Red Dead Redemption 2

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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. 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
  2. kadim19rus
    Mar 20, 2019
    4
    Скучная уже к середине. Прицеливание с геймпада сделано через жопу. Даже у battlefield 1 лучше прицеливание и удобно стрелять.
  3. LostBoyzHUN
    Apr 25, 2019
    4
    ennyit ér számomra . .
  4. skfr
    May 19, 2019
    4
    très déçu... je vais pas épiloguer des tas de gens l'ont déjà fait ....
  5. ll4mat
    Apr 3, 2020
    4
    Single player is great but playing online is a fu***** disaster.
    Countless bugs making it nearly impossible to play that game online.
  6. Hahn
    Aug 30, 2019
    4
    Beautiful graphics, excellent voice acting, lots to do.

    Terrible gameplay. I've wasted too much time in this game riding a horse. 60 hours of gameplay is nothing when 75% of it will be on the back of a horse tapping x and steering.
  7. NathanDTS
    Sep 24, 2019
    4
    Inherently just very boring. Story is probably Rockstar's best effort, but their pursuit of realism results in one of the dullest open worlds in a videogame. Combat is just as bad as any other Rockstar game, movement is slow and tanky whether on foot or horseback. Numerous pointless animations can make a dominoes game last two in game days and you'll find yourself stranded without a horseInherently just very boring. Story is probably Rockstar's best effort, but their pursuit of realism results in one of the dullest open worlds in a videogame. Combat is just as bad as any other Rockstar game, movement is slow and tanky whether on foot or horseback. Numerous pointless animations can make a dominoes game last two in game days and you'll find yourself stranded without a horse in the middle of nowhere on multiple occasions.… Expand
  8. GSA85
    Sep 25, 2019
    4
    Unfortunately, RDR2 is just an unimpressive game.
    I would love to enjoy this game, but all the times I try to play I quickly regret. The whole story is not fun or exciting. In general, the game is slow, repetitive and monotonous. All the player movement is a bit clunky, heavy and sometimes very frustrating and infuriating. In your gang camp looks like you are the only one working,    Unfortunately, RDR2 is just an unimpressive game.
    I would love to enjoy this game, but all the times I try to play I quickly regret. The whole story is not fun or exciting. In general, the game is slow, repetitive and monotonous. All the player movement is a bit clunky, heavy and sometimes very frustrating and infuriating. In your gang camp looks like you are the only one working, hunting, etc. (why...? are the others in holidays?). The AI is really bad. If you get caught by authorities you need to pay ALOT of your money and find dollars it's not easy in this game. One time authorities came to catch me because "animal cruelty": I was hunting some pigs to give to my camp...! The "bounty hunters" loves to appear in the worst moments, like when you are cutting an animal, so the only thing you can do is see your player taking shots and dying.
    Don't get me wrong, I'm 34 years old, already played thousands of games and thousands of game genres and this game is just boring. It's not about slow of fast, it's about the lake of immersing in the game, the lack of deeply of all characters. It's a beautiful world? Yes, it is. It's funny? No, it's not funny for sure. Boring is the best word to describe it. Maybe this game can be enjoyable for a 12 years old guy, with 10 hours of the day to play, simulating hunting and farming without any reason of goal. But well, if you are looking for something exciting, this game is just disappointment.    … Expand
  9. Clownypants
    Nov 20, 2019
    4
    Paid reviewers cannot be trusted. I loved RDR1, completed every little task and achievement and hated to see it end. RDR2 was an absolute chore to get through and I was glad when it was finally over. If you so much as look at someone cross-eyed, they will pull their gun and you had better run. Try to defend yourself and the whole town will crash down on you with endless waves of lawmenPaid reviewers cannot be trusted. I loved RDR1, completed every little task and achievement and hated to see it end. RDR2 was an absolute chore to get through and I was glad when it was finally over. If you so much as look at someone cross-eyed, they will pull their gun and you had better run. Try to defend yourself and the whole town will crash down on you with endless waves of lawmen and search parties. Paying off your bounties was optional in RDR1, but not here. What kind of outlaw goes to the Post Office and pays his bounties? This makes exploring significantly more difficult and much less fun. In addition, the storyline is crammed with Hollywood's usual woke nonsense - 'strong' women, sad Indians, racist southerners, and even a jab at capital punishment. This was a bloated mess of a game; pretty to look at, but not much fun to play.… Expand
  10. jmherron61
    Dec 22, 2019
    4
    This just shows you that users have more accurate ratings than critics. User reviews were higher for original, which I totally agree. While critics reviews gave "2" a higher score, totally disagree. I gave this game a 4 and would give the original a 9. Everything that was great in original has been removed and replaced with terrible content. What are these critics thinking?
  11. NukeTv
    Jan 23, 2021
    4
    Au delà de l'aspect technique, ce jeu est nul. Ce n'est même pas un jeu vidéo, c'est un film interactif. La physique du personnage est atroce, la lenteur est déconcertante, la mécanique de shoot est nulle, la liberté est inexistante ce qui est un comble pour un monde ouvert, le fait qu'on puisse passer les missions ou les pnj qui agissent à votre place est une insulte au jeu vidéo. LeAu delà de l'aspect technique, ce jeu est nul. Ce n'est même pas un jeu vidéo, c'est un film interactif. La physique du personnage est atroce, la lenteur est déconcertante, la mécanique de shoot est nulle, la liberté est inexistante ce qui est un comble pour un monde ouvert, le fait qu'on puisse passer les missions ou les pnj qui agissent à votre place est une insulte au jeu vidéo. Le craft du camp est juste une blague. Le scénario est chiant et prétentieux. Sans parler du mode online qui est inutile. Chasser et pêcher ne servent à rien alors qu'on nous vend un cowboy simulator. Donc quitte à être extrémiste, il aurait fallu inclure des mécaniques de survie. Ce jeu est juste une belle carte postale pour casu.… Expand
  12. anykey_
    Feb 20, 2021
    4
    It's boring, sad, hard. It is not possible to play because of the boringness of everything. An extended movie about cowboys, with a bunch of mechanics that were used in previous games from RockStar studios.
  13. qwertyrevenge
    May 5, 2020
    4
    Minor spoilers(very minor, should not really matter to anyone, but be warned if you don't want to know anything about the story)

