Red Dead Redemption 2

 PlayStation 4
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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20362 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 17,237 out of 20362
  2. Mixed: 1,224 out of 20362
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 20362
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  1. Imperium101
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    The controls in this game may be the worst I've ever experienced in a "AAA" game - Arthur moves like he's stuck in quicksand and the menus are convoluted and fidgety.

    Literally half the game is riding from point A to B on your horse, and the side activities feel pointless - you can completely ignore bathing, hunting, weather. Completely superfluous. How can people give this game    The controls in this game may be the worst I've ever experienced in a "AAA" game - Arthur moves like he's stuck in quicksand and the menus are convoluted and fidgety.

    Literally half the game is riding from point A to B on your horse, and the side activities feel pointless - you can completely ignore bathing, hunting, weather. Completely superfluous.

    How can people give this game perfect scores when there is so much to tear apart? The "critics" are useless.    … Expand
  2. SvenL1975
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    A technical masterpiece, an absolute work of art... but just not a good game. No matter how beautiful the world is, it doesn't matter if playing in it is no fun. The gameplay is antiquated, the characters are dull and there are some pretty stupid gameplay design choices that frankly make me wonder if anyone actually playtested this mess. I'm not talking about bugs, there are hardly any,A technical masterpiece, an absolute work of art... but just not a good game. No matter how beautiful the world is, it doesn't matter if playing in it is no fun. The gameplay is antiquated, the characters are dull and there are some pretty stupid gameplay design choices that frankly make me wonder if anyone actually playtested this mess. I'm not talking about bugs, there are hardly any, but about the way the game just keeps trying to make playing it a chore. I'm not sure what to think about the 10/10 reviews by professional critics. Maybe they expected us to love the game and were afraid to be the one reviewer who points out all the flaws of this game. But one look at the User Score here clearly shows that this Emperor has no clothes, and there are a lot of kids here pointing this out.… Expand
  3. WastedBean
    Nov 4, 2018
    4
    I've put about 20 hours into this game so far, but that's as much as it's getting. Red Dead looks amazing and is technically very impressive, but it is just utterly boring. It's bad enough that you have to bathe and shave, but why make it so painfully slow? Getting around the world is tedious, making even the otherwise fun activities like hunting a chore (you can only carry one carcass atI've put about 20 hours into this game so far, but that's as much as it's getting. Red Dead looks amazing and is technically very impressive, but it is just utterly boring. It's bad enough that you have to bathe and shave, but why make it so painfully slow? Getting around the world is tedious, making even the otherwise fun activities like hunting a chore (you can only carry one carcass at a time and have to drop them off at your camp,and you move glacially slowly around the camp). The controls are awkward and combat is weak. How it has 97 from the pro reviewers is a mystery, but it probably involved pots of money. This game is just a waste of your time, money and 100GB of disk space. A real shame because if you removed all the junk and tweaked the controls and combat there's probably a decent game in there.… Expand
  4. Superflyguy
    Nov 5, 2018
    3
    I created an account just to post this.

    I bought RDR2 Friday and played maybe 15 - 20 hours over Saturday and Sunday. Toward the middle of the day on Sunday the "new game"ness effect wore off, and it finally became apparent to me that this game just isn't very much fun. It's repetitive and tedious, and frankly kind of sucks despite the gorgeous landscapes and visuals. Don't believe the    I created an account just to post this.

    I bought RDR2 Friday and played maybe 15 - 20 hours over Saturday and Sunday. Toward the middle of the day on Sunday the "new game"ness effect wore off, and it finally became apparent to me that this game just isn't very much fun. It's repetitive and tedious, and frankly kind of sucks despite the gorgeous landscapes and visuals. Don't believe the critics reviews. The negative and mixed user scores reviews are all spot on.

    As many have mentioned, the controls are inconsistent and confusing. The main character's movement speed is sluggish. Simple actions like tying up your horse horse are annoying to perform. There are animation sequences you can't skip for many basic actions like skinning animals, which get old really quick. The intro is long and boring and doesn't do a great job of introducing you to core game mechanics. There's little replay value because it's so boring sitting through the intro all over again. Every mission is the same: spend 10 minutes riding your horse, do your task for 5 minutes, spend 10 minutes riding back. Want to hunt? Ride your horse for 10 minutes, hunt for 5 minutes, ride your horse 10 minutes back. I kept expecting more mechanics to open up that would make the game more enjoyable. It never got better. The game is just tedious and dull. It's not fun to do mundane tasks over and over. It's not fun to spend 10 minutes riding your horse to get somewhere, do a task for 5 minutes, and ride your horse back 10 minutes tapping X over and over again.

    It's just not a fun game. Don't waste your money.    … Expand
  5. Zerfyx
    Oct 29, 2018
    4
    Where to start. RDR2 has some amazing things in it, but it is not a good game beacouse of it. While some things are amazing, others are among the worst i've seen ever in any game, genre or system.

