Since I'm pretty sure Youtube embedding doesn't work, here's SkillUp's review of RDR2 that I feel is pretty spot-on for a Rockstar game in general (positives and negatives) as I haven't play RDR2 myself (but played RDR1 and GTAs back in the day).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JRikiQyzLA
I don't really get how Rockstar's games get such great overall review scores when there's so much wrong with the games like he mentions. I still don't get how the open world of the games actually enhances the core of the game when all the missions are as linear as say The Order 1886. To me, the point of making a game open world is to allow for missions/objectives to be completed in various ways, which is completely not allowed in Rockstar's games. And, speaking of The Order 1886 that got completely shit on for its super basic 3rd-person cover shooting, all the shooting gameplay of RDR2 actually looks very much like what you do in The Order (which I actually played... it had Tesla ok and it was short).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JRikiQyzLA
I don't really get how Rockstar's games get such great overall review scores when there's so much wrong with the games like he mentions. I still don't get how the open world of the games actually enhances the core of the game when all the missions are as linear as say The Order 1886. To me, the point of making a game open world is to allow for missions/objectives to be completed in various ways, which is completely not allowed in Rockstar's games. And, speaking of The Order 1886 that got completely shit on for its super basic 3rd-person cover shooting, all the shooting gameplay of RDR2 actually looks very much like what you do in The Order (which I actually played... it had Tesla ok and it was short).