Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. Dreniast
    May 7, 2020
    5
    Even if is a beautiful game, the 80 hours of main history does not allow you to have a good control of your actions to explore, and the very bad 8+ Epilogue destroys the history completely to remind you that is not Red Dead Redemption 2 but RDR 0.5, also de shooting system, is incredible easy to do headshots, which destroy most of the key points on a western based game
  2. Kubos741
    Apr 19, 2020
    5
    it's been a year and a half since the game was released.

    During this time they were not only able to use the potential of the game, nor were they able to remove bugs. Bugs everywhere, everyday, every hour ... Want to play PVP? there are only 30 people in one session in large map. you can join the SHOOTOUT event = loading 60 sec, waiting to fill the group another 60 sec, then 2 short    it's been a year and a half since the game was released.

    During this time they were not only able to use the potential of the game, nor were they able to remove bugs. Bugs everywhere, everyday, every hour ...

    Want to play PVP? there are only 30 people in one session in large map. you can join the SHOOTOUT event = loading 60 sec, waiting to fill the group another 60 sec, then 2 short rounds of play come on, then you wait until the lobbies are loaded for the next match, until they fill up with players until the new round is loaded. All this means that 60% of your time is waiting

    I played 2 hours today. I caught 2 rare animals, so I wanted to take them to the campsite, I spawned one, ran to it for 3 min but wasn't there. I spawn it elsewhere, but it wasn't there also (you can reload game but you will loose your animals...), so after 10 minutes of running around the map I took the animals to the shop and lost profit

    then I got a mission to catch 6 bandits. I ran into the mountains for 10 minutes, I started catching them. BOUNTY WAGON could not be called anywhere in the snowy mountains - even if i was standing on large flat surface. After 15 minutes, all the bandits escaped me because I couldn't call a wagon at any point.

    Thank you for wasting my time in every aspect of online gaming

    Change Shootout - let players play any long they want to play - any number of rounds ...let them decide when to end shootout and after that let them get their $$$ but dont waste our time    … Expand
  3. Satan0o
    Jun 1, 2020
    5
    Story side game is really cool, gameplay tho... A lot of stupid stuff that ruins your experience, random losses because something you can't really do anything about. But, my biggest problem is ridiculous amount of riding to get even started in any mission. You speak with someone, ride a horse for 5 minutes, shoot or do something for 2 and you ride back for 5 minutes again and again. SomeStory side game is really cool, gameplay tho... A lot of stupid stuff that ruins your experience, random losses because something you can't really do anything about. But, my biggest problem is ridiculous amount of riding to get even started in any mission. You speak with someone, ride a horse for 5 minutes, shoot or do something for 2 and you ride back for 5 minutes again and again. Some missions are a big talkshow. Its the game I finished with the phone in my hands scrolling memes in meantime. Not something I would recommend to anyone.… Expand
  4. CactusJack777
    Jun 18, 2020
    5
    Too Easy, not challenging at all. the game is too long which sometimes can be frustrating
  5. iSpirakos
    Jun 22, 2020
    5
    Very detailed graphics, can get quite boring though traveling with a horse, completing unnecessary tasks etc.

    Graphics 9/10
    Story 6/10
    Gameplay 3/10
  6. steve23244
    Jun 23, 2020
    5
    All the critics rave about this game and it's terrible! It's boring, boring, boring! You don't know what you're supposed to do, and all the missions are just the same old boring stuff, rob a stagecoach, steal some horses, rob a train, and ride and ride and ride. And not only is it boring, it's disturbing! You kill all kind of innocent good people in the most violent ways like it'sAll the critics rave about this game and it's terrible! It's boring, boring, boring! You don't know what you're supposed to do, and all the missions are just the same old boring stuff, rob a stagecoach, steal some horses, rob a train, and ride and ride and ride. And not only is it boring, it's disturbing! You kill all kind of innocent good people in the most violent ways like it's nothing. I think the critics just gave it a good score because it's "edgy" in that it gets kids to do things that are repulsive to them (or should be anyway!). This game has ALL kind of glitches in it, too! Horses get stuck and they look like they're no a treadmill, I got stuck between two horses at a hitching post and it took me ten minutes to finally get out! Sometimes there's a yellow line to tell you where to go, and sometimes you're just supposed to know which way to go so you ride around like an idiot! I think the critics just had to give it a great score because so much business is riding on it being good, and it's a Rockstar game, and GTA5 did like 5 times as much money as most other games so they had to bet on it being a winner. But it's not! I quit it like 4 times only to read some good post about it somewhere and go back and try to figure out what the critics saw. Well, I can tell you what they saw, an unappealing boring game!… Expand
  7. Paltalmen
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    Auch wenn ich das Spiel sehr gern gespielt habe, wundere ich mich doch das sich das Spiel so gut schlägt.

    1. das Spiel ist schlecht optimiert, andere Spiele sehen ähnlich aus und laufen auf meinem PC (2070 Super + AMD Ryzen 7 3700x) um einiges besser als dieses Spiel...egal woran ich schraube das Spiel weigert sich konstant auf 60 FPS zu bleiben, weshalb ich dann einfach alles    Auch wenn ich das Spiel sehr gern gespielt habe, wundere ich mich doch das sich das Spiel so gut schlägt.

    1. das Spiel ist schlecht optimiert, andere Spiele sehen ähnlich aus und laufen auf meinem PC (2070 Super + AMD Ryzen 7 3700x) um einiges besser als dieses Spiel...egal woran ich schraube das Spiel weigert sich konstant auf 60 FPS zu bleiben, weshalb ich dann einfach alles aufgedreht habe und mich mit den PS4 30 FPS abgefunden habe, die teilweise auch einbrachen.

    2. Das Spiel lässt einen zwar denken das man alles machen kann was man will, man merkt aber schnell das, das nicht der Fall ist. In den Missionen muss man stickt dem vorgegeben weg von Rockstar folgen sonst gilt die Mission als fehlgeschlagen. Zufällige Events in der Welt wiederholen sich nach einiger Zeit sehr oft.

    3. Gameplay ist so quasi das mindeste was ein Cover-shooter so zu bieten hat nur mit das das spiel sich dabei selbst ins Bein beißt. RDR2 versucht auf Teufel komm raus so "Real" wie möglich zu sein, jede Action muss umständlich getätigt werden alles wird detailgetreu nachgeahmt, aber wenn es um kämpfe geht sieht es anders aus. Bei Schlägereien stirbt der andere einfach immer, auch wenn man ihn nicht erwürgt, also Arthur Morgans Fäuste riechen wirklich nach Tod und Friedhof.
    Bei Schusswechseln halten Gegner mehrere Schüsse aus bevor sie sterben, erst mit einem hohen Kaliber ist jeder nach dem ersten Schuss tot...ich weiß das es langweilig wäre wenn jeder nach einem Pistolenschuss stirbt, aber wenn ich auch jede andere Aktion JEDES MAL aufs neue machen muss damit die Welt sich "echt" anfühlt verstehe ich das nicht.

    Trotzdem verliert man sich schnell in der großen schön gemachten Welt und der Geschichte.
    Wer gerne von einem Videospiel an die Hand genommen werden möchte ist hier genau richtig, aber das beste Spiel aller Zeiten ist es auf keinen Fall.    … Expand
  8. Daknee
    Jul 3, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game has an interesting story with good characters but is full of strange design choices to make the game artificially slow and clunky. Guns/items are locked behind story progression so you can't buy things listed in stores even though you can afford them. The wanted system seems to be poorly made at times with you selecting one thing and the game doing another or you bump into a corpse and your wanted. All crafting and skinning is slower than it needs to be to make everything feel boring and clunky while pelts,meats stolen caravans and horses seem to be almost worthless for the time involved with stupidly long distances to walk just to hand in a worthless carcass. Random NPC counters can be fun but the developers seem to have coded in passers by for when you want to loot after a quest like people wandering miles fr anywhere in the middle of the night after you've just finished a quest to kill someone purely to get in the way of looting. Just lots of small choices to generally make the game annoying rather than fun for me.