    The good: The world is amazing, I spent several hours just riding around, hunting, chatting with strangers and helping out people i met on the road. The story's good, not great, but    Where to start. RDR2 has some amazing things in it, but it is not a good game beacouse of it. While some things are amazing, others are among the worst i've seen ever in any game, genre or system.

    The good:
    The world is amazing, I spent several hours just riding around, hunting, chatting with strangers and helping out people i met on the road.
    The story's good, not great, but serviceable, as are the characters.
    Voice acting is impressive, but the random conversations you can strike up with anyone still sound weird, very much like how oblivions conversations between NPCs would sound.

    The Bad: Controls are a mess, always have been in Rockstars games, appart from, for some reason, RDR1.
    It's buggy, Several times i've been unable to continue on in a mission, being forced to throw a dynamite at my feet to reset it.
    QTEs somehow made its way into the game, and it's worse than ever before, being that you don't even get told what button to press, nor does it make sense for the action you do with it. My most remembered case was a woman charging me with a knife while i was trying to lasso her. Instant kill. I reload and do it again, this time pressing block when she attacks. Instant kill. Last time, i got pissed off and tried to punch her in her face, and my character sidestepped her, tripping and disarming her. Bad design.

    The UGLY:
    The bounty system is the worst i've ever seen in a game. The idea is cool, and when it works, it's amazing. You do a crime, someone sees you and they report you to the law, you can stop them by either threatening or killing them. Sounds good, right? Problem is, say you kill a guy on a road, you leave and someone stumbles onto the corpse. he then tells the law that he found a body and you INSTANTLY get a bounty on you. Despite being long gone when anyone showed up, despite never been seen there. Another example, you try to rob a train, you go there, start taking out the guards, having stopped the train in the middle of noware. Suddenly, there's lawmen there, having had the "Crime reported" as the games calls it. You get a bounty, roughly 200-300 dollars, for earning maybe 80. Here comes the worst part though. The only way to get ridd of a bounty is for you to pay it off. So, you rob a train, you get 200 dollars bounty and 80 dollars of loot, that's a loss of 120 dollars. It doesn't make sense. Even worse, is that if you have a bounty, you get lawmen or bounty hunters looking for you. If they kill you, they take some of your money (seems to be around 10%), you wake up.... and you still have the bounty. Say that you kill the lawmen or hunters? Well, your bounty goes up for each you kill, even if you kill every single one, so no one can report it back to them. As i said, the bounty system is the worst ever made. Fix that, and i'll raise my score to close to an 8    … Expand
  6. TrondTapio
    Nov 9, 2018
    4
    Rockstar should stop pretending to be a game developer and just transfer themselves into the movie industry instead. The way missions are designed in RDR2 it isn't really a game at all but rather a somewhat interactive movie, with great emphasis on "somewhat". The player is treated like a mindless participant ushered along a prechosen path to the next cutscene, and not the main focus atRockstar should stop pretending to be a game developer and just transfer themselves into the movie industry instead. The way missions are designed in RDR2 it isn't really a game at all but rather a somewhat interactive movie, with great emphasis on "somewhat". The player is treated like a mindless participant ushered along a prechosen path to the next cutscene, and not the main focus at all. Most decisions are made for you whether you welcome them or not and the outcome of your predetermined actions is already decided beforehand. I would have paid a ticket to see this movie, but it was not worth the money buying this "game".

    Also: Plus for great graphics a world well-drafted and rich on content plus the general atmosphere, the stories and the characters, but minus for pretty much everything in regards to gameplay.

    Stop this nonsense and go make a movie already. It's obvious it's where you want to be ;)    … Expand
  7. BIGTIMEMASTER
    Nov 12, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Here's a brief description of one mission.

    Your mission is to rob a train. First step is to steal a wagon with an oil barrel on back, which you are going to put on the railway and light on fire so the train will see it from far away and come to a stop. Then you can rob it.

    So you look at your mini map and it tells you where to go to steal the wagon. You ride your horse there. This takes 5 minutes. Real world time. Just riding a horse. Along a road you have gone up and down probably 20 times already doing various errands.

    The wagon is in an oil field where the workers shoot on sight. Because sometimes the game is realistic to a fault, and then suddenly it's not. You jump the fence, hop on the wagon, get shot a few times -- doesn't matter, you have at least 50 different healing items that restore full health pretty much at all times -- you repeatedly mash X to gallop away to safety. You ride for another 5 minutes to drop off the wagon where it's supposed to go. That was easy, though it did take me three times because once you get close to the wagon area, if you move away too far the mission fails. So my initial idea was to scope the place out, then take cover on some high ground, pick dudes off, lose them in the woods when they come after me, and then drop back into the oil field after drawing most of them out. But nope. So much for open world freedom.

    You ride another 5 minutes back to home base to tell home boy you done your job, and he says "cool man." Then you have to complete another mission before you can continue. So you take a kid that talks like the worlds most generic child fishing, and he say's it's boring, and I wholeheartedly agree. Besides the boring nature of the game mechanic, what does fishing do for you? It gives you more health. I already have more health items than I can carry. It's not worth enough to sell, and I don't need money either. The only things to buy are clothing items, everything else the game gives you anyway...

