The game sees you playing the role of Arthur Morgan, an outlaw who is part the Van Der Linde gang, led by a guy by the name of Dutch, an outlaw with a heart it seems in the hours I've spent with him so far at least. The story which unfolds in the form of a heavy tutorial based opening, which will see you getting annoyed with snow and slow-moving Arthur, thankfully opens up once out the way and blossoms into a game that offers a beautiful landscape to explore not at the pace of a sloth.
If you follow me on Twitter you will have seen the sort of side story I've been making myself with the game (even the Wife asking about it, and she hates everything gaming), that story being the how long could I keep my 80's themed Rainbow horse clan alive, as they had a habit of dying in stupid ways. Poor Zippy being the first one to suffer the fate of death, with a deer-skinning incident going horribly wrong which saw him taking a train to the face (witness that massacre here). From here on in we had Geoffrey falling down a tiny cliff (shush, I was not in control of all these horses dying) and acting like he had taken a shotgun bullet to his back legs. Running for miles to buy a revive potion only to be told he was dead upon doing so. With the game not allowing the name Bungle for some reason, I currently find myself with Freddy, one part of the threesome that was Rod, Jane, and Freddy (Google in young kids). I also have George and Rod on standby, but Freddy is special, as for some daft reason I decided to buy him for $450.00 from a stable, with horses found all over the map and once tamed can be added to your horse clan, paying for one that really isn't that special is one of a number of stupid things I've done so far in my time with the game.
In terms of controls, well here is where RDR2 is a mixed bag for me, with things like combat working fine for me, but horses tend to have their own ideas loving nothing more than faceplanting into trees when on a slow gallop, to just loving diving over rocks and sending you flying through the air. Can be a tad annoying, but you do just kind of find yourself laughing at it when it happens, as it just funny seeing poor Arthur flying through the air mumbling stuff to himself as he dusts himself off getting up.
