Red Dead Redemption 2

 PlayStation 4
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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. CianGargan
    Mar 14, 2019
    10
    It's a great game that you can play for over 100 hours. The story and graphics are amazing. There is always something to do.
  2. BarelyLewd
    Mar 13, 2019
    9
    Not gonna write allot everyone in the world has played this game, so everyone already knows everything there is to know about this game, so all just give my one and only problem with the game which is the online, if Red Dead online wasn't terrible this game woulda got a 10/10 but Rockstar got too greedy.
  3. Bjorncloud
    Mar 12, 2019
    10
    Story 10/10- I love the story in this game and the way it is told. You get a really good sense of all the characters and you get to go through a hell of a lot with them. At just about any point in the game you actually care about what happens to them or at least I did. By the end of the game you feel like you actually had one hell of an experience and I think few games can top that.Story 10/10- I love the story in this game and the way it is told. You get a really good sense of all the characters and you get to go through a hell of a lot with them. At just about any point in the game you actually care about what happens to them or at least I did. By the end of the game you feel like you actually had one hell of an experience and I think few games can top that.

    Gameplay 9.0/10 - I absolutely love the gameplay, but there are some things they did that are very annoying. They wanted the game to feel very deliberate and they do this by making things go slowly. You need to actually travel around for the most part-fast travel is hardly a fast travel. You have to be in camp and it will take you somewhere, but you need to trek it back to base again. This is great at times since the world is so amazing, but I just wish there was some kind of fast travel towards the end of the game. Not everyone has 1000000 hours to run around the world map.

    Another issue is with hunting. It can be very hard to see certain animals and hard to hit em. Some of em aren't too bad, but smaller critters can be a nightmare. The other issue is with having to haul large animals back to a specific NPC one at a time....this is such a drag. I know it is more realistic, but you have to set boundaries with realism in a video game. Sometimes things are better off not being real. Think about if you got shot once in the game and you were dead-now that wouldn't be very fun, but it is a lot more realistic.

    The gunplay is great for the most part but also a hassle with switching weapons and the game constantly putting them back on your horse. This was a minor annoyance, but as the game went on it was like a small itch that you just can't scratch. On top of that on horseback it can be hard as hell to aim, so you will be using your dead eye a lot.

    Overall: 9.8/10 I love this game and I highly recommend it. It is slow and it is deliberate, but it is worth it. If you have low patience levels though, don't even bother because you wont make it far. I do wish they would change the damn weapons holding system and the way animal skins are kept, but there isn't a lot else I would change. Go play it! Then play the other ones.    … Expand
  4. Redstarski_2
    Mar 12, 2019
    5
    Great graphics does not a great game make. There is no argument about the visual aspects of the game, they are stunning. The story line for the first person actually makes some sense, the events are plausible. It is great value for a single person game. The problem though is it is NOT a first person game, it has an online game as well. This is where the game is flawed, the online is stillGreat graphics does not a great game make. There is no argument about the visual aspects of the game, they are stunning. The story line for the first person actually makes some sense, the events are plausible. It is great value for a single person game. The problem though is it is NOT a first person game, it has an online game as well. This is where the game is flawed, the online is still in beta after several months and there is no way to fairly evaluate all aspects of the game. Buy it for the first person game, avoid the online until the beta period ends. That is why I rated it at 50, the online game is not playable yet.… Expand
  5. Riisu
    Mar 12, 2019
    7
    The story / campaign is absolutely brilliant with a huge amount of side quests and unmarked quests too. However, it all falls apart in the multiplayer. While the main story kept me wanting to come back day after day to play it, and even playing through a second time straight after i finished the 1st run. The multiplayer was a chore to play and boring.
    Overall.... definitely worth buying    The story / campaign is absolutely brilliant with a huge amount of side quests and unmarked quests too. However, it all falls apart in the multiplayer. While the main story kept me wanting to come back day after day to play it, and even playing through a second time straight after i finished the 1st run. The multiplayer was a chore to play and boring.
    Overall.... definitely worth buying for the story, but don't get too excited for the multiplayer.    … Expand
  6. DogeWowIsBack
    Mar 11, 2019
    4
    You know the game's gonna be great when majority of positive reviews are basically people praising the game for minor details such as size of horse genitals.
    The game starts slowly, while playing you'll realise how slow and dragged on the game is, game takes about 20 hours to finish, but let's be real for a second, if it wasn't so slow anyone could finish it in less than 10 hours.
    The    You know the game's gonna be great when majority of positive reviews are basically people praising the game for minor details such as size of horse genitals.
    The game starts slowly, while playing you'll realise how slow and dragged on the game is, game takes about 20 hours to finish, but let's be real for a second, if it wasn't so slow anyone could finish it in less than 10 hours.
    The story is nothing special, basically Red Dead Redemption 1.5.
    People seem to praise graphics but they're just blurry.
    Hype over actual content and quality of the game, that's basically all Rockstar games made after GTA IV.    … Expand
  7. WizardOfCoke
    Mar 11, 2019
    8
    Red Dead Redemption 2 was one of the few games I picked up on release day last year, and it took me around five months and that was because at first I was enjoying my time with the game but that slowly changed I found elements to be tedious and monotonous, by the time I got to the prologue I just wasn't as interested in seeing the story play out and so it became a game where I would playRed Dead Redemption 2 was one of the few games I picked up on release day last year, and it took me around five months and that was because at first I was enjoying my time with the game but that slowly changed I found elements to be tedious and monotonous, by the time I got to the prologue I just wasn't as interested in seeing the story play out and so it became a game where I would play if I had nothing else I wanted to play as I just wasn't enjoying the overly realistic approach to the game as it made it far harder to have simple dumb fun.