    Buy if on offer for cheap otherwise don't bother    … Expand
  9. Afge
    Aug 6, 2020
    5
    لعبة ريد ديد ريدمشن لعبة خرافيه ولكن فيه سلبيات و أيجبيات
    ١: المهمات حلو ولكن فيه أربع سلبيات
    أول المهمات بعيد عن بعض ثاني لم تقعد مليون سنه تروح للمهمه يخليك تروح لمكان بعيد ثالث الفولو أسوء شي لأن الخريطة كبير بتخليك تروح لي أماكن بعيد و سرعة البتعمل ليهم فولو سرعتهم مش بتغير يعني لو مشو بطئ همشي بطي الحصان بيعد مليون سنه عشان يجليك ٢ ٣:بناء الشخصيات كويس ولكن في أول عشرين ساعه    لعبة ريد ديد ريدمشن لعبة خرافيه ولكن فيه سلبيات و أيجبيات
    ١: المهمات حلو ولكن فيه أربع سلبيات
    أول المهمات بعيد عن بعض ثاني لم تقعد مليون سنه تروح للمهمه يخليك تروح لمكان بعيد
    ثالث الفولو أسوء شي لأن الخريطة كبير بتخليك تروح لي أماكن بعيد و سرعة البتعمل ليهم فولو سرعتهم مش بتغير يعني لو مشو بطئ همشي بطي
    الحصان بيعد مليون سنه عشان يجليك ٢
    ٣:بناء الشخصيات كويس ولكن في أول عشرين ساعه أحيانين بيجي مهمات ملهاش علاقه بي باعد
    ٤:الواقع في العبه مش بتتبق علي كل شي موجود في العالم    … Expand
  10. bagieta21
    Nov 15, 2020
    5
    Game has a beautiful graphics. One of the best i have seen in games till now. But it is so boring that i couldn't play it more.
  11. yasinotato
    Nov 22, 2020
    5
    -kontroller biraz hantal oyun çoğunlukla at üstünde geçiyor ve haritanın öbür tarafına gitmek korkunç derecede sıkıcı
    +hikaye tatmin edici grafikler hoş gözüküyor tabi low ayarda oynarsanız biraz kötü karakter oldukça iyi ve sizin seçim yapmanız güzel oyun uzun o yüzden bi zaman sonra bırakıyorsunuz onun içinde online moda girirp biraz dolaşın diyiceklerim bu kadar
  12. Ponasity12345
    Nov 22, 2020
    5
    Everybody agrees the graphics are phenomenal, the storytelling is top-tier. But the actual gameplay is so unsatisfying i couldnt even finish the game. Rarely do the controls work correctly. The game unequips my weapons everytime I get on the horse, Arthur walks like hes in a swamp. The bounty system is ridiculous and only exists to make you waste time. The game is so damn boring i wouldEverybody agrees the graphics are phenomenal, the storytelling is top-tier. But the actual gameplay is so unsatisfying i couldnt even finish the game. Rarely do the controls work correctly. The game unequips my weapons everytime I get on the horse, Arthur walks like hes in a swamp. The bounty system is ridiculous and only exists to make you waste time. The game is so damn boring i would just put on a movie to watch while playing. People saying that "you wouldnt run in real life" makes no sense, as I wouldnt live in 1899 as a gunslinger in real life. RDR2 is more of a movie where you sometimes "Press X" to feel a sense of accomplishment. The game is completely designed around the idea that everything should take a reeeeaally long time, to try to make it seem like a long game. Ive spent hours, literally, just riding around like a nationwide scavenger hunt. Its just a chore. The brief gunfights had moments of excitement, but between the insanely horrible controls and the extreme boredom, this just isnt a good video. SO glad I borrowed this from a friend and didnt pay for it. Sorry Rockstar, your reign is over.… Expand
  13. DudeDudeson
    Dec 22, 2020
    5
    Well, I used to love the first RDR. But I played RDR2 after I finished the God of War masterpiece. And I feel quite disappointed. It’s clumpsy, boring and lacks of tension, I can’t understand this high ratings for this game. If you compare it to god of war or ghost of tsushima, it’s boring as hell. Searching for your hat, cleaning your horse, endless Auto-riding, searching for your hat,Well, I used to love the first RDR. But I played RDR2 after I finished the God of War masterpiece. And I feel quite disappointed. It’s clumpsy, boring and lacks of tension, I can’t understand this high ratings for this game. If you compare it to god of war or ghost of tsushima, it’s boring as hell. Searching for your hat, cleaning your horse, endless Auto-riding, searching for your hat, getting bounty for dumb actions, cleaning horse....sorry.… Expand
  14. stasweb
    May 3, 2021
    5
    Technically this game i masterpiece. But story is too long. All you do is watching your horse butt 90% of the time. Boring
  15. andzpinheiro
    May 21, 2021
    5
    So-so western game. The history is common, not weak, but didn't hooked me. Sadie Adler is obviously the best character of the game, but only the stupid male characters had the spotlights. One thing must be said: the graphics are amazing! But only this. If you are seeking for a revolutionary game, try something else.
  16. Ygs
    Feb 24, 2022
    5
    A game that is almost realistic, for what, absolutely boring, bad shooting, boring gameplay, everything about the game is just boring, no replay value.
  17. Hazelvil
    Mar 22, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Очень сильно качественная игра, проработанная, сюжет, графика, качество на высоте. Rockstar вы лучшие!!! ))) Люблю вас , люблю , обожаю, ценю.… Expand
  18. Patosullivan39
    Apr 3, 2022
    5
    6 stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great story and a world you can get lost in best game I’ve ever played
  19. Kemalensar1
    Aug 18, 2022
    5
    Ultimate Super Ultra Mega Awesome Good Game I Love this game. The finale really impressed me.
  20. Aromal
    Sep 2, 2022
    5
    Best open world role playing game with rich character development . A must play.
  21. Metatropic
    Apr 9, 2023
    5
    Everyone in the reviews section of this game likes to incessantly focus on the realism of this game, but no one understands that the other realistic features that rockstar programmed can be extremely tedious. The hunting mechanics (not touched by reviewers in the slightest, but more so by completionists) are completely luck-based and the '10 out of 10' scores likely come from people withEveryone in the reviews section of this game likes to incessantly focus on the realism of this game, but no one understands that the other realistic features that rockstar programmed can be extremely tedious. The hunting mechanics (not touched by reviewers in the slightest, but more so by completionists) are completely luck-based and the '10 out of 10' scores likely come from people with only 1 or 2 playthroughs (I myself, as some reinforcement of credentials, have 603 hours as of writing this review, and 100% completion). Despite it's seriously gripping, and no doubt 10/10 story, rockstar games clearly new that the reviewers, IGN for example, and people that actually matter within the community of gaming, would do the bare minimum and only play through the story once and assemble an effortless review, as was done time and time again with the most dry and overrated game of the century, GTA V, focusing too much on satire and exaggeration of characters, instead of an actually gripping story, which yet still received a 96 on this platform itself. Going for 100% completion a second time, hunting, in vain, I realised that I should review this game for what it is: a game focused only on story and realism, instead of letting people who actually commit to the game enjoy it. 4/10 gameplay, 10/10 everything else, so like a 5 out of 10 overall considering that gameplay is actually more important than whatever the hell rockstar likes to focus on.… Expand
  22. GODOFREDO0809
    Apr 11, 2023
    5
    This game is perfect
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  23. grandrewocuk
    Aug 15, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. İ hate mf micah i wanna shoot him in head and burry him with **** shovel. And john i loved him… Expand
  24. Pu33ylips69
    Jul 26, 2023
    5
    I have come back to try this game over and over again and I just can't bring myself to finish this game. The graphics are beautiful, sure, but the gameplay is below average. Every mission plays out exactly the same, R* uses these bland missions to progress the story but it simply just doesn't work. You'll be exhausted after a few missions, and the slow pace doesn't really help it either.I have come back to try this game over and over again and I just can't bring myself to finish this game. The graphics are beautiful, sure, but the gameplay is below average. Every mission plays out exactly the same, R* uses these bland missions to progress the story but it simply just doesn't work. You'll be exhausted after a few missions, and the slow pace doesn't really help it either. There's not a whole lot to do in the baren open world, besides a few side quests, hunting, or fishing, which feels rather pointless. Most buildings you can't enter or rob, and majority of npcs will pull guns out while your rob them while having a shotgun in their face.… Expand
  25. hggaming
    Jul 24, 2023
    5
    Red Dead Redemption 2, developed by Rockstar Games, was one of the most highly anticipated video game releases in recent memory. Set in the vast open-world landscape of the American Wild West, the game promised an immersive and thrilling experience. While many praised the game's stunning graphics, detailed narrative, and character development, there is a growing sentiment among someRed Dead Redemption 2, developed by Rockstar Games, was one of the most highly anticipated video game releases in recent memory. Set in the vast open-world landscape of the American Wild West, the game promised an immersive and thrilling experience. While many praised the game's stunning graphics, detailed narrative, and character development, there is a growing sentiment among some players that the gameplay itself falls short of expectations. In this article, we will explore the reasons why Red Dead Redemption 2 can be perceived as lacking in excitement and why it may be considered boring by some.

    1. Pacing and Repetitive Activities

    One of the primary complaints about Red Dead Redemption 2 is its slow pacing and the abundance of repetitive activities. The game's realistic portrayal of the Wild West might have been intended to immerse players fully, but it often feels like a burden. Endless horse riding across vast landscapes, maintaining the camp's needs, and completing mundane chores for the gang can become monotonous and tedious after a while. Although realism is important in a game, it shouldn't come at the expense of engaging gameplay.

