Red Dead Redemption 2 | For PC | Digital version

Red Dead Redemption 2 - One of the best games in 2018

"We are thieves in a world that no longer wants us" - Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2) Red Dead Redemption 2 is set in an open world consisting of five American regions. The player can explore them throughout the story and play in both third and first person. As Arthur Morgan, players can interact with the game world in various ways. These include story missions, side quests, challenges, random events and hunts. An honour system, returning from the previous game, changes depending on the player's actions towards non-player characters.

Concept of the game

Set in 1899 in a fictional depiction of the West, Midwest and American South, the story follows outlaw Arthur Morgan, a member of the Van der Linde gang. Arthur must face the decline of the Wild West as he tries to survive against government forces, rival gangs and other adversaries.

Genre

The game is best optimised in terms of textures and environmental clarity. The game offers over 50 hours of active gameplay with over 100 playable characters. The main genre of the game is action-adventure and shooter, so both first-person and third-person shooter.

Summary of the gameplay

Look and feel: 'Red Dead Redemption 2' is an impressive look at the oppressive Old West. Going from "Grand Theft Auto V" to this game is not a transition that any studio could have made. Even the jump from "Red Dead Redemption 1" to this game is a bit of a stretch, although that game had more oppressive themes. But... A game developed by Rockstar in which criminal activity is actively encouraged and in which the best course of action is often to play as if you were in the company of living, breathing people was not to be expected. The game's optimisation rate is high enough to deliver a constant 60 frames per second at 4k resolution and supports a maximum refresh rate of 320 Hz for the monitor. The game offers Vsync and Gsync capabilities and also supports AMD Freesync to improve upscaling. The pixel density in the game is excellent to see the environment and the quality of the textures. The game even supports PCSS and PCSS Ultra Shadows from Nvidia, optimised for the Rage Game Engine. RDR2 at 4k 60fps with a 240hz monitor and GSYNC ON with rtx 2080ti and i9 9900k 16gb ram.

Gameplay and mechanics

The gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2 features up to 150 characters, each with their own story as you play and complete the game. The gameplay involves the use of the main character, cowboy Arthur Morgan, who travels from a single town across a gigantic map of about 150 square kilometres, which is huge compared to any map in other open-world games.

Course of the game

There are four different progression hooks in Red Dead Redemption 2: profile, weapons, horses and your campfire. The profile progresses as you score kills and sprint across the map, whether you play the story or not. They feel like a significant source of progress, as the ability to sprint 10% further or get an extra hit is a big bonus. The weapons offer an exciting progression throughout the game. The weapons you unlock from the second chapter onwards feel noticeably different from the ones you have at the beginning of the game. It is exciting to unlock a weapon that has a longer range than your last weapon. For the horses in 'Red Dead Redemption 2', there are differences between middle class and elite horses. The biggest investment in the game, your campfire, has some decent upgrades (especially a fast travel system). The best backpack on the market gives you the ability to carry 99 cans of beans. In 'Red Dead Redemption 2', the game has the merit of compelling scripts and performances from scene to scene. The side missions offer respite with their hour-long story arcs and lighter tone, though you'll quickly see that the rewards for completing them are basically the missions themselves. Perhaps the counter-argument to all this is that Rockstar wasn't trying to create a power fantasy. It was simply trying to make a real adventure game in an open world. That would make sense if there were simply no rewards. But there are plenty of them, from weapons to treasure to horses and cores. However, they are rarely meaningful rewards.

Level of detail

The game is quite impressive and takes 4500 hours to complete with all the side quests. In 'Red Dead Redemption 2' there are thousands of side quests in every city you visit. Installation and activation require the Rockstar Games Launcher and registration with the Rockstar Games Social Club. In addition, the Internet is required for activation, online play and periodic verification of game eligibility. It also requires the installation of software, including Rockstar Games Launcher, DirectX, Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributables (x64), Chromium Embedded Framework, Rockstar Games Social Club Framework and authentication software that recognises certain hardware attributes for rights management, digital rights management, license enforcement, support, system and other purposes.