    Let’s break it down, the game's story is possibly one of Rockstar’s best and while I didn't find it as interesting as GTA 5's story I did find myself enjoying two thirds of the story as I said I drifted away in the prologue as it felt like it was added purely put smiles on the faces of Red Dead Redemption diehard fans it was small quest all about how such a small insignificant part of the character's journey I personally don't feel like it needed to know the majority of the prologue it could've been kept ambiguous and I wouldn't have a complaint. But it was that portion that let down the entire game for me as I just stopped caring and lead to me not reminiscing about the experience from the first two thirds the parts I actually enjoyed and at points loved.

    How realistic is too realistic? That is a question I asked myself towards the end of the game, I've always enjoyed free roam games because it's usually a game I can pick up and play and just have some dumb fun for an hour with Red Dead I found myself getting bored at the constant stocking up your health, stamina and dead eye with consumables, you also had to clean your weapons to ensure it fired with the best damage, and if you want to try out a wacky hair style have fun waiting for it to grow as the magic barbers don't exist. And while I see that someone will enjoy these features I just didn't care for it by the end I would've preferred an option to turn it off and just allow regen so I can just mess around in this huge open world without thinking well I can't start a shootout because I haven't got many cigars meaning I'm not allowed to use deadeye, it just slowed down the game to a pace that made it tedious and boring.

    Read Dead Online, how could it fail? GTA 5 is overall an enjoyable experience with so much content and ways to play and the original Read Dead's multiplayer was incredible I put as many hours into that as I did with the single player and I just didn't find it enjoyable, it has so many features from the single player causing the same issues and it forces the story down your throat trying it's best to assure you play through it to a point where I just stopped caring and stopped playing and from what I can tell it's failed nowhere near as many people play is as what was expected.

    Now even if I’m mostly negative in the review you must understand this game still has so many elements that are incredible it’s going to go down as one of the best games for several reasons and I’m pretty sure you can just look at any other review and you’ll find all those reasons so I don’t feel the need to go into detail here but just understand I would still say this is a good game just not the best game for me.

    I think this game could've been amazing game, but it's just not an amazing Red Dead Redemption game, it has elements that would work in a DayZ or Arma setting with the large open world with realism elements the multiplayer could've had so many elements that would lead to huge roleplay servers but with Rockstar running all the servers that won't happen for now. I hope we see a Red Dead Undead Nightmare 2 as I think many of these elements will work better in that compared to a traditional Red Dead.    … Expand
  8. Drummerboy51088
    Mar 11, 2019
    8
    First off, gamers need to get rid of their entitled feeling that every game needs to be made to their specific tastes. I see people saying how anyone who likes this game is dumb or delusional or whatever other troll comment possible and that is a demonstration of pure ignorance and stupidity. Not every game is made for YOU. Get that through your heads lol. Some people praise PUBG as beingFirst off, gamers need to get rid of their entitled feeling that every game needs to be made to their specific tastes. I see people saying how anyone who likes this game is dumb or delusional or whatever other troll comment possible and that is a demonstration of pure ignorance and stupidity. Not every game is made for YOU. Get that through your heads lol. Some people praise PUBG as being some kind of god-sent video game for the ages, yet I find it to be mindless, repetitive and un-rewarding... Just like every battle royale ever basically. But that doesn't mean that people who like it are stupid. Thinking that IS. Different people enjoy different things. End of discussion. Brats. That isn't to say that this game is perfect... no game is. like... ever. But it's perfect for some, which is something that I think needs to be respected and understood. There's really no reason to insult people who like something you don't. Let's face it this isn't exactly what you would call some kind of objectively bad game. It certainly isn't for everyone, but it also isn't the worst game ever made like some people have been commenting. That's just brainless hyperbole, aaaaaaand some kind of strange level of entitlement that you only seem to see in gaming communities. ''It's not my type of game, therefore it's a piece of crap''. SO stupid lol.