    So you do that stupid mission which, start to finish, will chew up twenty minutes in which you are basically doing nothing. Now, back to the train robbery. So you ride back to where you stashed the wagon -- 5 minutes. Then you watch a cutscene, then you got to ride with the gang to the ambush site. This is another 5 minute jaunt, but this time you got the crew trying their durndest to tell side-splitting funnies, but it's typical game dialogue that feels disjointed and unnatural -- like the voice actors recorded at separate places and times. And the dialogue can be ignored, because it's just banter -- it doesn't build characters or move story, it's just non-sense "tough-guy" talk, because everybody knows all tough-guy train robbers do is talk trash to each other constantly, and especially before pulling off a big heist.

    Alright, so now, finally, it's train robbin' time. You're ready to get all sweaty palmed and squinty eyed, because you're here to do what you came to do. You've worked almost an hour doing monotonous crap to get to this point. The big dramatic train robbery! Now's the time when you don't mind that big, drawn out cutscene with the tense chord and the beady eyes twitching and the trees drawing long shadows as the train blares it's horn with it's headlight coming round the corner... hell yeah, you can feeeeel it coming...

    But wait.. something isn't right. Remember the oil wagon you were going to set on fire? Well, they just put it on the tracks, and hero character stands on top of it with his rifle. What? That wasn't the plan. And the corner the train is coming around clearly isn't far enough away to give the train time to stop... Why did I steal this wagon again?

    The other gangsters hide behind the trees, and then real sudden like a generic action track starts up, you get a real fast sweeping shot of the gang in the trees, then the train comes and see's the wagon all of a sudden and just stops. No squeeling brakes, no smoke plumes, no dramatics -- nothing. Then there is a bunch of yelling, and even though you are in charge of this heist somebody is hollering "hey arthur, come do this! Come do that!" So you try to hurry over, but the game has locked running for right now, so you have to walk slowly over to the guys shouting to hurry.

    You follow behind your bro who is holding a goodie bag and demanding people to point money inside. Every third person says "no" and you press B when it tells you to punch them in the face. You can't do that or anything else until you are prompted to do so. So you do that for about a minute then the game tells you to go help somebody else. This time bad guys jump into the scene, you hold the trigger which auto-aims onto anybody on the screen, and you pull the other trigger to shoot them. You do that for ten minutes, then you go on another 10 minute horse ride. Mission over. What do you get for all of that? Money that you don't need.

    I cannot recall a more poorly designed AAA game than this.    … Expand
  8. Stuvok
    Dec 25, 2018
    4
    after over a dozen hours I can say the game is painfully overrated. It has a very slow start with a crazy amount of very slow walking and talking. Even once the open world opens up to you... all you do is basic tasks with incredibly long trips. Ride 10 min to punch a guy who owes money once than ride 10 min back to camp. Then do that 3 more times! Ride 10 min to pick somebody up toafter over a dozen hours I can say the game is painfully overrated. It has a very slow start with a crazy amount of very slow walking and talking. Even once the open world opens up to you... all you do is basic tasks with incredibly long trips. Ride 10 min to punch a guy who owes money once than ride 10 min back to camp. Then do that 3 more times! Ride 10 min to pick somebody up to ride 10 min to drop them off then ride back to camp. Ride 10 min to a hunting spot than hunt 1 animal than ride 10 min back to camp. If you hated FF15 and it's car mechanic well it's the same here. Bad boring mission design in a shockingly empty open world. The experience is also hampered by terrible movement mechanics. You walk at a snails pace as if your in Gears of War 1 talking on the radio and you can hold the sprint button to speed up... but you go to full speed automatically and as soon as you let go you are a snail again. Some how there is no jog option so you end up running past things you want or crawling up to them slowly. Shooting feels awful made worse by a awkward implementation of a cover system and the poor movement controls. The game also never seems to remember what weapons I have equipped. It always takes my long arms off my body even though they are hanging on my back not just keeping them on my horse but removing them forcing me to reopen the horse inventory. Maybe the game will improve if the story picks up. But right now it's painfully boring with long drawn out conversations about nothing important with idiots who's names I can't remember. As for the supposed amazing graphics... the best way to describe the game is blurry very blurry.

    I have now beaten the game. It will not be a game I remember fondly. There is only 1 mission in the whole game that I will remember and that was when you rolled up to that house to find the kid. I was really feeling that mission... too bad once you get there the shooting it terrible. I have serious problems with how nearly every single mission is designed and how almost all the story is delivered throughout the game. Everything is tedious without an upside after you bother going through it all. Less than half way through the game and I had all the money I would ever need and fully modified guns, horse, and clothes that I would never need to change. After that almost every side quest in the game was a absolute waste of time with a tiny bit of mediocre story that wasn't worth the travel time. I started to avoid everything and do a straight line for the necessary story line missions because I was done with the game but wanted to know the story. I wouldn't say it was bad but as it started to end I was disappointed with so many actions of the main character that I was totally taken out of the experience. In the rest of the game you can do whatever you want and totally create what type of person you are with your interactions with people. But in the main game I'm thinking "**** you shot that person I liked you are dead". I shoot him mission failed. You also have to just shake your head at how stupid the major fight scenes are. You get 10 hours of 100 people shooting at you as you guys barely move or slowly ride away completely exposed and not a single ****ing person can hit anybody or your horses. It's too absurd for my taste... they needed to design fights better but the AI is so simple they have to throw waves and waves of enemies at you to even force you to move your character. Nothing in this world ever reflects anything that happens. You kill 5 times a towns population and then return the next day and everybody is there. You fight a rival gang that apparently has 1000 men and you have 20. Nothing makes sense.    … Expand
  9. GabiTheRabbit
    Dec 2, 2018
    4
    One of the worst games I played lately. I'll start by saying that I didn't finish the game. I really wanted to like it, but I lost my patience after around 20 hours of forcing myself...

