. Also all these small things you have to do are just not fun, I don't want to spend half my time looting dead bodies, cleaning my horse, shaving, and all the other small things Rockstar has made necessary. Also whose dumb idea was it that guns should stay on the horse.… Expand
  8. Nrm01
    Oct 28, 2018
    6
    All of the 10/10 and high critics reviews seem to be completely overlooking the broken bounty system and poor game play design in some facets of the game. If someone starts a fist fight with you and you defend yourself? That's assault. Someone tries to rob or shoot at you and you kill them? Murder. Accidentally get on the wrong horse because it is right next to yours? Horse theft. I can goAll of the 10/10 and high critics reviews seem to be completely overlooking the broken bounty system and poor game play design in some facets of the game. If someone starts a fist fight with you and you defend yourself? That's assault. Someone tries to rob or shoot at you and you kill them? Murder. Accidentally get on the wrong horse because it is right next to yours? Horse theft. I can go on. The new dueling system is kinda frustrating amid in consistent. God forbid your R2 is slightly worn out because dueling won't work at all. Do you like your weapon loadout? Well it will reset every time you get on a horse and your equiped gun will change arbitrarily causing you to have to scramble to change weapons.
    The horse controls seem to have taken a downgrade. It has been a long while since I played the last Red Dead, but i seem to remember horses being able to follow the path by themselves. Now if you turn to shoot pursuers, you risk for horse running face first into a tree. For a game that seems to have a love affair with realism, when it is convenient of course (taking 20 bullets in a gun fight is just a flesh wound) , I find a horse running head long into a tree just because you didn't tell it not to a little hard to swallow.    … Expand
  9. ReadyFight
    Dec 4, 2018
    6
    NOTE ( This is specific only to the Online portion of the game, and yes, it just came out in Beta, but i digress )

    After finishing the main story (which now thinking, i should have gave it a 9 out of 10, still damn good though) there was the avid and fanatic anticipation of Red Dead's Online experience, and after shelling about 30 hours into the heart of its gameplay experience/loop, i    NOTE ( This is specific only to the Online portion of the game, and yes, it just came out in Beta, but i digress )

    After finishing the main story (which now thinking, i should have gave it a 9 out of 10, still damn good though) there was the avid and fanatic anticipation of Red Dead's Online experience, and after shelling about 30 hours into the heart of its gameplay experience/loop, i see why i was not on the edge of my seat for it, it is cool being in the west, the gameplay works very well, but its economy stresses a future for terrible micro-transactions to be surgically implanted into it.

    Take Two interactive's grasp on this company in an ironic turn for Red Dead, as it has become the beginnings of the culling of the wild west and the new playground for businessmen, if its online continues the way the story does into Red Dead Redemption as a grave example, you might as well hang up your hat and settle for new pastures.    … Expand
  10. salahbelal
    Oct 29, 2018
    6
    This game is over hyped. I don’t like wild west era games but was hoping this game would change my mind but it failed miserably. The gun play is awful and the covering system fails to achieve the fun part of gunfights. The story starts very slow and it gets a little boring afterwards. The main camp that you are staying at is kinda useless as it doesn’t generate any money and all theThis game is over hyped. I don’t like wild west era games but was hoping this game would change my mind but it failed miserably. The gun play is awful and the covering system fails to achieve the fun part of gunfights. The story starts very slow and it gets a little boring afterwards. The main camp that you are staying at is kinda useless as it doesn’t generate any money and all the crafting upgrades are costly and require some special materials which requires long and boring hunting trips. The need to eat, sleep, smoke and repeat is literally breaking the game as it kills the fun part. And last but not least, this game should be called Horse Simulator: Boring Edition. The amount of time you spend on just tapping X to keep it running is long enough to rage quit. If your horse dies or it’s far from you you have to run like a minimum of 5 minutes to reach a nearby town. I had high hopes for this game but I am already thinking of selling or trading it after only 3 days and I am not even interested in completing the story. Shame on you Rockstar.… Expand
  11. Belius
    Oct 31, 2018
    6
    If you don't have ONE hour in front of you, you can do nothing in this game...
    Illegal activities are almost mandatory to enjoy the game.
    You spend most of your time riding.
    The inventory .... scroll over 50 weapons each time ...
    And the realism... Your horse don't appears next to you if you whistle him. But it can be teleport in a stable or carrying a hundred weapon...
  12. chynarich
    Oct 30, 2018
    6
    Нету консоли, но ставлю 10 чтоб вышла на пк.
  13. Uncle_Buzzy
    Oct 30, 2018
    6
    This game looks gorgeous, but is simply not fun - many players will not want to admit this, given the hype and the expectation, but while I usually have to make an effort to STOP playing a game, with RD2 it is an effort to CONTINUE playing, hoping that it will pick up.

    I do not play video games to simulate mundane demands that are bothersome in reality. Shaving and bathing? And having    This game looks gorgeous, but is simply not fun - many players will not want to admit this, given the hype and the expectation, but while I usually have to make an effort to STOP playing a game, with RD2 it is an effort to CONTINUE playing, hoping that it will pick up.

    I do not play video games to simulate mundane demands that are bothersome in reality. Shaving and bathing? And having to individually scrub EACH LIMB?!?!! Watching your weight?!?! Changing clothes for the weather? Why not brush your teeth and rinse your underwear? Maybe trim your nails and change your grandpa's catheter?

    The combat is much less cinematic and the fist fights are laborious. LA Noire had a better fist fight system! There seems to be no fast travel, excepting the train, and it's surprisingly dull to explore. Maybe play straight through the storyline if you must, but don't expect to have a lot of fun roaming. The script is decent and the acting is good, but the storyline seems telegraphed a LOOOOOOONG way off - I'm pretty sure I know what REALLY became of that Blackwater money....

    Far Cry 5, for example, is much more fun - you run around and blow stuff up!! That's what games are for.    … Expand
  14. ionizz
    Oct 31, 2018
    6
    I stopped playing RDR 1 halfway through the game and while it took a few hours, and I enjoyed some new Rockstar game open world tourism (important for casuals), RDR 2 may go the same way. Good writing and Rockstar presentation again (with every improvement from GTA V, so it's a technical marvel,) but the setting limits the game to absurd GTA gunfights killing dozens, vs. self-seriousI stopped playing RDR 1 halfway through the game and while it took a few hours, and I enjoyed some new Rockstar game open world tourism (important for casuals), RDR 2 may go the same way. Good writing and Rockstar presentation again (with every improvement from GTA V, so it's a technical marvel,) but the setting limits the game to absurd GTA gunfights killing dozens, vs. self-serious cutscenes rendered dumb and unserious by level of violence. Humor is almost essential, with the amount of bloodletting...if you're going to ask me to beat a man to death and murder a witness as a tutorial mission on the game's systems, don't ask me then to empathize, like these are real people to take seriously. I don't think "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" let alone "Dexter" was that obtuse, but here we are in alleged 10/10 masterpiece land.

    So I bought a PS4 Pro for this, and slow realization critical consensus is again lemming nonsense, and this game has the exact same problems, is painful. in 2005, what if you asked an average San Andreas player what would suck about GTA if it was limited to bicycles? They would give you a list: the world would feel too big after a while, not in a good way, bike riding would get tedious, the game would rely on shooting mechanics and good cutscenes, which aren't really strong enough to hold up the entire experience, and they might even beg the question, why focus on open world traveling, then, if it's so boring? Oh, and an open world without civilized flourishes would also be strictly a downgrade, even if the resolution went up, because it'd just be samey forests and less interesting small towns, ala San Andreas, nothing impressive there outside Mt. Chilead (which nobody would WANT to ride a bycycle to, btw). As far as I can tell: every last critique applies to both RDR games. Rockstar still can't transcend it. Their games rely on you being gobsmacked by how great and real the world feels, and this ages poorly over years (GTA 3 and San Andreas are now unplayable, I think,) and in real time (you get bored by its impressive-but-samey landscape after a few hours.)

    13 years later, despite massive efforts, graphical improvements over GTA V, and a solid effort to make the open world more lootable, interactive (like Bethesda, Ubisoft,) Rockstar hasn't really averted the pitfalls anybody could have told you in 2005. And they haven't realized the self-serious cutscenes can't hold up the gameplay, because GTA satire is actually essential..these people need to be cartoons, or "the story is ludicrous," to quote Maude Lebowski. In worlds where ultraviolence is a given, self-serious is always unserious.    … Expand
  15. Berik
    Aug 21, 2019
    6
    This game shows what happens if you take quality of your product seriously. In fact, it might even show what happens if you take it TOO serious.

    Red Dead Redemption 2 looks beautiful, has a great soundtrack, impressive world design and shows detail in pretty much every department. The world is full with animals and people and doesn't feel like a big map with just some NPC's littered    This game shows what happens if you take quality of your product seriously. In fact, it might even show what happens if you take it TOO serious.

    Red Dead Redemption 2 looks beautiful, has a great soundtrack, impressive world design and shows detail in pretty much every department. The world is full with animals and people and doesn't feel like a big map with just some NPC's littered across it. With NPC's travelling in various ways, doing things in towns and having random encounters with you the world feels alive. As many games have claimed this over the years, this game actually accomplishes it.

    The story is well told and has a lot of characters that feel distinctive. The protagonist Arthur Morgan, who is the center of moral in the game, has an excellent story to tell which varies depending on your choices. You'll see the end of the Outlaw, with the Van der Linde gang struggling to exist in the new world. The story deals with morality, and how some members will develop due to the changes. It is interesting to follow, and you even get attached to some of the characters. Well done on that part.

    The gameplay itself is complex but entertaining. There is a clear push for realism within almost every aspect of the game, but unfortunately the entertainment value suffers from trying to be realistic with all the animations, inventory limitations and stiff aiming. It took me weeks before i fully adjusted, which was probably longer than it should have. Horse riding becomes tedious very quickly, as there is no fast travel until later in the story. On top of that, every story mission (for which you had to travel to the mission trigger) will force you to ride even more while listening to endless conversations between Arthur and other NPC's. Sometimes too much realism is negative for your game, and not having the option to fast travel has been a large source of frustration.

    I did notice quite a bit of bugs while playing, and some mechanics like the bounty system seemed either broken or poorly designed. I had several instances where i would get a bounty for a crime i committed ten minutes before, and while being miles away. The ability to hide your identity only works on civilians and not on lawmen, which in itself is stupid, and robbing trains is downright unnecessary when the bounty is higher than the loot. Is this a video game, or an anti-outlaw simulator?

