Red Dead Redemption 2

 PlayStation 4
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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21344 Ratings

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  1. DinoBeam
    Feb 4, 2022
    2
    You stop your horse by the side of the road to listen to someone that is talking to you, someone else rams their horse into you over and over and says you are trying to fight them, then they start fighting you, you win, now you have a bounty. Bounty hunters in overwhelming numbers come to hunt you, they kill you, when you load back up you spawn some ways away as if it didn't happen and theYou stop your horse by the side of the road to listen to someone that is talking to you, someone else rams their horse into you over and over and says you are trying to fight them, then they start fighting you, you win, now you have a bounty. Bounty hunters in overwhelming numbers come to hunt you, they kill you, when you load back up you spawn some ways away as if it didn't happen and the bounty is still on you, so you go back to fight them again and they are gone, no redemption. You find an enemy camp of a rival gang and sneak up on it, you save so you can retry at a good spot before you start shooting, you almost win the fight but they kill you, you reload your save only to be spawned somewhere else, you go back to the camp and no one is there, no redemption. You are riding to a story mission, surprise bounty hunters start shooting you, but you outrun them not wanting to deal with their annoying mechanics anymore, only to run straight into another giant group of bounty hunters that you cannot outrun and they kill you, no decency of mechanics. You have a huge firefight with your gang when money has been tight and dead bodies are everywhere with money on them, the game doesn't let you pick it up and makes you fail the mission if you do, no decency of mechanics. This game is one of the most passive aggressive rude things I've ever experienced. Trying something, failing, learning from your mistake, and then winning from that learning is the very basics of video games themselves. Red Dead Redemption 2 REFUSES TO LET YOU HAVE REDEMPTION! This is so ridiculous it seems like an inside joke! And do not fool yourself into thinking you have freedom here, You have to do every mission the EXACT way they want you to, otherwise you fail. It is insanely abrasive. "Hey lets keep our guns down, I know how trigger happy you get" if you disagree too bad, it's all extremely rigid. Lovers of Mario, BEWARE, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Lovers of From Software, BEWARE, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.… Expand
  2. SuperMax156
    Oct 28, 2018
    2
    When the critics uniformly agree that something is brilliant that to me is not a good sign. The current 7.5 as rated by the users is actually more realistic. This game is not terrible, unfortunately though its just more of the same we have seen before, but with a horrible gunplay control system.
  3. AreYouSerious
    Nov 10, 2018
    2
    This might sound harsh, but at least I finished it, so I can give you an honest overall opinion. I'm also going to try and avoid open spoilers, so it may sound a bit convoluted if you haven't finished the game.

    I, like most it seems, struggled with the pace and controls at the beginning, but once Chapter 2 came along I "got into the groove" of the game. By then, I was still hot and cold    This might sound harsh, but at least I finished it, so I can give you an honest overall opinion. I'm also going to try and avoid open spoilers, so it may sound a bit convoluted if you haven't finished the game.

    I, like most it seems, struggled with the pace and controls at the beginning, but once Chapter 2 came along I "got into the groove" of the game. By then, I was still hot and cold on it - probably sitting around a 5/10. Then at some point I actually started to enjoy it, and I would have been 7.5-8/10. But then Chapter 5 happened - and from that moment forth, any enjoyment dwindled to the point of hatred by the time I'd finished it. At the end of Chapter 6 I was so pissed off, I really had to force myself to get through the excruciating Epilogue chapters (if I want RDR 1, I'd play it - I'm here to play number 2). I know it ties in, but I wanted to keep playing the "path" I was on.

    Pros:
    World - graphically amazing. Some parts (ironically Chapter 5) look jaw-dropping on a 4K set-up.
    Voice acting - absolutely top-notch.

    Cons:
    Everything else...
    Story - what story??? "Just one more job and we're going to leave." Job goes wrong... rinse and repeat for the entire game. I've never in my life heard the same lines repeated so many times, over and over again. Stupid writing, stupid unlikable (most of them, not all) characters.