    2. Limited Interactivity in the Open World

    Despite the expansive and visually impressive open world, the level of interactivity with it is surprisingly limited. Players may expect to engage in various dynamic activities, but many of the in-game events feel scripted and lack meaningful consequences. While there are random encounters and side quests scattered throughout the world, the majority of these interactions are rather superficial, failing to leave a lasting impact on the overall gameplay experience.

    3. Clunky Controls and Mechanics

    Some players have criticized the clunky and often frustrating controls and mechanics of Red Dead Redemption 2. Maneuvering the main character, Arthur Morgan, can feel sluggish and imprecise, particularly during intense combat sequences. Additionally, the game's complex systems, such as weapon management, item crafting, and horse handling, can be overwhelming, leading to a steeper learning curve and potentially deterring casual players.

    4. Limited Player Agency

    While the game's narrative is well-crafted and emotionally charged, it can also be quite linear, leaving little room for player agency. The choices available to the player often have minimal impact on the overall story, leading to a sense of disconnection from the character's progression. A more open-ended approach to the narrative could have added a layer of excitement and replayability to the game.

    5. Lack of Meaningful Rewards

    Red Dead Redemption 2's focus on realism extends to the rewards system, which can feel unrewarding for players seeking a sense of accomplishment. Completing missions and side quests may not always yield substantial rewards, leaving players feeling like their efforts are not adequately recognized. A more balanced reward structure that incentivizes player progress could have made the gameplay more satisfying.

    Conclusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Now all of that done with, some more cut-scenes and now we are free to do as we please. Wild west here come. Or so I think. That however won't be the case because there's missions to be done. In fact it would seem the game is primarily about doing missions. So we start the next mission. Now we are walking/riding at nought miles an hour trying to shoot a bow while our character cant keep the bow still to save his life. Oh and then the aim-assist kicks in when the target starts moving. Which is it going to be noodle arms or auto aim? Keep in mind this isn't while it's drawn back just holding it he can't keep it still. He seems to be able to hold the gun still just fine. So now I've killed the deer with no help from the wildly inconsistent controls and now I have to wait for my horse to return while I hold the deer on my shoulder. Wouldn't you just wait until your horse returned and then pick it up? What's the point in making an open-world game where you utterly on rails and the game play is utterly laborious? Do Rockstar only play their own games so they've never heard of a thing called an RPG? Don't they realise players aren't horses and don't need to be led by a rope to their hitching post? The environments and graphics are good but what's the point if you can't actually explore them of your own volition. This is too much like GTA with cowboys instead of the open world exploration game it should be with actual freedom. Seriously so much work and effort into this game so I can what, hitch the horse to its post?    … Expand
  39. djball
    Jan 23, 2019
    4
    Big beautiful world, incredible lighting, smooth acting, solid story, 8/10. Then you realize..... seriously GOD AWFUL slow motion game play, broken controls, broken inventory, and utterly USELESS rpg elements. Next you're gonna ride a LOT of horse, that is actually NO FUN TO RIDE at all! The controls are horrible, I mean horrible tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap! Then you're gonna rideBig beautiful world, incredible lighting, smooth acting, solid story, 8/10. Then you realize..... seriously GOD AWFUL slow motion game play, broken controls, broken inventory, and utterly USELESS rpg elements. Next you're gonna ride a LOT of horse, that is actually NO FUN TO RIDE at all! The controls are horrible, I mean horrible tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap! Then you're gonna ride that broken horse long distance for stupid fetch/kill missions. Maybe you will search Orchids for 7 days, wow awesome hat to go with that fancy useless revolver. You can't even drop crappy weapons from your inventory, so they just clog up that frigging clumsy wheel. Simply ridiculous on so many levels for such an expensive production. Game play 0/10… Expand
  40. 36thDisciple
    Jan 24, 2019
    4
    Super slow paced and heavily scripted, with average graphics, clunky mechanics and a confusing, choresome health and stamina metering and maintenance system. I want my money back.
  41. BIGTIMEMASTER
    Nov 12, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Here's a brief description of one mission.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    P.P.S. It's necessary to eat, but it's not necessary to go to the toilet, this is strange. Waiting for patches.
  53. mcsw712
    Mar 22, 2019
    4
    This game is not even fun. At all. I'd rather just live real life. I'd rather go to work than play this game. I literally fall asleep with controller in hand, lol.
  54. Gee1981
    Jan 19, 2019
    4
    Graphics are good..well, that's it basically. Highly overrated. Red Dead redemption ONE is much much better
  55. Esshadow
    Oct 26, 2018
    4
    Just like most open world games, the novelty wears off and the world feels dead. It has nice gunplay but it gets repetitive fast and its story is its only saving grace.
  56. ImperialKnight
    Nov 26, 2022
    4
    Not sure why this game is so highly rated. It plays like a REALLY old GTA game with pretty skins layered over it. The combat system is sluggish. And the fast travel system is antiquated and doesn't respect the time of adult gamers, who may not have as much time to play games. Not to mention most of the riding around is just boring and wasting time and the side missions are just rinse ofNot sure why this game is so highly rated. It plays like a REALLY old GTA game with pretty skins layered over it. The combat system is sluggish. And the fast travel system is antiquated and doesn't respect the time of adult gamers, who may not have as much time to play games. Not to mention most of the riding around is just boring and wasting time and the side missions are just rinse of repeat of doing the same things over and over to pad time. If you hated the chase missions in GTA, congratulations, cause they're back too.

    Open world games have moved on, with games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, as well as Breath of the Wild. It's time Rockstar updated their ancient formula and keep up with the times. The fact this game is so highly rated shows how much people are blinded by the name and title rather than judging a game for what it is, an old rinse and repeat tedious formula with a really pretty skin over it.    … Expand
  57. code_for_life
    Jan 27, 2020
    4
    The game is painfully boring.

    Great graphics, but at this point being wowed from the graphics are not what I consider as a strong contender for GOTY.

    Clunky control, every good gaming design practices are buried deep down for the sake of realism, so much of that it takes realism away from me.

    I didn't feel a thing for the story.

    Over-hyped product. Period.
  58. GuybT23
    May 20, 2019
    4
    Failure. 4. This is what I think, a game that always seems on the launching pad to give great satisfactions that are always disregarded. A game play full of holes that not even a colander. Except for the graphics that are something never seen, an unprecedented overall quality and far better than any other production with detachment. The whole environment is well implemented. Music alwaysFailure. 4. This is what I think, a game that always seems on the launching pad to give great satisfactions that are always disregarded. A game play full of holes that not even a colander. Except for the graphics that are something never seen, an unprecedented overall quality and far better than any other production with detachment. The whole environment is well implemented. Music always suitable for every scene, finished the positive notes! Practically a game of hunting done badly with shootings in between. It prepares you to face situations in the smallest detail, without then anything of what they prepared you for happens. As beautiful as it is inconclusive, like a beautiful football game where everyone plays well but nobody goes to the goal. Contemplative.… Expand
  59. jcvandan
    Jul 28, 2020
    4
    I tried to play this but after 5 hours I was so frustrated with the laborious and clunky controls I couldn't stand it any longer. Controlling Arthur feels like you're in charge of a massive fridge freezer. All interactions with the world are slow and generally not fluid, or slightly buggy & janky. I really wish it wasn't like this as I can tell I could really enjoy the game if it wasn'tI tried to play this but after 5 hours I was so frustrated with the laborious and clunky controls I couldn't stand it any longer. Controlling Arthur feels like you're in charge of a massive fridge freezer. All interactions with the world are slow and generally not fluid, or slightly buggy & janky. I really wish it wasn't like this as I can tell I could really enjoy the game if it wasn't for this. As it is there is far too much to play and too little time so it was ditched.… Expand
  60. FrostyFeet97
    Jan 16, 2019
    4
    Its not a bad game but its not my cup of tea. I was expecting more from this game. The Graphics are amazing, Gameplay is okay, But some mechanics are triggering me quite well. Its not a bad game but I just dont like. I played it for about 10 hours and then stopped.
  61. pdelguy
    Feb 18, 2019
    4
    Looks good, but very slow-paced story and just a bit boring....nothing to get too excited about to be honest...It is worth playing but don't expect an amazing game as they claim it to be......it is an OK game...I traded this with 4 friends and played other games.....not even one of them made so much progress and got bored just like i did.
  62. Instalocker
    Oct 4, 2019
    4
    I didn’t even play through the end because... I was bored. There are plenty of things to do like hunting and angling and much more other things. I never played such a realistic and wonderful game. It was interesting in the beginning and I was fascinated by the visuals but after 5 hours of exploring I got bored. Now I am at 70% of the story and am tired. This would be a 97 game if it hadI didn’t even play through the end because... I was bored. There are plenty of things to do like hunting and angling and much more other things. I never played such a realistic and wonderful game. It was interesting in the beginning and I was fascinated by the visuals but after 5 hours of exploring I got bored. Now I am at 70% of the story and am tired. This would be a 97 game if it had GAMEPLAY. but it doesn’t unfortunately. At least ok a console. Now a year later the Game is going to be released on pc and I wonder how this game is going to look like on ultra settings.
    But I would not buy this game for a full price again. The whole hype around this game last year ended in disappointment for me personally. PS i did not play rdr online yet. My Experience only relates to single player story mode. Have a nice day    … Expand
  63. Lestatman
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    I'm torn with this game on some parts it's brilliant but in other ways it's tedious. The mechanics feel old and annoying as do some of the quests I felt it should have been called Red Dead Rescue instead. Trying to seletct a weapon from your horse is such a joke that the game wheel should have been redesigned. Still prefer overall the previous Red Dead as it's central character andI'm torn with this game on some parts it's brilliant but in other ways it's tedious. The mechanics feel old and annoying as do some of the quests I felt it should have been called Red Dead Rescue instead. Trying to seletct a weapon from your horse is such a joke that the game wheel should have been redesigned. Still prefer overall the previous Red Dead as it's central character and story was better done. 2018 is for me the most overhyped year in games by going with a lot of the scores games got this year.… Expand
  64. Pleisteition
    Jan 29, 2019
    4
    4/10 because of SO much wrong with this game.