    I heard a lot of comments against criticism of that game, basically saying, that if you don't like the game, it's because you are cod or fortnite fan, a child who needs constant action and simplified    One of the worst games I played lately. I'll start by saying that I didn't finish the game. I really wanted to like it, but I lost my patience after around 20 hours of forcing myself...

    I heard a lot of comments against criticism of that game, basically saying, that if you don't like the game, it's because you are cod or fortnite fan, a child who needs constant action and simplified gameplay.
    I'm 30, been playing games since I was 5, growing up with nes and amiga 500. I enjoy slow paced games like dark souls, or strategy games like x-com where game's basically not moving forward unless you make a move, but red dead redemption 2 is simply casual to the point it's offensive.

    When you make a truly big game like this, when you put huge money into development, you have to target it to the masses to make your investment pay off. The way it's done with RDR2, is no different than hollywood block busters - you make a product that is visually impressive, but in the most mediocre taste possible. Must be pretty, must be easy, must be for the masses. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but true.

    Boring, slow story, awful quests. Sure - world is huge, and you often have freedom as for order in which you want to do some quests. But once you start doing them, they are very linear. Example. you'll ride 10 minutes to a place of a quest. You'll watch 2 minute cut scene. You will have to destroy some door/window than. the device to help you with that, will be standing literally next to the door. The game is open, but it tells you what to do constantly. You have freedom about where to go, but no freedom of how to deal with things. A lot of quests will force you to do boring mini games. Example - lift up the wheel holding 'up'. Now roll the wheel holding left. Now push the wheel holding 'right'. Now hit the wheel few times to attach it by pressing x.

    Gameplay. Worst part of the game. Super casual, slow and unresponsive. No skill required. No point hiding behind covers - your enemies will die of age before your character will roll his ass behind cover. Aim assistance is so strong by default, that when aiming from behind a cover, game often was pointing at the enemy I was not even aware of. Just automatically aiming at the enemy without any assistance from me. Shooting feels bad, like in all rockstar games. Even worse than shooting, is the movement. Moving your character feels like rolling a stone up the hill. When you're running and you stop all of sudden, it takes your character around second to actually stop moving. Defenders of the game will justify it with realism but that's no argument. In reality if shot at, I would run to the cover and drop on the ground in a blink of an eye, In that game it takes forever. in reality you wouldn't be able to take few gun shots on the chest, and than just eat canned peach and be like new. You can't justify clunky mechanics with realism. The game doesn't even allow you to run in a lot of places, for sake of 'realism', but it's super unrealistic in other places.

    Generally, this game is divided into riding a horse, talking and talking, cut scenes, poorly executed shooting, and mini-games. If you like playing with toys, you'll most likely enjoy that game. You can brew coffee, wash every limb of your body separately, pat your horse, feed your horse, brush your horse. You can dress up, and dress up your horse. Trim your facial hair. Basically sims. You can play the house. You can play tamagochi instead - similar experience.

    I remember reviews praising 'alive' world and side quests. I've done 4 side quests. 2 of them, were like this - one a way from one location to another, I rode for like 5 minutes, met a women who's horse died. I helped her to lift the horse (little game called 'lifting a horse' that is about pressing x button), and than rode her back to the town I was just coming from. I don't know what kind of people find this fun, I don't. Other side quest was about chasing some animal, that stole some bag from some dude (I'll spare you details to avoid spoilers). Side quests and alive world is nothing but filler.

