Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

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  1. VisionOfTheNerd
    Nov 1, 2018
    10
    RDR 2 is amazing! All aspects of the game are executed at the highest level. The gameplay is incredible, measured, detail! I want to live in this game. Fishing and hunting are especially chic. Very pleased that the developers have chosen the path of realism and complication of everything! Even after 50 hours, the image surprises and delights. Apparently this is the best game not only for 8RDR 2 is amazing! All aspects of the game are executed at the highest level. The gameplay is incredible, measured, detail! I want to live in this game. Fishing and hunting are especially chic. Very pleased that the developers have chosen the path of realism and complication of everything! Even after 50 hours, the image surprises and delights. Apparently this is the best game not only for 8 generations, but for the entire existence of games at all time!… Expand
  2. JonyGame
    Nov 1, 2018
    10
    Лучшая игра этого поколения обязательно к покупке!!!
  3. TylarisGT
    Nov 1, 2018
    0
    Horrible gameplay...perhaps the worst in any game to date. Everything from movement, to interacting to gunplay feels clumsy, slow and unsatisfying.
    And despite all the effort that went into world simulation, game, like every Rockstar game fails miserably at crime system.
    How the "journalists" managed to not criticize this, is absolutely unbelievable, considering this composes 95% of the game.
  4. Rouli
    Nov 1, 2018
    9
    Once i got past the fact that the controls work different than i was used too from most other games, i started to very much enjoy myself. Rockstar achieved something remarkable here. The world is amazing, and alive. It surprises me all the time. The fleshed out details in every little aspect in the game is unbeliveable. This should not exist. Never ever have i felt so much immersed in aOnce i got past the fact that the controls work different than i was used too from most other games, i started to very much enjoy myself. Rockstar achieved something remarkable here. The world is amazing, and alive. It surprises me all the time. The fleshed out details in every little aspect in the game is unbeliveable. This should not exist. Never ever have i felt so much immersed in a world and story. There is one thing this game does like no other. It hides the fact, that its just a game. Makes me think, what they acctually could have achieved, if they were treating their staff differently.… Expand
  5. superunknown
    Nov 1, 2018
    10
    Stop complaining about how slow the movements or how much chores you have to go trough jeeez!!
    This game is like real life, you don't jump around forever like an idiot, you don't run at super speed like a superhero c'mon wake up.
    This game is a god send. Why do you give a bad review out of jealousy? t's not on PC so what? I'm so glad to have both i'm playing one of the best game ever.    Stop complaining about how slow the movements or how much chores you have to go trough jeeez!!
    This game is like real life, you don't jump around forever like an idiot, you don't run at super speed like a superhero c'mon wake up.
    This game is a god send.
    Why do you give a bad review out of jealousy? t's not on PC so what?
    I'm so glad to have both i'm playing one of the best game ever.
    BTW it will be on PC end of next year,    … Expand
  6. Scarabun
    Nov 1, 2018
    10
    The best game for past few years so far. Last game I enjoyed that much was Witcher 3.
  7. 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
  8. Voodoo123
    Nov 1, 2018
    5
    Game itself is superb.... marred noticeably by poor HDR and 4k checkerboard implementation on my ps4 pro and 4K HDR display. Gotta say I didnt expect R* to fall short here especially given the sony marketing. Unbelievable they missed these two areas when developing the game
  9. Skymning
    Oct 31, 2018
    7
    So I'm finally back in the real world after a hectic weekend in the wild wild west, and while I was hoping to go back to work bustling with excitement, praising the game I have been looking forward to for so long, I realize that the best way to describe my state of mind ambivalent.

    The graphics are amazing, the story is engaging, sound, music and voice acting are on point. But the    So I'm finally back in the real world after a hectic weekend in the wild wild west, and while I was hoping to go back to work bustling with excitement, praising the game I have been looking forward to for so long, I realize that the best way to describe my state of mind ambivalent.

    The graphics are amazing, the story is engaging, sound, music and voice acting are on point.

