Viyasan Thiruvananthaselvan

*SPOILER ALERT* (DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THE GAME) Words cannot express how beautiful this game was. The story of the fall of the Van Der Linde Gang and the development of RDR1’s main protagonist, John Marston is truly a phenomenon. When you start off the game, you play one of the seniors of the gang, Arthur Morgan who has been with the gang for his entire life, where as others like Charles Smith or Micah Bell have been in the gang for a couple of months. The gameplay of the game is somewhat similar to GTA V (made by the same company that created this game) but with significant improvements. The gunplay is far more realistic where you have to manage the gun’s condition overtime to keep its stats stable. The same applies for both Arthur and his horse, where you have to keep both in shape in order for better and easier methods throughout the game. But the greatest part of this game is it’s story. Although Arthur is not mentioned at all in the first game, playing RDR2 makes it seem like you have been with him forever, and eventually at the final chapter after Arthur passes due to tuberculosis/or shot depending on you honour level at the endgame, I will guarantee you that you will shed tears. I loved John Marston in the first game and was glad to play as him in the game’s epilogue, but playing as Arthur was far more better, so I restarted my save game just to play as him again. The only reason I gave this a 4 star rating instead of a 5 was because of Red Dead Online. I was a big fan of GTA online when it came out and loved playing its several DLCs, such as the heists and business endeavours you partake in, Red Dead Online failed to do the same thing for me. It was fun for the first couple of hours I played it but eventually I fell bored of it and left it in the shadows. But aside from that it’s a 10/10 story but 9.5/10 game cause of the online feature.