    I really liked the first RDR and really hoped that this would be a great game. I did dredge through this monotonous snooze-fest of beautiful scenery and was just left with the annoyance of time wasted with no payoff. The annoyance that hit me first in the    Minor spoilers(very minor, should not really matter to anyone, but be warned if you don't want to know anything about the story)

    I really liked the first RDR and really hoped that this would be a great game. I did dredge through this monotonous snooze-fest of beautiful scenery and was just left with the annoyance of time wasted with no payoff.

    The annoyance that hit me first in the game is that while it has amazing attention to details, it's in all the wrong places. Like the horse testicles are modeled, but no one bothered to have even a cursory glance at how horses behave. You really can't ride a horse off a cliff, unless there's a lot of trust to begin with. Also, you can't ride a horse into a tree, even if you wanted. In RDR 2, the horses will run into trees and off cliffs, even if you have just stolen the horse. This is just stupid and immersion breaking. It's like the devs have never actually seen a live horse, let alone interacted with one in any capacity. Also, the movement of there character movement is nicely physically modeled but they control like they are walking on stilts.

    The story was also just phoned in. The same story arc is told several times with minor variance. The characters are mostly at least adequately written, but the story does not reflect these characters in any way and forces and even requires them to behave in a very different manner than what the characters would reasonably do. The story also drags on and on with not a lot of story to tell. This is not up to Rockstar's usual standards.

    The gameplay is clunky, not a deal breaker, but nothing to write home about. The less said about the horses, the better.

    The worst thing about the game is in its pacing. It does seem like a giant middle finger pointed at the player. Most of the time is spent going from from point A to point B. There's also an astounding amount of busy work that's neither challenging or fun. The absolute low-point for me was a house-building sequence, where you just tapped a single button for several minutes, what engaging gameplay. There are some high points in the game but they are few and far between. The mission lengths were also all over the place with no real indication, whether the mission would be a shorter thing or 1 hour ride-to-several-places. Not that the missions couldn't be partitioned in a way since most of the long missions are spent just going to somewhere, slowly. The completely arbitrary mission lengths would not be so annoying, if you could save in the missions and not having to play a boring riding sequence again if you want to go to sleep or something.