    Advantages
    - Graphics. It's a fine game to watch, but no good game to play at all.    … Expand
  10. Tortoise
    Nov 10, 2018
    4
    This is one of those big beautifully boring games that has 1 source of accomplishment, Realism, and it's not fun. the first 5 minutes of the game is watching a cut-scene and riding through a blizzard. The rest of the story is alright. The game is absolutely gorgeous to look at, scenery is drop dead amazing. The gun-play is meh, we are still stuck with console controllers. maybe when the pcThis is one of those big beautifully boring games that has 1 source of accomplishment, Realism, and it's not fun. the first 5 minutes of the game is watching a cut-scene and riding through a blizzard. The rest of the story is alright. The game is absolutely gorgeous to look at, scenery is drop dead amazing. The gun-play is meh, we are still stuck with console controllers. maybe when the pc release arrives ill change my mind. i think thats it, when AAA developers stop getting creative the modders will flip the game to make it more enjoyable. when gta 5 released on pc 2 years after the 360/ps3, people were enjoying it from all the exciting stuff people added. Now my copy is about to collect dust.… Expand
  11. Vetalja83
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    it's boring as hell,too overhyped,it's not bad in terms of graphics,i played it for a week and nothing stands out,it took God of War 5 minutes to make me remember that first fight fight forever,played the first game and loved it,this is just ok game nothing more and nothing less,and i hate to watch skinning of animals,why cant i switch off that animation?my weapons and skins areit's boring as hell,too overhyped,it's not bad in terms of graphics,i played it for a week and nothing stands out,it took God of War 5 minutes to make me remember that first fight fight forever,played the first game and loved it,this is just ok game nothing more and nothing less,and i hate to watch skinning of animals,why cant i switch off that animation?my weapons and skins are disapearing all the time.… Expand
  12. 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
  13. itmo
    Oct 30, 2018
    4
    For a game based around a gunslinger, it seems odd that the gun play mechanics are just awful. it is most likely that the developers have never shot a gun in their life, because what has been created here, is a joke. Combined with the equally awful control system structure, it hurts this game big time. It's time for consoles to look at developing a better method to control characters,For a game based around a gunslinger, it seems odd that the gun play mechanics are just awful. it is most likely that the developers have never shot a gun in their life, because what has been created here, is a joke. Combined with the equally awful control system structure, it hurts this game big time. It's time for consoles to look at developing a better method to control characters, because the game pad just doesn't work with these type of games. This should have been ported to the PC, and would would have been a far superior game. When the core components of the game are borderline un-playable, it detracts from the overall experience.… Expand
  14. CitizenCane
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    After a long wait for this game, I'm now about 15 hours in and tired of the horrible gun mechanics, slow and clumsy player movement, and aimless riding around with no real objective unless you are on a mission. The hunting has degraded from the first game. Hunting deer? Only shoot one, because that's all you have room for. And take it to camp fast, because it will start to spoil. And yes,After a long wait for this game, I'm now about 15 hours in and tired of the horrible gun mechanics, slow and clumsy player movement, and aimless riding around with no real objective unless you are on a mission. The hunting has degraded from the first game. Hunting deer? Only shoot one, because that's all you have room for. And take it to camp fast, because it will start to spoil. And yes, I mean ride your horse for 10 minutes to take it to camp, and slowly, painfully walk to the butcher to donate the meat and skin, then go brush and feed your horse, get back on it, ride another 10 minutes, and shoot another deer after you go back through your weapon wheel and choose your bow again because you don't automatically keep the last weapon you used. The game is beautiful, but once you've ridden around for a while, it leaves you wanting for something to do besides more chores, setting up camp, hunting one animal at a time, or getting a wanted status for walking by the wrong person in town. I miss RDR 1, and the sad part is there would have to be a ton of patches and updates to fix this, so I suppose we can just wait another 8 years to see if Rockstar gets the next one right (if there is a next one).… Expand
  15. Ave_Fenix
    Nov 7, 2018
    4
    OMG this game is not as good as RDR1, is overhyped and overrated, famboyism and marketing is real.
    Gameplay is slow and can't enjoy it that much.
    Controls are bad, a game can't have 97 rating with theses issues are you kidding me and thats not all but I have no time for this joke, not bad as some claim but not awesome either.
  16. Dukery
    Nov 7, 2018
    3
    Pros: Very good visuals. You can sell the game if you have disk version.
    Cons: Extremely boring gameplay. Only reason I played through (yes I did) was the story which I wanted to know. After that there is no reason to replay. So in the end (after selling it) it cost me 10€ for the playthrough what is kinda ok.
  17. samichsupernova
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    It's beautiful, atmospheric, and cinematic... but I don't want to watch a cliche-ridden Western serial. The controls and gameplay are clunky. Inventory management is a chore. A lot of design choices feel half-baked such as the slowness of grabbing items, the messiness of horse controls and having to constantly holster your weapon, or having people continuing to talk to you even when you'reIt's beautiful, atmospheric, and cinematic... but I don't want to watch a cliche-ridden Western serial. The controls and gameplay are clunky. Inventory management is a chore. A lot of design choices feel half-baked such as the slowness of grabbing items, the messiness of horse controls and having to constantly holster your weapon, or having people continuing to talk to you even when you're reading something. Not to mention R*'s practices of overworking their employees... I don't know what went wrong, the first RDR was a masterpiece...… Expand
  18. Anton_Willows
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    I was excited when I picked this game up brand new for only (AUD)$64.. my excitement was short lived however as after dozens of hours invested, I feel.. disheartened by the whole experience.

    The story line and characters are easily forgettable and carry no emotional weigh whatsoever.. I honest don't care about any of the character in game, not a single one. The constant glitches and    I was excited when I picked this game up brand new for only (AUD)$64.. my excitement was short lived however as after dozens of hours invested, I feel.. disheartened by the whole experience.

