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There is so much to do in Red Dead 2 that you can extend the 60 hour completion time to 80 hours or more.įishing and hunting, playing poker, blackjack or dominoes are welcome distractions (as some of them were in the first), but there is much more than that on top. Of course, all Rockstar open-world games are about much more than combat and missions, they are about an enormous amount of variety in play and this time the developer has really gone to town. We get goosebumps just thinking about them. Running headlong through streets, shotgun in hand and escaping from a botched bank robbery - that's where RDR2's combat shines most. Mano a mano shoot outs are different this time around, with a more refined slow-motion quick draw system that owes much to the original Red Dead Revolver that started the franchise but, to be honest, it's possibly the least fun part of combat. So making this a prequel was an obvious compromise. It provides a better Western adventure setting than even the first game achieved, one of pulp fiction novels and movies. Considering John Marston's original story ends in 1911 and the epilogue takes place in 1914, it would coincide with the first World War and a more technologically advanced, civilised America. Setting the game 12 years before the first Red Dead occurred might have been a worry for us beforehand, but it turns out to have been necessity as we wouldn't have got the grittier Wild West theme otherwise.
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Kind of like the best TV series you've ever watched. Even then the pace doesn't ramp up much, but by the time you notice you are so engrossed it really doesn't matter.
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Although you do really have to stick with it initially - as it doesn't really get going until you are eight to 10 hours in.
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This makes for, in our humble opinion, Rockstar's finest piece of storytelling to date. And his story, without giving away any spoilers, becomes much more poignant and layered than we could ever have hoped for. His gruff and grizzly nature makes for a great, rounded main protagonist. Rockstar's decision to pin the sequel on John's gang buddy Arthur Morgan instead is inspired. However, it didn't take long into the game to put our minds at rest.