Recent reviews by Russenfreund Radl

The ranking system for comp is stupid, why is there a rank for every map? Also basically the entire playerbase is silver, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that up too

Also, how can somebody be spinning like a helicopter and give 5 ssg noscope wallbang headshots in 1.5 seconds with 5 bullets and not get banned???? How can there be so little anticheat

The servers are catastrophic. The sub-tick system is incredibly bad. Please give us 128 tick.
And please add anticheat. Maybe improve the Lag compensation a little bit so that it cant be abused as much (afaik thats the main reason for bullet backtrack cheats)

Terrible game. Everything is stolen, nothing is self designed. No gameplay value, you just run around and look for doors. A little bit game in the bugs actually. There is no water texture. Everything is stolen for Escape The backrooms, and still the dev managed to make everything worse. Worst backrooms game i've played so far. I would rather play the chrome dino game for 6 hours straight than play another 30 min of this game.

Very overrated.
The story is good, but everything other than that is just annoying.
For example:
- Why are my weapons always getting put in the saddle when I'm on horse?? You start many missions with only pistols bc of that, but fortunately arthur decided for me that he will most of the time take the varmint rifle (a rabbit hunting gun) with him. Why tf, i have no idea. Its very rare that you have the weapons you want/selected with you on a mission. Also you cannot sell weapons so you will always have a weapon locker full of them.
- Rockstar tried so hard to make the horse riding appealing that they overdid it. The horse stumbles over stupid things and gracefully redirects itself into trees and stones. Maybe its suicidal, that would explain a lot.
- i have 97.5 hours of playtime and have not seen a single male moose. That should not be possible.
- 90% of missions are you riding somewhere. Most of the time you are riding with someone so you can't go full speed and just ride for 10 mins. As i said, riding is not pleasant.
- Sometimes when you die during a mission one or more of your weapons from your inventory get deleted.

Also im not sure if im playing a cowboy or a disguised quicksilver/flash. You can activate deadeye and shoot 20 enemies without getting hurt. Why is arthur always running away in the game? He is basically unbeatable. Most of the times i died was because arthur stumbled over a even surface.
They implemented a lot of mechanics from GTA, but every single one is just a little bit worse.
The menu is very bad made.

You can play this game for a long time and will never run out of stuff to do, the only problem is most of the stuff is annoying and not fun to do (e.g. riding horses). The game feels very slow and unsatisfying.
The graphics are amazing tho, one of the best i've ever seen.

Wouldn't recommend, except your looking for a horse riding sim. If you want to buy it, buy it on sale (<20€).

Amazing graphics, amazing story/side stories and amazing characters.
It's a shame that none of the side missions have a real impact on other things in the game, like in TW3. There are some bugs but they don't disturb the gameplay. You don't see 92 hours playtime for one playthrough very often. Amazing game, would totally recommend to buy, even if not on sale. Not as good as TW3 or Horizon: Zero Dawn tho, imo.
If you play it, edgerunners is a must watch. The game and the series really get you in your feels :')

Edit:
Nevermind, it is - imo - the best RPG, paired with TW3.
My only negative points: The vehicles. When you go slow, the physics are not correct, the wheels are "going" sideways. The bike physics are very strange, for me they feel pretty bad.
And the biggest missed opportunity: Tuner shops! Why not make the vehicles customizeable? I just want to change the color and put some new wheels on it! Maybe a "turbo-tuning" to make it go faster or something.

There are so many different ways to play this game, it just doesn't get boring. I love it.

Amazing game. Beautiful graphics, very cool combat, great story.
The world is super detailed, the machines are really cool and the game is really optimized, i can run it on max settings with 120+ fps on a 3060.
The dialogs are a little bit dull at some points, but thats literally the only thing i found criticiseable.
Until now I have only encountered one single bug.
One of the best games I have ever played.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WALLJUMPS AND ROPES (ropes stop being annoying asf once you unlock pull ability)
♥♥♥♥ you whoever programmed this part
combat is nice and also good graphics
dodge rolling works very mediocre

Buy when on sale, i wouldn't say its worth 40€, the story can be completed in around 20h.

The fighting mechanics can be a bit of a pain at some points.
That's it, no more negative things.
The rest is amazing. Really good story, amazing graphics and really good gameplay.
If you play on insane difficulty, you have my deepest respects, because that is hard hard.

With my latest playthrough i had some weird bug where i couldnt save in the steam cloud anymore bc it is full (deleting one savegame takes around 10s because of the amount of saves (500+) so deleting them all is not really an option) and i couldn't save locally bc it just didn't save lol. The error fixed itself tho, and it was also the only problem i ever encountered with any of TW series. Tbf it actually is a problem with Steam (not being able to manually clear steamcloud)

So: Buy it. Worth every cent.

Incredible.
Better than a lot of other main games.
B&W is basically a game for itself (an amazing one at that) and HoS is just so tragic, its perfect. In my opinion, they also stand very good in contrast, the light and shine Toussaint and the dark worlds of Gaunter O Dimm.
Could be double the price and would still be a steal.

Graphics are great, story is even greater and the game is just absolutely the best. Very few bugs/glitches but every other aspect of the game is just amazing. DLCs 100% worth the money.