Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. Bedfols
    Feb 7, 2021
    10
    It's the best game I've ever played in my life.
    The best atmosphere.
    The best scenery.
    The best graphics.
    The best gameplay.
    I have no words how to describe this masterpiece. It's on a high Rockstar level.
    12/10
  2. TheDazPaz
    Feb 6, 2021
    9
    A storytelling masterpeice, I love this game and you should to, the only reason it doesn't get a perfect score is due to the lackluster multiplayer, but the real draw here is the story.
  3. Wanderrr
    Feb 6, 2021
    10
    Una obra maestra sin precedentes. El juego se enfoca en ti, en como manejas a Arthur en un mundo tan vivo y tan profundo como la realidad misma.
    Lo positivo:
    - Una historia genial y emotiva. - Un ambicioso mundo abierto lleno de secretos. - Un ritmo adecuado para una historia que pretende contarse de manera lenta. - Belleza grafica en todos los aspectos. - Inteligencia artificial    Una obra maestra sin precedentes. El juego se enfoca en ti, en como manejas a Arthur en un mundo tan vivo y tan profundo como la realidad misma.
    Lo positivo:
    - Una historia genial y emotiva.
    - Un ambicioso mundo abierto lleno de secretos.
    - Un ritmo adecuado para una historia que pretende contarse de manera lenta.
    - Belleza grafica en todos los aspectos.
    - Inteligencia artificial superior a todo lo visto en cualquier otro juego de la generacion.
    - Personajes profundos y trágicos, Arthur Morgan es perfectamente el mejor personaje de Rockstar con muchísima diferencia.
    - Cargadísimo de detalles muy realistas.
    - Completa fidelidad al Western.
    - Un epilogo emocionante y memorable.
    -Una banda sonora excelentisima.
    -Una ambientación completamente inmersiva.

    Lo negativo:
    - Una jugabilidad poco inspirada.    … Expand
  4. Pokemonmaster3
    Feb 5, 2021
    2
    Good game, but a ton of glitches. Moonshine wagons randomly disappear. Fix this rockstar. Very bad.
  5. tripled24
    Feb 1, 2021
    10
    Unbelievably detailed world with surprisingly smart NPCs that bring the world to life. A slow burn of a game but once you get immersed in the world its quite captivating. The only other games i put in its class the past decade are BOTW and Witcher 3.
  6. 5ept
    Feb 1, 2021
    10
    Best game i've ever played. Must play. Literally cried at the end. Everything from gameplay to the story is everything is amazing.
  7. HappySpaceInvad
    Feb 1, 2021
    6
    Let’s get what this game gets right out of the way first: the visuals. This game defies belief... especially if playing on a proper HDR screen. The attention to detail in the animation, the weather effects and particularly the mud and snow effects are like nothing else in gaming. Although it’s far from perfect... I’ll come back to this. The music and sound effects are alsoLet’s get what this game gets right out of the way first: the visuals. This game defies belief... especially if playing on a proper HDR screen. The attention to detail in the animation, the weather effects and particularly the mud and snow effects are like nothing else in gaming. Although it’s far from perfect... I’ll come back to this. The music and sound effects are also incredible... just take the noise your horse’s hooves make on the various different surfaces. A lot of effort went into that. The surround sound placement is possibly the best I’ve seen in a PS4 game.

    Now the bad... the user interface and controls of this game are without doubt the most confusing and badly designed I’ve ever encountered... and bear in mind that I play (and have no problem with) Elite Dangerous on the PS4. Let me give you just 4 examples (but there are loads more).

    Example 1: To bring up the weapon/item wheel, you hold L1, then hold a direction with the right joystick, then release L1 while still holding that direction. The problem is that the right joystick moves the camera after exiting the weapon wheel, which is irritating if what you were wanting to do was switch weapons.

    Example 2: Selecting certain weapons involves holding L1 to bring up the wheel, holding the right joystick in a direction to select a category, then pressing L2 or R2 to cycle through those choices.

    Example 3: Quick draw... you’re told to gently hold the R2 button until a meter rises to a certain level... except the meter is not very obvious. I’ve not looked this up on the Internet yet, but after 3 or 4 quick draws... I have no idea what meter they’re talking about, but the screen also turns yellow, so I wait for that to happen before fully depressing R2, and then maybe spamming R2 a few more times. And this seems to work! But it’s very likely not what you’re supposed to do. Each quick draw seems to have its own rules as to what a successful outcome should be.