    All this being said, RDR 2 has a good game in it, but it's just buried under a huge pile of pretentious disregard for the medium. Then again, the single player story might just be a lazy throw-in for a cash-grab multiplayer.    … Expand
  14. dariasevsk
    Jun 21, 2020
    4
    Не очень понятен восторг по поводу этой игры, та же гта5 в другом сеттинге, да, красиво, но очень-очень скучно
  15. norvegg616
    Aug 2, 2020
    4
    Всратая стрельба, унылая графика, невнимание к деталям, ужасная "неуклюжесть" персонажа, еще и этот убогий лаунчер от рокстар. ...проблем у игры навалом. Её хочется полюбить, но она не оставляет шансов для этого. Множество сильных механик и элементов ломаются о недостатки игры. Опять наебался, поведясь на отзывы и хвалебные песни блогеров. 2 косаря на ветер. Спасибо, пидорасы!Всратая стрельба, унылая графика, невнимание к деталям, ужасная "неуклюжесть" персонажа, еще и этот убогий лаунчер от рокстар. ...проблем у игры навалом. Её хочется полюбить, но она не оставляет шансов для этого. Множество сильных механик и элементов ломаются о недостатки игры. Опять наебался, поведясь на отзывы и хвалебные песни блогеров. 2 косаря на ветер. Спасибо, пидорасы!
  16. dmedd6
    Jun 27, 2020
    4
    Yet another sequel that does disservice to its predecessor.
    Not a popular opinion, but Arthur Morgan is a weak character in a weak story that's all over the place and 20 hours too long. He has no agency, things just kind of happen to him and he doesn't really ever do anything about it. He just accepts that he has to do anything Dutch says without question, until the story reaches a    Yet another sequel that does disservice to its predecessor.
    Not a popular opinion, but Arthur Morgan is a weak character in a weak story that's all over the place and 20 hours too long. He has no agency, things just kind of happen to him and he doesn't really ever do anything about it. He just accepts that he has to do anything Dutch says without question, until the story reaches a drawn-out, incredibly predictable ending. I had such high hopes for this game, because I LOVE the first one.
    It gets the 4 points it gets from me because at times, it is quite fun to play. There's a lot of extras and immersion mechanics that rockstar clearly put a lot of time and effort into, and it is very innovative in lots of different ways.
    That said, the entire spirit of rockstar is absent here. Rockstar is sarcastic, irreverent, and purposefully politically incorrect. This is true of the GTA series and the original Red Dead. None of that is present here. RDR2 is dour, serious, self-congratulatory, and politically correct to the point of being anachronistic considering that the story takes place in 1898.
    Playing the game makes me sad, and I wish developers would get over this whole "we're not giving you what you want, we're giving you what you need" mentality and just make a game that's fun to play with characters that are fun to inhabit. You want me to be in a western cowboy shoot-em-up but you want me to feel bad about it? Screw you, guy. Real life is sad and bleak and unsatisfying, why does my entertainment need to emulate that?
    Also, I know I said the main story was too long, but I really, really wanted single player DLC where you could play as Sadie, Charles, Dutch, etc. They were all more interesting characters than Arthur. And they didn't have cartoonish Yosemite Sam voices and say "Sure-ah..." 8 million times.    … Expand
  17. Thalesman
    Apr 23, 2022
    4
    O Jogo é bom mais incrivelmente chato, combate sem muito desafio, armas não fazem diferença nenhuma.
  18. mmikkel
    Jul 11, 2020
    4
    Amazing graphics, sound design and voice acting doesn't save RDR2 from being one of the worst gaming experiences I've ever had.