    If you enjoy this game, it would be graphics and story. I hate this game to the point that i wish i didnt purchase it in the first place. First of all, the horse sucks. It looks pretty but it SUCKS. You constantly trip over rocks, crash onto trees and things dont really feel right with them horses running on the map. Especially when you    4/10 because of SO much wrong with this game.

    If you enjoy this game, it would be graphics and story.

    I hate this game to the point that i wish i didnt purchase it in the first place. First of all, the horse sucks. It looks pretty but it SUCKS. You constantly trip over rocks, crash onto trees and things dont really feel right with them horses running on the map. Especially when you have to ride them for 10-20 minutes to almost every mission pointed destination, which leads to the second biggest issues of this mediocre game. In what way it makes sense to you that fast travels are only located in towns and camps while most of the time you're nowhere near them? And why would it be fun that almost every time you go to a mission it literally takes a more than 10 minutes ride while the horse controls are so terrible that you crash and fall over every possible objects in the way. Cant take off your goddamn mind for a second with the horse things. Extremely annoying. Last but not least, the gunplay and mission freedom are so outdated and limited. If you played other open world games in 2018 or even 2017, you know what i'm saying. I dislike GTAV and i thought this would be different but what a lesson have i learned. Same terrible gunplay and limited mission freedom. You must do EXACTLY whatever the missions tell you or it fails, accurately(i wish the horses have that accuracy so it wouldnt be that pain of an arse).

    However, I must be fair, there's one thing i particularly like about this game - hunting. The hunting feels very good and i think its the only thing that makes me less angry with the game. Story is OKAY. Graphics are impressive but a good game is never about graphics.

    Totally not recommended. If you're on the fense, i suggest you wait for sale, get it at around $20.    … Expand
  65. Snowadian
    Sep 7, 2021
    4
    The game is beautiful, but the game play and its mechanics were terrible. I did not enjoy this game whatsoever. After 8 hours, I deleted it from my library. I was really looking forward to a good Western experience, but I think I got something more akin to reality, slow, dull, and short lived.
  66. MaxMad2099
    Oct 27, 2018
    4
    The feedback with the character It is not well achieved at the controls level. the complexity is good except when you sacrifice rhythm and fun.
  67. morningland
    Oct 27, 2018
    4
    This game simply has terrible, clunky controls that seriously drag down the whole experience. Moving Arthur through the world feels like walking through a swimming pool. Why, in God's name, did they need to program him to walk at a snails pace constantly? And the gun play is clunky with a poor cover system that is NOT FUN. This is a serious issue in a western game. The clear issueThis game simply has terrible, clunky controls that seriously drag down the whole experience. Moving Arthur through the world feels like walking through a swimming pool. Why, in God's name, did they need to program him to walk at a snails pace constantly? And the gun play is clunky with a poor cover system that is NOT FUN. This is a serious issue in a western game. The clear issue here is that Rockstar focused more on how the world looked rather than how it PLAYED! There are so many plain stupid decisions in the game design here. Why did they program drawing your weapon and talking to someone on the SAME BUTTON! Why? Now if you meant to simply talk to someone you end up drawing your gun and starting a fight. They were so fixated on the realism of needing to eat and brush your horse that they failed to realize that drawing your weapon on someone should represents a massive decision in the game world and should therefore be programmed in a way that it almost impossible to do by accident. With games like God of War and Spiderman delivering amazing graphics, incredibly stories AND intuitive and fun game play, this simply isn't acceptable.

    I'm going back to playing Spiderman DLC in the hopes that they patch this game up and fix it's problems    … Expand
  68. lilbagginz
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    I really appreciate the effort Rockstar put into this game. I was looking forward to spending endless hours and hours on it and was blinded by the hype.
    BUT sadly, it's not worth my precious time and money.
    Here's why: Rockstar screwed up the gameplay. It's so BORING. This game should be called Red Dead Slow Motion. Gameplay/Controls: Everything Arthur is doing, it's done so    I really appreciate the effort Rockstar put into this game. I was looking forward to spending endless hours and hours on it and was blinded by the hype.
    BUT sadly, it's not worth my precious time and money.

    Here's why: Rockstar screwed up the gameplay. It's so BORING. This game should be called Red Dead Slow Motion.

    Gameplay/Controls:
    Everything Arthur is doing, it's done so slowly. Walking like a turtle, looting is a never-ending nightmare (you need to search every corpse in the same stupid way: kneeling down, groping the body, standing up again), aiming with your rifle is like lifting weights.
    Controls are too complex and clunky, not intuitive at all. You often fight more against your controller than the enemies. Remember fighting with Aloy against a Thunderjaw? Or mashing Sigrun with Kratos? Do you feel the flow? That's perfect gameplay which you are not going to find here.

    Instead, in the very first chapter you will be riding bloody slowly behind some retards for hours and just pressing one button. Feels like horse simulator redux.

    Graphics:
    The landscape is very beautiful and populated with wildlife. It's true eye candy. BUT the faces, oh boy, look at the faces. It's not '18 standard, it's last gen. The facial expression seems like the only thing where the devs didn't care about realism. And they did include shrinking horse balls!!

    Story:
    I'm honest. I didn't make it very far. I quitted in the 2nd chapter. I was hoping for a story hook like in The Last of Us (similar case: mediocre gameplay, amaaazing story) but I was disappointed.
    The story starts with a boring prolonged tutorial containing riding, **** small talk, a little bit shooting, riding and more gossip. Your pals are so dull you can't even remember their names and they talk and talk and talk and can't stop talking.

    Conclusion:
    This game is JUST OVERHYPED. It's a real life simulation where doing tasks feel like a chore. Boring, uninspired, clunky, slow-mo gameplay. Completely off the subject: Instead of focusing upon a fluid and interesting gameplay they wasted everything for endless, negligible, synchronized dialogues. PLEASE give me my money back!    … Expand
  69. Skptkit
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    Not bad, but overhyped. Feels like a chore at some points. Graphically breathtaking. Game punishes you for not wanting to morally align as good. Gameplay...not so much. Big hat and no cattle.
  70. Ben_91
    Oct 30, 2018
    4
    What the hell is this Rockstar? Because it is not the Red Dead game that I was expecting...

    Sure the graphics are great, but just about everything else sucks. And I mean it sucks! It might have a nice polished shell on the outside with amazing graphics, but on the inside there is a lack of content and it just isn't fun. It feels more like a chore. Apart from the main story, the open    What the hell is this Rockstar? Because it is not the Red Dead game that I was expecting...

    Sure the graphics are great, but just about everything else sucks. And I mean it sucks! It might have a nice polished shell on the outside with amazing graphics, but on the inside there is a lack of content and it just isn't fun. It feels more like a chore. Apart from the main story, the open world just feels kind of empty and boring with too many mundane tasks. Having to feed your camp each day, polish your gun and collect cigarette cards is boring.

    After playing AC: Odyssey for over 130 hours during the past 3 weeks (which I loved), having to switch to RDR2 now feels like a massive step down. The whole game feels kind of slow and boring, like it is a chore. The controls and whole combat system are absolutely awful (and where it really loses me) and it clearly needs reworking, and the open world actually feels quite empty. It's just not immersive beyond the graphics. How it took them 8 years to come up with this is beyond a joke. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed with it.

