Red Dead Redemption review: 10/10 in Official PlayStation Magazine

CVG: This is getting silly now. Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption has clocked up a 10/10 review in the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine.

[Shaman]

HELL YEAAAAHHH!!!!!!!

[Pennywise]

YEEEHAWWWW!!!!!!

Next week can't come fast enough.

[Trey_4_life]

Congratulations to rockstar san diego on making a great game just like rockstar north have been doing for the past 10 years with the GTA series.

[TripleAAARating]

** Oh snap!!... It's a little above my standards..... XD

[Trey_4_life]

Oh yeah guys if you want to see some exclusive gameplay courtesy of me check this out while it's still up

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[MGRogue2017]

Rockstar Games FTW!! :D

[movements]

Great Game! I was intrigued from the moment I saw it! Day one buy for me.

[Venatus-Deus]

OK OK, i'll buy it.

[thematrix1298]

They should never give a game 10. GTA4 got it and we all agreed it's over hyped.

[nveenio]

I would agree about GTA4, but this game was never over-hyped. In fact, it just started picking up steam over the last few weeks. I'm more likely to give credit to a perfect review score over something like this than I am to something like Halo, Gears, MGS, GTA4, God of War, etc.

[aaronisbla]

i disagreed with you, not because of what you said about GTA4 being overhyped, i actually agree with you on that point.

Its because you are one of those people who think that a 10 means perfect, when any GOOD reviewing site or magazine will tell you it doesn't mean perfect and nothing will be better. Really if nothing can reach a ten, why use a scale from 1-10? if they highest they can get is a 9.999 then wouldn't that make a 9.999 the new perfect score?

[N4PS3Fanboys]

GTA IV is a work of art and fully deserves its place as the second highest rated game of all-time, with a 98 on Metacritic. Casual gamers cannot appreciate the immense technical achievement IV was. Liberty City was far and away the most realistic, immersive, and detailed game environment ever.

The script (ten times the length of a Hollywood movie) and voice acting are Oscar-worthy. There are literally tens of thousands of lines of dialogue in the game. Liberty City itself is so dense with culture, from its varied architecture to its internet sites and range of satirical television and radio shows. Everything is interconnected in such a way that it really brings the city to life and gives it character.

GTA IV has the open world game genre on lockdown. If you play Saints Row 2 after GTA IV, it feels like you've hopped back two generations. Strange, because SR2 came out months after IV. Everything seems so archaic, from the vehicle handling to the bland and lifeless city of Stilwater. Sure, you can spray feces on people and run around zapping people with shock paddles, but who cares when the game world is so uninspired and the physics, graphics, controls and story are so atrocious in comparison. Sure, it's a decent game on its own, but when you compare it to GTA IV, it's laughably bad.

Now back to GTA IV. I've never before played a game that had so much care and attention put into even the tiniest little details. The vehicle physics and deformation (rivaling even that of Burnout) are easily the best in any open-world game, and make it fun to simply drive around aimlessly. You can FEEL the weight of the car as you go over every little bump and running down peds never gets old with Euphoria working its magic.

I'm not sure how people can complain about GTA IV's replay value. The game is already longer than 90% of games these days. The speed run achievement for GTA IV is to finish the game in 30 hours. That's a speed run. You probably wouldn't get that much time out of Saints Row 2, even including multiplayer and time spent messing around. Who knows how long it would take to finish IV's story if you weren't rushing and skipping every cutscene.

Then there's multiplayer, which you could potentially get endless replayabilty out of. There's certainly no shortage of people playing online, since the game has not fallen out of the Top 10 most played games on Xbox LIVE since its release.

If you can't find something to do in GTA IV after you finish the story, then you must have no imagination at all. You need things force fed to you and maybe you should stick with linear games that tell you exactly what to do and lead you along a set path.

With GTA IV, everything just comes together to make the perfect experience. GTA IV is GAMING HEAVEN...

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Rockstar already has a reputation as one of, if not the, greatest game developer of all-time. We wouldn't expect anything less than perfect from them. I doubt RDR can live up to GTA IV's standards, but it will still be one hell of a game!

[Millah]

^^^^Whoa dude, clean up your chin, I think you got a little Niko Bellic on you.

[SpikeSpiegel]

I don't understand why people who extremely like GTA4 always seem to have a snobbish attitude to those who dont share the "OMG! Game of all time!" sentiment. Gamers and critics can call GTA4 a work of art all they want, but I dont believe that we paid $60 to marvel at its technical achievements.

The appeal of a sandbox game is the illusion that we are free to go anywhere and do anything. For a sandbox game, GTA4 felt severely limited. Gone were the different types of activities and over the top fun replaced with repetitive phone calls, 5 minute television programs, and a comedy club. It may have realistic physics and a living breathing atmosphere, but all that is window dressing once you realize thats all the game had to offer.

Saints Row 2 may not of had the polish Rockstar's game featured, yet it still delivered the most important thing in a sandbox game.. A fun experience.

The disappointment with GTA4 is that while R* created a detailed environment, they gave us very little to do around it.

[hamoor]

nothing more satisfying than kicking some western gangs @asses while listening to the good the bad and the ugly soundtrack :)

[Jsynn7]

This game looked like a phenom from jump. I pre-ordered it when I saw the very first trailer. Good call.

[AAACE5]

This will probably be one of the best games this year! I hope people are open minded to this experience. I don't care which system you like, pick this game up!

[Ju]

This will actually be the first Wild West game I'm buying...

And no surprise at the score.

[ThanatosDMC]

I know! It's weird i've never been interested in wild west movies/games this is the first. Unless you count that movie of Will Smith with that robot crab thing.

[YogiBear]

@Thanatos

That's a shame because that is probably one of the worst westerns ever made.

[mastiffchild]

Always nice to see a game you're looking forward to getting a good reception and I'm really up for RDR especially seeing how few western style games get made. Hopefully this will sell better than previous western tinged games like the underplayed Gun on PS2.

While I actually think OPM score their reviews pretty fairly, though, I have to say, again, that the number of games getting ten/ten even there concerns me. Where do we go, say, if the sequel to RDR is even better than this? Eleven? Twelve? It's a gfripe of mine but I feel games at the top end deserve distinguishing between like any others and as a result I prefer sites/mags to use a percentage system AND/OR all of the range available to them. It's just that I suspect very few of these games that get perfect scores would do if it weren't for the fact 90% of games get between 6 and 10/10 rather than stinkers getting ones and twos. Be nice, also, if a perfect score meant a perfect game like it really should d but when seven is the average there's little room to choose between better games and the number of perfect scores has gone through the roof which embarasses the whole shebang when game like GTA4 which splits the critics from the gamer comes along or when games getting seven in the same mag can vary wildly in quality just cos it's a safe score.

[AKS]

I think you're "dead" wrong (cheesy pun, huh?) here. A 10/10 doesn't necessarily mean "perfect," nor "should" it. The reviewer writing the review and assigning the score defines the meaning of their numerical rating, not the reader. Thus 10/10 could simply mean that it's among the best in a genre from the reviewer's perspective, not a perfect game in every way.

[ElementX]

Holy sh!t! I have purposely never read any information nor seen any videos of this game just to be completely blown away by the experience of discovering it for myself, however I did watch that second video and holy crap! All that stuff is new to me, I couldn't hold off any longer, I had to watch! I've had this preordered for a long time because I knew Rockstar wouldn't let me down!

[sak500]

I dont know man, GTAIV got nearly perfect score all across and i coudnnt even finish one island. The cars handled like they were on amphetamine. And running from one side of town to another got boring pretty quick. Anyway, will not buy into the hype this time, will wait for actual gamers views.

[Trey_4_life]

You know what, i have had enough of people talking sh*t about GTA4, you guys really sound like you have no clue what makes a game great, hence why your not a journalist being paid to voice an opinion on games.

GTA4 got high scores for a reason because it was great, the story was top notch, car physics were fine tuned down to the tee and the ambience ofr the city made it feel alive.

Perhaps when you actually turn old enough to play it then you will appreciate what makes it a great game

[CadDad]

Trey

I understand that GTA4 appeals to a lot of people, but saying you need to be "old enough" to enjoy it is ridiculous. I'm certainly "old enough" but I didn't really enjoy the constant barrage of over the top stuff. I'm old enough to not get all worked up over that kind of stuff, or need it to enjoy myself. Perhaps I'm "too old" to enjoy the 'controversy' it tries very hard to enact with every step.