    But the game has some serious flaws that I would like to highlight:
    Rockstar decided that they wanted to make this game very realistic and immersive, but somewhere along the line they forgot that it is still a game and should be entertaining as well.. You don’t have to sacrifice fun to make it more immersive, you can have both. “Well you make a better game then, cried the fanboy” I will give an example on how to improve the game, hope that is enough?
    In camp you do choirs to boost the morale for your partners in crime, chopping wood for example. I don’t mind doing it, if you actually make it rewarding instead of feeling like a proper choir, we all have enough of those irl.

    Chopping wood: You walk up press triangle and watch Arthur do a 10 sec animation of him swinging the axe, then you get to press R2 to see him do it again for 10 sec, R2 and repeat.
    Improvement: A minigame where you have to angle the axe correctly with the analog stick to actually hit the wood while timing the swing with R2.

    It’s the same scenario with other tasks that you are required to do; Brushing your horse, skinning a animal, cooking, weapon maintenance etc. Implement minigames that is rewarding and challenging and these realistic features becomes entertaining.

    My next rant, the interface – Long story short, its overly complicated.

    You press L1 to get a equipment-wheel where you browse different weapons, press R1 to change to a different wheel with consumables. Browse between the different items with R2 and lift L1 to equip/consume. It’s complicated, you missclick way too easily and its hard to get a overview on your inventory, esp in a fire fight.

    In order to open the world map you have to press Options, wait for 1½ sec for the menu to load and then press X. Why not do like every other game where you press touchscreen and from there you can browse your inventory, journal etc? Now these functions are spread out in different menus without any apperant logic behind.

    Shopping is also too complicated. I want to buy a hat and a jacket, here how it goes:
    Walk into store
    L2 to greet shopkeeper
    X to see catalog
    You get a realistic catalog with a “root-menu”
    Select Clothing
    Submenu: Select hats
    You get to browse differnet pages in the catalog with drawn pictures of hats and get to select the one you like, press X to view on character.
    All of a sudden you have a list of all the hats available and can skip through them all to try before you buy.
    From here you actually have to go back to the rootmenu in the realistic catalog and start over and do the whole process all over again. Why not give us an option to press Circle in the hat-menu, select jacket and browse them quick and easy?

    A lot of people complain about Arthur being slow and its true, he is. But I don’t think that is such a problem. It gives the game a different feeling that I can appreciate. If it was consistent.. It is not. You can run at a certain phase all over the world, but when you spend time in camp Rockstar decided to cap it by half. I get it, they want the player to really notice the details they invested in the environment here in camp. The problem is, it doesn’t work that way. Don’t force me to stop and appreciate as I will only get annoyed and see even less.

    I could continue ranting about the game mechanics, strange UI and wierd priorities; realism vs fun, that you can’t summon your horse, how bleak the gun fights are, awkward controls but I think I have made my point. Its a flawed game with a beautiful facade and a good story. Almost like they did a remake with improved graphics but forgot to hire people to upgrade the game mechanics to the smooth standard we are used to in games in 2018.

    I really hope that Rockstar can remove the horse blinders, listen to the legit critique some people try to raise and patch the game to the masterpiece it could have been.. But whom am I fooling?

    Reading the professional reviewers whom should be objective when judging a game but won’t even mention to bring up the strange controls and outdated game mechanics, something that would be a major drawback for a total score on any other game out there. R*logo equals quality, through and through. Otherwise you don’t get it, or the game isn’t for you. The end.

