My Red Dead Redemption review (my 1st review)

I 100%-ed the game a week ago, and just got the plat trophy on ps3.What i can say about this game is it's good but not great.

I was one of those gamers who was hyped out of their pants when we first saw the trailer, I was SOLD when i saw the free roam MP. I expected soo much about this game, however it didn't deliever as i expect.

SP: 4.5/5

The story is about John Marston, and it seems the trailers kinda spoiled what R* wanted to keep till the last part of the game, but still not much harm done. I advice anyone who wants a good story experience to stay away from any videos on youtube about this game, i read some guys comment and deliberatly spoiled the ending myself.. anyway, the ending was EPIC

there are alot of activities you can do in SP, poker, black jack, liars dice, etc. I have to say, it's really addicting to play these minigames, especially liars dice and poker(cheating) i never knew these games in real life but now i'm gambling my life away in the game. lol

1 thing that buged me was that Asian consoles(in my case HK ps3) may get their buttons mixed up in certain parts of the game, i can't do minor stuff because circle and square is mixed up, and especially the arm wrestling(which you will need to play in order to get 100%) is just a pain in the ass.

Overall i felt the SP was good, but at some point i felt a bit letdown, Yes the map is bigger than San Andres, and Yes there are wild life in the game, but comparing to GTA4, RDR is jsut a big sand box with sand...yeah thats right sand...and occationally some trees..In GTA4 you feel the city is alive and stuff are happening around you but in here its just a big vast land of nothingness, alot of time you'll find yourself just riding a horse to a location without anything happening(maybe there are some random events, but they dont occur so often) I really hoped they expanded the cities or add a few more towns..the places to visit are really limited in RDR. And yeh, cougers are the most powerful enemies in the game.

MP 4/5

Now to multiplayer, i was so excited about MP, and i jumped right in after i got the game even before single player. The first thing i got was a shot in the face and some douches chatting on the mic....well that's free roam for ya, if you're not in a posse or high lv, you're just gonna get picked on by other players.

my friend bougth the game a few days after me and we went free roaming, we got the "attack all hideout" trophy on the first time and my friend asked me this question"is that all we can do in free roam? attack hideouts?" apart from doing ridiculous challenges like picking flowers(hunting is fine, some times its fun) That's it. thats all you do in free roam......

The MP matches are good but you'll never lv up by playing those games, that fact is that even if you won the game and was the MVP of the match, you only get a small amount of xp, so people rather go grinding on hideouts(which they could get 10 times more xp) then to play MP matches. also, if you're not goin in with a posse, you'll just gonna get randomly matched up any player, and since they game is relatively new, there are TONS of noobs and newbies around, i'm a pretty easy going guy, but when you're hiding once the match starts or you're trying to get kills when the objective is to grab the freaking bag..well...i'm out..

So overall

Story: 5/5

Presentation: 5/5(i know 360 version is better)

Gameplay: 4/5

MP: 4/5(once you got to 20lv things will get better)