    Mechanics - I got "used" to them, but never liked them.

    Gameplay - sorry, but the "realism" is BS, and ultimately boring. Feeding/maintaining yourself and the horse gets real thin by the half way point. And the "realism" card so many blind sheep seem to be pulling, is diminished by some really stupid writing (again, Chapter 5, particularly the very beginning).

    There is ZERO progression. The guns never get any better, the fights never get any harder, you don't learn or acquire anything new - there is absolutely no sense of achievement whatsoever. Again, rinse and repeat everything to the point of nausea.

    Side "incidents" started to repeat themselves by the end.

    You'd go into missions with your preferred guns, and the game would swap them out and force you to use what it wanted you to.

    Guns would disappear out of your inventory, and you'd have to buy them again.

    I could go on and on, but there's just too many issues to put down.

    The only mission I cared about was in Chapter 6 concerning the Native Americans, and they even managed to **** that up to with some really stupid story and gameplay-mechanic decisions.

    How this has been getting 10/10's from critics is totally beyond comprehension - unless Rockstar paid for them. Same with users, but some people can't see beyond their adoration for all things Rockstar.

    I expected so much more after GTA5 and RDR (1), so to say this was a disappointment would be a (sad) understatement.    … Expand
  4. JM81
    Oct 27, 2018
    2
    This game is a serious 'western RPG simulator', sold as an 'action' game. It's just very, very slow, held back, clunky, with tons and tons of RPG customization, maintenance and stuff I personally hate about games.

    It would personally be a 4x better game if the old RDR game mechanics were in place instead of........ "this". So if you're into literally role playing as a cowboy, with    This game is a serious 'western RPG simulator', sold as an 'action' game. It's just very, very slow, held back, clunky, with tons and tons of RPG customization, maintenance and stuff I personally hate about games.

    It would personally be a 4x better game if the old RDR game mechanics were in place instead of........ "this".

    So if you're into literally role playing as a cowboy, with slooooow gameplay, sloooooow riding, sloooooow walking, sloooooow progression. Then this is the game for you!

    I'm not that person though, so this game is just dull as dish water to me. 2/10. Boring.    … Expand
  5. Drewshka
    Oct 27, 2018
    2
    If you liked the pacing and overall feel of L.A. Noire, then you might enjoy this more than I do. I found that game and this game to be frustrating in the same way.

    The horse-riding mechanics are terrible, and the game is so profoundly slow and over-indulgent that it takes me completely out of it. Yes, they achieve a level of complexity rarely seen in any video game, but they do it at    If you liked the pacing and overall feel of L.A. Noire, then you might enjoy this more than I do. I found that game and this game to be frustrating in the same way.

    The horse-riding mechanics are terrible, and the game is so profoundly slow and over-indulgent that it takes me completely out of it. Yes, they achieve a level of complexity rarely seen in any video game, but they do it at the expense of a smooth and enjoyable gaming experience. They almost dare you to continue through the absurdly boring and long horsey rides down path after path of their admittedly gorgeous snow-filled landscape. I've only played for a few hours, but I can already tell that this was a mistake of a purchase for me.

    From reading the comments and the endless 10 ratings, I can really only assume that people are going off Rockstar's reputation for making good games. Or maybe they're bots. I'm not sure. But I really can't believe they, IGN and the other game "reviewing" companies are playing the same game I am. The whole thing seems like an intricately decorated, lovingly nurtured, completely hollow experience.

    I am pressing four or five buttons at once at any given time, just to ride and shoot at the same time, or to look through my satchel, or to add things from my satchel to my wheel (which is useless). The "dead eye" thing also has yet to make its purpose known to me.

    To anyone like me who decided to buy this game based on the hype without looking at the reality of the game mechanics, I'd suggest making sure you like this kind of game before dropping 60 bucks.    … Expand
  6. barce1ona
    Oct 27, 2018
    2
    reviewers are suffering mass delusion. game is like a walking simulator. slow and boring. takes an age just to turn round. no wonder game is said to be 60 hours. most of it is grinding away doing rubbish with constant cut scenes!
  7. CyrusDrake25
    Nov 27, 2018
    2
    Beautiful. Gorgeous. Very well scripted and voice acted. For that it gets more than a zero. For everything else, the hours of frustration and time wasting... this game is more boring than sleep.

