During my quest of playing through all Assassin's Creed games, I stumbled upon this little game on the Game Pass. I had heard of this game from colleagues at work - one of them actually took a month worth of vacation on the release date of the game, and when he was back, he and a colleague couldn't stop talking about this game for months to come.
However, I never looked it up and never even bothered - but when I saw it playable for just a month, for free on the Game Pass, I had to try it out. Oh boy, did I make a mistake there... Who could have known, that this game would keep me busy the next 1,5 years, consuming over 430 hours (or 18 whole 24h days) of my life?
And to be totally open with you: I am no Western fan. Not at all. I've maybe seen 3, and those rather by accident then willingly - I might have started more but stopped right after a few minutes... but after playing this, one of the first things I did was look up lists of movie recommendations for RDR2 players :D This game was so good, that the day it ran out of the Game Pass, I went to the next computer store and bought a copy of it. And this game was so good, that I wanted to explore everything possible: I did every side mission, every story I could find, I collected all the things you could collect, I hunted everything you could hunt, I crafted everything at every store possible - heck I even tried to get all breeds of horses ridden in (I think I did it, but as there is no achievement for this...). And never did I feel bored, or bothered. On the contrary. This is next level game telling - this is better than any movie. This is just incredible. I wish there where more games on this level, and I cannot recommend this enough... unless of course you cannot afford the time this game takes... but even then... And believe me, words don't do this justice. Gameplay videos don't either. You have to experience this for yourself!
However, I never looked it up and never even bothered - but when I saw it playable for just a month, for free on the Game Pass, I had to try it out. Oh boy, did I make a mistake there... Who could have known, that this game would keep me busy the next 1,5 years, consuming over 430 hours (or 18 whole 24h days) of my life?
And to be totally open with you: I am no Western fan. Not at all. I've maybe seen 3, and those rather by accident then willingly - I might have started more but stopped right after a few minutes... but after playing this, one of the first things I did was look up lists of movie recommendations for RDR2 players :D This game was so good, that the day it ran out of the Game Pass, I went to the next computer store and bought a copy of it. And this game was so good, that I wanted to explore everything possible: I did every side mission, every story I could find, I collected all the things you could collect, I hunted everything you could hunt, I crafted everything at every store possible - heck I even tried to get all breeds of horses ridden in (I think I did it, but as there is no achievement for this...). And never did I feel bored, or bothered. On the contrary. This is next level game telling - this is better than any movie. This is just incredible. I wish there where more games on this level, and I cannot recommend this enough... unless of course you cannot afford the time this game takes... but even then... And believe me, words don't do this justice. Gameplay videos don't either. You have to experience this for yourself!