    Hunting can be fun and challenging, but having to watch the skin animations over and over gets old after a while. Having a limit on the amount of big pelts you can store on your horse feels incredibly annoying when you have to walk across the map while carrying one yourself, and having to whistle your horse to death to make sure he isn't dropping the second big pelt.

    A major problem with the game is its length and lack of proper fast travel. After completing Arthur's story, the story is only 75% done. At this point a weaker story takes over, and makes it a choir to force yourself to the end. My least enjoyable hours (and there's a lot of those) were pushing myself through boredom to finally end the story. This in combination with hours of boring horse riding really hurt my enjoyment of the game. And fast travel should never be something you unlock through gameplay, what the hell Rockstar?

    Red Dead Online: Rockstar unfortunately decided to forget what they learned from GTA Online, and turned Red Dead Online into one of the most unbalanced, greedy and boring online modes that i've ever played. Prices of weapons, clothing and even food are insanely high compared to the single player, while valuables like rings, necklaces and emblems have been reduced in worth. On top of that, a new Premium Currency has been introduced called Gold Bars. You can earn these through grinding, but getting a single one will take you around 8 hours. And considering gun customization of a single revolver can cost around 18 gold bars... It is conveniently throttling the economy of the game to make spending real money more enticing.

    In Summary, this game impressed me with it's large amount of content, detail and quality, but also frustrated me by being way too long and tedious. The initial fun quickly descends into many hours of choirs and boredom as the game loses all its steam, and crushed my interest of playing the game again after finishing the story. It also made me question the necessity of realism in games for the first time. When a game tries to be so realistic that it no longer feels as a game, it becomes a simulator. I give this game a 6/10. A shorter and more linear game would have given me more satisfaction and less tedium.    … Expand
  16. NuSix3
    Nov 12, 2018
    6
    The game looks good, but the controls are convoluted and it feels very slow and clunky.

    I think it's obvious that the developers didn't consider the player at all. The game is in bad need of a quality of life patch, but honestly, I'm gonna be done with it for good by the time they get to making any change patches. So I wouldn't bother. EDIT: After playing the game for a week, merely    The game looks good, but the controls are convoluted and it feels very slow and clunky.

    I think it's obvious that the developers didn't consider the player at all. The game is in bad need of a quality of life patch, but honestly, I'm gonna be done with it for good by the time they get to making any change patches. So I wouldn't bother.

    EDIT: After playing the game for a week, merely because I spent almost $90 (do not buy this version, get the lowest price copy. The items are good for a time, but not unique enough to pay actual money for) on the middle version, my score is remaining at a 6. Every 6-8 review on here hits the nail on the head. The game feels more like a movie and never gets truly fun. I'm halfway through chapter 4, ignoring everything in the open world trying to force my way through missions on hopes that it gets better.

    The story isn't really all that good either, aside from character originality and voice acting, the gang gets into trouble in a new area and is forced to move. Rinse and repeat.

    The controls still feel awkward after getting used to them. The inventory is miserable. I never know what gun it's going to pull when I hit L1. What weapons I choose don't seem to matter as the game frequently unequips everything except my pistols when I get off my horse. And you can't drop or sell weapons you don't use or want anymore. You're stuck with them, and it will annoy you to the point where you are looking for methods to get rid of them, including letting an alligator bite your arm so you drop the equipped weapon.

    The only outside activity is hunting. And if it was more like the bear hunting quest in the beginning of the game, it could actually be pretty fun. But it's not. Tracking system won't help you track anything you haven't seen first. So hunting is reduced to, "Oh hey, there's a bear! Do I have time to kill it?" So much for survival.    … Expand
  17. Darkfalcon
    Nov 6, 2018
    6
    As a 3A game, Red dead redemption had a horrible user interface and so many bugs. Although the Sound/graphics is very good, the game experience is so bad.
  18. fabez
    Nov 9, 2018
    6
    interesting storry , nice looking graphics.
    But the gamplay is really slow and clunky. this cant be a 10 for me not at all.
  19. Stoisk
    Nov 10, 2018
    6
    The best way to immerse a gamer in one's story is to allow that someone to influence it by making it interactive. To involve the player in the decisions that are being made and have whatever that person chooses influence what happens next.

    This game doesn't really do that, most of the time it forces it's narrative upon you only allowing the bare minimum in terms of determining it's    The best way to immerse a gamer in one's story is to allow that someone to influence it by making it interactive. To involve the player in the decisions that are being made and have whatever that person chooses influence what happens next.

    This game doesn't really do that, most of the time it forces it's narrative upon you only allowing the bare minimum in terms of determining it's outcome. You're not forging your own unique story here the way you'd expect from a game like this, you're just being pushed down a preset path. You're not riding the horse you're just being dragged along behind it.

    And considering where that horse is headed and how obvious it is almost from the get-go, it feels even more frustrating not having at least one hand on the reins.

    Point is, if you can't make a story that truly interacts with me, one I feel invested in and one where I'm an active part of it's narrative, I'd rather just see a movie to be honest.

    All that being said I still consider this a decent enough game. While gameplay feels very dated and sub-par, severly lacking in both flow and innovation, and the prementioned narrative equally lacking when it comes to interactivity, the world and it's content is quite impressive. Graphics and details are stunning. Also, it is actually rich on content, much of it well-drafted, so there's always something to do.

    I already feel I've got my money's worth even though at the same time it's bittersweet thinking of how truly awe-inspiring this game *could* have been. Because it could so easilly have been one of the best games ever, but unfortunately due to poor gameplay decisions it falls way short of that mark. It's a fantastic world they've created, unfortunately it's a world of missed opportunities.    … Expand
  20. michaelsharples
    Nov 11, 2018
    6
    I have finished RDR2 and I have very mixed feelings about this game. The story is excellent and well worth playing but the game in general is extremely slow with unintuitive controls. Extremely limited fast travel options meant that even after I made the decision to mainline the story I was still frustrated by extended riding session after extended riding session. This game has zeroI have finished RDR2 and I have very mixed feelings about this game. The story is excellent and well worth playing but the game in general is extremely slow with unintuitive controls. Extremely limited fast travel options meant that even after I made the decision to mainline the story I was still frustrated by extended riding session after extended riding session. This game has zero respect for your time and doesn't care if you're having fun. All is sacrificed at the altar of immersion and realism, which is both awesome and horrible at the same time.… Expand
  21. xiixxxi
    Nov 20, 2018
    6
    Слишком затянули игру. Добавлять эпилог было ошибкой. Сюжет скатился к типичному сценарию : были друзьями - стали врагами. Также несущественный, но все же минус - в игре нету дуэлей по сюжету ( есть что-то на подобие дуэли, но это не то).Слишком затянули игру. Добавлять эпилог было ошибкой. Сюжет скатился к типичному сценарию : были друзьями - стали врагами. Также несущественный, но все же минус - в игре нету дуэлей по сюжету ( есть что-то на подобие дуэли, но это не то).
  22. dianiche
    Nov 20, 2018
    6
    Muy buen juego pero lamentablemente no tiene comparación con RDR1 y la diversión que nos entrego la primera entrega.
  23. s1bryant019
    Nov 20, 2018
    6
    Red Dead Redemption 2 has been written about ad nauseam so I will keep this simple and to the point. The game is a technical marvel with its systems and graphics. Sadly, the game becomes more of a chore the longer you play getting from point A to point B. Additionally, I like many others found the control to be cumbersome even after playing about 30 hrs. All and all I did not find theRed Dead Redemption 2 has been written about ad nauseam so I will keep this simple and to the point. The game is a technical marvel with its systems and graphics. Sadly, the game becomes more of a chore the longer you play getting from point A to point B. Additionally, I like many others found the control to be cumbersome even after playing about 30 hrs. All and all I did not find the actual gameplay fun nor engaging.… Expand
  24. Ashandarei
    Aug 6, 2019
    6
    A pretty game with a compelling if predictable story, tempered by terrible quality of life mechanics and a control system that could make it feel like playing wearing a pair of welding gloves. Oh and the profanity filters on names even in your single player campaign were no one else will ever see it felt hypocritical coming from a developer like Rockstar.
  25. Techsensei
    Jul 5, 2020
    6
    this is in no way a masterpiece not even by a long shot. except for good graphics, there is nothing master or enjoyable, absolutely overhyped trash or the critics were paid off by rockstar. I will never trust the likes of IGN anymore
    -The gameplay is horrible and tedious.
    -gunbattles are trash -bad and sluggish controls -nothing enjoyable about the missions -80% of the game is just    this is in no way a masterpiece not even by a long shot. except for good graphics, there is nothing master or enjoyable, absolutely overhyped trash or the critics were paid off by rockstar. I will never trust the likes of IGN anymore
    -The gameplay is horrible and tedious.
    -gunbattles are trash
    -bad and sluggish controls
    -nothing enjoyable about the missions
    -80% of the game is just riding on the horse doing nothing
    -a lot of cliche one-liners
    -when you move Arthur in a house or at camp. he moves like a very old man. Not fun!
    -no proper fast travel
    -Terrible health setting!
    -there is no emotional connect with the main or any side character, in fact, you will barely remember any side character.

    Don't go by these so-called critics, all Bull!    … Expand
  26. WannabeDabi
    Jan 6, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Graphics are amazing, ost is incredible, very immersing, every character as a different personality, the world is full of stuff to do and its enormous with a lot of detail.
    But, story falls short, you start with 2 hours long tutorial where you follow your "buds", and the rest of the missions of the entire game are following (20 hours of game, 13 of them are following someone), the heist were fun, i guess... you can get the best horse right at the beginning of the game.
    RDR2 its fun to explore, but missions are meh, when multiplayer comes out exploration and hunt will be a big thing, but until then i give RDR2 a 6.
    Update: Red Dead Online is finally available, and gotta admit, really grindy and the world seems really vague. It's a little disappointing to be honest, still deserves a 6.    … Expand
  27. pippolo66
    Nov 25, 2018
    6
    Big. Gorgeous. Realistic. Maybe too much realistic. Slow. Too slow. It's a wonderful far-west simulator. It's so real to become boring.
  28. coolwali
    Jun 22, 2020
    6
    A game that feels like it resents being a game. One who's missions take away any sense of agency from the player and are so otherwise scripted that it defies belief.