    There are a number of other issues that are frustrating me - like being forced to walk around camp constantly, or the fact that the weather goes from foggy to clear in the click of a finger. Or rainy to sunny in an instant. Literally in the click of a finger. And it switches from dark to light in an instant and vice versa. Literally in the space of a second, rather than gradually changing. The bounty system is stupid as well and excessive, which becomes very frustrating very quickly. There's hardly any guns as well which really sucks. And not much to discover in the map. Looting people gets you like 40 cents, so you never have much money. There's just a lack of content in general and a lack of stuff to unlock. I wonder if Rockstar are saving it all for the online launch, when they can charge us more money for it...? Either way it's annoying.

    Sort it out Rockstar!    … Expand
  71. CitizenCane
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    After a long wait for this game, I'm now about 15 hours in and tired of the horrible gun mechanics, slow and clumsy player movement, and aimless riding around with no real objective unless you are on a mission. The hunting has degraded from the first game. Hunting deer? Only shoot one, because that's all you have room for. And take it to camp fast, because it will start to spoil. And yes,After a long wait for this game, I'm now about 15 hours in and tired of the horrible gun mechanics, slow and clumsy player movement, and aimless riding around with no real objective unless you are on a mission. The hunting has degraded from the first game. Hunting deer? Only shoot one, because that's all you have room for. And take it to camp fast, because it will start to spoil. And yes, I mean ride your horse for 10 minutes to take it to camp, and slowly, painfully walk to the butcher to donate the meat and skin, then go brush and feed your horse, get back on it, ride another 10 minutes, and shoot another deer after you go back through your weapon wheel and choose your bow again because you don't automatically keep the last weapon you used. The game is beautiful, but once you've ridden around for a while, it leaves you wanting for something to do besides more chores, setting up camp, hunting one animal at a time, or getting a wanted status for walking by the wrong person in town. I miss RDR 1, and the sad part is there would have to be a ton of patches and updates to fix this, so I suppose we can just wait another 8 years to see if Rockstar gets the next one right (if there is a next one).… Expand
  72. Vetalja83
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    it's boring as hell,too overhyped,it's not bad in terms of graphics,i played it for a week and nothing stands out,it took God of War 5 minutes to make me remember that first fight fight forever,played the first game and loved it,this is just ok game nothing more and nothing less,and i hate to watch skinning of animals,why cant i switch off that animation?my weapons and skins areit's boring as hell,too overhyped,it's not bad in terms of graphics,i played it for a week and nothing stands out,it took God of War 5 minutes to make me remember that first fight fight forever,played the first game and loved it,this is just ok game nothing more and nothing less,and i hate to watch skinning of animals,why cant i switch off that animation?my weapons and skins are disapearing all the time.… Expand
  73. Nikkibella
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    its an ok game the 10s are paid reviews this game is not a 10 there is not much to do in this game but ride on a horse and shoot people i dont like having to bath eat and sleep in this game they should let people turn them off i also dont like having to look after my horse by feeding it brushing it and patting it that also should be able to turn off gun play is gum but is to easy i hadits an ok game the 10s are paid reviews this game is not a 10 there is not much to do in this game but ride on a horse and shoot people i dont like having to bath eat and sleep in this game they should let people turn them off i also dont like having to look after my horse by feeding it brushing it and patting it that also should be able to turn off gun play is gum but is to easy i had issues when the screen went pops out its more walking in missions and by Chapter 3 you have to much money its impossible to die they need to update the game to let people turn off the Horse care and Caring for Aruther off then i will give it a 6 out of 10 until then im keeping this score… Expand
  74. Steve223
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    Amazing story/Graphics and world. But clunky mechanics and endless slow animations and chore gameplay, such as traveling back and forward between places. I could go on but to say disappointed would be an understatement, they really dropped the ball here
  75. Anton_Willows
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    I was excited when I picked this game up brand new for only (AUD)$64.. my excitement was short lived however as after dozens of hours invested, I feel.. disheartened by the whole experience.

    The story line and characters are easily forgettable and carry no emotional weigh whatsoever.. I honest don't care about any of the character in game, not a single one. The constant glitches and    I was excited when I picked this game up brand new for only (AUD)$64.. my excitement was short lived however as after dozens of hours invested, I feel.. disheartened by the whole experience.

    The story line and characters are easily forgettable and carry no emotional weigh whatsoever.. I honest don't care about any of the character in game, not a single one.

    The constant glitches and bugs are at best laughable from a game that seems to take pride in realism.

    Although of all theses problems by far the worst critic on the game itself is definitely the button mapping which clearly was designed only to frustrate players.. it's really a shame that this is the best they could come up with..

    The graphics and environment in game is sub-par to be honest especially when games like Horizon Zero Dawn look just as good despite being launch almost 10 months earlier.

    I'm simply don't understand the high 90's scores this game is a serious let down.. I find it a chore now just to do simple main story quests in the game.

    All that being said it's a sold 4/10 for my $0.02    … Expand
  76. GrumblyFun
    Nov 3, 2018
    4
    This is my first video game review on Metacritic so I apologize if what I say isn't consistent with the expected tone. After 30 hours of play-through, I can safely say Red Dead 2 is a perfect example of an over-developed game. The hair-splitting attention to detail is indeed unprecedented in modern video games and I commend the development team for their hard-work.

    But let's be honest,    This is my first video game review on Metacritic so I apologize if what I say isn't consistent with the expected tone. After 30 hours of play-through, I can safely say Red Dead 2 is a perfect example of an over-developed game. The hair-splitting attention to detail is indeed unprecedented in modern video games and I commend the development team for their hard-work.

    But let's be honest, video games aren't paintings to gaze and admire with deep-thought. Video games are about gameplay and player interaction, and Rockstar seriously dropped the ball there.

    Rockstar advertised Red Dead 2 as a successor both in spirit and narrative to the original Red Dead Redemption. Official trailers showed nail-biting train robberies, intense shoot-outs, and dynamic player environments in a seemingly limitless world to explore and engage.

    Except, the game is none of these things. Yes, the game is beautiful. Yes, the voice-acting and narrative is Oscar-worthy. But the gameplay? Sloppy. Unbalanced. Broken. Simply, not fun.

    In spite of being offered an inconceivably open-world to explore, Rockstar forces players to engage an environment ruled by a police state not unlike North Korea. Look at someone too long in Valentine? Bounty. Bump into someone? Bounty. Someone tries to rob you and you defend yourself? Bounty. Fart? Bounty.

    These bounties make it near impossible to complete missions and continue the story-line. Once killing a lawman, you can no longer surrender and are essentially banned from entering the most important and interesting areas of the game.

    Kill a few NPC and rob a horse and you'll have to spend 4-10 hours grinding away to find enough cash to pay off the bounty and play the game.

    This can't be a design flaw. After 250 million dollars in development costs, no doubt Rockstar intended the player environment to be exactly as it is.

    If you anticipate the game to play like a sequel to the first one, lower your expectations. This game plays like a job rather than something fun and interesting. Hard pass.    … Expand
  77. souledgeblade
    Nov 3, 2018
    4
    c'est d'un lent...... pff
    même les jeux atari 2600 sont plus réactif...
    c'est sur c'est beau mais franchement, aucune logique dans les touches et qu'est ce que c'est lent. même un tank et plus réactif et les gunfight .... Aucun plaisir de faire ce jeu. Autant je comprend que des personnes aiment ce jeu, mais de la a ce que les critiques de jeux vidéo mettent des notes de folies . Je    c'est d'un lent...... pff
    même les jeux atari 2600 sont plus réactif...
    c'est sur c'est beau mais franchement, aucune logique dans les touches et qu'est ce que c'est lent.
    même un tank et plus réactif et les gunfight ....
    Aucun plaisir de faire ce jeu.
    Autant je comprend que des personnes aiment ce jeu, mais de la a ce que les critiques de jeux vidéo mettent des notes de folies .
    Je ne comprend pas, les mêmes défauts serait dans un autre jeu, ça ne passeraient pas.
    Mais pour rockstar ça passe.    … Expand
  78. GabiTheRabbit
    Dec 2, 2018
    4
    One of the worst games I played lately. I'll start by saying that I didn't finish the game. I really wanted to like it, but I lost my patience after around 20 hours of forcing myself...

    I heard a lot of comments against criticism of that game, basically saying, that if you don't like the game, it's because you are cod or fortnite fan, a child who needs constant action and simplified    One of the worst games I played lately. I'll start by saying that I didn't finish the game. I really wanted to like it, but I lost my patience after around 20 hours of forcing myself...

