Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. SrirachaChicken
    Oct 30, 2018
    7
    The game is absolutely amazing and there is plenty to be astounded over and loved, but there are some game play issues that muddles over the fantastic core experience and dirties the game into the mud.

    The question is, how much realism do we actually need in a game. Rockstar has tried to nail down the realism of RDR2 to its core but instead of enhancing the gaming experience, to me it    The game is absolutely amazing and there is plenty to be astounded over and loved, but there are some game play issues that muddles over the fantastic core experience and dirties the game into the mud.

    The question is, how much realism do we actually need in a game. Rockstar has tried to nail down the realism of RDR2 to its core but instead of enhancing the gaming experience, to me it feels like there is more control over the player and what he can do then actual freedom within the game.

    One thing that is really bothersome is when Arthur tries to do anything in camp. He moves at a slow pace and there is no work around to have Arthur move faster within camp. Horses cannot be ridden to your bed and skinned animals cannot be dropped off at the butcher. Trying to successfully accomplish a task within camp can sometimes feel like you're fighting the controls when you are trying to achieve a button prompt. I think it has something to do with the camera and the way Arthur steps around, he could sometimes hum over certain prompts within camp just because he isn't positioned right or directly over the object.

    The button prompts have drastically changed from Red Dead 1 to 2. Now you can essentially "engage" someone by holding L2 and focusing in on them. This has caused me more problems with the NPC's then good ones... I don't know why but everytime I try to talk to someone or focus in on them, I get into more fights then friendly banter. I'm also not really into holding the square button when trying to pick up a body or animal pelts and then you use the Triangle button to loot bodies and mount your horse. Its confusing what i'm trying to say and can really halt the progress of normal mundane tasks because the player is confused trying to figure out how to achieve his goal. Picking up someone else's gun is the same concept too. You have to Press R1 to scroll over the option menus to choose the right prompt and then press L1 to switch a weapon you wanted to pick up. Its just a mess really and game play wise extremely confusing.

    The menu is cluttered, making it confusing for the user making it a hard time understanding what exactly could be sold at a market or used for practicality. There isn't a sorting option available that organizes your pack for you, which I feel like they sorely needed to implement or give the option to manually sort items for ourselves so we can clearly define exactly what we need and what we don't need.

    One last thing.. The hunting is really bad. Really really bad. Its VERY hard to track and find an animal let alone kill it properly to get the perfect skin. it takes more time out the game when trying to hunt and it does it in way that doesn't feel satisfying. Hunting gameplay needs a huge look at and needs to be made in a way thats more friendly and rewarding to do.

    There are things that bother me about RDR2, its more about the controls then anything but the story and quests are engaging. Its a rockstar game in an open world scenario. You're going to be fetching things, you're going to be an errand boy but thats how its always been. Nothing new there and thats why we come back to these games for the immersion and silly quests. The game is beautiful and the world feels alive.    … Expand
  2. Kira_Si
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Пожалуй один из лучших опенворлдов на данный момент. В отличии от других этот мир интересно изучать, проводить в нем время. Например, просто играть в покер по 5 часов увлекает. Постоянные "рандомные события" дополняют простое изучение локаций. Одна из лучших график на консолях.Пожалуй один из лучших опенворлдов на данный момент. В отличии от других этот мир интересно изучать, проводить в нем время. Например, просто играть в покер по 5 часов увлекает. Постоянные "рандомные события" дополняют простое изучение локаций. Одна из лучших график на консолях.
  3. Squanchy
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    It's a really great and very ambitious game. So many different abilities. I just want to live in that world. Thanks, Rockstar you're Rock! oh yes, you know it :D
  4. Bwqgo614CDEz23A
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    1. The gameplay is very mediocre. Shooting feels boring, there's no difference between guns and they all act like water guns. The enemy AI is pretty dumb, the enemies are dangerous only when you are alone and significantly outnumbered.
    2. The storyline is incredibly stupid - the characters act like absolute morons and the dialogs are one big cliche.
  5. Veils
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    немного снижу оценку, ибо смысл во всем этом реализме если играть совсем не интересно, еще и стрельба на джостике вымораживает ибо на пк ее не купить пришлось брать на ограниченную плойку
  6. DEEK4991
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    While some may say the realism is annoying, I find that it grounds the experience and helps immerse yourself in the wild west. You may only be able to carry a few guns on your person at a time, but you can easily switch them out on your horse which can store all of your guns. Whatever you think of when you think about the wild west in film or television, you can do it in this game, fromWhile some may say the realism is annoying, I find that it grounds the experience and helps immerse yourself in the wild west. You may only be able to carry a few guns on your person at a time, but you can easily switch them out on your horse which can store all of your guns. Whatever you think of when you think about the wild west in film or television, you can do it in this game, from robbing trains in missions, or free roam on your own time, to hunting, capturing bounties, getting **** at the saloon and brawling, gambling, robbing literally any npc or store, lassoing someone and dragging them from your horse, you can do it. The world is massive and cohesive and truly feels like it is transcending the concept of a videogame and is closer to actual living and breathing art. The wildlife is insane and really behaves like their real life counterparts, deer will butt antlers while playing, coyotes will sniff out dead bodies, ravens or other scavengers will be attracted to the dead etc. If you love exploration, freedom, and an experience grounded in realism in the old American west this game has it. Rockstar and the wild west seem to be made for each other, ever since their success with GTA it has seemed like the wild west was perfect for their mature and violent, lawless videogames. on a last note, the music is epic! It's even more diverse than the first game. If you can respect the slower pace of the game. you will find enjoyment that surpasses most other gaming experiences.… Expand
  7. ironwolf56
    Oct 30, 2018
    5
    Overproduced. That's the word I'd use for RDR2. I think this game may have shown us the "uncanny valley" of simulation vs gaming. The attention to detail in some aspects is certainly impressive, but at the same time it doesn't quite hit that level of full realism that maybe, someday, games will have.

