So I haven't seen any new films this weekend, which hurts the whole movie review thing a little bit. But I did spent a good amount of yesterday playing Red Dead Redemption. I played it for PS3 (I also own a 360 console) but I assume much of what I say here can be attributed to 360.
I won't do too much plot, cause its hard to critique until I'm finished it. Having said that its a basic revenge tale thus far, and in typical GTA fashion you help NPCs with unrelated quests and they advance your quest some how. The only problem I have with this here, is John Marsden (you) is a little too happy to help with every little BS side quest they happen to have. After just playing another 30 hours of Fallout 3 this month, I was looking for the option to intimidate them into helping me rather than run across the desert helping them shill BS cure all elixirs.
My second problem is this. John Marsden is too nice. I mean he isn't all sunshine and puppy dogs, but at the same time he is a very moral man just trying to go straight. And for a role player like me, it makes shooting random people like this were GTA a little difficult to do. Having said that, he is the most likable of the Rockstar protagonists, mainly because of his surprising moral nature and nice guy (for a R* game) personality.
Onto gameplay its very solid. Lots to do outside the missions, poker, optional missions, herd cattle, hunting. Plenty do to. The missions have yet to feel that repetitive, although I see the potential for it too later on. The graphics are stunning, probably the best for a open world game.
I've only briefly tried the online, I went on almost immediately after the western release, and few people were on yet. The free roam mode might suffer from over hype, its basically the game world with 'some' of the in game stuff to do. Don't think you'll be playing the main game here with a little PVP thrown in. Some options are taken out (I really hope multiplayer poker is added at some point, I didn't see it there).
I had a few bugs which were really annoying. If you lose connection with a player during a match (and this could have been my wifi, not blaming the game for dropped connections... yet) it sends you back to free roam. But it prompts you first, the only problem is I'm holding X to running, and this screen comes up and I've already pressed X and for the first 3 times never knew what happened cause I couldn't read it.
The second bug so far, is a game restarting crash when I tried to customize my character. I couldn't press any buttons, and my character was still animated, I could also access the PS3 menu, so it wasn't a system crash but a game bug.
The single player game however has been bug free, and as usual, I expect a multiplayer patch soon.
I'll try to get some more into the multiplayer later this week and do a follow up.
For now my score for the single player is 4.5 out of 5. I don't regret buying it.
I'll give my score for multiplayer later. What did work was fun I should note, and if I have a more bug free experience I expect a 4 at least.
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