    Try to be creative during a stealth mission? You get a game over and are forced to follow a slow NPC instead of using the mechanics to create your own path. Try to kill a guy you're chasing in a mission tha game tells you    A game that feels like it resents being a game. One who's missions take away any sense of agency from the player and are so otherwise scripted that it defies belief.

    Try to be creative during a stealth mission? You get a game over and are forced to follow a slow NPC instead of using the mechanics to create your own path. Try to kill a guy you're chasing in a mission tha game tells you to kill? Game over. You weren't supposed to kill him yet, it's not cinematic enough.

    Add in the rigid and unresponsive gameplay that hasn't evolved much since 2008 and you have an odd game. A game that has a gorgeous and technically proficient world, but with mission design and gameplay that feels designed for a cheap 3rd person shooter from 2007.

    The story is amazing but at times I wish I were watching this as a TV show. At least I could fast-forward through the boring parts then.    … Expand
  29. gurrkiin
    Nov 26, 2018
    6
    PROS:
    Graphics
    Animation
    Atmosphere

    CONS:
    Boring
    Bad Controls
    SLOOOOWWWW (~7-8 seconds to loot a single dead body ffs)
  30. Realreviews7
    Nov 27, 2018
    6
    The game gets super boring real quick. They have a few good missions worth replaying. The AI doesn't know how to play poker at all so it's super easy to win everytime. Online play wasn't ready at launch either.
  31. NerviLevr
    Dec 3, 2018
    6
    The game's visuals are beautiful and absolutely stunning in level of detail and realism.

    The story is old western -cliche, stereotyping without anything creative, bizarre, or new. The characters are simplistic, lake depth, which hurts keeping interest in playing the game. The voice acting is adequate, but the dialogue and voices are very heavy-handed sterotyped old western, they could    The game's visuals are beautiful and absolutely stunning in level of detail and realism.

    The story is old western -cliche, stereotyping without anything creative, bizarre, or new. The characters are simplistic, lake depth, which hurts keeping interest in playing the game.
    The voice acting is adequate, but the dialogue and voices are very heavy-handed sterotyped old western, they could have dialed it back to make it less distracting. Perhaps the director for the game's voice actors was a 12 yr old? I hate arthur's voice, it's gruffness is hyperbolic and annoying.

    The gameplay is awkward, slow, and controls are unintuitive, lack a predictable learning flow. This really hurts gameplay.

    The way the game forces you through the narrative lacks a feeling of freedom. It's also poorly written. There's tediousness in having to shampoo your horses's feelings and shampoo arthur. Give me a break, It's boring.

    To sum it up simply, this game feels like a horribly long demo that is visually beautiful. It's not worth the time and energy. I would wait to buy it used at a much lower price to give it a try. Cheers.    … Expand
  32. vise
    Dec 4, 2018
    6
    Сюжет длинный это хорошо, где-то на середине прохождения игра начинает утомлять. Под конец думаешь когда уже это закончится. Сюжет 8 баллов. Идем дальше.
    Онлайн это отдельная история. Если вам нравилось гриндить в гта онлайн, тогда и это вам зайдет. 3 балла. Общая оценка (8+3)/2)=5,5 дотяну до 6 баллов за красивую графику.    Сюжет длинный это хорошо, где-то на середине прохождения игра начинает утомлять. Под конец думаешь когда уже это закончится. Сюжет 8 баллов. Идем дальше.
    Онлайн это отдельная история. Если вам нравилось гриндить в гта онлайн, тогда и это вам зайдет. 3 балла. Общая оценка (8+3)/2)=5,5 дотяну до 6 баллов за красивую графику.
  33. SaintDionysius
    Dec 5, 2018
    6
    Хочу начать с того, что игра проработана до мельчайших деталей и это , конечно , большой плюс и так же она очень атмосферная и лично для меня плюсы закончились . Она невероятно скучная , медленная , на сюжет в 3 главе я забил , т.к. наскучил . Что касается онлайна , цены бешенные , а денег дают мало , так еще и будет присутствовать донат . Даже не много пожалел , что купил эту игру.Хочу начать с того, что игра проработана до мельчайших деталей и это , конечно , большой плюс и так же она очень атмосферная и лично для меня плюсы закончились . Она невероятно скучная , медленная , на сюжет в 3 главе я забил , т.к. наскучил . Что касается онлайна , цены бешенные , а денег дают мало , так еще и будет присутствовать донат . Даже не много пожалел , что купил эту игру.
  34. Nalve
    Dec 8, 2018
    6
    Как по по моему мнению игра показалась очень скучной . Первые 10 часов геймплея я играл с удовольствием , а потом игра уже надоела .
    Плюсы игры:
    1.Атмосфера С одной стороны атмосфера просто самая лучшая,что я видел , а с другой очень уж скучно Минусы: 1.Скучный сюжет 2.Навязчивый реализм 3.Озвучка    Как по по моему мнению игра показалась очень скучной . Первые 10 часов геймплея я играл с удовольствием , а потом игра уже надоела .
    Плюсы игры:
    1.Атмосфера
    С одной стороны атмосфера просто самая лучшая,что я видел , а с другой очень уж скучно
    Минусы:
    1.Скучный сюжет
    2.Навязчивый реализм
    3.Озвучка
  35. AlphaSpectre
    Dec 25, 2018
    6
    [Spoiler Free]

    Red Dead Redemption 2 is the most confusing game I have ever played, not because of the story, but how it made me feel, allow me to explain. On the one hand, critics were giving it glowing praise, easily becoming Game of the Year for some, Game of the Generation for many, and Greatest of All Time for the rest. And on the other hand, consumers were mixed, with some    [Spoiler Free]

    Red Dead Redemption 2 is the most confusing game I have ever played, not because of the story, but how it made me feel, allow me to explain.

    On the one hand, critics were giving it glowing praise, easily becoming Game of the Year for some, Game of the Generation for many, and Greatest of All Time for the rest. And on the other hand, consumers were mixed, with some agreeing with critics and others refusing to play after the opening hours. I can't rightfully agree with either camp, as neither is wrong or right. Yes, the game goes leaps and bounds ahead with open world game design in some aspects, but also falls woefully short in even the most basic mechanics.

    To start, movement is absolute crap. While on foot, you can either run or walk, pretty standard for games of this variety, walking is far too slow and running is for too fast. This problem rears its ugly head when in towns, where walking across the street takes the better part of a day, while running will have people stare at you like your a crazy man. But even though walking would have a snail outrun you, walking into or even near an NPC will have you budge them out of the way or (god forbid) knock them over, gaining you an instant wanted level and having everyone else around you run away screaming like you just killed him. In fact, the wanted system causes way more problems than it's worth. Instead of it being like GTA or the previous Red Dead, when you get a bounty, the only way to get rid of it is to pay it off. That doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world, until you realize it really is the only way, even dying to the lawmen won't get rid of it. meaning you are HEAVILY discouraged from doing anything illegal lest you have to pay a lump sum or avoid the county for 2 weeks until they forget about you. While you can serve your sentence in jail, you can only serve the sentence of small crimes such as assault. If you kill a person (intentionally or not) the police will not spare you. Even if someone attacks you in the street and you defend yourself, the police will still try to arrest or kill you.

    Many critics praised the game especially for the attention to detail throughout the world without exception, and to be fair, it is incredible how much detail they've managed to include, but here is where I have to stop being nice. Sure, the detail is staggering... the first time you see it, after that, it doesn't impress, in fact, it hinders the user experience due to the commitment to realism in every action you take. Shop menus are no longer menus, they're catalogs that you have to flip pages in, slowing shopping to a crawl since you to wait for the 2 second animation of page flipping to finish before you can do anything. In the same vein, (kinda) survival elements. The game has a weight mechanic now, the more or less you eat, the more or less you weigh, how surprising. The problem occurs when your weight changes your health and stamina in positive or negative ways depending on your weight, meaning if you don't eat 3 pieces of meat at a camp 3 times a day you fall too under-weight and all of your stats will drain even faster before needing to be refilled... with food. So why not just eat then? Well, in order to get food (assuming you don't have any on you) is to hunt animal, which animal you kill and skin will determine the meat you get. You can get stringy meat from small animals such as rabbits and squirrels, or prime meat from large animals like bears and elk. Once you have the meat, you need to make camp, which takes about 20 seconds to load and be ready to use, after which you cook the meat over the fire, which take about 10 seconds, and then eat it for 5 seconds. All of this for each piece until you think you've had enough, which is hard to tell because the game doesn't tell you.

    In between all of these exciting adventures, you'll be traveling the open world for much longer than you'd like to be, by that I mean it takes 2-3 minutes to ride to the nearest town from where you leave the tutorial. To occasionally fill the empty space, RockStar decided to add in random events, ranging from a person in danger to robbers holding you up. These events can be quite entertaining from time to time and can offer a neat distraction.

    I noticed this site has a limited number of characters at this point so I'll finish the rest quickly.

    Horse riding is slow and unresponsive, gun-play is the bare-essentials, the story is... fine,
    and the writing is good for the most part. Everything not mentioned is either done well or not worth mentioning.