    But the game is for me - I love open world games in general, I loved RDR1 in particular and have been hyped for a sequel for as long as the rest of you.. It’s just that I cant praise a game this flawed. Please do better.    … Expand
  10. Liukin
    Oct 31, 2018
    5
    Good game but PC version cost 400$(PS4+game). Thanx again Rockstar ;)
    #RDR2neverforGOTY
  11. GallopingBlitz
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Slow in the beginning great towards the middle and end. Great job Rockstar! You have once again proved yourselves.. 10.1/10
  12. Robobob
    Oct 31, 2018
    5
    Yeah, everyone knows by now that this game is amazingly huge, beautiful and detailed, but what about the gameplay?
    Why does this game want to take the fun out of being an outlaw?
    Your wanted level and bounty remain through death. So each time you get into a scrap or get caught doing something dirty your levels will build until you pay them off. Every time you commit any crime there is    Yeah, everyone knows by now that this game is amazingly huge, beautiful and detailed, but what about the gameplay?
    Why does this game want to take the fun out of being an outlaw?
    Your wanted level and bounty remain through death. So each time you get into a scrap or get caught doing something dirty your levels will build until you pay them off. Every time you commit any crime there is always a couple witnesses around that you need to chase down. This is fun a couple times until it gets annoying. I robbed a guy fishing out in the middle of nowhere and I get a "Witness" alert. Someone out of view but up on some cliff that I could never see or possibly chase down.
    At times this game feels like more chore than game. Here's an example of how I spent my last 90 minutes of play time: The only available story mission was deep south so it was a good 10 minutes horse ride to a new area. The missions was ok and straightforward, involving raiding some bounty hunters and saving a friend. Afterwards I opt to stay and look for look a little longer. Well after maybe 30 seconds a huge posse of lawmen show up "Investigating." So much for looting, because that could have been fun getting some actual reward for the mission. Now I'm running for my life. I lose the law but I'm even further south away from my base camp and Arthur is "exhausted." Don't know why because I sleep every night as soon as it gets dark and eat food often. I try to camp and can't because there is "Activity".. in the whole territory I guess because I'm running further away from this town to try and camp. I'm Wanted in this area so I try to sneak into a town to hire a Stagecoach to take me into a town closer to my gang's camp. The driver won't take me because I'm wanted. The ride on horse looks like 15 minutes at this point and I just want to get to a safe area so I can log out and quit playing for the night. I avoid more lawmen to get to the nearest train station and hire my first train ride to take me somewhere. I get to my destination and my horse is out of range. But, hey! I'm an outlaw... I can just steal a ride right? Arthur still hasn't slept so he can barely run so I try and hold up a carriage passing by. Every single driver either pulls a gun on me or takes off. Not only that but there is a witness to this crime, and lawmen instantly head towards my area and remember, I can barely run. I love how every back country road is packed with traffic so that you can't rob a single person with a chase ensuing... at night. It's like the game was forcing me into a corner, challenging me to not like it.
    At that point I spent 10 minutes actually having fun and 80 minutes just traveling or avoiding the law.
    Aside from that, every time I'm in camp everyone yells at me for not chipping in to the pot when I donated an entire deer and a couple gold watches just 2 days earlier. I feel all of these people would starve and die without me doing all of the work for them. LOL And then I get 10% of loot taken on missions. Ok.
    Other major quips: The icons on the radar and map are so tiny I have to hover over each one to tell what it is. You can tell devs play-tested this on monitors a couple inches from their faces instead of on a flat screen 10 feet away.
    The main camp is horribly designed where, at first, nearly every tent looks the same and you wander about hovering over things to figure out where you are. And you better be an inch away from whatever object you are interacting with and no further. And there's no running in base camp because outlaws don't run. I thought the gang would have maybe 5-6 bad hombres in it but there's entire families with women and children. Plus a science nerd and some English geek, of course.
    I've lost loot like pelts, including my first legendary bear pelt because I left it on the back of my horse.
    My horse teleports to weird places around the map and when I whistle, he returns very slowly and always stops behind a bush.
    I get off of a horse and my weapon load out changes and sometimes I start missions with only my pistol and lasso.
    Button layouts are random and confusing so there's no wonder that there are hints in the screen corner because I would honestly forget. At one point you need to hold down 3 buttons and a joystick to select items from your inventory. And 10 years later I wish Rockstar would fix the pressing L3 stick causes you to crouch. Annoying.
    Finally Arthur is no where near a likeable character like John was. John has the cool gravely voice but Arthur honestly sounds like a dumb hillbilly at times. Many of the main characters have very annoying voices now that I think about it. Not a threatening group at all.
    Man it sucks to say all of this, because the original RDR is my favorite game of all time, but it seems my rating is clinging to the Yellow category just due to the graphics and my love of this franchise. I wouldn't fault anyone for rating it less.    … Expand
  13. besantesteras
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    This game is awsome, unique and wonderful, and must be GotY!!! I don't understund PC gamer's who's give negative feedback for this game, only because they not can't download from TPB...
  14. WWJR
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    This game blew me away. This is by far the most dynamic open world experience that's filled with interesting encounters everywhere. There is everything from hilarious drunken bar encounters to coming across a serial killers crime scenes. Theres also fun treasure hunts, fun hunting gameplay and a variety of different living animals throughout the world to interact with. Although the honorThis game blew me away. This is by far the most dynamic open world experience that's filled with interesting encounters everywhere. There is everything from hilarious drunken bar encounters to coming across a serial killers crime scenes. Theres also fun treasure hunts, fun hunting gameplay and a variety of different living animals throughout the world to interact with. Although the honor system doesn't quite have a huge effect on the gameplay, it definitely makes you think twice about your actions.