    Some people (myself included) really enjoy the slower paced ''realistic'' feel of the game. It works to make the game deeply immersive as you feel grounded in the game world. Speaking of game world. well.. The game world. Holy smokes, man. No other game has created something this immaculately well designed and interesting. The only thing that comes close is The Witcher 3. Tons of mysteries, Easter eggs, quests, interesting locations, bizarre characters and random events. One thing it does do better is making the world feel genuinely alive. Insane amounts of dialogue have been put into the game which leads to tons of different contextual conversations, comments, fights, insults, and much more. It rarely feels like you've heard something twice out of a particular NPC's mouth or even between different characters which is amazing. The fact that you can listen in on long-winded conversations without it feeling forced is great. Sometimes listening in can even give you hints towards some secret treasures, side-quests and other things of that nature. This gives you this cool feeling of ''If I hadn't listened I would have possibly completely missed that''. Maybe it'll be cash, maybe it'll be a side-quest where you hunt down a serial killer of even a vampire in one of the main cities! Overall good stuff. In terms of visuals I don't think there's much I can say that hasn't already been said, even by haters of the game. It looks ridiculously good, ESPECIALLY for a console game (I'm running on a PS4 Pro). It'll be interesting to see how it will look on a gangster PC rig once it releases there. 'Nuff said lol.

    In terms of gameplay, a few things need to be said. The third person controls can feel particularly weighty and sluggish at times, no argument from me there! I've recently restarted the game and decided to play in First-Person this time around. This is a much better way to play for those who don't enjoy the weighty feel of the original camera. I've managed to tune the settings to make it feel like an actual FPS. Turned off auto-aim, adjusted deadzones, aim acceleration, stick sensitivity, and in all honesty it does wonders to make the game feel more fast-paced in the shooting sections. It also allows you to do things like strafing while shooting. You can also change the control scheme to ''standard FPS'' so things like sprinting are no longer relagated to tapping X until your thumb goes numb, you just click R3 like you would with any other shooter. It even feels like Arthur walks at a faster pace because in first-person you either jog or sprint. If you want to walk you just input slightly on the joystick. MUCH better feel than having to hold down X to jog and tap incessantly to sprint. I also recommend making the cover system automatically switch to third-person and I also do that for horse riding. Only on-foot is standard FPS feel because shooting from cover or horseback in first-person isn't ideal I find. But again, different strokes for different folks.

    I, myself, also really enjoy the story. The voice acting, the facial animations and the situations your band of bums go through feel legitimate. It'S not perfect but in all honesty I find most games fall flat with their storytelling. Not this one (in my opinion). Motives are clear, well explained and acted. This isn't mentioning the variety of side stories and mini self-contained stories you cna stumble across during your travels.