    RDR2's gameplay, mission design and UI is bad – but the story is by far the worst part. The game's repetitive, slow and depressing story basically spends 60 hours moving in circles only to recycle the themes from the first game. Major disappointment.
  19. ConsumerPro
    Jul 22, 2020
    4
    Yes this games graphics are beautiful, yes this game has compelling and well written characters and yes this is probably the most detailed game I have ever played. However this game suffers from being far to long and repetitive. I normally would like a really long game however there needs to be some feeling of progression i.e. unlocking new items.The controls and shooting are stillYes this games graphics are beautiful, yes this game has compelling and well written characters and yes this is probably the most detailed game I have ever played. However this game suffers from being far to long and repetitive. I normally would like a really long game however there needs to be some feeling of progression i.e. unlocking new items.The controls and shooting are still outdated since rockstar refuses to update them. There is a such thing as trying to make a game too realistic, so many of the survival and side mechanics are just annoying and can ruin enjoyment. You can no longer have the fun you could in red dead 1 (i.e. lassoying someone up) as someone will just see you and will inform the lawman. This game just went way to far in the realism department and it ruined a lot of the fun for me. To conclude, this game could have been great but they ruined a lot of the fun with over tedious animations and mechanics. This makes me genuinely worried about GTA 6.
    pros:
    -great graphics
    -well written characters
    -excellent detail to small things
    -interesting story for most of the game

    cons:
    -far too long story
    -no progression such as unlocking new skills or items
    too realistic (i.e. having to eat, feed you horse, drink other elixsars)
    -animations can be too slow and tedious
    -shooting (mainly aiming) does not feel good
    -controls that should have been updated a long time ago
    -hat constantly fall off
    - animals have different conditions (which just makes hunting more annoying)
    -constantly unequips weapons and puts the on your horse    … Expand
  20. Moutch
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Extremely beautiful and polished game, but also hollow and boring. I had a hard time finishing it, I just did not have fun.
  21. dhananjay12
    Oct 15, 2021
    4
    in short, the most boring game I have ever played. Slept on the couch too many times. Not going to buy a game just on reviews without watching a gameplay video on how engaging the Game really is.

    The Graphics were indeed the best.
  22. dm222
    Dec 23, 2020
    4
    They did a good job with the story, and world, but this is not a game, it is an interactive movie, follow X, go to Y, click Z for 10 minutes

    Controls are the worse Ive ever experienced, slow, and unresponsive, my controller lost years of life me clicking so hard... Missions were too easy and you had to go though 30 minutes of nonsense stuff before starting o really play each mission.
  23. BuckyMcNut
    Feb 20, 2021
    4
    THE MOST BORING GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED! Rockstar is clearly more interested in what they can do instead of what they should do. Love playing a game to do in game manual labour, and the act of playing this game feels the same. I play games to have fun, not slog through boring quest after boring task. Wish I could get a refund.
  24. datonelildude
    Nov 29, 2021
    4
    Objective Pros:
    -Sound design, graphics, voice acting
    -Other developers throw words around like “a breathing living world” when describing their open world games but fail to deliver. Rockstar is the first to actually achieve this with their game world in RDR2 Subjective Pros/Cons: -Story is good but unfortunately also piles the responsibility of being a good cowboy to fulfill the    Objective Pros:
    -Sound design, graphics, voice acting
    -Other developers throw words around like “a breathing living world” when describing their open world games but fail to deliver. Rockstar is the first to actually achieve this with their game world in RDR2

    Subjective Pros/Cons:
    -Story is good but unfortunately also piles the responsibility of being a good cowboy to fulfill the “Redemption” part of Red Dead Redemption 2 which can be boring. Let me do outlaw stuff in a game about outlaws Rockstar, without bounty hunters coming after me after I’ve escaped the law or after death. Do anything bad = having to pay ridiculous amounts of money to clear your name. The game dissuades and discourages you from playing it like past Rockstar open world titles
    -Terrible pacing. The game is just simply too long and the story doesn’t get interesting until the end of Chapter 3. By then I’d put over 30 hours into this game. It shouldn’t take 30+ hours to finally get into a story. And even when I finally got into it, I just couldn’t be bothered to finish the game due to the boring minute to minute gameplay
    -Realism Schemalism: There’s attention to detail and then there’s obsession with detail. RDR2’s realism is too much that it actually ends up getting in the way of enjoying the game as a game. Get ready to trade in your real life responsibilities and chores for digital video game ones… including, but not limited to: tapping X/A on your controller to get around anywhere on this overly large map (Larger than GTA V and that game had cars, planes, Jets, etc… and fast travel isn’t unlocked til later in the game), feed Arthur, bathe Arthur, refill your health, stamina and dead eye core, contribute to the camp’s fund box, wear the appropriate clothes for the appropriate weather, bring food back to camp, feed your horse, pat your horse, brush your horse, buy horse reviver before long trips because your horse can die, get stranded in the middle of nowhere and be forced to walk up to 10 minutes because your horse has a maximum whistle hearing range, clean your guns, equip your guns from your horse because you can’t carry all your weapons on your person because… realism… hooray. It’s not fun, it’s tedious for the sake of being tedious and slow.