    From the sound of all this you may think I hate the game, I don't, I just don't understand how a game could spend 10 years in development and fail in so many basic mechanics, leading me to believe that priorities were wrong from the beginning, focusing on detail instead of gameplay.    … Expand
  36. ctacikas
    Dec 20, 2019
    6
    баги, постоянно мелкие баги + отсутствие логики у ии
  37. ThBBoy
    Jul 19, 2020
    6
    La mayor decepción de la generación para mi. Me ha costado muchísimo acabarlo, porque el juego me ha parecido soporífero. Largos trayectos a caballo totalmente insulsos, con conversaciones largas que al no estar dobladas al español te obligan a estar leyendo mientras controlas al caballo, lo cual es incomodísimo. Control tosco, animaciones demasiado lentas para todo, que cuando hasLa mayor decepción de la generación para mi. Me ha costado muchísimo acabarlo, porque el juego me ha parecido soporífero. Largos trayectos a caballo totalmente insulsos, con conversaciones largas que al no estar dobladas al español te obligan a estar leyendo mientras controlas al caballo, lo cual es incomodísimo. Control tosco, animaciones demasiado lentas para todo, que cuando has repetido cientos de veces acaban convirtiéndose en un auténtico engorro. En definitiva, tras la primera entrega, la cual tenía mucho mejor ritmo, esta ha sido una gran decepción, en la que he tenido que rushear la historia principal para poder acabarla jugando “forzado” antes de dejar el juego de lado.
    Eso si, en cuanto al apartado técnico es top.    … Expand
  38. OneginLife
    Jan 24, 2019
    6
    Красивая в начале, но чем дальше тем все печальнее, банальный сюжет и безумно скучный геймплей.
  39. konect
    Feb 26, 2019
    6
    I was excited for this game, more so than any game in years. Almost immediately I started to wonder why is this game annoying me so much when it should be fun. It's just so frustrating I never made it over 20% completion because I broke my controller after throwing it at the wall.
    There is a balance between fun game and annoying sim and RDR2 heads towards the latter. Amongst other boring    I was excited for this game, more so than any game in years. Almost immediately I started to wonder why is this game annoying me so much when it should be fun. It's just so frustrating I never made it over 20% completion because I broke my controller after throwing it at the wall.
    There is a balance between fun game and annoying sim and RDR2 heads towards the latter. Amongst other boring pieces of the game, what value does forcing you to walk when you should be able to run, or needing to brush your horse or have a bath so you don't lose health really add to the game? It makes it the most frustrating and disappointing experience for those who just want to pick up the game and have some fun.    … Expand
  40. Qualia
    Mar 10, 2019
    6
    The obsessively overworked and underplayed vanity project of a company that somehow manages to convince people decade after decade to play the same weak shooter with even worse controls than before because it now allows you to hunt, fish, eat, interminably sleep-ride on a horse, and do all the other boring things Westerns had the good sense to leave off the screen. This is cowboy role-playThe obsessively overworked and underplayed vanity project of a company that somehow manages to convince people decade after decade to play the same weak shooter with even worse controls than before because it now allows you to hunt, fish, eat, interminably sleep-ride on a horse, and do all the other boring things Westerns had the good sense to leave off the screen. This is cowboy role-play like filling in paperwork is detective role-play: only too accurate.… Expand
  41. arro253
    Nov 26, 2019
    6
    Beautiful game but such a chore to play due to an incomplete fast travel system, clunky controls and the joyless chores involved.
  42. AsukaLS
    Apr 29, 2019
    6
    It's one of the best videogames I played. Great graphics, good animations, good character design and good story mode until Guarma appears.
    After that the story mode becomes too bad. I even stopped playing for that reason.

    No more than 6 points, completely disappointed by the way they ruined something that could be big.
  43. landim
    Jun 7, 2019
    6
    While the first is great, this one is ok. Rockstar is getting lazy, using the same formula in their games. It's time to shake it off and to risk more.
  44. coorhys
    Jun 13, 2019
    6
    I'll start by saying that RDR2 is definitely an excellent game, in the sense that the details is incredible, the story is well-written and intriguing, and the sheer amount of time you can get lost in the world if you want to is incredible. However, all if this does not unfortunately make for a fun gaming experience when absolutely everything you do is so drawn-out and laborious that itI'll start by saying that RDR2 is definitely an excellent game, in the sense that the details is incredible, the story is well-written and intriguing, and the sheer amount of time you can get lost in the world if you want to is incredible. However, all if this does not unfortunately make for a fun gaming experience when absolutely everything you do is so drawn-out and laborious that it just simply takes all the fun away.

    As a huge fan of RDR1, I was very excited for this, and this was a day 1 purchase hands down. But after playing, or rather feeling like I was trudging through a large chunk of the story, I just can't continue.

    I was dreading playing as I knew I'd have to spend ages worrying about things like what Arthur was wearing dependant on the temperature, whether Arthur had brushed his horse enough that it would actually listen to me, whether he'd had a bath so didn't cause others to comment on his smell in-game and hurt my reputation, whether his hair and beard were tidy enough to be presentable.... all before I could actually get to the good part I wanted to play.

    This attention to detail is surely impressive, and for that reason I can't bring myself to give too low a score, as it is undoubtedly an excellent achievement in gaming, however it is simply just not fun. And that's exactly what I'm looking for, and what I had in RDR1.

    Overall, unfortunately I have to say that this game has been a massive disappointment for me, and it's hard not to think that if this exact game with the same mechanics and design choices was a new IP without the same hype around it, it would not have scored anywhere near as high with reviewers.    … Expand
  45. BobGoneWingWot
    Jun 14, 2019
    6
    This game is not worth 97%. Shame on you critics. Try playing it and you’ll realise how damned annoying it is to do anything. There are dozens of controls and the game is so impatient that you fail quests regularly. Loading times are dreadful and the riding from place to place is boring and very long. I’ve stuck with the game for about 3 hours and still no sign of a fast travel. OnlyThis game is not worth 97%. Shame on you critics. Try playing it and you’ll realise how damned annoying it is to do anything. There are dozens of controls and the game is so impatient that you fail quests regularly. Loading times are dreadful and the riding from place to place is boring and very long. I’ve stuck with the game for about 3 hours and still no sign of a fast travel. Only saving grace is the beautiful graphics, but that doesn’t make up for a mess of a game. If you’re looking for a decent open world adventure game then try Days Gone, it is much more playable and worth 97% not 71%.… Expand
  46. bmcdonald1413
    Jul 31, 2019
    6
    Very realistic but the movement isn't fantastic and it's very slow. It's a good game but definitely not close to a 97.
  47. Kreyt
    Aug 27, 2019
    6
    The story is very good, but when chapter 5 gets in, is fricking annoying to play the game, shooting after shooting, cover system worse than RDR1, a wanted system that barely explains itself. You cant do anything in story missions without the radar on, so many little mistakes that felt minor, gradually started to annoy me to the point that I left the game 1 week
  48. Chipchilinka
    Oct 27, 2019
    6
    A good western, but not perfect. The game has:
    - nice, photorealistic graphics;
    - beautiful physics.; - excellent approach to details and trifles (the corpse of the killed animal rots, the character removes the weapon from the safety, traces on snow do not disappear for a long time); - great atmosphere and spirit of the time; But all these pluses are leveled by a vague plot, from    A good western, but not perfect. The game has:
    - nice, photorealistic graphics;
    - beautiful physics.;
    - excellent approach to details and trifles (the corpse of the killed animal rots, the character removes the weapon from the safety, traces on snow do not disappear for a long time);
    - great atmosphere and spirit of the time;
    But all these pluses are leveled by a vague plot, from chapter to chapter repeating the same thing - "Arthur, we need money!" "Arthur, we need to get the money!" "Arthur, the treasury is empty!"    … Expand
  49. Fessar
    Dec 30, 2021
    6
    All the realism and elaboration fades against the background of endless horse racing and the slow development of the plot. The game was disappointing. Boring.
  50. Screwyuguys
    Nov 24, 2019
    6
    Very expensive in production and marketing containing a **** ton of details, this game forgets to be fun. Boredom - is the only word that crosses my mind trying to recall this game. It contains a lot of mechanics, but they just don't work. These hourly long animations that has no purpose but to slow down the gameplay.
  51. Olkadan
    Jan 5, 2021
    6
    looks good.
    Gameplay is bad.
    Story is boring most of the time but has a few great moments.
    Epilogue story I disliked the most.
  52. napocapo69
    Dec 1, 2019
    6
    Overrated.
    Technically is 10 out of 10, no doubts about it.
    Quality of story and immersion are top notch..but game-play is mediocre. Heavily scripted and and slow but I can deal with this; but what pisses me off is that the game economy does not want you to grow as you wish. For instance, as soon as you finish a mission you immediately become wanted (I mean, after 30 seconds) or some    Overrated.
    Technically is 10 out of 10, no doubts about it.
    Quality of story and immersion are top notch..but game-play is mediocre.
    Heavily scripted and and slow but I can deal with this; but what pisses me off is that the game economy does not want you to grow as you wish. For instance, as soon as you finish a mission you immediately become wanted (I mean, after 30 seconds) or some other unfortunate event happens not allowing you to get the mission loot. Or worse.
    How can it be possible that in a such paced slow game (very slow) as soon you are getting or have just collected a reward (a legendary item or good mission loot) "unlucky" events happen so fast? Out of nowhere 5-6 hunters come for your life and they get it (especillay at the beginning). Then you respawn (in another place), you lose the loot and a bunch of hard earned dollars. And every time you die you lose more.
    If you stick to the story everything is very affordable, but it is a trick; the story is the bait to secure you stick to the game, so that the immersion in the character will drive you to look for better gear. But as soon as you venture out of the story script (to loot) the real game economy becomes clear: "you are not going to get this and this....but if you get some REAL gold you can purchase that gear otherwise...you know how (wink, wink)".