    The only thing I had trouble with in the beginning was the control layout. It's a bit different than other open world/other rockstar games to an extent, but it just takes some time to get used to. I had no complaints about the controls after a few hours of playing.

    The story is also top-notch and has a lot of emotional moments as well. I played the first red dead redemption years ago and don't quite remember everything that happened in the story but it definitely is a great prequel to that game. RDR2 is everything i've been wanting in a video game for a very long time. 10/10 masterpiece. Good Job Rockstar.    … Expand
  15. ZDP
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Overwhelmingly Breathtaking. Red Dead Redemption 2 yet again proves that Rockstar are one of, if not the best in the world at making games. This game is stunning and the amount you can do in its word is overwhelming.

    When playing the game, time flies. That's what you what in a game, something you can fully immerse yourself in and Red Dead does it so much better than Rockstar's last    Overwhelmingly Breathtaking. Red Dead Redemption 2 yet again proves that Rockstar are one of, if not the best in the world at making games. This game is stunning and the amount you can do in its word is overwhelming.

    When playing the game, time flies. That's what you what in a game, something you can fully immerse yourself in and Red Dead does it so much better than Rockstar's last game, Grand Theft Auto V. The interaction with the world is amazing. you can have conversations with every single NPC and even just a simple trip across the map can bring so much more as strangers ask for your help / interaction.

    At times, the story feels slow, but like me for some people that is a good thing. I have spent easily 50+ hours on this game and I'm still only 41% through as there is simply so much to do.

    Rockstar should be proud of yet another incredible game release and I look forward to seeing the online.    … Expand
  16. Jam292
    Oct 31, 2018
    0
    Spent hours hunting and collecting a horse load of perfect pelts and exploring. killed what was getting close to my last kill of the session when the carcass fell into a stream and I had to chase it a lasso it out of the stream which I thought was pretty cool....But, it lead me straight into an unforgivable flaw. The stream was on the border of the northern edge of the Blackwater provinceSpent hours hunting and collecting a horse load of perfect pelts and exploring. killed what was getting close to my last kill of the session when the carcass fell into a stream and I had to chase it a lasso it out of the stream which I thought was pretty cool....But, it lead me straight into an unforgivable flaw. The stream was on the border of the northern edge of the Blackwater province where you are wanted dead or alive and I had unwittingly crossed over to lasso the carcass our of the stream, I got an alert so no problem, I'll just quick get the pelt and high tail it. Well, didn't happen. Somehow a team of 5 or so marshalls was on me in a flash and I'm armed with hunting weapons, varment rifle and bow. No cover at the stream so my pistol wasn't enough, I died. No probs right? Just $10 or so penalty.....And about 20 perfect pelts stored on my horse............And the auto save fires immediately after death........Totally unforgivable. It has soured my entire experience… Expand
  17. minniechoi
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Yes, it could be uncomfortable to control and take long time to get used to it. However, you also can experience a lot of things which other games can't provide. Absolutely for me, it is one of the best games. Just play at least 10 hours, then you get real experience in this game.
  18. Makaveli
    Oct 31, 2018
    6
    Story - 9 ( Good for a prequel)

