Red Dead Redemption 2: 10 Reasons It's Rockstar's Best Open-World Game

Considering how successful Grand Theft Auto V was, making a game that lived up to or even surpassed it was a herculean task. Did Rockstar manage it?

With Red Dead Redemption 2, it's safe to say that Rockstar have completely outdone themselves, creating a game that feels more like an long-span interactive movie than anything they've ever done.

Red Dead Redemption 2 features a gripping story, amazing characters and finely-tuned gameplay, but the real highlight has to be its open world.

Rockstar made their name by being one of the first developers out there to focus on an open-world with Grand Theft Auto 3. Since then, almost every game they've released has had an open-world, and each time they've tried to improve upon what came before.

Their last game is one of the most successful games of all time and features a huge open world with plenty to do. That's some pretty tough competition.

Despite that, Red Dead Redemption 2 delves deeper into so much of what makes an open-world great, that it outdoes the competition in almost every way. It's quality, not quantity.

Easily one of the most impressive things about Red Dead Redemption 2 is the level of detail that has been put into every facet of its production.

Even just listing a few of the small details that are in the game is enough to make the mind race. Horse testicles shrink and expand, Arthur's clothes get wet and dirty and your actions in the world actually impact the people around you.

Although a lot of this may seem like fluff and padding to make the game world seem more in-depth... well is that at all a bad thing? Unlike any open-world game before it, Red Dead Redemption 2 makes you actually feel like you're inhabiting its world, and that's truly a testament to Rockstar's work.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of those games where you're constantly noticing little things to be impressed about, and although that's true of a lot of Rockstar games, this is a whole new level.