    Don't believe the hype.
  8. HPMHS
    Nov 13, 2018
    2
    To all smart guys here: Try to rob secret business in Valentine without having bounty. The lawmen re spawn outside the house immediately after you enter secret room. They will recognize you no matter what. Even through the wall. If anyone of you "saying about the new clothes, new horse, new hairstyle" can pull it off ??? Hell NO!!! It's impossible, even i was trying to drag their attentionTo all smart guys here: Try to rob secret business in Valentine without having bounty. The lawmen re spawn outside the house immediately after you enter secret room. They will recognize you no matter what. Even through the wall. If anyone of you "saying about the new clothes, new horse, new hairstyle" can pull it off ??? Hell NO!!! It's impossible, even i was trying to drag their attention away before robbing, on the other side of town, with some explosion. No result, cops re spawn just outside doc. office again. The game RDR2 has a big issues with realistic mechanics of bounty and lawmen in general. Even in the smallest **** hole cop's just keep coming, without any delay. It is not realistic at all!!! After you kill all 3 lawmen in Valentine for example, there should be time delay before new cops arrive. At least a time of actual horse riding from nearest village. But, hell no. Will make them re spawn endlessly just next to you!!! Are you serious Rock star??? But i guess they are in coma. No response from them.… Expand
  9. bhappenstance
    Sep 29, 2020
    2
    Chores: The Game. Shave. Eat. Your horse is dirty. Your stamina is low. Endless, tedious minutiae do not a game make. More evidence that the game criticism industry is utterly, hopelessly broken, unless stellar graphics are all that count.
  10. Russkiy_Hockage
    Nov 29, 2018
    2
    Awful port for ps4. Slows down almost everywhere. And this huge size ...
    It seems that Rokstar cooperates with WD and Seagate :I
  11. francegame
    Dec 10, 2019
    2
    An empty and boring world. Simulator of idiot on a horse. Poor quality graphics. Boring and uninteresting tasks.
  12. allwititnowsuck
    Jan 6, 2019
    2
    Game filled with tons of unnecesary details,plays nearly exactly like it's predecessor,mediocore shooting and painfully slow gameplay.Everyone on the internet be like "BEST GAEM EVUR DON'T HATE ON IT".If anything this game highly overrated almost as much as GTA V the most overrated game in the history.
    Can't wait for some fangirls from other sites to start screenshot me and other people    Game filled with tons of unnecesary details,plays nearly exactly like it's predecessor,mediocore shooting and painfully slow gameplay.Everyone on the internet be like "BEST GAEM EVUR DON'T HATE ON IT".If anything this game highly overrated almost as much as GTA V the most overrated game in the history.
    Can't wait for some fangirls from other sites to start screenshot me and other people who disliked this game to start attacking everyone who disliked this.But hey why would you act like a mature person and respect other peoples opinions when you can act like a literal baby and just start attacking people for having different opinions?
    Edit: Just finished the game, honestly one of the most average mediocore pieces of video game lately.
    Edit: Don't you guys love all those biased opinions? Almost everyone will tell you how awesome the game is, giving you petty reasons why game deserves 10/10 instantly, they'll be like "CUZ IT'S ROCKSTAR IT MUST BE 10/10" or "MINOR UNIMPORTANT DETAILS ARE SO C00L".
    Rockstars logo gives games immunity from criticism,don't believe me?Check out positive score.There is a huge gap between people who actually realize the game isn't perfect and people who blindly give it 10.
    And will let you guess which one is overwhelming,but by now it should be obvious.
    Edit: I'm lowering score from 4/10 to 2/10 because the community of this game is definitely something...    … Expand
  13. Goodreviewer69
    Jan 20, 2019
    2
    **** game, dudes giving it more then 8 should reconsider their life, really
  14. odysseus420
    Dec 9, 2018
    2
    Even putting aside the godawful controls (which I've seen someone very accurately describe as "struggling to walk around a table") RDR2 is one of the most boring games I've ever played. What's the point in cramming 100000 mini activities in your game if none of them are any fun or interesting? After the eye candy and technical achievement wears off you're left with a boring, overlong gameEven putting aside the godawful controls (which I've seen someone very accurately describe as "struggling to walk around a table") RDR2 is one of the most boring games I've ever played. What's the point in cramming 100000 mini activities in your game if none of them are any fun or interesting? After the eye candy and technical achievement wears off you're left with a boring, overlong game that takes it self way too seriously.… Expand
  15. Gamexss
    Oct 26, 2018
    2
    Very overdone game. media has given too many points. the game is very heavy and seedy. but the graphics are nice. There is nothing else beautiful.
  16. DIMXX
    Oct 26, 2018
    2
    плюсы игры - графика и проработка. Минусы - скучно, растянуто, делать нечего, мало событий, много езды на лошади и болтовни. Подойдет тем кто в восторге от вестернов и разговоров в играх, так как по сути это просто игровой фильм. Остальным скучно и покупать не советую!!!плюсы игры - графика и проработка. Минусы - скучно, растянуто, делать нечего, мало событий, много езды на лошади и болтовни. Подойдет тем кто в восторге от вестернов и разговоров в играх, так как по сути это просто игровой фильм. Остальным скучно и покупать не советую!!!
