**My scoring system is extremely weird.....if I feel at any one moment that the game I am playing is one of my best experienced the game has to get a 9 (unless the game gets boring later on), the amount of time that feeling lasts throughout the game decides how far up the 9 scale it gets....if the feeling lasts for the whole game it gets a 10/10...only 1 game has done that; MGS4**
Score: 9.0/10
Rockstar has always been one of my fav companies. They made my 2nd fav game ever which at the time was myt fav game ever, GTA San Andreas. They have also made other awesome games like GTA3, Vice City, Bully and so on. In fact I like GTA since GTA1,2 as my neighbors had them on PS1, so I used to play em round their house.
GTA4 stands as my biggest disappointment ever, RDR had to win back a lot of respect from me for Rockstar, and it did.
Pro's:
- Good, well paced storyline
- Great variety with minigames that for once are fun, minigames usually bore me, now Yakuza 3 made me enjoy them and RDR went forward with that, the card game was addictive!
- Scale of the world is great and a breath of fresh air from the same old same old Liberty City, if I need to play in Liberty City ever again I might have to shoot something
- Great music
- Compelling characters for the most part
- Variety in side missions
- Nice ending
Con's:
- Got boring after 10 hours
- Lacks the magic GTA:SA open world had, yeah different times obviously but that game had some magic in it that made me coming back to play it again n again...maybe variety of terrain and setting (which is why ultimately I enjoyed Just Cause 2 more than RDR....oh just cause 2, why did you have to have a crappy storyline...you could've been a classic!)
Conclusion:
A great game! A big step up from GTA4 and if GTA5 is made with this kind of story, variety in side missions then I should enjoy GTA5 more than 4.
While playing RDR I did feel at times this was my best experience ever (near the beginning 10 hours and the ending few hours), but the times where it got boring were a bit too many which brings it down to just a 9.0, rather than a 9.2.