    The story line and characters are easily forgettable and carry no emotional weigh whatsoever.. I honest don't care about any of the character in game, not a single one.

    The constant glitches and bugs are at best laughable from a game that seems to take pride in realism.

    Although of all theses problems by far the worst critic on the game itself is definitely the button mapping which clearly was designed only to frustrate players.. it's really a shame that this is the best they could come up with..

    The graphics and environment in game is sub-par to be honest especially when games like Horizon Zero Dawn look just as good despite being launch almost 10 months earlier.

    I'm simply don't understand the high 90's scores this game is a serious let down.. I find it a chore now just to do simple main story quests in the game.

    All that being said it's a sold 4/10 for my $0.02    … Expand
  19. NoTalentHack
    Oct 30, 2018
    3
    I'm beyond frustrated with the horrible controls. Whenever I get into any "action", the game is basically over - not only is there no fine control, there's basically no control whatsoever - just button mash and hope for the best. But hey, the game is beautiful, right? But I'm afraid I'll never get to enjoy it - after I spend 3 hours or whatever traveling around, I end up almost literallyI'm beyond frustrated with the horrible controls. Whenever I get into any "action", the game is basically over - not only is there no fine control, there's basically no control whatsoever - just button mash and hope for the best. But hey, the game is beautiful, right? But I'm afraid I'll never get to enjoy it - after I spend 3 hours or whatever traveling around, I end up almost literally ripping my controller apart every time I get into a gun fight. For me, that's the opposite of fun - wish I'd saved $60 and just watched the YouTube videos for the graphics.… Expand
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. Nikkibella
    Nov 1, 2018
    4
    its an ok game the 10s are paid reviews this game is not a 10 there is not much to do in this game but ride on a horse and shoot people i dont like having to bath eat and sleep in this game they should let people turn them off i also dont like having to look after my horse by feeding it brushing it and patting it that also should be able to turn off gun play is gum but is to easy i hadits an ok game the 10s are paid reviews this game is not a 10 there is not much to do in this game but ride on a horse and shoot people i dont like having to bath eat and sleep in this game they should let people turn them off i also dont like having to look after my horse by feeding it brushing it and patting it that also should be able to turn off gun play is gum but is to easy i had issues when the screen went pops out its more walking in missions and by Chapter 3 you have to much money its impossible to die they need to update the game to let people turn off the Horse care and Caring for Aruther off then i will give it a 6 out of 10 until then im keeping this score… Expand
  23. lilbagginz
    Oct 28, 2018
    4
    I really appreciate the effort Rockstar put into this game. I was looking forward to spending endless hours and hours on it and was blinded by the hype.
    BUT sadly, it's not worth my precious time and money.
    Here's why: Rockstar screwed up the gameplay. It's so BORING. This game should be called Red Dead Slow Motion. Gameplay/Controls: Everything Arthur is doing, it's done so    I really appreciate the effort Rockstar put into this game. I was looking forward to spending endless hours and hours on it and was blinded by the hype.
    BUT sadly, it's not worth my precious time and money.

    Here's why: Rockstar screwed up the gameplay. It's so BORING. This game should be called Red Dead Slow Motion.

    Gameplay/Controls:
    Everything Arthur is doing, it's done so slowly. Walking like a turtle, looting is a never-ending nightmare (you need to search every corpse in the same stupid way: kneeling down, groping the body, standing up again), aiming with your rifle is like lifting weights.
    Controls are too complex and clunky, not intuitive at all. You often fight more against your controller than the enemies. Remember fighting with Aloy against a Thunderjaw? Or mashing Sigrun with Kratos? Do you feel the flow? That's perfect gameplay which you are not going to find here.

    Instead, in the very first chapter you will be riding bloody slowly behind some retards for hours and just pressing one button. Feels like horse simulator redux.

    Graphics:
    The landscape is very beautiful and populated with wildlife. It's true eye candy. BUT the faces, oh boy, look at the faces. It's not '18 standard, it's last gen. The facial expression seems like the only thing where the devs didn't care about realism. And they did include shrinking horse balls!!

    Story:
    I'm honest. I didn't make it very far. I quitted in the 2nd chapter. I was hoping for a story hook like in The Last of Us (similar case: mediocre gameplay, amaaazing story) but I was disappointed.
    The story starts with a boring prolonged tutorial containing riding, **** small talk, a little bit shooting, riding and more gossip. Your pals are so dull you can't even remember their names and they talk and talk and talk and can't stop talking.

