Customer Ratings & Reviews

While I am not the biggest fan of GTA games, I surely do enjoy them. Being created by the same developers and getting some awesome reviews, I decided to give Red Dead Redemption a shot, contrary to the fact that I am not a big fan of wild west genre either. After playing 30+ hours of story mode and few hours online, here is what I thought. *************PROS.***************** TOUCHING STORY: The story, to me at least, was the strongest aspect of this game. I personally loved it. The game is about life and struggles of “a cowboy” called John Marston. Unfortunately, I can’t describe more without spoiling, but as you will progress through the game you will learn some shocking facts about this main character and story will introduce you to some mind-blowing surprises that you will not see coming. GREAT OPENWORLD WILD WEST GAMEPLAY: After the story, this is the second most appealing feature of the game. You are free to roam in relatively huge open world and do variety of activities, which include but are not limited to shooting bandits and thieves, gambling, playing various games, catching and taming horses, hunting and ranching. Words are simply not enough to describe these gameplay or the joy will get from it. Play it to experience it. PLENTY OF MISSIONS AND SIDE MISSIONS: The story of this game is divided into missions. You will be traveling from one point on the world map to another to get these missions like GTA games and doing a huge variety of things (see above section). Completing each mission will unlock new missions. In addition to main missions, you will have plenty of side missions. To me both doing missions and side missions was very rewarding as completing them would unlock more of the fascinating story or humorous events. GREAT IN GAME GRAPHICS, ANIMATION AND ART: This game looks wild west looks gorgeous. I am so amazed contrary to taking place in big open world, everything you see and experience feels so real. From creation of different land structures to plants, trees, animal and people, everything gives you the feeling that you are in actual wild west. Gorgeous simply gorgeous! CINEMATIC CUTSCENES: Cutscenes are so nicely designed in this game that sometimes you forget you are playing a game and it simply feels like a movie. Part of that is due to the solid voice acting and part is due to detail in facial expressions of different characters. There are a lot of cutscenes, but most are short and well placed between the missions. GREAT LENGTH AND REPLAYABILITY: As stated above, I am 30+ hr into the game. I have finished the main story, but there are still many side missions and miscellaneous activity to finish. These days when most games are 6-10 hr long, having games like this makes my day (or month to be precise). ONLINE GAMEPLAY: Not a huge fan of online gameplay anymore, but to those who care, it is available in this game and from little I have played, it feels quite addicting. Please refer to other reviews, as I am not a big fan of this. DOWNLOADABE CONTENTS: While it is not free, to those who care you can download few DLCs off online. To me, the most interesting one seems the undead nightmare. *************CONS.***************** WATER=INSTANT DEATH: Hate it, simply hate it. I can understand if you say the main character can’t swim, but then create invisible walls where you have bodies of water. What will happen is you will go near a body of water because it will have a chest there and before you know it you move your analogue stick in slightly wrong direction, fall into the water and die. So stupid! MINOR GLITCHES: Hate to point it out, but there are minor glitches in the game. There are places you will get stuck or fall. But don’t worry, it is nowhere near as bad as Fallout 3. *************CONCLUSION*********** I give this game 9/10. Some of you may ask why give it such a high score after describing such cons. But the fact is this game has faults because the developers have been daring and tried to create something unique and big. If it can please me (a non GTA and not Wild West genre fan) then I would say it is a must buy for those who love either GTA or Wild West genre.

This game is lots of fun to play and my son really likes it. He plays it with his friends on line.

Very fun play it through before. I got it again because they made it compatible with the Xbox One.

Loved this game back when it was first out and its finally Backward Compatible with the Xbox One!

It's like Grand Theft Auto but with a cowboy western look and feel. Get it a cheap price.

I bought this game for the second time because I sold my first one and wanted it back. Great open world design keeps it interesting.

Red Dead Redemption has been out for a couple of years now, it is still an amazing game.

A great game that can now be played on Xbox One. Well worth a second play through

Good game to play bought on a whim glad I did because it's greatly entertaining

Good game. Fun play. Not in my top 10, but not in the bottom 10 either. Overall decent, but doesn't keep my interest long.

This is by far one of my favorite games to play. Love it!

Purchased as a gift. Individual more than pleased with the gift

Gift for my daughter and for it to be used it worked perfectly.!!

Reviewed on many websites. Kids still like the traditional gta but this is a good change up

Games that was available at best Buy.always great.

I really enjoy the old west style games like this.

Really fun game overall. Story mode is really fun to play. Not a bad price either.

My son has had this game.But a friend borrowed it.And brought it back scratched.

Rated M....if you love that kind of stuff this is your game!

Imagine Tommy Vercetti with a pair of spurs and a horse, and there you have Red Dead Redemption. The way the game plays is almost identical to the Grand Theft Auto series, but in the Old West. You start with nothing, just a poor rancher trying to take care of his family. As you get more into the game, you find that the main character, John Marston, doesn't come from the best background, and some of the choice hes made in the past are morally questionably, at best. The story itself is pretty cliche, bad guy turns good then his past catches up to him. This game is all about the gameplay though. Even if you plan to do nothing but the main missions, this game is still going to take you a pretty long time to beat. Good thing there are tons of side missions and random questions the extend that game time, though. Even after you beat all the main missions and side quests, you can have fun for days on end, just riding around, lassoing people and hunting animals. There are tons of different weapons to choose from, such as shotguns, pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, lassos, and knives. And usually there are at least a few variations for each of the different weapons avaliable. The game is pretty easy, if you keep it on its default settings, but you can always challenge yourself and take auto-aim off. The map is huge, and take at least 15 mintues to get from one end to the other when riding a horse, and there are couple of cities that fill up the map, but it does a good job at giving you that open, expansive feeling of the Old West. After you finish the single player mode, you can always hop online and playwith some friends. You can either do a free roam mode, where it is basically like the single player mode, but with 16 players, or you can do a deathmatch mode if you preffer. Tons of stuff to do, extremely fun, and pretty long. For good reason, this is the stuff we've come to expect from Rockstar.