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

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

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

    I think RDR2 may have taken my top spot as the most overrated game of all time; at least this generation certainly. For the hardcore simulationist types, it's probably a dream come true, I just wish there was a lot more "game" inside this fiddliness.    … Expand
  8. solairedontcare
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    This game is garbage and the critics reviews of the game speaks volumes as to the sorry state of video game press. Nobody wants to be the guy who calls such a hyped up game for what it is: garbage. Play the game and tell me I’m wrong. Bounty system: broken. Controls: god awful. Pace: objectively boring.

    The graphics are real nice, if you’re into that sort of thing. But the actual    This game is garbage and the critics reviews of the game speaks volumes as to the sorry state of video game press. Nobody wants to be the guy who calls such a hyped up game for what it is: garbage. Play the game and tell me I’m wrong. Bounty system: broken. Controls: god awful. Pace: objectively boring.

    The graphics are real nice, if you’re into that sort of thing. But the actual game part of the game is straight garbage. Period.    … Expand
  9. 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
  10. fzzywarbles
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    RDR2 is not only the greatest open world accomplishment in the history of video games. It is also the greatest video game attempt at story telling. Anyone ranking this game 0/10 is clueless and that's a fact.
  11. hunter3880
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    годно что тут еще скажешь покупайте не пожалеете, особенно тем кому очень нравится дикий запад
  12. davidestaub
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    An absolutely brilliant game.
    The story and the world really drag you in!
    The graphics are superb and the world is extremely detailed and immersive.
    For me this game never got boring.
  13. Counter_Balance
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Gave a 10 to solely counteract the losers giving this a 0 because they want to be "different" or simply can't afford to buy the game : ) KMA
  14. Amazingmao
    Oct 30, 2018
    1
    As a cinematic experience this is a masterpiece. Immersive and gorgeous.
    But as a video game this is the most abysmal experience in the past 10 years.
    A video game is expected to be fun and entertaining, not always realistic. RDR2 on the other hand focus entirely on realism and forego any fun, that it feels only as fun as doing chores in real life. Gunplay suffers from this, as in    As a cinematic experience this is a masterpiece. Immersive and gorgeous.
    But as a video game this is the most abysmal experience in the past 10 years.
    A video game is expected to be fun and entertaining, not always realistic.
    RDR2 on the other hand focus entirely on realism and forego any fun, that it feels only as fun as doing chores in real life.
    Gunplay suffers from this, as in favor of realism, the game makes you feel like a toddler trying to operate a firearm while dueling against a seasoned gunslinger.
    Story also suffers from this, as every small bit of plot point is separated by literal hours of riding your horse across the county, cooking, skinning animals and so on.
    If you turn off the game, go out the door and simply live real life, you'd have more fun than playing this game.
    The best parts of this game can be experienced by watching youtube videos of the cutscenes, that's about all the positive things the game has to offer.