    In conclusion, RDR2 isn't a perfect game by any stretch but it comes closer than most games ever have in my personal opinion.    … Expand
  9. Roman9911
    Mar 11, 2019
    10
    что я могу сказать про эту игру? ведь игра просто ахуенная и у меня нет слов
  10. Pingvin_Austr1
    Mar 11, 2019
    10
    The best game i`ve ever played! You 100% should try this. I`m waiting for the next Rockstars`s game
  11. Jaket_
    Mar 11, 2019
    7
    The game has a weak plot, terribly boring, every time you need to ride a horse to get to the destination point.
    The game is soapy, rockstar could make the game without any smoothing the console would stand but could be in a stable 30 fps and not with decay (poor optimization)
    Online is not interesting ...
  12. thryce3
    Mar 10, 2019
    7
    There is a lot of good here, but there are so many flaws to bring it down. The story is good, but Arthur is just not as engaging as John Marston. It is cool to see some of the back story of the gang, and Dutch is a great character.
    It has a HUGE world with a ridiculous number of things to do. But as much as they try for immersion, the (almost literally) shoot themselves in the foot over    There is a lot of good here, but there are so many flaws to bring it down. The story is good, but Arthur is just not as engaging as John Marston. It is cool to see some of the back story of the gang, and Dutch is a great character.
    It has a HUGE world with a ridiculous number of things to do. But as much as they try for immersion, the (almost literally) shoot themselves in the foot over and over. I spent way too much time trying to stand in exactly the right place for a prompt to appear and doing the wrong thing when it changes. I started a bar brawl when I accidentally choked a woman attempting to play poker. I kept going into fights under-armed because my character put my rifles back in the saddle bags. My horse constantly ran directly into trees. You know. Just like the Old West.
    it really tries, but never reaches the heights of the first game. In fact, the epilogue is probably my favorite part, but it goes on for way too long. Overall, the good narrowly outweighs the frustration, but it could have been so much more.    … Expand
  13. Qualia
    Mar 10, 2019
    6
    The obsessively overworked and underplayed vanity project of a company that somehow manages to convince people decade after decade to play the same weak shooter with even worse controls than before because it now allows you to hunt, fish, eat, interminably sleep-ride on a horse, and do all the other boring things Westerns had the good sense to leave off the screen. This is cowboy role-playThe obsessively overworked and underplayed vanity project of a company that somehow manages to convince people decade after decade to play the same weak shooter with even worse controls than before because it now allows you to hunt, fish, eat, interminably sleep-ride on a horse, and do all the other boring things Westerns had the good sense to leave off the screen. This is cowboy role-play like filling in paperwork is detective role-play: only too accurate.… Expand
  14. TheRaven3366
    Mar 9, 2019
    10
    The game is unbelievable. All those characters and company are sticking in memory. The nature and landscapes are spectacular! R* have proved, that they are on top of game design industry. Bravo Rockstar
  15. Bbplayer
    Mar 9, 2019
    9
    If I could get if a 9.5 I would. The game is SO reactive to how you play, the honor system is great and the story is something to sit back and enjoy! There is so much to do outside of the main story as well.
    The only cons I have for the game are: The controls can be iffy especially during gunfights and the start is very slow if you haven't played red dead 1. If those were changed, the    If I could get if a 9.5 I would. The game is SO reactive to how you play, the honor system is great and the story is something to sit back and enjoy! There is so much to do outside of the main story as well.
    The only cons I have for the game are: The controls can be iffy especially during gunfights and the start is very slow if you haven't played red dead 1. If those were changed, the game would be a 10 for me. Highly recommend you give it a shot!    … Expand
  16. NeoPz
    Mar 9, 2019
    10
    Amazing game, one of the bests of this generation. Amazing story, amazing storytelling, amazing characters, amazing world, everything is amazing. And for those who are saying that this game is overrated, they just doesn't understood the proposal of this game. That's it, I don't wanna extend this too much.
  17. Carryon
    Mar 9, 2019
    10
    This is Masterpiece,all the 0 scores and most of the low scores don't make sense
  18. MuF_AsA
    Mar 8, 2019
    6
    Ordinary game, nothing interesting and revolutionary. The plot is boring, game mechanics are not carried away. Boring ...
  19. Niiiissan
    Mar 8, 2019
    10
    I have made This account just to gave the game 10
    It's Masterpiece That we will remember it for generations
  20. Disdis6717
    Mar 8, 2019
    10
    You want to go to The wild West?Just sit,relax And play one of The best Games ever made
  21. Urasa
    Mar 8, 2019
    10
    Soooo Good,The world it self is somthing else,The story,The characters damn Great,also this is The best technical achievement in this Gen
  22. Nasty_Cherry
    Mar 7, 2019
    0
    It is the worst game I've played recently. I even don't understand why it has so high ranking - poor plot (no logic, no excitement, primitive), poor RPG part of the game (it is just useless), poor shooting, the online is just a new battle royal where you even can't play. You can even apply a gel to your hair, but why? There is no use of it. Fancy? Yes. But it is not a good game. The onlyIt is the worst game I've played recently. I even don't understand why it has so high ranking - poor plot (no logic, no excitement, primitive), poor RPG part of the game (it is just useless), poor shooting, the online is just a new battle royal where you even can't play. You can even apply a gel to your hair, but why? There is no use of it. Fancy? Yes. But it is not a good game. The only good game that was created by Rockstar is GTA 5 and that is all.… Expand
