The embargo has lifted and the Red Dead Redemption 2 review blanket has been tossed aside! The critical consensus on one of the year’s biggest titles is finally in.
Here are a few highlights from around the web. I think people might like it. It currently sits on an average of 97% on Opencritic.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Review Roundup
Red Dead Redemption 2 not only lives up to expectations, but it smashes them and feels like the missing half of a story we never knew was incomplete. Improving on its predecessor in every way that counts, it also reignites interest in its landmark prequel, enhancing the overall experience to an epic scale and giving gamers an odyssey quite unlike any other.
Few worlds are as well-realised as the one Rockstar has created for Red Dead Redemption 2. Thanks to some wonderful scripting and stellar performances, the characters you randomly meet in the wild are captured as well as the ones you spend most of your days around camp. How do you follow Red Dead Redemption? You make Red Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a brave prequel that isn’t afraid of taking risks. It is innovative, surprising, stunning, dramatic, and generous – a highlight of this generation and a benchmark for other open world games to aspire to.
A stunning, elegiac western that features some of Rockstar’s best writing to date, Red Dead Redemption 2 is also the studio’s finest open-world to date, handcrafted with real, tangible care and attention, defying the boundaries of what a video game can be. Arthur Morgan will also inhabit a special place in your heart, as a likeable, relatable rogue striving to find his way in the world. Good ol’ Arthur.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game of rare quality; a meticulously polished open world ode to the outlaw era.
An astounding open world unlikely to be rivalled until well into the next gen, saddled by a throughline from the last.
Eight years after the masterpiece that was Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games is taking a second shot. New protagonist Arthur Morgan gets a better supporting cast, an absolutely beautiful open world with more visual variety, and a ton of things to kill or collect. There’s some occasional tedium in travel, and a few bugs and annoyances, but nothing that prevents Red Dead Redemption 2 from being an excellent game.
It’s an effort and experience that elevates it easily among the best open-world games of all-time, but also just straight up one of the best, and most ambitious video games ever produced.
So in pretty much every Red Dead Redemption 2 review, there’s a whole heap of positivity for the sheer depth and detail of the game. Are you any more excited for it now?
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out tomorrow on PS4 and Xbox One.