    To put it in a simpler term:
    The game was marketed as Ace Combat, but what you actually get is Flight Simulation X.

    Unless you're excited about going through all the same annoyance of real life in your game, it would be more advisable to steer way clear of RDR2, and save your money for an actual video game, and not some over obnoxious real life simulator featuring some cowboys.    … Expand
  15. Gibaja
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    It is an absolute peace of Art. For those fake reviews and "there is no pc version" for god sake... You guys did not even play the game. Why do you write reviews of something you don't test yourself?
  16. BlakeHREW
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    Игра шляпа, механика хороша, движок шикарный, но ничего интересного в игре нет.
    Управление убогое даже для консоли.
  17. aiTarget
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    I don't want to say what Rockstar did and especially did not. Peple, who did'nt remember their past has no future. You can't change your past.
  18. richo1441
    Oct 30, 2018
    0
    Полный провал, попытка выехать на волне ожиданий продолжения великолепного оригинала. Отсутствие русской озвучки. Отсутствие PC версии, в попытках больше заработать на якобы "эксклюзиве". Хотя скорее всего с ней поступят как и с GTA 5.Полный провал, попытка выехать на волне ожиданий продолжения великолепного оригинала. Отсутствие русской озвучки. Отсутствие PC версии, в попытках больше заработать на якобы "эксклюзиве". Хотя скорее всего с ней поступят как и с GTA 5.
  19. Revers
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Игра довольная увлекательная, хоть я и не играл, я сужу субъективно, и моя высказывание об этой игре нелицеприятные, но приходя к парадигме, я официально заявляю, и повторяю еще раз, это мое личное мнение, мое кредо, и в отличии от экспансивных школьников, я пишу обдумав все свои мысли.И не утомляя вас-читателей, я говорю... игра шедевр...Игра довольная увлекательная, хоть я и не играл, я сужу субъективно, и моя высказывание об этой игре нелицеприятные, но приходя к парадигме, я официально заявляю, и повторяю еще раз, это мое личное мнение, мое кредо, и в отличии от экспансивных школьников, я пишу обдумав все свои мысли.И не утомляя вас-читателей, я говорю... игра шедевр...
  20. frankrij23
    Oct 30, 2018
    2
    To be perfectly honest I was let down by two main factors. the main one being horse mechanics along with the fact that you literally spend 30% of the game on horseback which is incredibly tedious. The second being the story which towards the end was unfortunately a let down for me.
  21. RATIBOR_STRANNI
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Прекрасно! Играешь, будто сам проживаешь жизнь героя! Давно не играл в такую обалденную игру! Жду дополнения!
  22. Delov
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Не могу попробовать эту игру, потому, что нет консоли, но я ставлю десять баллов в противовес петухам, которые дизят игру.
  23. Collaps666
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Хоть игра и скучноватая по сравнению с паучком, но реальности происходящего это не отбавляет! молодцы рокстар!… Expand
  24. xxxsssjjjk
    Oct 30, 2018
    9
    great game but the graphics and hdr need fixed. poor 4k and hdr on the ps4 and xbox versions.
  25. Thomas0968
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Best game, 10/10, love you, Rockstar!! But, I don't understand, why so many trolls in comments?… Expand
  26. Freebird1984
    Oct 30, 2018
    1
    The Rant begins

    CLUNKY in the controls, this itself is an unforgivable clumsiness that in my 30 years of gaming I would compare to BART VS THE SPACE MUTANTS on NES. I have beef with the teasing open world view and the linear game play that comes with it. I also want you to remember my review when you are transported to the moon while walking through camp, yes you can't run in your own    The Rant begins

