Disgusting, but it's practically all there is on Steam for halfway-decent cowboy action with friends on Steam aside from Hunt Showdown, which is a far better play for less.
Story is utter garbage, and Arthur Morgan at his best isn't even half the character John Marston was at his worst.

Multiplayer is somehow even more money-grubbing than GTAV- at least GTAV doesn't lock basic missions/activities behind premium currency paywalls- nor make those same paywalled activities the only real way of making decent cash in the online portion.
Feels grindier than Warframe with the previous fact in mind.

Speaking of the Online, the game's buggy as all hell. Missions break progress near the end, NPCs will repeat dialogue, objectives will disappear, bounties will kill themselves for no reason; horses constantly take control away from you and require meter-tending WHILE you're in the middle of gunfights, bounties, or other missions. Trading companies (big way to make money with friends) require you to ACTIVELY STAY in the same posse for their meters to fill in order for you to get your payoff- you can't make any production progress without being in the posse that started it, unlike GTAV 6 years before.
All this petty ♥♥♥♥ and far, far more add up to frustration after frustration with this sorry excuse for a multiplayer component.

To make matters worse, Rockstar has basically just announced the sunsetting of the game not long before this review- stating that no further events, updates, or bug fixes are planned for the foreseeable future as they work on making sure their latest Shark Card incentives and monotonous content in GTA Online continue to be implemented instead.


Sequels probably shouldn't bank off being prequels if you wrote yourself into a corner at the conclusion of the previous game- question why there needs to be a sequel made in the first place before you go and do it.
Also, can we stop the trend of making sequels readily available on modern platforms without getting a modern version of the original onto the same platform first?

Disgusting, but it's practically all there is on Steam for halfway-decent cowboy action with friends on Steam aside from Hunt Showdown, which is a far better play for less. Story is utter garbage, and Arthur Morgan at his best isn't even half the character John Marston was at his worst. Multiplayer is somehow even more money-grubbing than GTAV- at least GTAV doesn't lock basic missions/activities behind premium currency paywalls- nor make those same paywalled activities the only real way of making decent cash in the online portion. Feels grindier than Warframe with the previous fact in mind. Speaking of the Online, the game's buggy as all hell. Missions break progress near the end, NPCs will repeat dialogue, objectives will disappear, bounties will kill themselves for no reason; horses constantly take control away from you and require meter-tending WHILE you're in the middle of gunfights, bounties, or other missions. Trading companies (big way to make money with friends) require you to ACTIVELY STAY in the same posse for their meters to fill in order for you to get your payoff- you can't make any production progress without being in the posse that started it, unlike GTAV 6 years before. All this petty shit and far, far more add up to frustration after frustration with this sorry excuse for a multiplayer component. To make matters worse, Rockstar has basically just announced the sunsetting of the game not long before this review- stating that no further events, updates, or bug fixes are planned for the foreseeable future as they work on making sure their latest Shark Card incentives and monotonous content in GTA Online continue to be implemented instead. Sequels probably shouldn't bank off being prequels if you wrote yourself into a corner at the conclusion of the previous game- question why there needs to be a sequel made in the first place before you go and do it. Also, can we stop the trend of making sequels readily available on modern platforms without getting a modern version of the original onto the same platform first?