    I heard a lot of comments against criticism of that game, basically saying, that if you don't like the game, it's because you are cod or fortnite fan, a child who needs constant action and simplified gameplay.
    I'm 30, been playing games since I was 5, growing up with nes and amiga 500. I enjoy slow paced games like dark souls, or strategy games like x-com where game's basically not moving forward unless you make a move, but red dead redemption 2 is simply casual to the point it's offensive.

    When you make a truly big game like this, when you put huge money into development, you have to target it to the masses to make your investment pay off. The way it's done with RDR2, is no different than hollywood block busters - you make a product that is visually impressive, but in the most mediocre taste possible. Must be pretty, must be easy, must be for the masses. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but true.

    Boring, slow story, awful quests. Sure - world is huge, and you often have freedom as for order in which you want to do some quests. But once you start doing them, they are very linear. Example. you'll ride 10 minutes to a place of a quest. You'll watch 2 minute cut scene. You will have to destroy some door/window than. the device to help you with that, will be standing literally next to the door. The game is open, but it tells you what to do constantly. You have freedom about where to go, but no freedom of how to deal with things. A lot of quests will force you to do boring mini games. Example - lift up the wheel holding 'up'. Now roll the wheel holding left. Now push the wheel holding 'right'. Now hit the wheel few times to attach it by pressing x.

    Gameplay. Worst part of the game. Super casual, slow and unresponsive. No skill required. No point hiding behind covers - your enemies will die of age before your character will roll his ass behind cover. Aim assistance is so strong by default, that when aiming from behind a cover, game often was pointing at the enemy I was not even aware of. Just automatically aiming at the enemy without any assistance from me. Shooting feels bad, like in all rockstar games. Even worse than shooting, is the movement. Moving your character feels like rolling a stone up the hill. When you're running and you stop all of sudden, it takes your character around second to actually stop moving. Defenders of the game will justify it with realism but that's no argument. In reality if shot at, I would run to the cover and drop on the ground in a blink of an eye, In that game it takes forever. in reality you wouldn't be able to take few gun shots on the chest, and than just eat canned peach and be like new. You can't justify clunky mechanics with realism. The game doesn't even allow you to run in a lot of places, for sake of 'realism', but it's super unrealistic in other places.

    Generally, this game is divided into riding a horse, talking and talking, cut scenes, poorly executed shooting, and mini-games. If you like playing with toys, you'll most likely enjoy that game. You can brew coffee, wash every limb of your body separately, pat your horse, feed your horse, brush your horse. You can dress up, and dress up your horse. Trim your facial hair. Basically sims. You can play the house. You can play tamagochi instead - similar experience.

    I remember reviews praising 'alive' world and side quests. I've done 4 side quests. 2 of them, were like this - one a way from one location to another, I rode for like 5 minutes, met a women who's horse died. I helped her to lift the horse (little game called 'lifting a horse' that is about pressing x button), and than rode her back to the town I was just coming from. I don't know what kind of people find this fun, I don't. Other side quest was about chasing some animal, that stole some bag from some dude (I'll spare you details to avoid spoilers). Side quests and alive world is nothing but filler.

    Advantages
    - Graphics. It's a fine game to watch, but no good game to play at all.    … Expand
  79. Yorikkillall
    Nov 5, 2018
    4
    Да игра хорошая со стороны ролеплэй, но сюжет абсолютно не зависит от тебя, сюжет абсолютно линеен и твой выбор ни на что не влияет, хотя все так гордилис этим количеством строк диалога, ХОТЯ ИХ МОЖНО БЫЛО ВОВСЕ НЕДОБАВЛЯТЬ ТАК КАК СЮЖЕТА ВОВСЕ НЕТ, я разочарован в этой игре, будь моя воля я бы вернул и деньги и игруДа игра хорошая со стороны ролеплэй, но сюжет абсолютно не зависит от тебя, сюжет абсолютно линеен и твой выбор ни на что не влияет, хотя все так гордилис этим количеством строк диалога, ХОТЯ ИХ МОЖНО БЫЛО ВОВСЕ НЕДОБАВЛЯТЬ ТАК КАК СЮЖЕТА ВОВСЕ НЕТ, я разочарован в этой игре, будь моя воля я бы вернул и деньги и игру
  80. Ave_Fenix
    Nov 7, 2018
    4
    OMG this game is not as good as RDR1, is overhyped and overrated, famboyism and marketing is real.
    Gameplay is slow and can't enjoy it that much.
    Controls are bad, a game can't have 97 rating with theses issues are you kidding me and thats not all but I have no time for this joke, not bad as some claim but not awesome either.
  81. Inconnux
    Jan 11, 2019
    4
    Very slow horse simulator... the action and story aren't bad but dammit, traveling on the worlds slowest horse is PAINFUL.
  82. Tortoise
    Nov 10, 2018
    4
    This is one of those big beautifully boring games that has 1 source of accomplishment, Realism, and it's not fun. the first 5 minutes of the game is watching a cut-scene and riding through a blizzard. The rest of the story is alright. The game is absolutely gorgeous to look at, scenery is drop dead amazing. The gun-play is meh, we are still stuck with console controllers. maybe when the pcThis is one of those big beautifully boring games that has 1 source of accomplishment, Realism, and it's not fun. the first 5 minutes of the game is watching a cut-scene and riding through a blizzard. The rest of the story is alright. The game is absolutely gorgeous to look at, scenery is drop dead amazing. The gun-play is meh, we are still stuck with console controllers. maybe when the pc release arrives ill change my mind. i think thats it, when AAA developers stop getting creative the modders will flip the game to make it more enjoyable. when gta 5 released on pc 2 years after the 360/ps3, people were enjoying it from all the exciting stuff people added. Now my copy is about to collect dust.… Expand
  83. TrondTapio
    Nov 9, 2018
    4
    Rockstar should stop pretending to be a game developer and just transfer themselves into the movie industry instead. The way missions are designed in RDR2 it isn't really a game at all but rather a somewhat interactive movie, with great emphasis on "somewhat". The player is treated like a mindless participant ushered along a prechosen path to the next cutscene, and not the main focus atRockstar should stop pretending to be a game developer and just transfer themselves into the movie industry instead. The way missions are designed in RDR2 it isn't really a game at all but rather a somewhat interactive movie, with great emphasis on "somewhat". The player is treated like a mindless participant ushered along a prechosen path to the next cutscene, and not the main focus at all. Most decisions are made for you whether you welcome them or not and the outcome of your predetermined actions is already decided beforehand. I would have paid a ticket to see this movie, but it was not worth the money buying this "game".

    Also: Plus for great graphics a world well-drafted and rich on content plus the general atmosphere, the stories and the characters, but minus for pretty much everything in regards to gameplay.

    Stop this nonsense and go make a movie already. It's obvious it's where you want to be ;)    … Expand
  84. Ryzpmnmvs
    Nov 14, 2018
    4
    Игра безусловно сделана отлично, проработанный, красивый мир, с кучей деталей, но... на этом все, кроме красивой картинки мира в игре больше ни чего нету, не смотря на ее проработанность играть в нее не возможно, она скучная, я стал засыпать после 1 часа игры, ни персонажи, ни сюжет, ни экшен, ни чего не цепляет и я лично не могу понять кого вообще эта игра может зацепить кроме лютыхИгра безусловно сделана отлично, проработанный, красивый мир, с кучей деталей, но... на этом все, кроме красивой картинки мира в игре больше ни чего нету, не смотря на ее проработанность играть в нее не возможно, она скучная, я стал засыпать после 1 часа игры, ни персонажи, ни сюжет, ни экшен, ни чего не цепляет и я лично не могу понять кого вообще эта игра может зацепить кроме лютых фанатов вестерна, она пуста не смотря на свою высокую детализацию мира, это худшее что делали Рокстар за все время!… Expand
  85. Fleeboy_C
    Nov 15, 2018
    4
    I was excited for the prequel given that I'd played the first a number of times. Unfortunately I am not impressed. The controls are old and sluggish, the loading times obscene and the game completely devoid anything you could call fun or engaging. I agree with others that RDR2 feels more like a movie you should watch than a game you can play. After an hour to install and patch, i spentI was excited for the prequel given that I'd played the first a number of times. Unfortunately I am not impressed. The controls are old and sluggish, the loading times obscene and the game completely devoid anything you could call fun or engaging. I agree with others that RDR2 feels more like a movie you should watch than a game you can play. After an hour to install and patch, i spent another hour holding X and listening to plot. When i tried to save my progress it refused (FYI the missions can be long and you cant save during) so i was forced to replay the first hour again before finally being set free. After I'd spent 3 to 4 hours having zero fun and listening to folks bang on about a bad heist I gave up. FYI Rockstar: no one ever has described the notion of getting food, changing clothes, washing yourself and your horse as "fun".