    CLUNKY in the controls, this itself is an unforgivable clumsiness that in my 30 years of gaming I would compare to BART VS THE SPACE MUTANTS on NES. I have beef with the teasing open world view and the linear game play that comes with it. I also want you to remember my review when you are transported to the moon while walking through camp, yes you can't run in your own camp, you must walk slow, a zero gravity slow like Neil Armstrong on the moon. I hear his voice while walking through camp. "That's one small step...." You are forced to walk back and fourth through camp like this to do tedious tasks such as shave,Eat, put money in a piggy bank, help shop for groceries...every anointing task of your life is here, i'm sure later there is a mission where you must wipe your crack clean. The missions are annoying things I want to skip over to get to the rest of the game...that doesn't exist. Enjoy driving a wagon, you will be doing it for hours, don't get you wagon stuck either, your painful and I mean painfully slow wagon. Careful in town too, if you accidentally bump into someone with the clunky controls the whole town may find you in contempt and shoot you too your death. Oh I almost forgot, your hat falls off all the time, if you play through the game you will spend hours on switching and swapping your hat, i'm serious. The actual content of play makes me wonder if I would enjoy a game with a constant button sequence to press more than this. The realism is terrible too, they actually show dead deer being hung on a gambrel without being gutted. You ride with an ungutted deer 5 miles back to camp and start to butcher it without gutting it. I think the Devs must have lacked some real world experience to say the least. The hunting is a complete joke and waste of time. I also wish to condemn the horse riding itself as it is clunky and you hit something and go flying and have to pick up your hat before getting back on.

    I am a Rockstar fan boy, I played GTA on ps1 as a teenager, I love in depth games with expansive RPG characteristics like Final Fantasy, Castlevania Symphony of the night, Metroid, Ogrebattle, I love long games, hard games. The days of Rockstar getting by on taboo subject matter and atmospheric bliss are over, the games have changed again and this linear boorish style is not coming along.I'd rather play GUN for ps2 or Sunset riders for SNES, Blood Brothers, Gunsmoke for NES, I would much rather play the original GTA with Birdseye view than this. There are better games than this that came out this year like Mega Man 11, Mega man X collection, COD or the last few years, XCOM, Mario Odyssey. If you have played BOTW it renders this abomination unplayable. I think I will go play Castlevania for NES to wash this hideous taste out my mouth.

    (The struggle is the glory)    … Expand
  27. leaveit
    Oct 30, 2018
    7
    It's a fine game and the intense dedication of the developers is obvious. Most of what it accomplishes, however, is at the cost of designing an entertainment product as a "game," though. The game incentivizes keeping a main horse and even has an icon for it, but regularly teleports you away from the horse so that you have to backtrack. The game boasts an open world but you have practicallyIt's a fine game and the intense dedication of the developers is obvious. Most of what it accomplishes, however, is at the cost of designing an entertainment product as a "game," though. The game incentivizes keeping a main horse and even has an icon for it, but regularly teleports you away from the horse so that you have to backtrack. The game boasts an open world but you have practically no choice in the outcome of the missions. There are rewards for collecting perfect animal pelts but the availability of the pelts is random to the point where it is no longer skill-based to find an animal with a perfect pelt. The graphics are truly incredible but they regularly slow to sub-projector-framerates, even in battle. Is this a game or an interactive movie? The player may pass most of the game believing that they're still in the tutorial. In the end, the time is passed but we are not better humans and haven't seen anything new or more refined, just old and perhaps even un-fun mechanics done more professionally.… Expand
  28. CyclePlus
    Oct 30, 2018
    6
    This game has the clunkiest character movement I have ever seen in a current gen game. It's super unresponsive and feels like you are swimming against a light current that's pushing against you all the time. Also, good luck shooting at anything requiring precision, it's pretty much impossible even with controller dead zone set to 0 and the velocity/sensitivity turned up so you are forcedThis game has the clunkiest character movement I have ever seen in a current gen game. It's super unresponsive and feels like you are swimming against a light current that's pushing against you all the time. Also, good luck shooting at anything requiring precision, it's pretty much impossible even with controller dead zone set to 0 and the velocity/sensitivity turned up so you are forced to use auto-aim.

    Game looks gorgeous, I will give it that, but it's not even remotely close to a 10.    … Expand
  29. ignore78
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    When you first start the game, some people can feel dissapointed because it is a linear 2 hours story! The everything opens up and becomes a Masterpiece! Go and buy it right now!!
  30. L1nkAnd
    Oct 30, 2018
    10
    Игра класс столько мелочей и проработок,классная английская озвучка как будто окунулся в фильм вестерн ,а то что она только на консолях вообще все равно, потому что ради таких игр стоит покупать консоли.
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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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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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