    Example 4. Cinematic View... you hold down a button (the touchpad on PS4) to initiate cinematic mode, and are told to hold the 'X' button to continue moving. But you're then told R3 will change camera angles. With your thumb already on 'X', how exactly are you supposed to do that?

    And these are just part of the “standard“ controls - you also get completely different ad hoc controls for things like changing a wheel on a wagon. What it reminds me of most is those awful David Cage games. It’s all horrendously confusing. If you’re playing every day, then you do eventually get used to it, but if you stop playing this game for more than a week, getting back into it is gruelling.

    The story isn't terribly interesting, the characters are mostly two-dimensional stereotypes and the dialogue's the typical Rockstar fare... what you'd expect a teenager to write after watching a bunch of Tarantino/Scorcese movies.

    Also disappointing is the relative lack of interactivity. So much of the main story is effectively "on rails", with you as little more than a bystander. In one mission, you have to rescue a particularly unpleasant person from jail or else he will hang. There's no option to not reduce him and simply watch him hang. In another mission, someone gives you a hand-drawn map showing clues where to find some treasure... but as soon as you put the map away, the game gives you the location of the treasure on your main map anyway, so there's no puzzle to solve... you just follow where the game tells you to go. How patronising.

    Back to those visuals... good as they are, they’re far from perfect. The number of times your main character clips through objects (e.g. when sitting on a train or tram seat)... given the attention to detail elsewhere, this feels sloppy. First time I encountered the palaeontologist lady, she was clipping through the scenery too... and the first time I visited the “fence” in Emerald Farm, his entire shop counter was invisible, save for a candlestick floating in the air in front of him. One of the most common in-game sequences is where you sit down on your bed to take a nap... and your gun holster clips through the bed. NPCs commonly get stuck on scenery. And this is in July 2020... why have these things not been patched? This is Elder Scrolls levels of bugs.

    So, on the one hand, you have this absurd attention to details that don’t really matter... and on the other you have areas (UI and gameplay consistency) that do matter neglected entirely. When you consider the punishing hours the developers reported put into this... well it shows that “crunch“ merely delivers quantity rather than quality.

    What bewilders me still is the ludicrously high review scores the game got... but I put this down to craven sycophancy in the gaming press, combined with a similar attitude to rushing out material to meet a deadline    … Expand
  8. Thefeeling420
    Jan 31, 2021
    10
    I really loved this game. It was amazing. The graphics are some of the best I have ever seen.
  9. Jogavera
    Dec 20, 2020
    0
    É um simulador de cavalo com a mesma jogabilidade do gta. a mesma dinamica de missões 5 min de cavalgadas por 3 min de ação durante 100 horas de gameplay.
  10. Tuoppi
    Jan 30, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After the first four chapters I was pretty happy with it although still frustrated with the poor controls and time wasters like skinning animations, gun cleaning and bathing. But with chapters 5 and 6 the game loses me totally aside from actually wanting to help the indians. I know rockstar doesn’t make RPG's but the way these games take the control from the player just so it can take the story in the direction it wants is infuriating. Why is there a moral system if it doesn’t impact the story other than some characters calling you a psycho if you go "all evil"?

    The problem for me is that Rockstar seems to want to make interactive movies. And that’s fine. But when I want to watch a movie, I'll watch a movie. When I want to play a game, I like to play not watch long cut scenes and/or listen endless expository dialogue when travelling to a mission that is pretty much on rails. Leave your horse here, go there, use that path, don’t kill that guy... or the mission doesn’t progress or fails. Most of the main missions end in a shoot-out and that's fine too. But even then, you're often told to follow a certain path.