  23. TheGeralt
    Mar 7, 2019
    10
    Great Game,have done almost everything perfect,but The missions design wasn't Great,i hope Rockstar figure out this with theirs next Game
  24. Doror
    Mar 7, 2019
    10
    it may not be best Game of all time but it's one of The best ever and maybe the best in This Generation,Rockstar you have done it Again
  25. Damnnero
    Mar 7, 2019
    10
    I just can't beleive what rockstar have done with this Game,and how the world feels so so good and alive
  26. Goodofwar
    Mar 7, 2019
    10
    The missions design and the Aim could be better,otherwise is perfect,The world is sooooo damn good and prove that open world games don't need to have fantasy world
  27. Zafeer
    Mar 7, 2019
    5
    This game is beautiful. Mountains of detail were put into the world. This is where the entire effort of the studio went. The controls are clunky. Sometimes switching buttons to do the same action. Getting your character to move faster than a walk is a pain. The enemy AI is a joke. A lot of times they run right into the line of fire and get mowed down. Sometimes they just run backThis game is beautiful. Mountains of detail were put into the world. This is where the entire effort of the studio went. The controls are clunky. Sometimes switching buttons to do the same action. Getting your character to move faster than a walk is a pain. The enemy AI is a joke. A lot of times they run right into the line of fire and get mowed down. Sometimes they just run back and forth in the open or run to cover then back to where they started. Accidentally bumping into somebody on the street starts a fist fight almost every time. The characters that you interact with are so close to cardboard cutouts I can't remember any of their names. The quests are so boring. Bounties sound like fun until you try some. You could almost spit on most of them from the sheriff's office. Chase this guy and stop him from getting away seems to be the majority of quest objectives. I doubt I will bother finishing the game.… Expand
  28. thegamerfemale
    Mar 6, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. almost perfect, the story is what i always wanted to see, the vanderlin gang, how it was formed(we get some of that) and how it died(we got all of that) we get to see arthur morgan's final months/years of life and how he did the best to change it, he helped so many people out, but all of it was for nothing jack goes on to follow his fathers footsteps and get revenge, he couldn't stop john from killing off the remaining gang membhers in the first game, its a sad story becuase all he did was for nothing, he dies getting john out of the pinkertons sight, he dies to micha bell, he killed so many people to protect the brother had had found in john and he did all of these bad things and there is 4 endings, i got the highest honor ending and it was tough but there is so many secret missions and all of that, all of the work arthur puts into the gang is useless, you earn so much money but it is all gone by epiolghue 1 and john and abigale break up, john goes back to killing, arthuer got terboclis he died for nothing and all he did was his best, this game is a story that was ment to be told and was a sad depressing story one that if anything was the best story i have had, all the interactions you can have with the people inside of the game, the vampire, the twin's who killed their parents and the mad preists, some where bad some where good, you get to know john, jack, arthur, and the rest of the vanderlin gang you loose so many of the gang from cahpter 1 to chapter 6 and you loose the man you play as through out those cahpters, to both dutch and micah, hosea was like arthurs father he never had, you could feel the emotion from the story as hosea and his wife are killed right enfrnot of arthur and how you feel is that you want to rip out the pinkertons apart, you feel for john when his son gets kidnapped, you do your best to help out everyone and get invested in the characters, by the end arthur cared about one thing his horse, the horse that had stuck with him through so much fire and so much bullets that he just stays there and helps it pass on to the next life.… Expand
  29. BrokenCritic
    Mar 5, 2019
    0
    Overhyped trash that got a higher score than God of War cause of the shills of this industry but still could not even win the Game of the Year award because truth be told, it wouldn't have deserved it. Rockstar have lost their edge and San Andreas is still to this day their best game they ever created.
  30. bthaxton1990
    Mar 5, 2019
    5
    This game is not for everyone. If you have a life and little time to game, do not play this game as it is long and extremely tedious. The real life aspects in this game like eating and grooming your horse are obnoxious and nothing I want to do in my video games. We play games to escape reality, not to complete chores. Visually the game looks amazing and the voice acting is great. The mainThis game is not for everyone. If you have a life and little time to game, do not play this game as it is long and extremely tedious. The real life aspects in this game like eating and grooming your horse are obnoxious and nothing I want to do in my video games. We play games to escape reality, not to complete chores. Visually the game looks amazing and the voice acting is great. The main characters voice is ridiculous though, as he sounds like an overplayed fake cowboy. guns and mechanics are OK but the real life aspects killed this game for me. Also riding a horse 15 minutes to a location is not something I want to do after every mission.… 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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