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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 154.5 hrs on record (149.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 19 Jan, 2020 @ 12:26pm
Updated: 25 Jan, 2020 @ 7:00am

This review is for the single player, spent 150 hours to reach 91% completion and would need maybe 50 or 100 more hours to 100% it. I didn't try the online yet, i'll add the review for that after i try it.

I wont review the story to avoid spoilers, but it's a long game with some excellent missions, as usual when it come to Rockstar games and the humor is spot on, characters are great and the story as a whole is a great prequel to the excellent Red Dead Redemption.

The game is not easy if you want to master everything, nothing hard if you want to jump from one mission to another, but it'll take you a bit of time to get familiar with all the activities that you can do, especially the hunting which is essential if you want to craft the best items in the game.

For the visuals, even while not at the ultra settings, this game is insanely beautiful, i never felt a world full with life as much as in RDR2, Rockstar went into each detail to create the last days of the Wild West and it's a huge payoff for the players, you really feel like you riding with a gang in the early 1900s. And with photo mode, whatever you are doing and wherever you are on the map, be sure that you'll end up with a nice photo. I'll add to that the dynamic weather and different environment that wont change just the looks but also the fauna and flora of the region.

Shooting is pretty satisfying with the dead eye mechanic and the slow motion
Even the crafting is diverse, from food to ammo to tonics, also loved the weapon modifications, to make each weapon customized to a different look.

Map is pretty big for a game that uses a horse as the primary travelling method, you can fast travel easily using camp, train or stagecoach, but i dont advise that, you'll miss a lot of nice things like that, a lot of random events. Plus there is way too many things to collect that will take hours and hours to find them all, add to that around 100 challenges and you have over 200 hours of gameplay without even touching the online part of the game and even with all that time i'm sure that you'll miss a few of easter eggs or interesting places in this game.

It's an amazing game and to me one of the best games ever made, so it's highly recommended for anyone who have the patience to learn what this game have to offer.

Thank you Rockstar for all the amazing moments i had playing this game!

Edit: I couldn't play online, each 5 or 10 minutes i receive this error:
"You have been disconnected from Red Dead Online due to a fault on Rockstar game services. (Error: 0x20010006)"
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27 Comments
Lol Pot 21 Feb, 2021 @ 3:37pm 
Bro I have 900 hours, got to 90%. When summer comes around I'm gonna delete my 90% save file. Then I'll start a new playthrough. I want to spend at least 100 hours as Arthur.
Jon Umber 15 Apr, 2020 @ 5:16am 
Helpful review, thank you!
Lionheart 26 Mar, 2020 @ 7:03am 
Haven't gotten myself so immersed in a game since Skyrim...64 hours so far in about a week, only 50% of the main quests completed.
wtiger27 12 Feb, 2020 @ 9:16am 
Yeah, the single player version is a awesome game. I only had one crash in close to 200 hours of playing it. The game played very well and looked great. The controls could use some work however and it is not bug free. But over all, very stable. The online is garbage however. So unless you enjoy gank'ing other players and killing NPC's to spoil the fun for others, do not wast your time playing that part of it.
Buster "Blud" Knutt 6 Feb, 2020 @ 5:16pm 
How did you even manage to start it up
lionhart 2 Feb, 2020 @ 11:51am 
Thanks for the review. I only care about single player, so it always bugs me when a great single player game gets mixed reviews because a bunch of people are having trouble with multiplayer (which I don't care about at all). I appreciate the detailed description of the SP experience. Sounds like a great game; I will probably get it eventually.
JayO 1 Feb, 2020 @ 7:40am 
You have been disconnected from Red Dead Online due to a fault on Rockstar game services. (Error: 0x20010006). Same here.
KING-X® 1 Feb, 2020 @ 6:24am 
Good luck :good: But your pc should run it, but you wont have the best performance of course
7JonDoe 1 Feb, 2020 @ 5:13am 
wish me good luck :IAMSOLAME:
7JonDoe 1 Feb, 2020 @ 5:12am 
nice review, I really liked the way you described some bits of the game, I really love this game but i can't play it because my pc specs is too low, but i'm going to buy a better pc just for this game... my pc specs now is 1050ti evga sc 1fan with i5-6400 8gb ram :((
i really hope my dad agree to buy me a new better pc :steamsad: