Red Dead Redemption II

Token10/10

Get Off Your Horse And Drink Your Milk

Let’s start by saying that I owned this game on the PS4, but due to having thumbs as agile as two age-old pensioners, I was unable to shoot anything with any degree of accuracy, and the game succumbs to sitting on my digital shelf gathering virtual dust. RIP RDR2 Move forward a couple of years and Rockstar made the sensible move to finally release their game on PC. With the possible increase in grunt my PC could give over my PS4, I was curious to see how well things would run? Well, upon initial release, not very well! Booting the game up I was met with frequent glitches and a pause/map screen that would slowly eat itself up leaving nothing but a slither of the overlay at the top of my monitor. But... quick to react Rockstart released a patch and, now, these release bugs and issues have been quashed. With Red Dead Redemption 2 we are introduced to a band of outlaws who, down on their luck and on the run, are looking for a new beginning to lay low and get settled. Your character, Arthur, is a disgruntled middle-aged fella who you can either play as an honourable and fine gentleman or someone who has a chip on his shoulder and wants to rob, murder and plunder everybody he comes across. I have chosen the more honourable route and am enjoying my journey around the vast, vast map checking out the vistas and helping out the poor folk that are being held up by the rival gangs and thugs that quite obviously littered the wild west back in the day. Using the mouse and keyboard has given me far more accuracy when it comes to the shooting side of things, allowing me to rush into battles far more than I did with the Playstation controller. I find that I am moving through the game far quicker than I did on console and enjoying the game far more than I previously did. I'm currently about 45 hours in but would like to come back to this review after I have completed a few more quests (including the main storyline). ——— Original ratings: • Visual Design: 10/10 • Sound Design: 9/10 • Gameplay: 8/10 • Longevity: 10/10 • Fun: 9/10