    Conclusion:
    This game is JUST OVERHYPED. It's a real life simulation where doing tasks feel like a chore. Boring, uninspired, clunky, slow-mo gameplay. Completely off the subject: Instead of focusing upon a fluid and interesting gameplay they wasted everything for endless, negligible, synchronized dialogues. PLEASE give me my money back!    … Expand
  24. bedheadred
    Oct 29, 2018
    3
    In trying to create a deep world, Rockstar has outdone itself in the worst possible way. At its surface, the game appears to have everything promised to fulfill a glorious sequel to Read Dead Redemption: beautiful landscape, rich lore, and endless unscripted fun. Instead, Read Dead Redemption 2 takes itself too seriously. Cinematic for the sake of cinema. It begs the question: In all ofIn trying to create a deep world, Rockstar has outdone itself in the worst possible way. At its surface, the game appears to have everything promised to fulfill a glorious sequel to Read Dead Redemption: beautiful landscape, rich lore, and endless unscripted fun. Instead, Read Dead Redemption 2 takes itself too seriously. Cinematic for the sake of cinema. It begs the question: In all of the countless hours it took to create this game, did anyone bother to actually play it? Games, after all, are supposed to be play.

    The controls of RDR2 may be the biggest surprise that I have experienced so far. If you think you are familiar with Rockstar controls after playing GTA V (and prior releases), think again. There is a lack of intuitiveness that can result in undesired consequences. In order to compensate for the overly complex controls that would be cumbersome, if not impossible, for one to fully grasp, there is an overlay that details different button actions.

    The potential issues with controls are amplified by relatively slow and arduous animations. At times, you are restricted in motion (i.e. unable to run, unable to pull out gun, etc.) and it is not clear when/why this occurs. There are numerous instances where the game resets (weapons, horse hitch location, etc.) that result in the player needing to constantly micro-manage inventory and re-adjust.

    The world is stunning at first glance. Graphically it may represent the peak capability of this console generation. The old adage “looks aren’t everything” comes to mind, because while the beauty will surely captivate you for hours, like all things it will begin to lose its charm in due time. The trees and the shadows cast from them are glorious — until your horse runs into them after you say ‘hello mister’ to a passing stranger and the camera’s re-direction causes you to instantly veer in the new direction. Try saying ‘hello’ to folk in town and see how straight you can maintain your horse. In stark contrast, consider Until Dawn, which maintained directional input through camera cuts, that is until a player stopped input all together, triggering the game to smartly re-adjust to the new orientation on the fly.

    It is a cumulation of oversights and questionable development choices that undermine a monumental creation. Just how many hours is a player expected to spend in doing mundane tasks such as shaving, bathing, and brushing the horse. How many times must you pick up your hat? How many times must you watch the same looting animation? Or eat the same meal (stew) at the same interval (god forbid you have seconds).

    The bounty system discourages, or even prevents, players from engaging in criminal activity. Yes, you are in a criminal gang. No, you may not gain money from doing things a gang typically does. Take for instance, looting a train. You may earn $100 from looting it. But you will have lost $200+ in the growing bounty that you must pay. Red Dead Redemption 2 takes it one step further than student loan debt in the U.S. - your bounty will actually carry through past your own demise - It only is resolved once the debt has been paid in full. The unbalance between reward & risk creates a sense of morality that Rockstar intents to bestow upon its gamers. Pick the role of noble Arthur, lest you find yourself a poor destitute as you bounce between cities getting killed or hauled away by bounty hunters.

    High on the heels of success in GTA V Online, Rockstar intends to re-capturing the elusive lightning in the bottle of substantial micro-transaction purchases on the backs of loyal gamers. Despite its lack of availability upon launch, make no mistake, this feature will surely become a primary focus for Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two Interactive. After all, there are executives with a fiduciary responsibility, and shareholders that want a return. The absence of any “Season Pass” or bundled DLC at a flat rate is striking considering the Ultimate version comes in at $99 MSRP.

    Ultimately, Red Dead Redemption 2 falls flat. It fails the simple test of: Is it fun? For those willing to overlook the numerous frustrations that could have easily been avoided, there lies an open-world Cowboy Western genre with no other competition in sight. For an average gamer looking for play, consider watching a Western movie, reading a Western book — you will have saved yourself 50 hours from a cinematic horse simulator, complete with a compelling cast & environment, and crippled gameplay mechanics.    … Expand
  25. RockSoldierTom
    Oct 30, 2018
    3
    I 100% completed first game and I had high hopes for this one. In a nutshell; gunfight gameplay is terrible, Arthur is way too slow it's not even realistic, 80% of the game is chores, honor system wants you to be a good guy or it will ruin your game experience. I used to love hunting in the first one, it has become boring as hell in this one because of sloooowww movements. Story is boringI 100% completed first game and I had high hopes for this one. In a nutshell; gunfight gameplay is terrible, Arthur is way too slow it's not even realistic, 80% of the game is chores, honor system wants you to be a good guy or it will ruin your game experience. I used to love hunting in the first one, it has become boring as hell in this one because of sloooowww movements. Story is boring too, nothing really happens. No thrilling mission. Yeah nice graphics though. But it's not even funny to look at the beauty of the nature because it's so long to go from point A to point B you don't want to go anymore.… Expand
  26. jpacor
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    Disclaimer here, I did not finish the game, I made it a bit past 10 hours in, but could not take it anymore and dropped it.

    Red Dead Redemption is tied for my favorite game of all time, and very well could be. I played it a few months ago during my hype and anticipation for this game, and it has still held up incredibly well and was an absolute blast, I have probably beaten it 4-5 times    Disclaimer here, I did not finish the game, I made it a bit past 10 hours in, but could not take it anymore and dropped it.