    Objective Cons:
    -Bad/clunky controls
    -If you played the original Red Dead Redemption, you already know how the story ends so the story doesn’t carry as much weight


    Let me preface this by saying I’ve generally been a lifelong fan of Rockstar Games and the Open World experiences they create. After playing the masterpiece that is Red Dead Redemption 1, I had high expectations for Red Dead Redemption 2. Those expectations were not met, but more importantly, neither were the expectations I’ve come to expect from a Rockstar Open World game. For as long as I can remember, Rockstar Games have emphasized and prioritized player freedom into the core design of their open world games. Red Dead Redemption 2 seems more interested in showing off how realistic a game can be and telling its slog of a story rather than on what the player can, or what the player wants to do. No, I wasn’t expecting something like GTA but I expected something more along the lines of the first Red Dead Redemption. The prequel was more grounded in reality than the likes of something like GTA but it still knew it was a game and still let you have your fun within the open world. In contrast, Red Dead Redemption 2 actively feels like it punishes the player for trying to play the game like you would any other past Rockstar Game… it feels more restrictive. This game doesn’t ask you to play it, it asks you to live it. Unfortunately, most days I simply want to come home and escape the mundane and monotonous aspects of life by playing a video game that lets me escape. Red Dead Redemption 2 only confronts the player with more chores and responsibilities, and unlike other games, doesn’t even try to gameify the responsibilities. Albeit digital, chores still feel like chores. Overall, a game that has the potential to be this boring and dull gameplaywise can never be considered a 10 by anyone that considers themselves a fan of the vide game medium.    … Expand
  25. Haannss
    Nov 17, 2022
    4
    This has been my greatest disappointment of PS4 generation. I've played it on 2022 on a PS5. Maybe for that reason the graphics didn't blow my mind, comparing to more recent games. But that's not the problem. Graphics are good even now, and it's easy to understand that back on the day it was released people thought they were amazing. The problem is that once you let the graphics aside,This has been my greatest disappointment of PS4 generation. I've played it on 2022 on a PS5. Maybe for that reason the graphics didn't blow my mind, comparing to more recent games. But that's not the problem. Graphics are good even now, and it's easy to understand that back on the day it was released people thought they were amazing. The problem is that once you let the graphics aside, there's nothing else into this game.

    First of all, the controls feel slow and clumsy. That makes the experience uncomfortable, and the feeling doesn't go away after hours and hours of gameplay: you never get used to it. Besides, many actions require stupid button combinations that other games solve in a much simpler way. C'mon, why would I need to hold L2 while I choose an action with another button just to choose what do I want to say to an NPC? Instead of changing to the dialogue menu, as everybody else does? That's not innovative, is making complex a simple thing. The same goes for the menus. I've seen simpler menus to choose what magic, among all, do I want to use on FFVII Remake, for example, than to choose what medicine should I use on RDR2.

    And here cames the worst: the game is terribly boring. It's like the creators didn't want you to play it, but just to sit down and watch it like a film. I really love single player narrative games, but most of them (Horizon saga, GOW, Uncharted saga, ...) try to involve the player to PLAY a story, giving that "play" part the importance it deserves. Here, it's more like if you have to make a constant effort to let the anti-player-quality-of-life mechanics pass. For example, if you fail a mission, you will start it again from the very beggining, because there is no autosave during missions, nor any chance to manually save your progress. Now, think of a mission that lasts, let's say 40 minutes, where everything gets more difficult during the last 10 minutes. You'll have to repeat every part, including cinematic sequences (some you can skip, some you can't). That doesn't make the game more difficult -just more tedious.

    When it cames to the story, I think it's well told, but the rythm is too slow. It's just as if there was the intention to make it long with content that is not that interesting. That makes the story interesting at some key moments, but too irregular. I didn't feel close to the characters at all, but this last point could be just me, and with no doubt the anti-plyer-quality-of-life mechanics I talked about didn't make me be in the best mood to feel close to anything in the game.

