Red Dead Redemption

If You Play Games, You Must Play This Game.
I actually purchased this game on it's release back in May, but since I still play it, I think it deserves a review, or does it? I honestly find it hard to say what I don't like about this game. I really geek out to gritty Clint Eastwood westerns and the Grand Theft Auto series. So when you combine the two, you basically make the best video game ever made. The video game Gun had originally stolen my heart on this, but then this game came through strongly on the 1upmanship.

Cons Few and Afar
I will name the cons to the game, even though they don't detract from it much. I thought it was a little silly for a lone gunman to collect flowers around the frontier. It was a real time consumer as well if one collected all the different types and quantities. The other thing that was kind of cumbersome was how it would cut to a cinematic every time you would skin an animal instead of just saying you collected a skin. It was worse how you would go into town to the trading store and have to sell everything and buy everything one by one and not it large quantities. At first the game was kinda fun in that it was so vast and how so much to uncover, but it can actually get annoying to ride a horse to long lengths around the great frontier. Luckily though the game had a warp where you could set up camp and get transported anywhere on the map. The one other thing is I thought the story was good, but could have been better. Gun had this game beat on that aspect. I also missed how there wasn't any Indians like there was in gun, or a bow and arrow. There wasn't swimming like unto similar Rockstar games. Lastly, although the graphics were phenomenal, the characters eyes still have that weird buggy look that hasn't been quite nailed in games yet.

Red Dead Addiction
The pros to this game will be hard to summarize because there was so much, and so much to the online play as well. Fun mini games, unlockables, horse racing, shootouts, side missions and accomplishments. The graphics I practically drooled over in this game with my jaw open. The rolling plains, epic sunsets, sweeping vistas, textures, waterfalls, animals and the physics. It was fun to compare scores with friends and other players with an elite membership to the Red Dead Social Club. The game is so addictive it is almost like a drug. So hard not to pop it in and play instead of do homework like a student should. The Grand Theft Auto series didn't quite nail the online play, but this game did. I love love love playing it online, and it has great rewards to when you rank up, fun co-op and great variety of games.

I give this game 10/10 overall.
Pros: Almost all things are pro, especially all the DLC
Cons: Very few, but could use a tad bit better of a story, and could shorten some lengthy things.