    Graphics -10 (looks stunning) Gameplay- 4 ( It takes from other games and makes it much worse, game takes control of your character too many times and there are too many bugs/glitches. Controls- 5 ( Terrible and unacceptable for 2018) Replay value - 3 ( I dont see many people wanting to replay or continue playing this game after they have    Story - 9 ( Good for a prequel)

    Graphics -10 (looks stunning)

    Gameplay- 4 ( It takes from other games and makes it much worse, game takes control of your character too many times and there are too many bugs/glitches.

    Controls- 5 ( Terrible and unacceptable for 2018)

    Replay value - 3 ( I dont see many people wanting to replay or continue playing this game after they have completed it, maybe when online comes out it will give the game some life)    … Expand
  19. Bayden
    Oct 31, 2018
    7
    Just finished it this morning.
    The game is technically amazing, but is brought down buy tiresome gun mechanics and movement along with a frustrating lack of freedom within missions and many other inconveniences.
    For example if you forget to get your rifle from your horse before dismounting during a mission it will often fail you for walking 5 meters back to get it, so your left with a    Just finished it this morning.
    The game is technically amazing, but is brought down buy tiresome gun mechanics and movement along with a frustrating lack of freedom within missions and many other inconveniences.

    For example if you forget to get your rifle from your horse before dismounting during a mission it will often fail you for walking 5 meters back to get it, so your left with a crappy pistol for the whole thing.

    Your load-out constantly resets so you have to rummage through bags for 10 seconds to get everything you want before leaving your horse. main character doesn't seem to adapt based on your play style. game gets quite tiresome and i am glad its over.

    incredible amount of unique voice lines and unique interactions and a kinda good overall story bring the score up a bit.    … Expand
  20. StainlSteelRat
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played RDR1, so SPOILERS AHEAD.

    That being said, this is not GTAV Horse Edition, much like RDR1 wasn't GTAIV Horse Edition. Player agency is what you make of it. I had one of the most powerful moments in gaming I've ever had...and I've been gaming since Pong (yeah, I'm old.)

    SPOILER FOR RDR1

    When John Marsten (one of the best characters in a game ever) died, I hunted down that **** marshall. His wife said he was fishing. I went down there as Marsten's son with a double barrelled shotgun and made the old man say his final words. He was sorry. He was just doing his job. Although I couldn't say anything because of the game mechanic, it made sense. That's exactly what I would have said. Nothing.

    Then I shot him with both barrels and watched him float away on the river.

    When you seek vengeance, dig two graves. One for your enemy, the other for your soul. That victory tasted like ashes in my mouth. I put down my controller and thought about that experience for a bit.

    That is a game. That is art. Art is something that makes you think about it for a bit, interpret it, and make it your own in one way or another. Not some grind fest, not seeing how many **** you can craft. All these other things have their place, but true art in crafting games comes from those vignettes that allow you to feel something.

    This game is the same, but better. It's a slow burn. For those of you that complain about frame rates (I don't have any of those issues, and I'm on a 1st gen PS4...refurbished) or fuzzy textures, stop being so pedantic. Focus on the experience. This isn't Nier Automata or MGS2k. This is a story game, a choose your own morality game.