  17. PlayerSpain
    Oct 26, 2018
    2
    Los gráficos son bastante bonitos, pero el juego me parece realmente aburrido. Le falta nervio, dinámica... el gamplay me parece un poco encorsetado, no tengo la sensación de libertad de otros juegos.
  18. poupet
    Oct 28, 2018
    2
    Beautiful visually, but it really lacks a good gameplay. The game is slow, and the story and characters are not very interesting.
  19. lilboomshrimp
    Oct 28, 2018
    2
    pros: pretty; big world.
    cons: bad gameplay, disappearing weapons and quests, unrealistic AI. i should have just waited for this game to go on sale.
  20. DazSavage
    Oct 29, 2018
    2
    An utterly beautiful and deep game with the beginnings of great beleivable character development... utterly ruined by controls that are overly complex. There's too much frustrating and superfluous detail which does nothing but stand in the way of the fun. The horse system is stupid. There's a crafting system that requires combinations of animal pelts but nowhere to store anything evenAn utterly beautiful and deep game with the beginnings of great beleivable character development... utterly ruined by controls that are overly complex. There's too much frustrating and superfluous detail which does nothing but stand in the way of the fun. The horse system is stupid. There's a crafting system that requires combinations of animal pelts but nowhere to store anything even though you have a large camp. So I ended up just selling my hard hunted perfect skins because I needed room... so I don't even know how the crafting of some high end kit would be even possible. The horse steals back all your rifles every time you sit on it so you always end up in fights with the wrong weapons in hand and if you try to sort out your weapons every time you get back on the horse (which is advisable) you end up pulling out a gun in an area where you shouldn't because it's impossible to even look at a weapon without it then being drawn. You push one button to draw a weapon but then you need another button press to raise the weapon and then another to actually open fire... at which point you realise that the horse stole back your guns and the reason your not firing back is that you're unarmed!
    This control scheme is obviously being kept so as to link with GTA 5 and allow players to go from one to another more smoothly. There's no way this scheme would ever have been chosen otherwise because it's simple unusable. There's even some things that are only comfortably achieved if you have three hands.
    I have struggled through about 20 hours now and have always ended my session in a rage quit because I'm always failing mission s or dying due to the game's overly complex system. In one case the horse stopped in front of a door I needed to go through. The horse will not move for you! So I placed the injured man I was rescuing on the ground so I could get back on the horse to move it away and suddenly the guy dies. Not only was this a mission fail but also for no reason everyone in town immediately assumed I had killed him and went for the lawmen. Not very realistic.
    Red Dead 2 is too busy wowing us with how detailed it is to remember that the gamer is looking for some fun and escapism... but here I am just waiting to make a hundred bullets one by one, each with animation. Or waiting for my horse, or waiting to get from A to B because the hopeless fast travel doesn't even do properly the little it tries to. Everything is waiting and waiting... and then even more waiting.
    This is a cowboy simulator not a game.
    My score was a 2 out of 10 due mainly to complete disappointment.
    It's like finding the perfect restaurant, being served amazing food and then being told you have to eat blindfolded while wearing boxing gloves... you will be annoyed, especially when everyone else is getting their control systems right.
    KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.    … Expand
  21. AlagarYa
    Oct 29, 2018
    2
    Графоний норм, процесс норм. Отсутствие ПК версии не норм.
  22. 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.
  23. Angeleo
    Nov 2, 2018
    2
    Игра выглядит не плохо, но пока она будет эксклюзивом на PS4 покупать не буду из принципа. Ждём порт на пк, тогда оценку может и поменяю.
    Если ты это читаешь Эй Джекс, то можешь засунуть свой геймпад себе в анал.
  24. Terrorist495
    Nov 2, 2018
    2
    Сколько можно?! Когда уже Rockstar научатся делать русскую озвучку! Если хотите хорошего к себе отношения, то заслужите его, а так 2 балла.
  25. Lenita11
    Nov 12, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SPOILERS AHEAD! so i got caught out, I did all the treasure hunts and gold generating methods i could find (excluding cheating) during the story. Then as the people who have finished will know Arthur dies and you then play as John. When Arthur dies, even though Arthur hands John his bag you will loose any contents Arthur has (for me about 15 gold bars among other valuables). This also means you cant go redo the any of these hunts. After contacting Rockstar support asking if this is by design, they confirmed yes it is and your not supposed to retain anything you've worked for before Arthur dies. So for a game that's pushing the story mode you get screwed over when you finish. You are far better off by not finishing the game.