    Red Dead Redemption is tied for my favorite game of all time, and very well could be. I played it a few months ago during my hype and anticipation for this game, and it has still held up incredibly well and was an absolute blast, I have probably beaten it 4-5 times total and have enjoyed it every time. Needless to say, I was hyped for RD2, and picked it up on opening night, planning to lose many hours to this game.

    Well, that didn't happen. This is the most disappointing game that I have ever played.

    Let me start off by saying that the production values, plot, voice acting, and environments are phenomenal. The world is truly beautiful, and attention to detail exceptional. The plot and characters are mostly excellent as well.

    But my lord, the gameplay is bad. The control scheme is horrific and extremely outdated, where you still have to smash X to run instead of clicking L3. There is an input lag of one to a few seconds, so you rarely shoot or reload in the way you want to. Taking cover often doesn't work or happen, resulting in you potentially climbing over objects instead. Picking up guns, clothing, or items have three different buttons, resulting in frequent confusion. Knowing which weapons you have on you, switching weapons, and trying to use supplies buried in menus is often confusing.Arthur runs slowly, and your horse is also slow.

    Moving around your camp is super slow, and the camp system is not good or cool at all, the bond between you and your gang is not well established. The systems shown in tutorials are not often how the game actually works (for example, you hunt and bring a live deer to a guy at your camp in a tutorial, but this is not how you give the guy hunted animals going forward). I would spend upwards of 20 minutes walking because you can't call your horse if it is too far away.

    Interacting with the world around you is also super slow, it can take up to 10 seconds to examine items around you, and you will often be tasked with searching for every item in an entire building.

    And, accidentally committing crimes is WAY too easy. A drunk guy stumbles in front of your horse and you run him over: the whole town starts shooting at you, wanted level is $20, have to surrender outside of town. Abysmal. Certain items can only be sold at certain shops, resulting in you spending too much time running to each different shop.

    This game is just a shame. In the original Red Dead Redemption, the combat was quick and responsive, the world around you had attention to detail, intense gunfights, the ability to travel quickly, and selling all of your items at most shops. RD2 adds much more nuances and systems to create a more realistic experience, but this harms the experience mightily, resulting in slower gameplay all around: movement, combat, interaction, exploration. It is a video game, I understand creating a time period environment, but is realism the only thing that matters?!

    Sorry for my long review, I was just more excited for this game than any other in a very long time, probably none since Zelda BotW, and as I mentioned, the original is my favorite game of all time. But this game is flat out boring and slow, and I do not understand the critic review, perhaps the hype has them inclined to leave a positive review?? Either way, I had said God of War PS4 is my most overrated game of this generation: no more. Red Dead 2 takes the cake.    … Expand
  27. 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
  28. Wilson_75
    Oct 27, 2018
    3
    Massively disappointed with the visual quality on PS4 Pro. The game looks worse than any other game I have played on PS4. It is without a doubt the absolute worst looking game on PS4 Pro to date, that I have seen.
    And HDR is completely broken. And controls are buggy and unwieldy. And lighting on NPC characters look terrible.
    I would have expected this from an indy studio have their first    Massively disappointed with the visual quality on PS4 Pro. The game looks worse than any other game I have played on PS4. It is without a doubt the absolute worst looking game on PS4 Pro to date, that I have seen.
    And HDR is completely broken. And controls are buggy and unwieldy. And lighting on NPC characters look terrible.
    I would have expected this from an indy studio have their first crack at making games. NOT from R*, the Kings of game development.
    Sure, the game underneath is probably a masterpiece, but I have to sit and look at it and it looks like absolute GARBAGE.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. legat
    Oct 31, 2018
    4
    For me, it's overhyped... While playing Witcher3, after 10 hours I don't wanna turn off console, wvery day after work playing to 2-3 am, every day thinking what I gonna do in game...
    In RDR2 after first 4 hours I was tired, 2 days later another 4h and again stopped playing.
    Now I'm after ~20h of game and it's little bit better, but still for me Witcher is 10/10, and this game? max    For me, it's overhyped... While playing Witcher3, after 10 hours I don't wanna turn off console, wvery day after work playing to 2-3 am, every day thinking what I gonna do in game...
    In RDR2 after first 4 hours I was tired, 2 days later another 4h and again stopped playing.
    Now I'm after ~20h of game and it's little bit better, but still for me Witcher is 10/10, and this game? max 6/10... Maybe if I will finish game It will be higher, will see.
    + world, world in this game is AMAZING, it's true, simply beautiful.
    - controls... omg sometimes I was feeling like I need to one more finger on my hand... or spamming X X X X X X X to ride horse fast... like many people said: it's Horse Riding Simulator.
    - game is very slow in case of action... sometimes after 2h playing I realized that I did nothing, visited 2-3 places, found map, hunted deer, done, 2h lost :D

    And, I dont understand so many 10/10 scores (also 0/10), there is 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10!!!! Think about it, be objective...    … Expand
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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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