Take away the shock and awe of GTA4 and you're left with an open world game with quite a bit of repetition and grinding. Fun, but not overly so. Take away the need for the shock and awe, and you're left with a gamer having an 'average' opinion of GTA4, which is the position I'm in and it has nothing to do with age.

As for RDR. I have it pre-ordered and I hope it is better (for me) than GTA4 was. The old west appeals far more to me than an urban setting. The lawlessness of the old-west caters far more realistically to this type of gameplay than the urban environment does. It's far more realistic for an outlaw to be 'over the top' and not get caught in that setting. I'm really looking forward to it, and I hope it's more like Fallout than GTA4

-CadDad

[Your A Towel]

key word you didn't enjoy it so i guess the game dose not deserve a 10.
trey good point bubbles.

[CadDad]

I said nothing of the score or what it deserved. I was merely commenting on Trey's ridiculous assumption that people didn't enjoy it because they weren't "old enough".

I leave the ridiculousness of 'scores' to reviewers.

-CadDad

[ElementX]

Well, it looks spectacular. Look for my reviews on Amazon. I have reviews for Just Cause 2 and 3D Dot Game Heroes. They're both the top reviews. Which reminds me, I have to update my 3DDGH review and add more info.

[aaronisbla]

But Sak, there is/ was barely any hype surrounding this game, why wait for other gamer's reviews? Rent it if you have to and make your own judgment. Keep in mind, quite a few gamers actually agreed that gTA4 was a 10, should you trust their opinions or form your own? If you fall for hype, thats your fault

[BeaArthur]

Nice. Starting to get amped up for Tuesday.

[iceman06]

I was amped up for Tuesday when I first heard that they were making this! But, I feel you. This might just complete my desire to play a Unforgiven, Magnificent Seven, Tombstone, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, style game! Then again, can any game live up to those movies? Guess we'll see on Tuesday!!!

[thehitman]

QQ I need to save my money for SC2....

[MiloGarret]

FINE, I'll preorder it then.

[Rowsdower]

buying this on the 360?

my gamertag is: XPCHARDonE

I would love to have an N4G posse

EDIT:

Cool, I just sent ali the brit and murderdolls friend requests, I will check back later and add anyone else who wants to join up.

[AliTheBrit19]

Ali The Brit

Add me.

[kingdavid]

Not getting alot of love there ali.

[renegade]

LOL

[AliTheBrit19]

Lmao

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[frostyhat123]

thebigmo1 add me

[DARK WITNESS]

you can add me. my tag is my name sake, just as it appears here on N4G. My psn Id is the same just with a hyphen. I am getting this on 360 though, so ya, should be fun

[ipe]

ps3 version.

i hope great reviews ll continue to roll out

[Rucury]

Need. Buy. Day Ones.

[DORMIN]

Sounds like everyone can smash the doubts about the PS3 version being inferior, because its still a 10/10 experience.

[darkgunner]

Thank fuck, hopefully the ps3 version isn't any different from the 360 one. It's worrying that they've shown no ps3 footage yet but I'm definitely getting the ps3 version. The 10/10 sounds like there's no problems though :)

[Mikey Mike]

Red at one time was supposed to be an exclusive for PS3.

[sixaxis]

wow, i didnt know? they havent? ya sure?, damn, now im worried too, i so hope that its as good as 360s (or even better), cos i`ll be getting ps3 version.

[darkgunner]

@Mikey Mike Ah, that's good news then. I wasn't sure whether to get it for the ps3 or 360 but since my 360 died a few weeks ago I need to get it for ps3.

@sixaxis Yeah, all the videos/screenshots have been 360 for some reason, I'm guessing some video reviews will be played on the ps3 though.

[redDevil87]

Anyone want a fat donkey race across the desert?

[SephireX]

We all know its not a 10. These reviewers don't use .5 scores. As such, the score could be rounded up to 10. Thus, the score is a 9.5 or over. I'm now really excited for this game. Rockstar has done it once again.