    As for the story... This part of rockstar games is the most overrated part. GTA-series especially but also this game are full of genre cliches and predictable as hell. Even though I haven’t played the first RDR and didn’t even know this game was prequel I could see pretty much from the start where it's headed. Nothing in the story surprised me. Dutch was so full of BS from the start and Micah was so obvious traitor that he might as well had neon sign above his head. There is some interesting side content but main story just gets more boring and predictable with every chapter. Most of all it's really frustrating to listen to Dutch BS:ing towards the end when the game forces you to follow him regardless. GTA 5 story had much the same problems but it isn’t this long and there for doesn’t waste the players time as much. So in my opinion the writing in rockstars games isn’t nearly as good as people say or they themselves think! RDR 2 isn’t a masterpiece or a "work of art". It's pretty good game with rigid gameplay and one that overstays its welcome.    … Expand
  11. HoloConch
    Jan 30, 2021
    9
    Amazing Game, the story is phenomenal, the combat is great, and the depth of the world is endless. It is hands down the most realistic and immersive game made to date.
  12. Frost_Cube
    Jan 30, 2021
    8
    I'll start off by saying it's impossible to take game reviewers serious these days. Who are these people? A game rated at 97 should be so groundbreaking and awesome - so flawless and polished - whoever made it deserves to be deified. At that rating we're talking wonders of the world - something only the gods could do better - an event of historical proportions.
  13. engvmorqan
    Jan 30, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game is an absolute masterpiece. The open world is the most alive open world I've ever seen. When i finished the game i felt like my best friend died and i couldn't stop crying. im saying that again, this game is a masterpiece.… Expand
  14. LEGENDS_TEKATOK
    Jan 30, 2021
    10
    Solo para verdaderos fans de Rockstar 10000/10. Este juego es completamente increíble no sólo por su apartado gráfico si no por todas las posibilidades que te da.
  15. stefab
    Jan 29, 2021
    10
    What a masterpiece, tells the story of the breakdown of a family in the form of the Van der Linde gang. The team was interested in exploring the story of why the gang fell apart, as frequently mentioned in the first game, rockstars best game so far
  16. Brunoprado
    Jan 29, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Muito bom muito bom muito bom muito bom muito bom muito bom muito bom muito bom… Expand
  17. Albacrack
    Jan 28, 2021
    9
    la mejor historia western que sera contada en algun videojuego, sin duda tiene los personajes mas desarrollados que se haya visto antes el juego en si tiene muchos elementos, lo que lo hace muy basto y lleno de posiblidades extra despues de la campaña principal, no tiene uno de los mejores final pero lo recompenssa con toda la historia que el juego hace y como dutch se va transformandola mejor historia western que sera contada en algun videojuego, sin duda tiene los personajes mas desarrollados que se haya visto antes el juego en si tiene muchos elementos, lo que lo hace muy basto y lleno de posiblidades extra despues de la campaña principal, no tiene uno de los mejores final pero lo recompenssa con toda la historia que el juego hace y como dutch se va transformando hasta que vemos como termina siendo.… Expand
  18. hectorin3009
    Jan 28, 2021
    10
    Una joya de los videojuegos una obra maestra debio ganar el goty del 2018 si o si y no god od tsuma
  19. Lenny_Summer
    Jan 28, 2021
    10
    BEST MUST PLAY GAMES. This games have the best detail in game i ever see
    Unfortunately this games UNDERRATED IN MY COUNTRY INDONESIA
    Indonesia stuck in GTA 5 and GTA SA
    Back to RDR2
    This games make me laugh sad and mad
    YOU must play this game
    Ok bye i want to find gavin
  20. Namikaze_D
    Jan 28, 2021
    0
    Это вторая игра на моей жизни от которой меня постоянно клонит в сон. Настолько скучной игры я давно не видел. Я ее больше года не могу пройти. Дропал уже 3 раза.Какой смысл от красивого мира,если он абсолютно пустой. Изредка встречающиеся активности из разряда поговори/убей совершенно неинтересны. Часами приходится скакать по миру и это через какое-то время становится просто невыносимо.Это вторая игра на моей жизни от которой меня постоянно клонит в сон. Настолько скучной игры я давно не видел. Я ее больше года не могу пройти. Дропал уже 3 раза.Какой смысл от красивого мира,если он абсолютно пустой. Изредка встречающиеся активности из разряда поговори/убей совершенно неинтересны. Часами приходится скакать по миру и это через какое-то время становится просто невыносимо. Настолько душно становится,что словами не передать.Это симулятор наездника,а не РДР2. Я за год еле как осилил часов 20-25 игры,но сюжета я в глаза не видел. Настолько унылое повествование просто вообразить сложно. За эти 20 часов по сюжету не произошло вообще ничего. НОЛЬ! ЗИРО! Абсолютно ничего! Смысл от такой проработки по технической части,если со всем остальным все плохо? Да даже по технической части есть вопросы. Как то раз искал цирюльника. На дворе ночь, подбегаю и вижу, что он стоит прямо за дверь, но дверь не открыть. Он так и простоял до утра у двери и лишь затем открыл свою лавку) Полнейший бред) Часто текстуры проходят сквозь друг друга. Банально, когда Артур садится на лошадь это видно. "Полиция" и пальцем не пошевелит, когда тебя убивают, но стоит тебе дать сдачи, то тебе кранты. Прекрасная проработка)

    За отсутствие русской озвучки отдельный минус. Иногда нужно скакать, стрелять, читать субтитры, успеть что-то понять или понять что от тебя хотят и ещё при этом как-то восхищаться миром и детялами) Это же полный бред. Некоторые персонажи болтают настолько быстро, что даже субтитры прочесть не успеть, а в пылу сражения просто забей.