    snippet from rockstar support "I understand you are disappointed with the ending of the game. I know that the fact that you cannot play Arthur anymore didn't bode well with many players. However this is as per game mechanics and we have no control over it. We do appreciate an honest feedback from our players. Thank you for it.

    If you are disappointed with RDRII's ending I would suggest you to please play Mass Effect 3."    … Expand
  26. darkmoonx
    Nov 17, 2018
    2
    a very overrated and hyped game rock star is no longer the once we knew and is pretty sad
  27. Vinchezio
    Nov 29, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. RDR2 - good graphics, interesting story!
    RDR2online - farming! GOLD! This is not Freetoplay game WTF!!! boredom -------    … Expand
  28. VinDiesel
    Nov 29, 2018
    2
    What the fock is this game! I can go kill and rob black people! this is foked up. Why does this exist, only a psychopath would enjoy such an experience.
    I do like playing poker though.

    Vin Diesel NOT approved
  29. JJWills1230
    Dec 19, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have found the controls and the gameplay very unintuitive and the lack of a save as you progress is a bore and finally there is no practice mode or area.
    At the beginning of the story it takes about 10-minutes before you get to the first play scene and then if you die on that scene, (which I did) then you have to go back to the beginning and relive the same story.
    When I finally got to the second scene there is a point where you are guided to remove a weapon from your horse saddlebag and I cannot work out how to do it.
    The movement of the characters I think should be more intuitive and there should be a save option throughout the story.
    I'm not a particularly good player on these things so perhaps my lack of skill does not help but if there were practice areas or help guides then that would aid my chances of improving.
    The graphics are amazing and I'm sure the story will be if I can ever progress beyond a snails pace but for me some key basics have been overlooked.    … Expand
  30. slamsouls
    Dec 25, 2018
    2
    boring long horse-riding simulator
    instead of telling 20 hours story, they forced you to ride horse 25 hours and there we have a 45 hours of story content.
    gunfight is super lame, clunky and animations are worst of 2018 games
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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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