    It is however a gorgeous looking world and i suspect there's a good plot in there somewhere. Unfortunately 4 hours of not fun is enough for me Im afraid. I might pick it up again one day when its in a bargain bin and i consider picking out hats to be a fun and engaging activity.    … Expand
  86. knur
    Nov 20, 2020
    4
    I had no fun during my entire playthrough - everything felt like a chore. Controls are just terrible and make you wanna pull your hair out.
    This game requires no skill. If you find fun in pressing a button and watching an animation this may be a game for you.
    Graphics and engine features are the only good things here.
  87. whumber
    Dec 3, 2018
    4
    I was pretty excited about this game based on all the hype, but I just can't bring myself to play it any longer. To start with, the game might as well be called cowboy chore simulator 2. It seems like this game is really targeted at people that really love Euro Trucker Simulator but want more horses. This aspect is cute for the first couple hours but beyond that I just dreaded starting upI was pretty excited about this game based on all the hype, but I just can't bring myself to play it any longer. To start with, the game might as well be called cowboy chore simulator 2. It seems like this game is really targeted at people that really love Euro Trucker Simulator but want more horses. This aspect is cute for the first couple hours but beyond that I just dreaded starting up the game and I find I'm unable to play for more than 20 minutes at a time before I'm desperate to do something else. Then there's the controls. Holy crap, how did this pass QA? These are seriously the worst controls I've seen since Superman 64. Rockstar should be humiliated by this. Finally, I can't stand any of the characters. Seriously, I've never before hated the entire cast of a video game, maybe it gets better in the 2nd half of the game but unless that involves the death of every major character and an entirely new cast around the halfway point then no thanks. I can't remember ever dreading playing a game before, it seems like others really enjoy this game and that's great but for me this is one of the worst games I've ever played; I'd rather reorganize my garage than play this game again. On a positive note it's relatively pretty.… Expand
  88. proneisntsupine
    Nov 17, 2018
    4
    This game reminds me a lot of Morrowind. Not in the sense that it has a rich lore and limitless replayability, but in the sense that it feels like it was made in 2002. The movement is clunky and cumbersome. The interaction controls are painstakingly terrible. The loading screens are long and the framerate choppy. The crime and bounty system makes North Korea look like a benevolent,This game reminds me a lot of Morrowind. Not in the sense that it has a rich lore and limitless replayability, but in the sense that it feels like it was made in 2002. The movement is clunky and cumbersome. The interaction controls are painstakingly terrible. The loading screens are long and the framerate choppy. The crime and bounty system makes North Korea look like a benevolent, forgiving regime. And the honor system completely kneecaps the best (and sometimes only good) part of Rockstar games; Going on a rampage.

    I should start by saying that I haven't finished the game (and probably won't). I got to chapter 4 (compendium says I'm 45% done with the story) in the story before completely losing interest. The story so far has been uninspiring and bland, with every 'twist' being cliche and stale. The story missions feel like extended quick time events, where you fail instantly for trying to do anything but strictly follow the script. Arthur Morgan, the player character, is an absolute moron that acts like a bipolar maniac in cutscenes, with little to no consistent characterization. Dutch, the gang leader, is a complete idiot, but keeps dragging Arthur and everyone else into his hairbained schemes and messing everything up. There are multiple points in the story so far where there is no choice but to get a bounty that you have to pay yourself, which feels needlessly restrictive and kills the RPG aspect of the game.

    Crime and punishment is another glaring problem. If an NPC so much as bumps into your horse in Saint Denis, you'll instantly get charged with unarmed assault and dozens of policemen will charge, guns blazing, to their deaths over your $5 bounty. Meanwhile, you can be shot at and run over by a carriage while the police sit there twiddling there thumbs. On top of that, bounties don't go away unless you pay them. This wouldn't be a problem, if having a bounty didn't open you up to constant attacks by magical teleporting bounty hunters and effectively prohibit you from doing any sort of missions in town. On top of the bounty system, there is also the honor system. The honor system disproportionately rewards you for acting as a good Samaritan, and punishes you for acting like an outlaw. It also penalizes you for shooting back when under fire, and then again for looting the corpse of your former assailant. The biggest problem with the honor system, however, is that it gives you a long term punishment for going on a crime spree, which has historically been the best part of Rockstar games.

    The biggest problem by far, however, is the utter lack of quality of life features present in RDR2. Apparently, at some point, somebody at Rockstar decided that immersion meant utter lack of QOL features. Movement is slow, and requires stamina that must be refilled manually through eating and sleeping (there are also long term debuffs for not regularly eating). The same applies to your horse, with the added annoyance that galloping requires you to tap X, thus seriously hampering the players ability to control the camera. When in buildings or your camp, you cannot run, and are instead required to walk at a geriatric pace until you cross the area threshold and can return to your still slow but not as slow running speed. There is no map-accessed fast travel, with the only ways to fast travel being from town to town with trains and coaches, or via your a map in your camp. Getting back to the camp is often a chore, in which you are in a constant battle with your horse to not plow head long into a nearby tree. The slow movement is made worse by the sheer amount of open space to cover in the world. Further QOL issues include only being able to hunt one large animal at a time, your weapons automatically unequipping when you get on your horse, and your ammo automatically reverting to standard.

    Now for the positives. Although the world has a lot of empty space, it is very expansive, with a wide variety of environments and a lot of NPCs, flavorless as the may be. The level of detail is incredible, with your clothes carrying over dirt and blood until you bathe or rest at camp. If you interact with NPCs at a homestead, you can return later and see actual impacts of what you did to them (if you shoot someone in the leg and come back, they may have a crutch).

    Overall, there's some really great potential in this game that is handicapped by some terrible gameplay design decisions, a poor story with bad characters, and technical limitations of the Playstation    … Expand
  89. gablin
    Nov 20, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. People who are rating this 9-10 are out of their damn minds.

    Controls are janky and awkward with cover fire functions being clunky during intense firefights that require you to move from cover to cover seamlessly. The AI is quite stupid. And the rules of the world are heavily skewed against you in an infuriating way. A man shoots you? You knock him out, cool you're wanted for murder. The AI is clumsy and tend to blame you for crimes including crimes other AI commit right in front of the supposed witness. On top of all that, they are all knowing when it comes to actual crime and unless you wear a mask, somehow complete strangers will identify your exact name.

    That's not even the worst part. The worst part is the story.

    Lazy, repetitive story. Nobody in their right mind would follow Dutch throughout the entire campaign. It literally makes no sense and all loyalty the characters supposedly have are never established so the player doesn't understand or feel what they feel. Nothing goes right since day 1, why would anyone believe Arthur's gang holds Dutch in such high esteem? Dutch keeps saying the same lines over and over for 5 chapters "this is the last score", "this is the last time", Jesus I wish Rockstar had a shoot yourself button in this game. I can't even count how many times I heard that line. The effect, is that you aren't following the mentality of the protagonist Arthur's disillusionment of Dutch because it's been painful clear he's a moron since chapter 1. It's like watching your stupid friend take 5 days to realize 1+1=2. Maybe somebody out they considers that riveting storytelling, but what makes good stories memorable are the ones where you are mentally in the character's mind. And Rockstar made that damn near impossible. The writing is so spectacularly bad, it's almost impressive. The fact that they have the audacity to make the player sit through endless chapters of the same moronic characters doing the same moronic things, saying the same moronic lines over and over again only in different locations is crazy. And the fact nobody seemed to notice or mind is pretty amazing.

    The game itself is beautiful, and the small bits in the actual open world are great. In fact, do yourself a favor and don't play the story. just roam the world, explore and stay in chapter 1 because it's just irritating disappointment from then on if you follow the story.

    If you do follow the story, just play until chapter 4 and watch the rest on youtube. I'm not sure what happened around chapter 5, did Rockstar just throw in the towel and give the game to another studio? Whoever worked on the last 2 chapters, deserves to be fired it was so bad. Felt like a dumber version of Far Cry for a good 2 hours.

