Perhaps the best game I've ever played, and I'm still doing so, there's that much to do it seems I won't be through with it until the year 2020. And perhaps not then either.
Beyond that I suppose it's worth highlighting some of the features of this game that make it utterly mesmerising.
Activities you can embark upon are numerous, including: Treasure hunting, hunting (animal and bounty), cattle herding, General 'progress orientated' missions, horsebreaking, nightwatching, cinema-going, poker-blackjack-liar's dice-horseshoe throwing-horsecart racing-bird shooting Wagers. There are strangers to meet and challenges to overcome, like defeating a cougar with a knife or finding a flower of the rarest nature.
There is a story to this thing that will captivate, and although a lot of the crap they speak really seems like crap a lot of the time, it seems to portray a valid painting of the time it's based. the characters are likable (the finale will annoy, it really will, perhaps even sadden) - and th characters are far more memorable than your average game, this is a special achievement as there are so many characters to meet. Charles Kinnear springs to mind. It is utterly overwhelming that a company could fit so much on to one little disc. that is Rockstars legacy I suppose, they've been creating new worlds for a while now, but this is their pinnacle. It truly is.
So get moving.
There are classic weapons to find and clothes to wear, there are frontiers to scale and ghost towns to loot. You've got mesas and rivers and pastures and forests to explore, there are scorching deserts and snowy mountains to survive in. It's a world of immense size.
I know, it's like GTA4 all over again except with horses. But it isn't. It's a whole new thing, and better I might add. The game's taken a new direction from the bustle of a city landscape, it's gone for a specific time, it's chosen it's specific impact and goal, and delivered it finely.
This has to be a classic game on all scales, disliking it cannot be possible, there must be something in it that you like at least a little bit. And so it wins. It's seriously not possible to describe it properly, all I can suggest is getting a copy and playing it for yourself.
This game is highly recommended.
Beyond that I suppose it's worth highlighting some of the features of this game that make it utterly mesmerising.
Activities you can embark upon are numerous, including: Treasure hunting, hunting (animal and bounty), cattle herding, General 'progress orientated' missions, horsebreaking, nightwatching, cinema-going, poker-blackjack-liar's dice-horseshoe throwing-horsecart racing-bird shooting Wagers. There are strangers to meet and challenges to overcome, like defeating a cougar with a knife or finding a flower of the rarest nature.
There is a story to this thing that will captivate, and although a lot of the crap they speak really seems like crap a lot of the time, it seems to portray a valid painting of the time it's based. the characters are likable (the finale will annoy, it really will, perhaps even sadden) - and th characters are far more memorable than your average game, this is a special achievement as there are so many characters to meet. Charles Kinnear springs to mind. It is utterly overwhelming that a company could fit so much on to one little disc. that is Rockstars legacy I suppose, they've been creating new worlds for a while now, but this is their pinnacle. It truly is.
So get moving.
There are classic weapons to find and clothes to wear, there are frontiers to scale and ghost towns to loot. You've got mesas and rivers and pastures and forests to explore, there are scorching deserts and snowy mountains to survive in. It's a world of immense size.
I know, it's like GTA4 all over again except with horses. But it isn't. It's a whole new thing, and better I might add. The game's taken a new direction from the bustle of a city landscape, it's gone for a specific time, it's chosen it's specific impact and goal, and delivered it finely.
This has to be a classic game on all scales, disliking it cannot be possible, there must be something in it that you like at least a little bit. And so it wins. It's seriously not possible to describe it properly, all I can suggest is getting a copy and playing it for yourself.
This game is highly recommended.