    To sum up, I had really high expectations for this game because of the high rating, the GOTY and all, and it totally let me down. I tried to enjoy it, really tried it because once you spend the money you want to make it count, but I ended up focussing on finishing it as quick as possible to pass to a more enjoyable game.    … Expand
  26. hxDaan
    Feb 21, 2022
    4
    Just really boring to me. Online with a friend was fun for a few hours but also became really boring after that
  27. JustPlayer
    Oct 26, 2018
    3
    This, of course, is a very beautiful thing. There are many details in it. The world of the game is big and rich. BUT. But it's more like a movie. Very unhurried. There is not a lot of basic gameplay in it. It is clearly better than the first part. In which in general 90% of the time there were dialogues and movement from point A to point B. And then again conversations. Two or three shots.This, of course, is a very beautiful thing. There are many details in it. The world of the game is big and rich. BUT. But it's more like a movie. Very unhurried. There is not a lot of basic gameplay in it. It is clearly better than the first part. In which in general 90% of the time there were dialogues and movement from point A to point B. And then again conversations. Two or three shots. And the successful completion of the mission. In this series of gameplay more. But it is still not enough.… Expand
  28. juliogf
    Nov 26, 2018
    3
    Firstly, I would start rating metacritic, as the same score (3).
    The score of this game is manipulated. Probably developers and their family are voting too and this is not nice (This is dishonest !!!)
    RDR 1 is a 9, and when the store finishes you will give 10! RDR 2 is a 4 or 5. Ok to play, but the game is slow, sometimes appears that you are watching a movie...long journeys showing    Firstly, I would start rating metacritic, as the same score (3).
    The score of this game is manipulated. Probably developers and their family are voting too and this is not nice (This is dishonest !!!)
    RDR 1 is a 9, and when the store finishes you will give 10!
    RDR 2 is a 4 or 5. Ok to play, but the game is slow, sometimes appears that you are watching a movie...long journeys showing beautiful graphics (I don't care. I play capitalism2, aoe2, production line with horrible graphics and will give a 10 for all of them...)
    This game feels like grinding in an open world... So the score should be 4 or 5, but with the score fraud, I will give a = 3. Ok, I bought the game this time, but I will not trust anymore reviews by any game of yours Rockstar! you won this fight but not the war Rockstar.    … Expand
  29. sud
    Nov 8, 2018
    3
    Gets Very Very Very Boring Riding a Horse.the Game mode is Fine,but. once that has been completed,the game gets Dull,unless you like a Horse riding sim. it seems ROCKSTAR is Herding up Some Cash Cows.you put the game on play it for twenty minutes,then turn it of. Cue the MICRO transactions.Gets Very Very Very Boring Riding a Horse.the Game mode is Fine,but. once that has been completed,the game gets Dull,unless you like a Horse riding sim. it seems ROCKSTAR is Herding up Some Cash Cows.you put the game on play it for twenty minutes,then turn it of. Cue the MICRO transactions. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$… Expand
  30. PuckMan
    Oct 29, 2018
    3
    Is this a Rockstar game? Where's the fun? Where's the humour?

    Controls are a mess. Characters are boring and miserable. Game feels so and clunky, kinda reminded me of The Order 1886 and The Evil Within 2. User interface is terrible. What the hell are those itty bitty black and white icons? My health? Dead eye meter? No idea. The game doesn't want you to have fun. You have to do    Is this a Rockstar game? Where's the fun? Where's the humour?

    Controls are a mess. Characters are boring and miserable. Game feels so and clunky, kinda reminded me of The Order 1886 and The Evil Within 2.

    User interface is terrible. What the hell are those itty bitty black and white icons? My health? Dead eye meter? No idea.

    The game doesn't want you to have fun. You have to do what the game wants you to do how the game wants you to do it, which usually involves chasing after someone and tying them up or shooting them before they run away otherwise you are punished with game over and long boring re-load screen.

    So much busy work. Everything feels like a chore.

    Mediocre graphics, good but very underwhelming.

    Anything good? Big open game world to explore with lots of detail and things to see and do but the game is ruined by focusing on dull simulation instead of fun gameplay.    … 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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