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A Sequel Done Right

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018

Even though the controls can be cumbersome and the npc behavior is sometimes annoying, this is still one of the best games I’ve ever played. Even better than the original which was legendary.

The attention to detail/voice acting is far beyond anything ever done before. The story, characters, hunting, gathering, cooking, crafting, gunfights, treasure-seeking, collectibles, mini games (horseshoe throwing is gone), random encounters, even shopping and riding horses are all very well done. Arthur Morgan is interesting and easy to like, rivaling John Marston himself.

The game relies on the player taking the time to appreciate and explore the game world, so rushing from one mission to another will leave you with only about half of the full experience by causing you to miss optional side-quests and events. I actually felt sad at times when things were going bad in the storyline because it just made me care that much. My only hope is that the online portion is more similar to original Red Dead’s multiplayer than the griefer-paradise that was GTA V Online.

Definitely a must-buy for open-world fans, but the bonuses/extra mission from the Special Edition weren’t worth it at all and I mostly avoided using them.

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Dr. D

Way Too Long with Very Annoying Gold Medals

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022

Although RDR2 has very good graphics, a great storyline, and smooth mechanics, it's just way too long. Everything is so drawn out to the point that I can finish at least 5 video games before even completing this one.

Furthermore, getting at least 70 gold medals for a trophy is crazy HARD. Your best bet is to not try to platinum this game whatsoever. As of this writing, only 0.1% of all people was able to get every single trophy in the game. Therefore, it's not even worth trying to achieve that. Just complete the main story and move on. There are so many bugs involving the gold medals, too. Just when you thought that you completed a medal objective with 1000% certainty, the game tells you that you didn't. This is frustrating beyond belief, and on more than one occasion, I was thinking about threatening Rockstar Games for their unbelievable poor design surrounding those medals, but I held my tongue.

In short, this game deserves 1 star for its length and those extreme wrath-inducing gold medals. Again, don't even try to go for those or you will likely commit great harm.

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Diana

A Sequel Done Right

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

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GazeUponThisFellow

One Of My Favorite Games

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

I think this is Rockstar's best game, which is saying a lot, because they've made some good ones over the years. Actually, I think this is one of my favorite games ever released. The story is very well written, the graphics are beautiful, the map is huge, and most importantly, it's actually fun to play. I really enjoy the new survival elements they've added to the gameplay. You need to eat, rest, change clothes depending on the weather, maintain your weapons, etc. I've been playing this series since Red Dead Revolver came out back in 2004. I love all three games, but this one is my favorite. It'll keep you occupied for hours.

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Wallace

Near Perfection

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

Really impressive. Its immersive and paced well. Tons of things to do, ways to gain and lose money. The feel of the game is crisp. Its beautiful looking, brutal, and fun to play. The hunting and fishing is over the top expanded in the best way. If you liked the other game, you will love this one. If it doesnt get game of the year we need to follow the money trail. Thank god that one devoloper this year got it right. Now let me stow this on my horse and get back to playing.

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Dalton

Do not buy this game if you want to have a life

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

This game is literally amazing. The perfect type of game to give a break from all the competitive play of FORTNITE and BOPS4. There are an abundance of things to do in game besides the main story line, hunting, fishing, gambling, taking pictures. All in all WELL worth the money. Only suggestion I would have is save the money and just buy the normal version. The extra stuff you get does not make any difference as far as I have seen.

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Makinitwork

I love/hate this game

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

I ordered the disc version of this game and based on numerous frustrated users who ordered the download version, I am glad that I did. It actually comes on two discs and seems to take up about 1.5 GB. Even with the discs it took nearly an hour to load this game, so save yourself some headache and get the disc version.

Red Dead Redemption was my all-time favorite game so RDR2 had a lot to live up to. I am 12 hours into the game and I am both amazed and frustrated. The massive open world is truly amazing and beautiful; a stunning achievement in so many ways big and small. The detail that has been put into the environment makes me shake my head in wonder.

Like in the first game, the story thus far is interesting and the characters fully developed. Although playing the original game is not a requirement, if you have played RDR you will recognize a lot of characters. Unlike the first game, these characters are not as weird or extreme, but just as interesting.

The missions thus far are well done and interesting; I have not been disappointed.

A lot of people have no doubt reviewed what they love about this game, so now I am going to put my critical hat on and offer some blunt feedback on the disappointments.
The controls and game mechanics in many places are difficult; unnecessarily so. Basic weapon selection and switching frustrates me to no end.
There are more button and button combinations to remember in this game than any other game I have played.
Upgrades have so far not been possible. It took a long time just to figure out how upgrades were done at all (it varies depending on what you are upgrading). Many basic aspects of the game are buried and the Help is of limited use in trying to make sense of it.

There is a strong survival element to this game, which I thought I would enjoy but do not. The character must regularly eat and sleep to recover from battles or even basic activities. Ditto for feeding and taking care of your horse. You must also regularly clean your guns or they do not perform as well.

