Many of us thought this would be a special game because of Rockstar's huge talent, but it was still doubted how well it really delivered. The worldwide creator actually gave us the Red Dead Redemption follow-up we were hoping for after years of begging of fans.
If we go back to the year 1899 (it's 12 years before the initial Redemption game), the Gang of the Netherlands escaped from the west after a botched bank heist, and the feds are warm. You play as the right-hand man of Arthur Morgan, Dutch van der Linde, who runs his gang since his childhood. There is nothing more important to him than a gang, which is a family than a party of lawbreakers. He is a sarcastic boy whose allegiance to the Dutch is unlike everyone else.
The days of the outlaws end as civilization takes them on the way, the gang has feelings and time moves on. There is no longer how they can live, but now how they can survive. Red Dead Remission 2 is a crime drama just as much as an end-of-a-century escape. One upon a time, the law despised the Netherlands but the tables turned, and now they can all be tossed into the floors if they make a mistake.
When the plot grows, it rapidly progresses from a band that just tries to bring their next big deal into them and get a lot of money together and get out of the hell. Loyalties are checked as different psyches of the participants fall under tension, men lose their way, treasons are sure to follow. It is an exciting novel, from beginning to end, even though it often allows a slower pace.
RDR 2 gives you a couple of tender and sweet moments to admire the characters, to stop, and to do something as natural as Jack Marston fishing. Small details help make the game something happy in an otherwise grim story. There is 20 crew with diverse personalities, all with a reason to love or hatred. This is a character-driven show. Rockstar doesn't want to tell a special narrative. It comes from its own features and the hindrances, how to overcome them together and how to face them.
The one based exclusively on Arthur Morgan was another intriguing dimension of this extraordinarily long and extensive narration. Many people wondered how nice someone like Arthur Morgan might be. Arthur isn't John Marston, a guy with a good moral compass and family beliefs, but he isn't all evil. He's even harder. There's one explanation that's always named Red Delinquency, not Red Delinquency, Victory, or one of the fitting R terms.
The tradition of Rockstar Games is to encourage you to play evil/bad characters, some of them not worth it. Trevor Phillips is a terrible person, Michael De Santa is a bad criminal, Niko Bellick is a psychopath, etc. They're the heroes, nothing's wrong, and they're all in amazing games, going they're thing.
A very tiny Golden Heart, Arthur Morgan is an immoral soul, who causes his judgment to change. But the rationalized complot makes him as empathetic. He helps Natives battle the US government to ask about oil, cares about their own people, as blood-parents, and supports lovers who have broken their hearts from the past.
So what about robbing banks? The heists are much easier, but in Red Dead Redemption 2 they are just as fun. You don't have to go through the large configuration process (like in GTA 5) to choose how to do the heist, get some equipment, etc. It's the scheme here normally, let's do it, and then, or you're not. In RDR 2 you have the power/opportunity to rob from everyone and anything in the game. You can run in at any business, shoot doors and drawers and drawers for cash and goods, etc. Larceny is easily the most interesting felony to commit.
While other developers like Ubisoft "confuse" the player with a ludicrous number of side-quests, mini-games, items in their collection, and so Rockstar Games has more than enough to do in the open world, this includes playing, hunting, regular hunting, searching houses, trains stealing, storing train buses, crossing intriguing secrets in shops, such as profitable backdoor companies, and Some of the most fascinating characters in the wild west had these side quests. It's just something that you like to do instead of feeling obliged to do to achieve an objective, finish a mission, or anything like that.
In some of those great engineering elements, where Red Dead Redemption 2 faults occur ironically. Yes, the game's graphics are totally chewy but it has some faults. In certain sequences, the frame rate can sound quite choppy, but it is usually smooth, not atrocious, but it is sufficient to be seen. Also, bugs are found in the game (I think there isn't any game that comes with no bugs at all, it just can be patched over time). For example, I had the game crash several times during the same quest as using dead eyes to try and defeat a huge number of enemies.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is also with these patchable flaws, the best of the decades of Rockstar's life cycle. This is one of the most enjoyable follow-ups I ever played and makes you feel like a true cowboy because of his splendid past of crime, deception, redemption, and survival. I really love to see it, they will make a remaster for the original redemption as well. Anyway, playing RDR 2 for hours it inst a waste of time when you truly love the story, it will put you into it and as time goes on, the more you love it.