    I'll give this game a six, because it is technically a masterpiece. Unfortunately the fun is average and the hidden malicious game economy (not so hidden if you pay attention) is very detrimental to the experience.    … Expand
  53. mindlesstofu
    Dec 14, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Like most AAA games these days, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a ton of polish on a carefully constructed story that you better not even THINK about altering. It becomes pretty clear by the end of the first chapter that this is a railroad track situation and you're helplessly without control. Nothing you do ever matters in this game so just have fun. Customizing your horse? Don't, it dies atthe end. Making Arthur a good guy? Still gotta be a massive **** during collection missions. You don't get a say there. If this game was Cowboy Simulator it would be amazing and near perfect. But alas, it is not. I can't give it a low score because it is very fun to waste time roaming the world. But the story is awful. A true waste of time and there's no reason to finish the game.… Expand
  54. brundlemcfly
    Jan 1, 2020
    6
    Rockstar best not f**k me like this ever again - the must-buy list is a sacred place. Everyone gets one but that was theirs. That said I can't deny it's gorgeous - some scenes look so good it's almost breathtaking, hence 6 rather than 2 - but it's way too boring not to abandon it after a week or two tops. Shame really because the first one was so much fun
  55. Mannixx
    Feb 10, 2020
    6
    I have played this game for about 100 hours now. It has its bugs, crashes regularly and many game mechanics like the AI, auto saving or the bounty system just do not work properly because they have not been polished or thought through. The whole experience feels rushed and unfinished. Many games have similar mechanics and got it right; having played The Witcher 3, this open world is a hugeI have played this game for about 100 hours now. It has its bugs, crashes regularly and many game mechanics like the AI, auto saving or the bounty system just do not work properly because they have not been polished or thought through. The whole experience feels rushed and unfinished. Many games have similar mechanics and got it right; having played The Witcher 3, this open world is a huge mess. Everything is linear, repetitive and you get punished for taking creative / different approaches like sneaking through windows or flanking the enemy. The game just has not planned for players doing this and spawns confused enemies right in front of you or lets you fail the mission instantly. Decisions you make do not matter much; all the important choices are usually made for you. Also, all you seem to do in missions is shooting loads of people. There is no change in pace or any variety to be found. I now dread yellow symbols on the map, because I am so tired of doing the same thing all over again. Cover, Deadeye, shoot, cover. It is not even challenging. if you enter an area you are not supposed to be in, you just die which is very inelegant. The saving grace are story (especially the actors), ambiance and graphics. I feel like this game would have needed a lot more testing and thought before being released. A lot of potential wasted.… Expand
  56. 1ntt
    Mar 11, 2020
    6
    Rockstar games decided to put realism over fun. The story and characters would have been better off in a tv series. As it is, this game is way to tedious to reccomend fully.
  57. Dragoonbill
    Apr 15, 2020
    6
    It’s alright. The online is a train wreck still which is unfortunate. It is a fun way to spend some time though.
  58. Muetze
    May 4, 2020
    6
    Im Gegensatz zum ersten Teil, zieht sich das Spiel wie Kaugummi. Musste mich dazu Durchringen es zu beenden. Aber wer gerne Stunden lang mit dem Pferd reitet und eher auf Simulationen steht, dem wird es gefallen, so wie dem Großteil der Spieler.
  59. yangxy
    Jun 3, 2020
    6
    I bought it from Steam before it released, just 1 day later, it went to discounts! I want my money back~~~~. Also, the PC crashed a lot of times!
    The game is great, and the company hurt me hard too. Game 9 points, bad experience take 3 points away.
  60. matinpakzad11
    Jun 12, 2020
    6
    this is good but not great...............................................................................................
  61. prine
    Jun 13, 2020
    6
    Red dead redemption 2 is an absolute masterpiece in terms of visuals and open world details. But what i think after spending long hours in the game is that it could have been half the game in length and would have worked so fine. The long cutscenes are difficult to pass through and sometimes even tells extremely unnessary plots. The gameplay of the game woks fine with the environment andRed dead redemption 2 is an absolute masterpiece in terms of visuals and open world details. But what i think after spending long hours in the game is that it could have been half the game in length and would have worked so fine. The long cutscenes are difficult to pass through and sometimes even tells extremely unnessary plots. The gameplay of the game woks fine with the environment and tone of the game.… Expand
  62. Benboj
    Jun 23, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm gonna be honest, I was undewellmed by this game. When I first started playing I looked at the beautiful landscape and I was just blown away, but then i started playing the game. There are alot of things that are just annoying like how you could kill somebody when there's nobody else around and somehow somebody will still see you, or how if you try to take a slightly different approach during a mission you fail for some stupid reason. The missions were OK but nothing to be amazed with and exploring the open world was fun for a bit but eventually becomes extremely tedious. The most fun thing to do in the game was to go hunting and try to sell things you catch but you get so little money you can't afford anything. The best way to make money was to play the missions which give you enough to buy pretty much infinite ammo making every other way of defeating enemies pointless.
    Arthur is a pretty good character and I do like the whole setting on American West but it should have been either a purely linear game or a purely open world game but instead it jumps between the two which just ruins the while point of having a massive world and ruins the story.

    Its a good enough game to be above average (for me a 0 is equivalent of staring at a wall, 5 is average and 10 is flawless masterpeice) but i was really expecting to like this game more.    … Expand
  63. melanzanaviola
    Jun 21, 2020
    6
    preferivo le avventure di bud spencer e terence hill. Quelli si che erano western fatti bene maremma troia
  64. Heirs
    Jun 30, 2020
    6
    Ennuyant, j'ai pas pu le finir. Mais je reconnais que les graphismes et les interactions sont incroyables
  65. aabarca96
    Jul 1, 2020
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’ve struggled with doing this review for a long time because everyone that I know that has finished the game say it’s a masterpiece and should have been GOTY. The truth is, for me, it just really doesn’t hold up. If you love RDR and think it was a game changer story and gameplay wise, you will see that almost 10 years later, it’s the same game. I’ll try to be brief but consistent with the strengths and weaknesses of the game. Let’s start with the strengths: - Graphics, it does look amazing, but somehow the world didn’t invite to explore (like LoZ: BOTW did; the world Rockstar created didn’t offer a lot of reward for exploring. Just a few Easter eggs or someone to shoot down, nothing intriguing or fascinating, so a no from me. But I can’t deny it doesn’t look **** good. - Character Acting, the actors did a really, and I mean a really good job with acting. - Music, enough said. - Models, lighting and technical stuff. Rockstar obviously know what they are doing, a AAA game should be up to date or maybe set the bar higher, which it did. - Attention to Detail, it is amazing how much stuff you can do in this game. And how much attention to detail went to it, from gun cleaning, to riding horses, to peeing drunk, to the environment, to everything; everything is top notch. Weaknesses: - Controls. Oh boy, my rant about the controls is really something that bothers me. I can’t believe that a game from 2018 has the same controls as GTAIV. IT’S BEEN 10 years Rockstar. It’s clunky, un-smooth, weird, not intuitive and damn right infuriating at times; if I could give 0/10 to something in this game would be the **** controls. It’s just bad, like really bad. - Horse riding. There’s a good percentage of the game that you just go from one location to the other, with no music and no nothing. It’s almost as if Rockstar wanted you to do the cinema mode and watch Arthur ride a horse, also the bad thing is that there’s little to no music while doing this. There were many times were I put my controller down and started looking at my phone. - Story. I know, I know. People love this story, but I don’t. If I wanna play through the story of a cowboy, whose somewhat of a good guy who has done bad stuff, or maybe will do bad stuff to get what he wants, I wouldn’t play RDR2. There’s a far better execution of a similar story, and that’s RDR. At times I knew what was going to happen and I always kinda knew what kind of guy Arthur was. The others members of the gang didn’t really interest me, or I didn’t have any type of investment in them. For me, they were bland and uninteresting; except for Arthur or Sadie. Dutch just kept saying “I have a plan” and the story was “New Camp, don’t do bad things until you did bad thing. Chased, maybe someone died and New Camp”. Rinse and repeat. - AI, or Law system. The game, as other GTA’s tries to tell you that you can do bad things and have fun, you know Rockstar stuff. But in this game even when I wasn’t trying to do bad things or defending myself, I had like 20 lawmen on my ass which was really annoying. Sometimes I couldn’t do a story bit because there was always a witness. Sometimes I would rather not do anything bad at all so I would have to deal with the law after, because in this game it’s really, really annoying killing sheriffs only for far more to appear. - The shooting. It’s helped aim and everything comes down to shooting. You don’t need many guns, just a rifle and a revolver and you can win everything. I didn’t clean my weapons because it didn’t feel necessary, they worked and they got the job done. If you read all that, thank you, in conclusion I just want to say that RDR2 is not a bad game in any means; but it also isn’t ground breaking or offers anything new or better that we haven’t seen before. All that detail to me seems wasted, like you don’t need to eat really, you don’t need to clean your horse or your pistols, you don’t need to hunt or explore. You could just do all the missions and the story would be the same, it seems like Rockstar just put the “open world” to please fans and remind you that Rockstar makes sandbox open world games. Story-wise I thought it was bland and predictable, it had it’s awesome moments but nothing worth remembering. The controls are just a **** mess and hope that they DO understand they need a change for future games. For me it’s a 6/10, this is a world I would not like to revisit, I prefer RDR, BOTW or Horizon. People should really try to keep an unbiased view and play other things before calling them a masterpiece. Hope this review helps you somehow, and if you still want to play the game, I don’t blame you, maybe you’ll have a better time than me. Just wait until it releases on PC or the price is down.… Expand
  66. dbarca
    Jul 21, 2020
    6
    Finally played it this year, did not understand the hype. Shoot some people, listen to Dutch say, "I got a plan", then move camp, repeat. It gives no incentive to try to go hunting or interact with the open world.
  67. MattrixPlay
    Jul 19, 2020
    6
    A melhor história que eu já vi nos games, Arthur Morgan é o melhor personagem.
  68. iDimit
    Jul 25, 2020
    6
    Графика не плохая. Сюжет подкачал. Вторую половину было очень не интересно проходить.
  69. Julinitot
    Sep 27, 2020
    6
    Thousand of little animations bring this beautiful open world to life. Impressive work with a massive attention to details. Here, npc really react to the player actions.

    Unfortunately, the game in itself is really boring. Gameplay feels incredibly unresponsive and you have no freedom in how you can approach the missions. Sometimes you can not even choose your weapon. Story starts slow    Thousand of little animations bring this beautiful open world to life. Impressive work with a massive attention to details. Here, npc really react to the player actions.

    Unfortunately, the game in itself is really boring. Gameplay feels incredibly unresponsive and you have no freedom in how you can approach the missions. Sometimes you can not even choose your weapon. Story starts slow too but since I didn't finish the game I can't really comment.

    In conclusion, a big disappointment for me. I really don't get the hype and the 10/10 reviews.    … Expand
  70. rainyday2
    Oct 23, 2020
    6
    All the production values in the world and ridiculous attention to detail can't save a boring slog of a game with horrible pacing and tedious mission structure/open world where you spend 50% of your game time going from point A to point B with your horse ...

    This game ruined my X button :(
  71. grodius
    Sep 30, 2020
    6
    OH man, I put so much into this game at first. I was mentally "RPing" every step of the way, and taking my time in the world. The problem was, the game began to stop me from acting on my natural instinct, constantly making me do specific pre-defined paths (flanking is not an option sometimes). There isn't a "true" obstacle that makes your plan fail, the game simply ends the encounter. ThisOH man, I put so much into this game at first. I was mentally "RPing" every step of the way, and taking my time in the world. The problem was, the game began to stop me from acting on my natural instinct, constantly making me do specific pre-defined paths (flanking is not an option sometimes). There isn't a "true" obstacle that makes your plan fail, the game simply ends the encounter. This design may seem archaic, but I remember the missions in GTA 1-3 having more freedom.

    There are other moments where despite being in a dangerous situation, escaping from the law, heist, or burning building, when the character will walk inexplicably. It absolutely takes the pace to a grinding halt.

    The graphics, the audio, they feel right, but the world feels like Disneyland. Tons of the open world quests are not well tuned. Example - I found an NPC in the world that creates a kind of mini-quest. We had to sneak up and hunt some animal that had stolen something from them or something. His lines were saying "there he is, ok, lets sneak up on him.." something to that effect... and though I'm crouched and sneaking this NPC is just walking normally in front of me toward the prey. This was a random quest late game in the mountain area.

    The mini-game button mashing is extremely false feeling. It doesn't feel like youre "really" doing that activity when youre holding R2 and spamming X or whatever it is.

    You will use your in-game money to purchase weapons, customize them, set up your loadout, etc, and go to a mission, and then the mission begins and you suddenly are completely regeared, and you arent with your horse. Just the default pistol with no rifle or shotgun... I dont understand why this would ever be done.

    The best part of this, and I am being totally serious, is Red Dead Online Poker. I have played a LOT of online video poker games, and this is one of the most immersive and fun pvp poker games i've played no joke. Its awesome that you are your character, and your winnings are going toward your RP journey.. its kind of awesome honestly, Ive made a bunch of money to buy **** in RDO thru the poker haha...

    Im truly EXHAUSTED by the story, and when you finish a mission you will often be at a point really far from your next mission spot... you can fast travel, it takes a minute to crouch and set up camp, and often it will say "cannot fast travel with activities nearby" but I don't see anything on my radar... It happens so much that I dont even bother taking the time to get off my horse, crouch, camp, etc (it takes a while and says 'activities nearby' about 75% of the time). I spend so much time riding horses across spaces...

    Overall the story arc is also badly paced. I dont want to spoil anything, but just as the game is coming to a climax not only in plot points but in characters, where they are kind of at each others' throats, then you spend a LONG final act in a side story... it should have been incorporated into the main story FAR earlier, and the side story been its own climax instead of something tacked onto the end. I dont look forward to the famously boring epilogue, and I feel dead inside trying to finish and then I'm in a situation stuck walking, or I fail a section because I try to be slightly creative with my approach... In conclusion, I have to give a rating based on what the studio should be able to do. We shouldn't be easy on one of the most profit making companies in the business. Lets be honest about the quality of the narrative, the lack of novelty at the systems, the poor pacing in the action sequences, the cover combat that was new in 2006 when Gears of War released.

    Graphics cant carry a game, graphics naturally get better, we cant clap our hands everytime it gets shinier and give it 10/10... cmon.    … Expand
  72. Uncngo
    Feb 15, 2022
    6
    The gameplay is immersive with a great story and graphics. The good part pretty much ends here. It has a very linear story in a vast empty world. There are some random events and side quests, but they are meaningless as no matter how much you complete the side quests, it won't have any impact on the game world. It defeats the purpose of an open world RPG game.

    In overall, it is a great    The gameplay is immersive with a great story and graphics. The good part pretty much ends here. It has a very linear story in a vast empty world. There are some random events and side quests, but they are meaningless as no matter how much you complete the side quests, it won't have any impact on the game world. It defeats the purpose of an open world RPG game.

    In overall, it is a great game but it is not a great open world game.    … Expand
  73. Ariya2005
    Feb 18, 2021
    6
    I thing this game are nice but have a lot of problem but the worse problem is game control . It's suks .
  74. Sil542
    Nov 26, 2022
    6
    I tried, so so hard to love this game but I just couldn't. It just didn't click for me. It is repetitive, boring horse riding and it is just too slow for me. I've missed a lot of good and memorable moments. Like in TLOU you have Joel calling Ellie baby girl and the part that Ellie meets up with Joel. But with Red Dead 2 you have just mindless shooting at your enemy because they startI tried, so so hard to love this game but I just couldn't. It just didn't click for me. It is repetitive, boring horse riding and it is just too slow for me. I've missed a lot of good and memorable moments. Like in TLOU you have Joel calling Ellie baby girl and the part that Ellie meets up with Joel. But with Red Dead 2 you have just mindless shooting at your enemy because they start shooting you. Such a shame, because the story was actually good and I do love narrative games, but Red Dead 2 was just too long and way too slow paced. Stuff like TLOU 1 and 2, The Walking Dead The Telltale, was shorter and I like it that way.… Expand
  75. Rafolino
    Jan 30, 2023
    6
    I really wanted to like this game, but it is just too repetitive. The controls are so slow it makes you want to give up on the game after 30 minutes. It does get better once you get used to it. The story and ending are amazing.
  76. arminabdi
    Dec 28, 2021
    6
    Initially I was very hyped like everyone else but after about 20 hours of playing it started to get boring. The graphics are still impressive even on a base ps4 slim and so is the size of world. The amount of details is unbelievable however it's too big and too detailed to the point where it gets tedious and stops being fun like a video game. If I wanted tedious and realistic I wouldn't beInitially I was very hyped like everyone else but after about 20 hours of playing it started to get boring. The graphics are still impressive even on a base ps4 slim and so is the size of world. The amount of details is unbelievable however it's too big and too detailed to the point where it gets tedious and stops being fun like a video game. If I wanted tedious and realistic I wouldn't be playing a game.… Expand
  77. Limbio
    Feb 2, 2023
    6
    Pretty good. But too strict with the story, too much dialog and lots of bugs. If I want a nerd game I go with an RPG.
  78. HOWDOIPERESSW
    Dec 22, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game could be fun if it was not is tedious as hell, the missions are like, we are gonna go rob a bank or water a bandits yard with a pod and than burn it or being stuck upside down with a cloths of a baby. boring game… Expand
  79. xoxoxoxoxox
    Jan 26, 2023
    6
    I'd say the game is a must try only for the amazing view of birds in the sky. However don't be fooled by the critics high score. They are a bunch of hypocrites who want the game to succeed only because it's a western game and somehow it reflects the criminal legacy of the west.
  80. tyakson
    May 27, 2023
    6
    If you like dynamic gameplay - this game is not for you. Gets bored after empty 30 hour runs. Online is dead.
  81. Fede75
    Jun 2, 2023
    6
    Visivamente incredibile, stupendo gioco che però dal punto d vista personale, come game play, mi stranisce. Si può fare e non so può fare, non c'è coerenza, e questo me lo fa abbandonare di continuo. Peccato.
  82. BBlake
    Nov 1, 2018
    5
    As a 90's Western sim, it's great. As an entertaining successor to Red Dead Redemption, it's a total disappointment. Give this one a hard pass unless you really like slow, deliberate Western movies.
  83. MetaMind
    Oct 31, 2018
    5
    DULL, DULL... is Arthur... he is a dullard... noting interesting about him whatsoever... well into Chapter 2 and NOTHING memorable has happened other then excessive horseback riding and accidental shooting of folks because the "interact with folks" button is the SAME BUTTON as shoot... what-the-heck??? Very, very disappointed. I was killed, failed a mission, returned to camp, and MY TENTDULL, DULL... is Arthur... he is a dullard... noting interesting about him whatsoever... well into Chapter 2 and NOTHING memorable has happened other then excessive horseback riding and accidental shooting of folks because the "interact with folks" button is the SAME BUTTON as shoot... what-the-heck??? Very, very disappointed. I was killed, failed a mission, returned to camp, and MY TENT WAS GONE... what-the-heck? and what a miserable way to get access to the map... some menus you'll need to back out with 4-5 button pushes just to return to the game... ugh!... and can I PLEASE skip the overlong skinning scenes... I simply don't want to hunt because I know it just slows down the slow tempo even more. there doesn't seem to be a way to brake my horse, which results in me running over or past folks... went from a 6 to a 5. absolutely nothing wow.
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    BORING... I played about 8 hours (after the initial 2 hour mostly QuickTime session) and found nothing interesting or compelling. You end of at a camp and stroll around looking for something to do. Go into town, have a little scuffle, go to the stores where you don't have nearly enough money to buy anything useful, go back to camp, stroll around. Doesn't come close to Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and even Shadow of the Tomb Raider in terms of intriguing. Not looking for crazy action, just something that engages me to want to play... will try for a little longer to see if something interesting happens that is more than just running errands.    … Expand
  84. jj350
    Oct 27, 2018
    5
    This game is a good example of why "professional" video game critics cannot be trusted in 2018. Here they are trying to sell this game as perfection and it is a flawed gem at best. Does it look great? Yes. Does it do a good job of presenting it's story and characters? Definitely. Is it fun to play? Not really. Is the gameplay perfect? Very far from it.

    What we have here is a beautifully    This game is a good example of why "professional" video game critics cannot be trusted in 2018. Here they are trying to sell this game as perfection and it is a flawed gem at best. Does it look great? Yes. Does it do a good job of presenting it's story and characters? Definitely. Is it fun to play? Not really. Is the gameplay perfect? Very far from it.

    What we have here is a beautifully presented example of how overrated and overhyped a video game can be. No matter how good looking a game is, and no matter how well they present the story and characters, if the gameplay isn't fun the game just isn't fun. That is the problem here, a distinct lack of fun. There are way too many chores, way too much time is spent on tedious and drawn out actions, and the controls are just a complete mess. I honestly find it amazing how a game can get so highly rated with controls this awful. Everything feels slow to react and sloppy, the movement, the gunplay, the interaction, everything. It is also ridiculously frustrating to interact with the world as you seem to do unintended actions with incredible ease and due to the lack of easy access to manual saves you will find yourself getting in situations where you are facing unintended consequences making it unnecessarily difficult to play the game as anything besides a notorious bad-guy.

    Simply put I am having a hard time enjoying this game and I am very disappointed with the results.    … Expand
  85. drlowdon
    Aug 15, 2021
    5
    After a heist goes badly awry, the Van der Linde gang are forced to go on the run and fight for their very survival.

    In Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar have created an incredibly detailed world, but seem to have forgotten to actually give players anything fun to do in it. The opening 2-3 hours are just tedious, consisting largely of hold down ‘X’ to slowly follow people through the snow    After a heist goes badly awry, the Van der Linde gang are forced to go on the run and fight for their very survival.

    In Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar have created an incredibly detailed world, but seem to have forgotten to actually give players anything fun to do in it. The opening 2-3 hours are just tedious, consisting largely of hold down ‘X’ to slowly follow people through the snow listening to stories about events that sound far more interesting than what you’re doing. When you do actually see a bit of action, you’ll find the controls to be as clunky as they always are in Rockstar Games, making shoot-outs far less exciting than they should be.