    В эту игру просто скучно играть. Даже забагованный киберпанк наголову выше, чем этот апофеоз уныния. Сюжет и геймплей вот что важно, а не красивый мир и проработка деталей. В этой игре ни сюжета, ни геймплея. Эта игра для тех кто просто любит большие, красивые и проработанные миры. Те кто будет в восторге от дотошной проработки всех деталей. Кому интересно просто медитативно путешествовать по миру. Я лично засыпаю от уныния. Все однообразно и пресно. Скучнейшая игра на моей памяти. Скука=плохая игра. Жаль каждой копейки потраченной на игру. Советую игру лишь диким погруженцам в миры. Кому от игр нужно больше чем красивая картинка проходите мимо. Сюжет там рудиментарный (пришлось смотреть кратко на Ютубе).    … Expand
  21. WATCHMANGOD
    Jan 28, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Очень крутой, детализированный мир дикого запада который навсегда оставил млед в памяти… Expand
  22. dylieboi69
    Jan 27, 2021
    10
    It's every bit as good as the first game, if not better! I love the gameplay, it's insanely beautiful to look at, and the story was endlessly compelling. If you want a top notch western simulator, you can't ask for better than this!
  23. Curtis_Gentle
    Jan 26, 2021
    10
    Шедевр поколения, игра десятилетия, даже не знаю какими ещё синонимами ее осыпать.
    Ведьмак и Rdr2- это те игры, что движут гейминдустрию вперед. Сценаристам отдельное спасибо.
  24. Nightmen55
    Jan 25, 2021
    10
    Прекрасная игра. С шикарным юмором и геймплеем, графикой и. Т.д
  25. diegorper
    Jan 23, 2021
    10
    "Unbelievable" it's the best word I found to define this masterpiece. Simply the best game ever made.
  26. mulpe
    Jan 23, 2021
    1
    endeless unskippable cutscenes and intros... sorry for the low score, but wtf let me play the f***** game, 3 hours of riding in the frakking snow.... comon....
  27. Night_rider
    Jan 23, 2021
    10
    THE.BEST.GAME.EVER. Perfect story and wonderful character building! Beautiful open world! The only video game story that touched my emotions so much! I ADORE it! Thank you, Rockstar! A masterpiece!!!
  28. DecadeReviews
    Jan 23, 2021
    10
    Graphics - 10/10
    Story - 10/10
    Variety of enemies - 9/10
    Game's length - 10/10
    Gameplay - 9/10
    Variety of weapons - 10/10
    General world design - 10/10
    Fun factor - 9/10
    How many times i have finished it - 2
    Where does it stand in my top "1000 video games of all time" list - 4
  29. NukeTv
    Jan 23, 2021
    4
    Au delà de l'aspect technique, ce jeu est nul. Ce n'est même pas un jeu vidéo, c'est un film interactif. La physique du personnage est atroce, la lenteur est déconcertante, la mécanique de shoot est nulle, la liberté est inexistante ce qui est un comble pour un monde ouvert, le fait qu'on puisse passer les missions ou les pnj qui agissent à votre place est une insulte au jeu vidéo. LeAu delà de l'aspect technique, ce jeu est nul. Ce n'est même pas un jeu vidéo, c'est un film interactif. La physique du personnage est atroce, la lenteur est déconcertante, la mécanique de shoot est nulle, la liberté est inexistante ce qui est un comble pour un monde ouvert, le fait qu'on puisse passer les missions ou les pnj qui agissent à votre place est une insulte au jeu vidéo. Le craft du camp est juste une blague. Le scénario est chiant et prétentieux. Sans parler du mode online qui est inutile. Chasser et pêcher ne servent à rien alors qu'on nous vend un cowboy simulator. Donc quitte à être extrémiste, il aurait fallu inclure des mécaniques de survie. Ce jeu est juste une belle carte postale pour casu.… Expand
  30. Anonymous699
    Jan 23, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Red dead redemption 2 was the best game experience that I have in my life the game was so natural and story was good but I’m sad about that when Arthur Morgan died but I really like that voice actor his name was rogger Clark I like him… Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#1 Best PS4 Game of 2018
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#2 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2018
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#2 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2018

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Metascore
97

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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