    Did you feel bad when you went back to the widow to collect? I sure as **** did.    … Expand
  21. dimsonbro
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Игра шедевр. Rockstar Games приложила титанические усилия в отношении проработки мира, персонажей, механики и графики. Такие игры оставляют след в игровой индустрии и задают планку к которой должны стремиться другие студии.
    Сама игра просто один большой живой организм в которой каждый найдет чем занятся помимо прохождения сюжетной кампании. А что будет в Red Dead Online ближайшие пять лет    Игра шедевр. Rockstar Games приложила титанические усилия в отношении проработки мира, персонажей, механики и графики. Такие игры оставляют след в игровой индустрии и задают планку к которой должны стремиться другие студии.
    Сама игра просто один большой живой организм в которой каждый найдет чем занятся помимо прохождения сюжетной кампании. А что будет в Red Dead Online ближайшие пять лет я даже представить боюсь. 10/10!    … Expand
  22. Gmod44
    Oct 31, 2018
    9
    PROS: The story is excellent, graphics are the best I've seen on a base PS4, horse riding has improved since the first game, euphoria is back and better than ever, the games map is giant and diverse with an abundance of animals to hunt, your character is customizable from their clothes to hair and beard, horse is customizable as well.
    CONS: In-game days are too short (max 15 mins),    PROS: The story is excellent, graphics are the best I've seen on a base PS4, horse riding has improved since the first game, euphoria is back and better than ever, the games map is giant and diverse with an abundance of animals to hunt, your character is customizable from their clothes to hair and beard, horse is customizable as well.
    CONS: In-game days are too short (max 15 mins), default settings for gun play was not ideal (after playing with the settings I made it better), every time you get on your horse you put away your rifles and have to equip them again.
    In conclusion the experience of playing this game far outweigh the cons, and this will most likely win Game of the Year.
    Side-note: if you expect this game to play like GTA you will not like this game, if you don't like a story that slow burns/builds up you will not like this game, if you have a short attention span you will not like this game, if you don't like RPG elements i.e. having to eat you will not like this game.
    Also, the amount of people complaining about having to ride a horse everywhere blows my mind, are people really this dumb? It's a cowboy game, the only means of transportation is a horse or train, they didn't have supercharged cars or planes. If you don't enjoy riding a horse around the map, this game obviously wasn't made for your style of gaming (duh?).    … Expand
  23. davidcurran
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Red Dead Redemption 2 has to be the best game I have played to date, every single aspect of this game delivers something which I haven't experienced in a video game before. Starting with the story. The story missions, in my opinion, are the best I have ever played within an open world game, all of them are very unique and there isn't much repetition at all. Due to you being in a largeRed Dead Redemption 2 has to be the best game I have played to date, every single aspect of this game delivers something which I haven't experienced in a video game before. Starting with the story. The story missions, in my opinion, are the best I have ever played within an open world game, all of them are very unique and there isn't much repetition at all. Due to you being in a large gang, Rockstar has given every gang member a story of their own which almost feels like I'm not even playing one single story campaign, but several, where I can listen to each individual gang members story to see what all of them have experienced. The story missions vary from action-packed robberies to tense stealth missions and much more. The open world aspect is an absolute masterpiece, the world in which you play in is neither too large nor too small, just perfect size and all of the activities you can get up to in free roam are things which no other open world game has included, like holding up a train by placing a stagecoach in front of it and then standing on top of it to wait for it to stop, a similar thing was included in a scene from the movie 'The Assassination of Jesse James'. Things like this just immerse you even more due to it being a wild west game. For once, even GTA V couldn't allow me to experience just admiring the view of the world which you are free to explore. Almost all open world game developers go on about how they can just 'admire the gorgeous view of the world' if you become bored, but in my opinion, that has never happened. Ironically, the only game that has come close to that is the first Red Dead Redemption. Obviously, I am not able to waffle on about all of the things you can do in this game but one last thing I wanted to discuss is the controversial topics which are openly (and without hesitance) included in the game. Topics like racism and sexism which were very prevalent in 1899 (the time which this game is set in) I am not going to spoil any of the story but there are some things which blown me away with amazement and shock. Instead, I will give you a few examples of which I found in free roam, I was browsing around a big city which you end up in around about halfway through the story and found a woman who was advocating for women's rights to vote (which was a big thing in this time era), another example I found which may be a little more offensive to some people, I was walking through the town of Rhodes (which is known for a higher populace of African Americans) in free roam when I saw these white men harassing this black guy (if I remember correctly they were robbing him at the back of the saloon.) and I actually heard one of the white men say "if you don't give up your things now darkie you're gonna receive a bullet in your skull." As i heard this i was blown away with immediate shock! I've only heard things like that (and very rarely) in movies! Cleary this is not something which I would personally hold up to a game developers neck and demand them to include something like this in their game, but it is just inexplicable how Rockstar have done something like this.