[ActionBastard]

Online Free Roam sold me. Posse up Gentlemen.

[Rampaged Death]

Title says it all !

[renegade]

Solid GOTY contender!

[divideby0]

always was a must buy for me...

[BannedForNineYears]

Possible GOTY contender!

[Kev2077]

looks fun ..i need to get a new game anaway havent got on in a while :)

[Mr Lahey]

Im sure this will be a big goty contender! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[bobdog626]

I think this one might be a Hit.From what i saw on the vid's it looked real good.Might be a Sleeper Hit.

[zen_hydra]

I have to admit that I wasn't very interested when I first heard about this game. I love the old Clint Eastwood stuff, but I've never been a big fan of Westerns in general. The more I've heard/read/seen about Red Dead Redemption though, the more excited for it I get. Now, I am chafing-at-the-bit to go all Man With No Name in the game's setting.

I just hope it turns out to be as deep and immersive as it looks to be, and I hope that there is enough variety in the game that I don't get burned-out on it before finishing the main story like I did with the last GTA game.

[ian72]

Been waiting for a while now for this game. Was hoping it would turn out great and it has. Will be buying this on release day. Another great game to add to my collection.

[renegade]

Day 1 for me!

[rakunado]

Man... ive been watching all my western movies again... my mood is so in for this game!

[interrergator]

i didnt expect this one to be big i didnt like the other red dead but this one i hope its good

[cmrbe]

Makes me even more excited with Agent.

[Ghost_Sparta]

Only good things coming for this game...Can't wait!

[xg-ei8ht]

This game might be worthy.

GTA4 was not imo. Some of it was well done, some wasn't. Framerate was sketchy on both systems. Car handling was off for me, but for an open world game decent.

I think Infamous is a much better game.

But this game looks very good.

Hopefully it plays good as well.

[frankymv]

GOTY candidate for sure

[AliTheBrit19]

Wouldn't expect anything less! :)

[frostyhat123]

but it doesnt mean much coming from ps3 mag!!! =) still pumped though

[huzzaahh]

Well, it would mean even less coming from an Xbox 360 mag, so I'm not too worried.

[Bathyj]

I dont know if it has or hasnt (guessing it hasnt) but I wish you had real fire like Farcry 2 so you could burn out towns, create diversions, or even just start a campfire.

I know you have a camp as a save point but its probably just like sitting on a couch or using a typewriter. ei saying yes I'll save.

I would love a heath system where you had to hunt an animal, start a fire, cook it and eat to top up your health. Of course for health packs to carry around to could make jerky while you're cooking. You'd have to plan ahead a bit see, when your supplys got low you would be force to go hunt and gather firewood.

Any merit to this idea? Its just the sort of thing I want to do in RDR.

[ibma14]

MAY 18TH There Will Be A lot Of Internet Problems LOL Cant WAIT

[Son_Lee]

Well, I hate the GTA series so I don't know if I will get this.

[BasilMarceaux]

This is not a flame bait, dont treat it as one...

Anyone seen any pre-release PS3 vs 360 comparisons, if there is such a thing? I have a feeling there will be little or no difference just like GTA4, but Ive been waiting for this game a long time, I just want to make sure its as perfect as possible!

[jalen247]

This game is going to set the new standard for open world games. Can't wait.

[unknown100]

guess i can say goodbye to modnation racers!

[ECM0NEY]

your tag didnt work for me.. add me TAG: Toweleeeie20

[xabmol]

The last 10/10 game from R* was overhyped and dull. Though I enjoyed the first RDR, I am cautious about this game's lasting appeal. Made it 29% into GTA4 before I got so bored I couldn't bring myself to put that disk in my PS3. Hopefully RDR is fun enough a rental to make it a worthy purchase, as I really want to round up my posse and wrangle me some outlaws. Giddy Up!

[viperfx]

Can someone please enlighten me on what is so great about this game? Maybe its not my type or something. I haven't seen any video reviews too.

[sugatmahanti]

Pre-ordered from Amazon.ca and cant wait...Trying to Finish Uncharted 1 to pass the time

[Domer25]

No game is perfect, but this one seems to be very close IMO. Good job R* san diego.

[unworthyBOZO]

Very nice