    I’m sure there’ll be people saying I should have given this game longer, but if the developers aren’t able to grab my interest in four hours of gaming that’s their fault, not mine.    … Expand
  86. NoBodysGamer
    Oct 28, 2018
    5
    The realism and depth. The game is realistic, so realistic that it is boring because it is so like real life. You have to cook, you have to dress accordingly, you have to brush your horse, the list goes on and on and on. I'm surprised they didn't make you take your turn to wash the dishes in camp in order to keep harmony. I understand realism and why it is important in games like thisThe realism and depth. The game is realistic, so realistic that it is boring because it is so like real life. You have to cook, you have to dress accordingly, you have to brush your horse, the list goes on and on and on. I'm surprised they didn't make you take your turn to wash the dishes in camp in order to keep harmony. I understand realism and why it is important in games like this (large, cinematic games) but the depth here doesn't add anything to the game except excess hours spent by the player doing these chores instead of actually engaging in the game. 'Depth' is fast becoming a code word in the gaming world for 'needlessly tedious tasks' but is defended with the 'realism' mantle. Realism and realistic are not the same things - I want the game to give me a sense of a real world, I do not want it to mimic my actual life. I play games to have fun, not to cook herbs I found.

    The bounty system is just horrible. Anything bad you do results in a bounty being put on your head (which increases if you do more bad things) - you have no choice put to pay off the bounty. If you do not bounty hunters randomly spawn and will shoot you to death. They will shoot you to death because 1) The computer has a very good shot and 2) because the shooting mechanic is so badly implemented that you will really struggle to fend off more than 2 of them. There is also an issue that NPC's assault you with abandon but, as soon as you defend yourself, you have a bounty marked on you. This, combined with the poor shooting system, means you spend most of your time avoiding combat - it's so weird because I was expecting to be able to cause havoc, instead I can't risk it because money is scarce and the bounty's so frequent. A stifling game mechanic.

    Flawed features. The hunting system works to a degree but has a number of issues. The rewards for hunting are pitiful and, given the time it takes to hunt, as well as the lack of space to store hunted animals, it is pretty much a redundant feature.
    The poker game in-game is nothing short of a joke. Don't even bother playing it as you will lose money if you play more than, say, 20 hands against the AI.
    Travel. By far the biggest problem. It takes ages to navigate this map - not because it is so big - but because you pretty much have to travel with your horse the whole time. Oh, and you cannot even follow set paths, so you have to control the giddy bastard for the entire time.
    Shooting system. Poor, very twitchy and inaccurate - not at all fun to use.
    Crafting. Requires hunting stuff. Hunting stuff is very time-consuming and, by an large, boring.

    Controls. They are awkward. It does not feel smooth nor intuitive. They aren't game breaking by any means but they could be a damn sight better.

    It is another game that equates quantity with quality, a trend in the gaming world whereby if you have massive crafting menu's and the ability to brush your teeth manually you're somehow revolutionising the industry. Maybe I'm the only gamer who wants the games to be, first and foremost, fun? I suspect there will be patches changing certain aspects of the game and, until they happen, I'd avoid buying the game. I'm playing now and wondering why I continue to do so because, after getting out of the snow section (the very first part of the story), everything has become a lot more tedious and dull. 10 out of 10 is honestly a joke score - that indicates perfection, and this game comes nowhere near that.

    Bugs: A random civilian started a fistfight with me and I was wanted for unarmed assault after I defended myself. The next time a man spontaneously attacked me, I decided to keep blocking just to see what would happen. Another random civilian shot him in the back and I was then wanted for murder. I steered my truck of a character to the outskirts of town only to find myself under investigation AGAIN because another random civilian was mauled by a mountain lion or something.

    I stopped hunting after my legendary bear pelt disappeared from the back of my main horse. I stopped riding my main horse entirely after I got tired of the game unequipped my weapons every time I made contact with it. The game is incapable of remembering that I put weapons in holsters, but it knows exactly when that horse is in need of grooming. Because you know what every video-game needs more of? Chores.

    But none of that matters because the graphics are nice. Hoof prints stay in the mud and horse testicles shrink in the cold.    … Expand
  87. intrepidis
    Aug 14, 2020
    5
    Beautiful but boring and frustrating. Controls are dumb. Story is next to rubbish. Characters are fairly plain. The previous Red Dead game was much better.
  88. NaaR
    Dec 22, 2018
    5
    This game has solid graphics, well acted and crafted characters with great depth. However the story is badly paced simply because of the amount of horse-ridning and chores. So basically it feels like a really slow TV-series, but with a great con that simply cannot be overseen: The gameplay.

    Its horrible, the controls are clunky, stiff and complex. Chosing weapons and managing the    This game has solid graphics, well acted and crafted characters with great depth. However the story is badly paced simply because of the amount of horse-ridning and chores. So basically it feels like a really slow TV-series, but with a great con that simply cannot be overseen: The gameplay.

    Its horrible, the controls are clunky, stiff and complex. Chosing weapons and managing the inventory is just as horrible and the gun play is simply bad. The steering is sub-par and the character feels so heavy. Going from The Witcher 3 (which also has some clunky movement), Horizon Zero Dawn, MGSV, Bloodborne or even Persona 5 which, in some sense, all are RPG:s to this... Nope, it doesn't cut it.    … Expand
  89. sangine
    Nov 27, 2018
    5
    Grandiosa obra maestra cinematográfica. Si compitiese para los oscars se podría llevar alguno. Pero a Rockstar se le ha olvidado que esto son videojuegos y que lo priomordial es que sean divertidos. RDR2 no lo es. Ni de puta coña.
  90. NikolayG
    Nov 13, 2018
    5
    The pro reviewers giving 10s are either being dishonest or aren't paying attention. Red Dead Redemption 2 has a LOT of serious problems. Realistic it is at times, sprinkled liberally with jarring, frustrating, unrealistic, inappropriate gamey mechanics.

    If you shoot up a gang's hideout in the woods and kill them all, then go into the hideout and take something from a drawer, you will be    The pro reviewers giving 10s are either being dishonest or aren't paying attention. Red Dead Redemption 2 has a LOT of serious problems. Realistic it is at times, sprinkled liberally with jarring, frustrating, unrealistic, inappropriate gamey mechanics.

    If you shoot up a gang's hideout in the woods and kill them all, then go into the hideout and take something from a drawer, you will be marked as a thief and the law will, in less than a minute, ride up and come after you --- even though you were in the hideout without witnesses when you took something from the drawer, even though you're in the middle of the woods far from town. The law show up out of nowhere like magic. On top of all this, the law doesn't seem to care that you shot a bunch of people and that there are bodies everywhere, only that you stole a bottle of liquor.

    The game has other serious issues that also make it too 'gamey' and not realistic enough. In mission 1, you cannot open a certain locked trunk you must open to complete the mission, and the guy you're with will just freeze in place until ... you eat something. That's right. The one has got nothing to do with the other, but you have to eat at least a cracker or that trunk will never open and your comrade will never take another step. The same thing happened in a mission much later when a guy took me bear hunting. All of a sudden he just stopped on his horse. Wouldn't move. Frozen. No matter what I did. Five minutes, ten minutes, 15 minutes passed. Still frozen. I never found the answer to that one. But I assume the game wanted me to engage in some random action utterly unrelated to what we were doing to trigger the game to move forward.

    In mission 2 if you stray too far from the enemy camp the mission ends in failure. Therefore, if you shoot a fleeing bad guy off his horse, then go to collect stuff off the body (as you are required to do for the mission) the mission will end in "failure" if the body fell too far from the main camp. How's that for "open world"? In mission 3, as you chase a man on his horse to lasso him, you have to cross a stream to get behind him. But if you cross that stream too soon, by which I mean before the game arbitrarily wants you to, that mission also ends in "failure". How's THAT for open world??? When your fellow gang member is held as a human shield by a train conductor on the roof of a train, you want to shoot the train conductor, right? But if try, you won't hit him, and you won't accidentally hit your fellow gang member either. Even though they are, at that moment, closer than any other target you've had in the game so far. All of your bullets magically become blanks ... because the game wants you to go up to him and hit him with your fists. All of these artificial, unnecessary, extremely frustrating and anti-immersive moments broke the game's momentum and pushed me out of the fictional universe.

    When shooting, if you don't want to use a reticle (and I don't) you can turn off the reticle in the options menu. You can still hit targets just fine because there is a command that lines the barrel right up with your sightline -- except ..... not when you're using a bow. Even though in real life you line the arrow right up with your line of sight while aiming, this is not permitted in the game. Even though it's permitted with guns. So it is IMPOSSIBLE to hit a deer or other animal with an arrow unless you go into options and turn the reticle back on. So it's back and forth as I play because I do NOT want a reticle, but have to use one when using a bow. Why in the world the game doesn't let you line your bow up with your line of sight is beyond me. It makes zero sense. These are the reasons I say the game is marred by bizarre limitations that render it not truly open world (in the way, for example, Skyrim is truly open world. In Skyrim you can go anywhere at any time, even mid-mission if you want to, you can take off and go hunting or fishing and just head for the other side of the continent. Not in Read Dead Redemption 2. You have to do arbitrary things - eat a cracker - before you can complete missions and you have to stay within very narrowly defined areas during missions.

    Side note. The dialog in the game is also laced with expressions that did not exist until my lifetime, some not even until I was an adult. It is strange to watch as people in 1899 use lingo that did not even exist yet when I was in elementary school. The team really dropped the ball on this. They should have had an older person reviewing the script. It is jarring in places and really puts me out of the game here and there. And it would have been so simple to avoid.    … Expand
  91. mailordermonstr
    Dec 2, 2018
    5
    Do you like waiting for things to happen? Well then you'll love this game. Your character needs to eat to restore their health? Looks like you need to spend the next 30 seconds cooking. By cooking I mean watching your character go through the motions of preparing food. You want to go on a story mission. Alright then, just go talk to one of the NPCs and get prepared to hold down the xDo you like waiting for things to happen? Well then you'll love this game. Your character needs to eat to restore their health? Looks like you need to spend the next 30 seconds cooking. By cooking I mean watching your character go through the motions of preparing food. You want to go on a story mission. Alright then, just go talk to one of the NPCs and get prepared to hold down the x button for the next 5 minutes as you and the NPC ride your horses to the mission. Just try not to run anyone over with your horse or go too far away from the NPC, otherwise you'll have the same 5 minute ride ahead of you again, no option to skip, the NPC delivering the same speech.
    How about running on ice? Do you like that, cause that's what moving around on foot kind of feels like. How about horribly contrived controls? The same button is used for getting on your horse as robbing a person on the street. That means that if you try to get on your horse, but a civilian is closer to you than your horse, you're going to jump the civilian. You now have the cops on you. Hope you weren't on a mission, cause you now have the intro horse ride to go through again.
    Do you like internet trolls? Then welcome to RDR2 online. Great idea in concept, but a complete waste of time. The controls in this game are not good enough for PvP to be any fun, yet that seems to be all the community is interested in. There are some PvE things available, but good luck getting a posse together for any of it.