    I also hear people waffle on about the shooting and combat system, even though the combat can become a little frustrating at times due to the cover system being changed, I can tell you that the shooting is once again the best within any game. No longer am I just gliding through mission after mission, blasting everything i see with one bullet and killing everyone in 20 seconds. I now have to control the recoil of my weapon and where I am shooting, I now have to utilize my weapons correctly for the right situations as compared to something like GTA V where I could use the weakest pistol in the game and still glide right through everyone. This is the sort of realism which for some reason puts a lot of people off, but I am in love with it, when I kill someone in RDR 2 it actually feels like I have blasted a bullet right through someone's face (which I have), where many games cannot seem to do this. In RDR 2 a pistol FEELS like a pistol, a gun which doesn't do that much damage, and a shotgun FEELS like a shotgun where I can blow through someone's intestines.    … Expand
  24. Kaykay1
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Do not consider the negative reviews, seriously. I don't know what's wrong with these people... RDR2 is a masterpiece, full stop. If you enjoyed the first chapter, this is the game you've been waiting for the last 8 years.
  25. Karen56
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    How anyone could rate this game lowly is beyond me. There are obviously trolls all over this site but real critics got the game up to 97 which is all that matters.
  26. Frankdnb
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    One of the greatest games of this generation. This game will be remembered as the leap of open world games into the next generation of consoles.
  27. AJlove
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Probably the best game of this generation. The atmosphere is awesome, charismatic characters, good story and a looot of things to do
  28. MelvinBGG
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Had to write this review to balance out the hord of salty PC elitists and GTA online players.

    This game is incredible. The attention to detail, character development, atmosphere, deep gameplay mechanics, music, everything. Rockstar outdone themselves, and they deserve all the praise for masterfully crafting slow-paced games like this and L.A Noire. Games like this don’t come often. I    Had to write this review to balance out the hord of salty PC elitists and GTA online players.

    This game is incredible. The attention to detail, character development, atmosphere, deep gameplay mechanics, music, everything.

    Rockstar outdone themselves, and they deserve all the praise for masterfully crafting slow-paced games like this and L.A Noire. Games like this don’t come often. I loved every single second of the 70-hour experience.    … Expand
  29. javaprof
    Oct 31, 2018
    0
    This game is very boring game. It has a lot of game mechanics from dont satarve and mount blade but new mechanics are not good real survival or rpg game only gta like mechanics good tatally boring game.
  30. Igorewich
    Oct 31, 2018
    10
    Зарегестрировался тут специально чтобы сообщить всем ПК обладателем - сосите шершавого.
    Вы сидели без GTA V 2 года пока консольщики играли в нее, и тут подождете. Не обламаетесь. Игра просто сногшибательная, поэтому дорогие мои Дотаёберы копите денюшки на апгрейд своего паленого железа, пока адекватные люди играют в этот шедевр.
    И не куй накручивать игре отрицательный балл. Либо сосэмбу    Зарегестрировался тут специально чтобы сообщить всем ПК обладателем - сосите шершавого.
    Вы сидели без GTA V 2 года пока консольщики играли в нее, и тут подождете. Не обламаетесь. Игра просто сногшибательная, поэтому дорогие мои Дотаёберы копите денюшки на апгрейд своего паленого железа, пока адекватные люди играют в этот шедевр.
    И не куй накручивать игре отрицательный балл. Либо сосэмбу делайте, либо просите у мамки деньги на консоль. У меня все, пойду грабить дилижансы.    … Expand
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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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