Hunting is much more difficult than in the previous game. Animals just seem quicker and more nimble than before and can detect you from longer distances. How you kill the animal makes a big difference on what the pelt is worth. I have landed two shots on an animal and still it is able to run off; it doesn't slow down or leave a blood trail. So head shots are a must. If you use a gun to kill the animal, the pelt is rated "Poor" and you get peanuts for it. This makes earning money more difficult; which in turn makes upgrades more difficult.

After the initial couple of missions you end up setting up a camp with the gang and this is where it gets confusing. It's not really clear what all the icons mean or what you are supposed to do. You basically have to wander around camp and out side of camp and figure everything out. Depending on how soon you stumble into something, you could wander around for hours and the game gets really boring.

I hope they revise the weapons access mechanic as it needs an overhaul. If they did that I could fudge my way through the rest of the disappointments. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot to like about this game, but the game mechanics and choices they made with the controls really take away from the experience in a big way.

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kdwalbring

I haven't loved a game this much in a long while

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

10/10. Absolutely stunning visuals, solid gameplay, and the few bugs I've seen are either harmless or just hilarious. Get the guide cause there is so much stuff packed into this game. I've played at least 100+ hours and I still haven't finished it (since I'm not just doing the story missions). Well worth the price. It'll keep you entertained for weeks at least.

Also, I can pet my horse(s) and all the dogs. What more could you want?

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David

The Best Game of This Generation!

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

This game is absolutely amazing. The attention to detail, the story itself, and the connection you feel with the characters. This game sets a new bar of expectations for all future games to be released. I’ve played nonstop since this came out and enjoyed every bit of it and look forward to playing it more. Excited for the online to come out soon! Rockstar never seems to disappoint :)

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Dr. D

Way Too Long with Very Annoying Gold Medals

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2022

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

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War

Red Dead Opinion

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

Read Dead Redemption 2 is a huge game. You'll need to clear some space for this 95GB monster to fit on your console. Here's some of my explanations/opinions/reasons of this game aside that I had to delete 5 games for this to fit.
(Positive) for 4 stars:
1. Awesome and loooooong campaign - only done half way. The beginning is a little slow but it's pretty much a 6-mission tutorial before the whole world opens up with a fully loaded campaign to lasso.
2. World REALLY sucks you in with how immersive it is. People complain it's empty and boring. They obviously don't see the art and technicality behind this game - yet they're the same people who buy Call of Duty every year even though it's the same "run, shoot and die" game with different skins and coats on it. Every minute riding your horse you'll get lost somehow getting to your destination whether it's due to a stranger needing some form of assistance (or not), wild life gets in your way and you're feeling an itch in your finger to shoot or you just happen to come across an abandoned building and/or you feel like exploring.
3. Gameplay is tight...but you'll need to get used to the controls first. Which is why you start the game like you do...so you can mess around in the settings, see how each button works, toggle certain settings to your liking (like instead of holding the run button, you can toggle it) and pretty much see how first person mode feels. Personally, I love it. My settings are so when I get to cover an when I mount my horse/enter a vehicle it'll swap to third person (horse riding in first-person can be a little bratty).
4. Goes along with #2, but the world is MASSIVE. Not only does it have a whole new Red Dead map, but the original from Redemption 1 is in there too. This map its self is probably 4-5 times the size of the original map. Over 180 types of animals ranging from birds to bears, to wolves and alligators fill in the environments beautifully. Best of all - once you get done the "tutorial," you're free to explore the entire map as you wish. No boundaries or invisible walls keeping you from exploring further. But a little hint: Always be on your guard.
5. Goes with #2 and #4, the attention to detail in this game is beyond phenomenal. From water physics to snow and mud, from how each individual NPC acts to the weather system, there is so much more than you could possibly think of in this game that the eye would easily look over. No, let's NOT talk about the horse balls.
6. Be a good outlaw/Be a bad outlaw. Any and every choice/action you make pretty much effects your honor level and how people see you in the world. People will remember you and your actions. If you beat up a shopkeeper after robbing his store, next time you come back (after you cleared a bounty if you got one) he may have bandages on his face or bruises even and may say something like "I'll have my eye on you until you leave"