    Don't let the good work of the artists trick you into thinking the core content of the game is actually any good. The story should have been shorter and tighter instead of the meandering and meaningless journey it actually is. A polished turd is still a turd.    … Expand
  90. evildave333
    Nov 28, 2018
    4
    Rockstar have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... I absolutely adored the last red dead game completing it several times, this title has lost its way... The new character is fairly anonymous, and the gameplay has several critical flaws. It is cumbersome and slow to play, thus tasks in the game become a chore rather than a pleasure. It breaks down to 5% shooting 10% cutRockstar have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... I absolutely adored the last red dead game completing it several times, this title has lost its way... The new character is fairly anonymous, and the gameplay has several critical flaws. It is cumbersome and slow to play, thus tasks in the game become a chore rather than a pleasure. It breaks down to 5% shooting 10% cut scenes and 85% riding very slowly across a beautiful / massive map. The shooting is too easy, and horse riding ruined by a stamina bar that stops you having a good gallop (unless you want to hit x repeatedly, which on such a giant map is annoying). Accessing the weapons/items is a complete mess, as is looting which takes ages. Even in the menus the game requires you to hold a button 3 seconds rather than press it the slowness pervades everywhere, and its deeply irritating. The game is so easy that there is no satisfaction to playing it. Once complete you are left with a beautiful sandbox with no toys in it. Buyer beware this is flawed. I really wanted to enjoy this game, but it left me swearing and frustrated.… Expand
  91. nicknicknick
    Dec 6, 2018
    4
    RDR2 is incredibly gorgeous and a technical marvel but I really didn't have very much fun with it. I logged over 60 hours and I played through the main story- I feel like of those 60 hours I probably had fun for less than 5 of them. If you had asked my opinion around the 10 hour mark I probably would have given the game a near perfect score. But as the game kept going, and going, and goingRDR2 is incredibly gorgeous and a technical marvel but I really didn't have very much fun with it. I logged over 60 hours and I played through the main story- I feel like of those 60 hours I probably had fun for less than 5 of them. If you had asked my opinion around the 10 hour mark I probably would have given the game a near perfect score. But as the game kept going, and going, and going I found myself becoming progressively more annoyed by the clunky mechanics and repetitive mission formula. The gunfights happen frequently and they all feel exactly the same. There's no progression in the mechanics and the enemies never change. The story mode gives you plenty of money so there's no real reason to do the side quests, plus there's really nothing worth buying anyway. I wish I had never bought multiple guns because all they do is take up inventory slots and make switching between them a chore.

    It's hard for me to give the game a bad score because it's such an impressive open world- but really it wasn't much fun and my 60 hours would have been better spent doing something productive.    … Expand
  92. Sandiox
    Dec 21, 2018
    4
    10/10 graphics but very boring game idk how this game hit 97 points by critics
  93. r4don-bode
    Dec 26, 2018
    4
    Tedious and boring, I just gave up in 60% completition... Beware for looooong hours crashing 'x' in this horse hiding simulator... Just Hated...
  94. TheACCName
    Jan 3, 2019
    4
    A good single player but, tis is only a part of the game: The online (Red Dead Online) game feels like a mobile game, like a pay to win game. I won't buy it again.
  95. gaetanolamarca
    Jan 10, 2019
    4
    una noia eterna per spostarti !!!
    attenzione ai dettagli massimo realismo e poi gli alieni e i vampiri ???
    è gta coi cavalli !!!!
    nelle missioni puoi uccidere senza ripercussioni, fori missione se schiacci uno scoiattolo vai alla forca !!!

    giudizio : una ferrari a gpl
  96. timewasterx3
    Feb 23, 2019
    4
    I created an account just so I could cast my vote for this game. As such, I won't repeat what has been said here ad nauseum except that what a disappointment this game is to play. I remember having so much fun just goofing off in the original RDR, but the fun factor has been greatly diminished in RDR2 with the broken bounty system and the extreme micromanagement--don't forget to pet yourI created an account just so I could cast my vote for this game. As such, I won't repeat what has been said here ad nauseum except that what a disappointment this game is to play. I remember having so much fun just goofing off in the original RDR, but the fun factor has been greatly diminished in RDR2 with the broken bounty system and the extreme micromanagement--don't forget to pet your horse every so often. Gimme a break.

    But yeah, the graphics sure are stunning--probably the best I've ever seen. That alone accounts for the high score of 4.    … Expand
  97. MrTrusty
    Jan 12, 2019
    4
    This is just a long and tedious game of follow the leader on your horse while being forced to listen to long conversations about details/characters that you'll quickly lose interest in. About half way through you'll be mashing the button to try and make your horse go faster and skipping the lengthy and boring cut scenes just to get the game over with. Free roaming around causing troubleThis is just a long and tedious game of follow the leader on your horse while being forced to listen to long conversations about details/characters that you'll quickly lose interest in. About half way through you'll be mashing the button to try and make your horse go faster and skipping the lengthy and boring cut scenes just to get the game over with. Free roaming around causing trouble is fun but every mission starts with a long ride across the map and the afterward cut scene takes you as far away as possible from the start of the next mission resulting in more endless rides across the map. The game had potential but the more I played it the less fun it was and the more I dreaded trying to finish the game. Rent or borrow if possible, but skip the purchase.… Expand
  98. Bujikan92
    Jan 14, 2019
    4
    Controls are awful and movements are clunky. Mashing X to ride your horse is extremely annoying (same for running on foot), the button for interacting with things and people is the same for aim which will get you in a huge mess with the town people. The police is just out right massively overly aggressive and ruins everything.
    Too much micro managing.
    You have to rely on the auto-aim    Controls are awful and movements are clunky. Mashing X to ride your horse is extremely annoying (same for running on foot), the button for interacting with things and people is the same for aim which will get you in a huge mess with the town people. The police is just out right massively overly aggressive and ruins everything.
    Too much micro managing.
    You have to rely on the auto-aim because aiming yourself is broken.
    Worst of all, the multiplayer is not worth spending any time on and is structure simply to facilitate microtransactions. Micro transactions is the entire focus and purpose of the multiplayer.    … Expand
  99. GundamGod
    Feb 2, 2019
    4
    Game story is really not that great and lengthy and not worth my 60 dollars, just got it mainly for the online and its buggy has hell. Servers are super bad half the time when someone shoots at you and misses there shot but somehow you see blood in mid air saying they hit you type of bad servers where people are not always were they are. Some people use this bad servers to exploit peopleGame story is really not that great and lengthy and not worth my 60 dollars, just got it mainly for the online and its buggy has hell. Servers are super bad half the time when someone shoots at you and misses there shot but somehow you see blood in mid air saying they hit you type of bad servers where people are not always were they are. Some people use this bad servers to exploit people with average wifi and you dont need the best wifi because its all the same. Tested it on a much bigger wifi and a low one and game play is the same with such bad servers. They say they fixed server or game crashes but they still have not. They are thinking about the money first before the people. It has a lot of fake reviews/ people they payed to rate it good. High ratings should be flawless with constant updates. As of right now they are going to take months which could be for them 2-5 months just to release the game update that should bring out the game from beta but not promising to fix the servers. Out of all the online i played there are about 2 people for like showdowns who lag all over and everyone else are not. Most of the reviews are form kids who dont know a good game from a bad one that buggy or they are the ones abusing the bugs. There are some glitches that are not fix ether and hate when im running buy and get killed by a guy who is under the ground at most of the docks or in walls where you cant fight back. Could give a list of names of people who did it to me but they wont do nothing. As of right now they should make online separate and charge 5 dollars for it since its to bad. They are focusing on other games than this one and only feels like 1 person working on the game why its taking so long. If you knew your going to make an online wouldn't you make the online when your close to being done, this is what makes it one big joke that makes it worst than a lot of games. Supposed to get new cloths in game like weeks ago and then they pushed it back to months. As in 2-5months. Then they will start on dlc.… Expand
  100. Shpargell
    Feb 23, 2019
    4
    I won't repeat what has been said already about the controls, clunky mechanics, chore like gameplay, generally boring, insane bounty system etc.

    What I have not read is how badly this game suffers with a lack of any kind of motivation system or character development. You are given everything you need from the beginning and do not develop after this point. All the weapons are essentially    I won't repeat what has been said already about the controls, clunky mechanics, chore like gameplay, generally boring, insane bounty system etc.

    What I have not read is how badly this game suffers with a lack of any kind of motivation system or character development. You are given everything you need from the beginning and do not develop after this point. All the weapons are essentially the same and the upgrades are extremely limited. There is little to no point in doing anything. No point in doing any of the side activities as there are no decent rewards that make the game any more enjoyable. Where are the special weapons? Perks? Infinite ammo? Enhanced abilities? Anything at all besides slightly increased cores which are meaningless seeing as you have a thousand healing items on you at all times anyway. Besides advancing the story there is no reason to invest time into this game, it simply disappears down a black hole. When you can have the exact same experience with a game that you can have watching it on YouTube, you know something is very wrong.

    Another personal gripe is the lack of enemy variety. It's only ever guys with guns and a couple of wild animals. I get that it is wild west realism but there is no requirement to approach any situation differently. All shootouts always play out in the same way (and the shooting is horrible). Where are the heavy guys or wagons with Gatling guns or steam powered giant spiders? It's all just so tedious and uninspired.

    Other people have already written about the multitude of things wrong with this game better than I ever could so I will conclude with this: RDR2 is the gaming equivalent of apple Hubba bubba. Great for that first fleeting hit and very quickly dull and disappointing. The praise this game has received is nothing short of baffling and a sad indication of the wider population's inability to think independently or critically.    … Expand
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#1 Best PS4 Game of 2018
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Universal acclaim - based on 99 Critic Reviews

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