The Good:
* Exhaustive detail provides one of the more authentic looks at the latter American West
* Excellent pacing and interplay of game systems
* Sweeping mountains and exceptionally crisp night sky
* My gorgeous horse, Freya


The Bad
*Choice paralysis


The Ugly
* Ambiguous moral equivocation


# The Verdict:

A sprawling Western that is without a doubt one of the greatest open-world games of all time. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game of rare scope and even rarer quality. A beautiful ode to an ugly era; RDR2 combines Rockstar’s most authentic and lived-in open world ever with its most earnest storytelling to date, filling in the gaps with an astonishing array of deep systems and nearly endless emergent gameplay opportunities. Its slower pace allows us to binge on the world like a virtual museum but, when the lead starts flying, it puts the wild back in the west (and then some). Few games manage the level of uncompromising detail as Red Dead Redemption 2 does.
To sum it all up. RDR2 is a technical marvel.

The Good: * Exhaustive detail provides one of the more authentic looks at the latter American West * Excellent pacing and interplay of game systems * Sweeping mountains and exceptionally crisp night sky * My gorgeous horse, Freya The Bad *Choice paralysis The Ugly * Ambiguous moral equivocation # The Verdict: A sprawling Western that is without a doubt one of the greatest open-world games of all time. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game of rare scope and even rarer quality. A beautiful ode to an ugly era; RDR2 combines Rockstar’s most authentic and lived-in open world ever with its most earnest storytelling to date, filling in the gaps with an astonishing array of deep systems and nearly endless emergent gameplay opportunities. Its slower pace allows us to binge on the world like a virtual museum but, when the lead starts flying, it puts the wild back in the west (and then some). Few games manage the level of uncompromising detail as Red Dead Redemption 2 does. To sum it all up. RDR2 is a technical marvel.