(Negative) for 4 stars:
1. Self maintaining. You don't need to worry too much about your gang (unless you are going after some of the trophies or if you want to fast travel), but you will still need to care about your horse and yourself. Depending on how you take care of yourself the game can be easier or harder. I forgot to eat for days in-game and I'm underweight. Death comes so fast for that. If your horse isn't maintained it could too die easily (which if it does, it'll permanently stay dead which means you'll need a new one and start from scratch)(you are able to keep multiple horses at once if you please). Body odors come naturally (which if you enter Hunter Vision you'll see your stink waves) and people will react to it...bath often to avoid some attention (some are more eventful than others).
2. Some bugs in the game which I'm sure Rockstar is fixing them for the next patch for when Online comes out finally. First one is a certain mission can cause some camp members to disappear if failed and reloaded from a checkpoint. There is a single road that will unadvertly just cause your horse to burst into flames as well as any other NPCs that trot over it. And some collision issues too. Ran over a rock while on a carriage and I was sent soaring while my horses dangled behind like Santa's sleigh got reversed and decided to drag his reindeer by their a**es.
3. May be a personal problem but I feel like I'm lacking the full dead eye feeling. I know my story level of DE is 2 still but I feel like since you got to maintain yourself, my DE meter is always almost empty thus making it harder to keep myself in DE. Smoking, drinking certain things or having tonics will fill up your core so your bar will regenerate but I liked the DE system in RDR1 better.

Final Opinion (if that was): Buy it. Rockstar will be releasing online sometime soon and with it fixes for the main campaign. It may not suit you to play this massive game, but if you are looking into something that has a great and long campaign, great attention to detail that is not GTA V or just have a PS4/Xbone that needs something fresh that's not Fortnite (can't believe that's still alive) , try this game. Give it a few hours, learn more about Arthur Morgan and Dutch Van Der Linde's gang a little. See where their story leads them. Grab your girl (or lasso your guy), kick some dirt up and get ready to Outlaw your life!

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Matthew Williams

Sometimes less is more....way more

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2018

Platform For Display: PlayStation 4Edition: SpecialVerified Purchase

I’ll start off by saying RDR is in my top 3 favorite games. This, is not. I’ll start with the pluses;
Graphics: 10/10 - jaw dropping, simply amazing world and character details. I’ve been to 46 of the 50 states and riding across this world I see a little South Dakota, Kansas, West Virginia, Montana and Arizona.
Sound: 9/10 - great sound effects and decent effort at keeping dialogue clear over ambient noises
This is where I stop liking the game.
In RDR, the challenges were one of my favorite parts. It added a fun (optional) element outside the story. The legendary animals, sharpshooter and herbalist challenges were fun and only semi-difficult and time consuming. And that was with (in my opinion) less clunky controls. I loved the outrageous nature of the strangers and their missions and they didn’t span the whole game.
RDR2 is too big, too slow and too clunky. There’s so much fat that needs to be trimmed:
- too many objects/valuables to clutter up your inventory
- challenges take too long and would be utterly impossible without the internet or a strategy guide - in RDR I was able to use the treasure maps and figure out where stuff was without looking it up or find challenges on my own and complete them. Here, I’m solely reliant on the guide. The rock carvings took like 4+ hours to find for example
-maintaining your health and your horse is ridiculous
- controls are awful. I won’t even go into it bc others have covered it ad nauseam
- missions aren’t that fun. Way too much time riding and listening to Arthur have the same contentious conversations with people over and over
- as if the hunting wasn’t hard enough with 100 new animals, you had to add the pelt quality factor in. Also, finding bird species for the challenges is horrendously frustrating and superfluous. I shot 13 squirrels of 3 stars with a small game arrow that did not die on the first shot before I finally got one. I don’t know if it’s a game glitch or just bad game making. But this game takes all the fun out of hunting.
- why are there so many plant species?
-why are there 100+ cigarette cards?! Why not like 5 collections of 5?
- most tasks and challenges except treasure hunting don’t pay off at all
-special outfits hardly increase attributes
- the stranger missions are way less entertaining- some are really stupid (I.e. Arcadia for Amateurs)
-spending time in camp is stupid and unfortunately highly necessary if you want to try and complete the requests they have. Which aren’t happening when the guide says they will.
-fishing was fun.....for about 5 minutes - I have a blister on my right thumb from reeling in the stupid legendary fish
-dozens of gun upgrades that actually don’t do anything for your gun/ cleaning guns
- too many crafting options and too hard to come by recipies

I saved my biggest gripe for last:
The wanted loop/honor. You’re supposed to be an outlaw! And whether you put on the bandana or even one of the cool masks you can buy at a fence, you always end up wanted. It says in the inventory “wear this to hide your identity while committing crimes”!!! I tried the psycho mask while robbing a stage and still ended up wanted and losing a ton of honor. The bounty escalates to unreal amounts very quickly. You lose honor so quickly while it’s so damn hard to gain. Shooting people who provoke you or shoot first still gets you wanted and even hurts your honor level.

I wanted so much to love this game. I loved the first and it gave me hours of entertainment. This new one is so big and clunky I get bored quickly and turn it off bc I don’t want to spend 45 minutes riding from one place to the next for a silly 2 second challenge. The graphics and sounds of this game are so amazing that it should be able to withstand some boneheaded programming, but unfortunately, this one does not. Overall, I would NOT RECOMMEND this game. But a PS off eBay and play GTA Vice City or play the original RDR if you want a fun open world experience. But like the last GTA (V) that I played for 3 hours, this game is a perfect example of less or more.

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