    The most commendable thing about this game is the sheer scope and amount of work that went into it. They have definitely built an impressive world to inhabit. If Rockstar had taken the time to make movement feel good, work out a decent control scheme, edited out the majority of "simulation/waiting", and curated the online experience a bit better - this would be an amazing game. As is, this thing is like the pyramids if they were made of **** Impressive at first glance from a distance. But the closer you look and the more time you spend, it just stinks worse and worse.    … Expand
  92. JAGUAR10
    Dec 3, 2018
    5
    Tried to play this but got so bored I had to quit. Characters are boring, the hero is boring & somewhat stupid, I hate not knowing what the challenges are ahead of time so I don't have to repeat a sequence, always getting bounties on myself over just looking at someone sometimes, control system and menus are horrendous, information pops up in different places on screen so you never knowTried to play this but got so bored I had to quit. Characters are boring, the hero is boring & somewhat stupid, I hate not knowing what the challenges are ahead of time so I don't have to repeat a sequence, always getting bounties on myself over just looking at someone sometimes, control system and menus are horrendous, information pops up in different places on screen so you never know where to look & miss it half the time. I hate screaming at someone while riding on horseback! I never could finish RDR 1 due to that godawful wagon race but thought I'd give this one a shot! Wrong!!!!! It's just as bad as the first one. I've had it with Rockstar games.… Expand
  93. Critical_Fun
    Dec 9, 2018
    5
    Best looking game ever made. The artistry in this is second to none. A must-buy for any RDR/GTA fan. Unfortunately there are many infuriating negatives that make me turn it off abruptly. I'm around 80% through the story.

    Pros Graphics details overall production story (both pro and con) Cons SLOW - some lengthy missions are simply cut scenes which annoyingly make you push    Best looking game ever made. The artistry in this is second to none. A must-buy for any RDR/GTA fan. Unfortunately there are many infuriating negatives that make me turn it off abruptly. I'm around 80% through the story.

    Pros

    Graphics
    details
    overall production
    story (both pro and con)

    Cons

    SLOW - some lengthy missions are simply cut scenes which annoyingly make you push a button once every 10 minutes to make sure you're awake. Looting and skinning are also SLOW! When given the option of realism or 10 minutes of my life, I'll take the 10 minutes.
    Story - A clif notes version of the story of 5 or 10 minutes would have been great. I haven't played RDR 1 in 10 damn years! I'm supposed to remember the RDR 1 story line crystal clear? This isn't a 2 hour movie we can re-watch, it's a 100 hour game. Some clue in the story to refresh my memory would have been great and I think I would have enjoyed the story 1000% more if I remembered more than the basics of RDR1.

    Gameplay - No less than 4 times, I have wasted precious time in my life because of poor programming. How do you think to put in the most minute details in the game, yet fail on missions. After a mission, you want to loot bodies. As mentioned before, it takes a lot of time. Suddenly, without warning, you will be looting your corpses and suddenly your half hour of looting is lost and the mission resets for "abandoning the mission" or whatever **** reason they want to give you. If you don't want me to loot in a mission, then don't let me loot in a mission or at the very least, let us know when we are in danger of losing all progress. This is something even a bad game 20 years ago would offer.

    Controls - Overly complicated and frustrating.

    Fun - In GTA, you can just go wild and be a criminal or you can try to be a slightly better person. It's all good. Here, you have to choose one or the other. If I'm trying to be good, maybe I want to be bad for an hour and steal a train and shoot up a town. You can do that. It will cost you hundreds of in-game $$$ but you can do it. I get the feeling I am missing out on so much entertainment due to the ridiculous bounties. This is possibly the worst part of the game, especially early on where a simple accidental horse vs horse collision suddenly gets you murder charges and a $50 dollar bounty (increases significantly with each one you kill). This game seems to want to punish you for enjoying the very best aspects of it. Why would Rock Star want to do such a thing?

    Conclusion - It's obvious that they put a LOT of effort into this game. I think a year long beta would have helped this tremendously. The end result is the best looking game of all time, with just OK gameplay. I hope you like overly long cut-scenes regarding a story line you will barely be able to remember from 10 years ago.

    5/5 and they're lucky to get that.    … Expand
  94. Kaverski
    Nov 2, 2018
    5
    Terrbile controls - touchpad is not a map, circle is not a stop action and many, many other things that players will not uderstand.
    Fatal game design in terms of player movement. Looting corps while combat? forget it. After? Forget it as well - marshall's or other peace of s... will appear 30 sec after shooting. Spamming X for horse sprint? seriously? f u Players from Rockstar.
    Immersion    Terrbile controls - touchpad is not a map, circle is not a stop action and many, many other things that players will not uderstand.
    Fatal game design in terms of player movement. Looting corps while combat? forget it. After? Forget it as well - marshall's or other peace of s... will appear 30 sec after shooting. Spamming X for horse sprint? seriously? f u Players from Rockstar.
    Immersion ruined by stupid actions like covering behind cariage while 30 men are shooting to you from 3 meters.
    Immersion ruined by stupid game design - for example - put animal bait in wrong please - MISSION FAILED - AHAHAHHAHAHA. F u Players from Rockstar

    Don't get me wrong - there is planty nice things as well. But because of this stupid mistakes it is definitely not a game of the year or even a month. Bilions of dolars wasted because of some game design or creative director not doing his f... job.
    And marketing - f u PC players we will get more money after one year after we release this game AGAIN on PC like with GTA V.    … Expand
  95. ironwolf56
    Oct 30, 2018
    5
    Overproduced. That's the word I'd use for RDR2. I think this game may have shown us the "uncanny valley" of simulation vs gaming. The attention to detail in some aspects is certainly impressive, but at the same time it doesn't quite hit that level of full realism that maybe, someday, games will have.

    Before there's any pushback, I'm around Chapter 4 so this isn't a situation of "well    Overproduced. That's the word I'd use for RDR2. I think this game may have shown us the "uncanny valley" of simulation vs gaming. The attention to detail in some aspects is certainly impressive, but at the same time it doesn't quite hit that level of full realism that maybe, someday, games will have.

    Before there's any pushback, I'm around Chapter 4 so this isn't a situation of "well get past the first few hours it gets better." I understand what they were going for with having to balance everything, but the controls are so fiddly it often actively fights you from doing anything. If nothing else, I think this game has made me realize WHY studios put in shortcuts and unrealistic animations etc so that the core of gameplay is smoother and more fun.

    There is fun to be had here, in short bursts though. When I was doing something like shooting up a logging camp full of a rival gang, it was a blast, but those kind of moments seem few and far between punctuated by long stretches of time of slowly searching through cabinets, riding your horse across a surprisingly empty map, making sure you eat but not too much now, methodically hunting, and juggling things at the campsite.

    I think RDR2 may have taken my top spot as the most overrated game of all time; at least this generation certainly. For the hardcore simulationist types, it's probably a dream come true, I just wish there was a lot more "game" inside this fiddliness.    … Expand
  96. pvliesdonk
    Nov 7, 2018
    5
    Agree with all the other negative reviews. Stopped playing after approx 8 hours as I couldn't be bothered to continue through all the glitches and control mess. I really hope Rockstar will patch these issues, as the game looks and sounds fantastic.
  97. Kerber
    Jun 9, 2019
    5
    First let me start by telling that I am huge fan of original RDR and that I completed it with 100%, so my expectations from RDR2 were not that high as I was more than happy if Rockstar improved graphics and polished some details from first game. Unfortunately rockstar changed way too much in the game, which could be great if changes didn't make this game way too repetitive and tedious.
    If    First let me start by telling that I am huge fan of original RDR and that I completed it with 100%, so my expectations from RDR2 were not that high as I was more than happy if Rockstar improved graphics and polished some details from first game. Unfortunately rockstar changed way too much in the game, which could be great if changes didn't make this game way too repetitive and tedious.
    If you want to use item there is sachet on the horse, two weeks...so for simple action it will take too much time. Combine that with tedious refillers and whole game become like grinding as you have to use bunch of items regularly. On top of it we have shaving, combing, clothing, camp money collecting... I just want to wonder off and enjoy, instead this becomes like boring daily routine.

    Beautiful game, great graphics, interesting story, but basic mechanics are repetitive and become frustratingly boring after couple hours. No wonder gta5 held price for so long while RDR2 has already price tanked just after couple months. If you want fun there are much better games out there.    … Expand
  98. shaman7207
    Oct 29, 2018
    5
    Я поражен, как Рокстар умудрились потратить 8 лет на Sims в декорациях Дикого Запада. С реализмом они явно переборщили. Играть ппц скучно, все медленно, куча ненужных элементов, какой-то нафиг не сдавшийся гринд. Это точно игра от Рокстар, а не очередной выживастик?Я поражен, как Рокстар умудрились потратить 8 лет на Sims в декорациях Дикого Запада. С реализмом они явно переборщили. Играть ппц скучно, все медленно, куча ненужных элементов, какой-то нафиг не сдавшийся гринд. Это точно игра от Рокстар, а не очередной выживастик?
  99. Zafeer
    Mar 7, 2019
    5
    This game is beautiful. Mountains of detail were put into the world. This is where the entire effort of the studio went. The controls are clunky. Sometimes switching buttons to do the same action. Getting your character to move faster than a walk is a pain. The enemy AI is a joke. A lot of times they run right into the line of fire and get mowed down. Sometimes they just run backThis game is beautiful. Mountains of detail were put into the world. This is where the entire effort of the studio went. The controls are clunky. Sometimes switching buttons to do the same action. Getting your character to move faster than a walk is a pain. The enemy AI is a joke. A lot of times they run right into the line of fire and get mowed down. Sometimes they just run back and forth in the open or run to cover then back to where they started. Accidentally bumping into somebody on the street starts a fist fight almost every time. The characters that you interact with are so close to cardboard cutouts I can't remember any of their names. The quests are so boring. Bounties sound like fun until you try some. You could almost spit on most of them from the sheriff's office. Chase this guy and stop him from getting away seems to be the majority of quest objectives. I doubt I will bother finishing the game.… Expand
  100. vlxedits
    Mar 19, 2019
    5
    Game is highly developed and perfected
    but is extremely slow and it takes too long to get to the good parts
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  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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