![]() As Arthur, you are essentially the gang's fixer. Moving from state to state, the crew finds itself mixed up in a wide variety of misadventures as they try to regather themselves and pull together the funds they need to finally disappear. Throughout the story, the gang exists in a transient state. At this stage of history, Arthur, Dutch and crew are on the run following a failed job in the town of Blackwater. Players of the original Red Dead will recall that this gang is the one previous protagonist John Marston originated from. The story follows the adventures of Arthur Morgan, right-hand man to charismatic gang leader Dutch van der Linde. ![]() No matter how transfixed I became by the "magic" of what this game does, I found it difficult to shake the sensation that everything I was experiencing came at unreasonable expense. But the recent reporting on conditions at Rockstar's various studios in the lead-up RDR2 undoubtedly intensified those thoughts. I probably would have had that thought irrespective of recent events, just by virtue of how unusually polished the whole experience feels. In the 60-plus hours I spent poking through every corner of RDR2's world, I constantly found myself getting lost in both the myriad activities it provides, and the simple pleasures of walking through its diverse and gorgeously rendered environments.Īnd as I worked my way through this staggering game, I couldn't help but repeatedly think about the staggering amount of work that went into creating the game. It tells an uneven, but highly enjoyable tale set 12 years before the events of the first game, and largely affords its large cast of characters far more opportunities to endear themselves to the player than any other Rockstar production I've ever played. An open-world game in the grand tradition of Rockstar's lengthy catalogue in the genre, RDR2 offers up an Old West world that is massive in scale, teeming with life and activity, and astoundingly, exhaustingly detailed. First and foremost, it is staggering in its scope. Red Dead Redemption 2 is, in many ways, a pretty staggering video game. ![]() Editor's note: This review was originally conducted in a podcast format, available as a video above or right here as an audio file. ![]()
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