Shaanbox Red Dead Redemption 2 Review

Stunningly beautiful with a rich story but deeply flawed. The open world is great for creating a scenery but it lacks depth or anything genuinely interesting after riding through it just a few times. The story hooks you with the movie like opening and interesting characters but becomes totally repetitive and drawn out in the later chapters. Many of the characters are either so obviously evil (Micah, Dutch towards the end) or so obviously "the good guys" (Arthur, Jack) that they are generally uninteresting. The combat is not nearly good enough to keep the game fun for its extreme run time.