Ranking Every Rockstar Game From Worst To Best

1. Red Dead Redemption

There's a quality to the very way Red Dead controls and feels in motion that elevates it above everything else Rockstar have ever done. Everything, from the way John Marston tips his hat at a barman to the sun breaking over the horizon of another dusty day in the outback has a cinematic, perfectly handcrafted quality.

The very life you lead in Red Dead feels far more nuanced and impactful, too. Take a moment away from hogtying bandits to read the paper and you might find an advert for a shop wanting animal pelts. Journey off across the wilderness to secure said pelts from whatever comes your way - stopping to help someone being robbed or wrangling a wayward horse for its owner along the way - and you can actually follow the address from the advert to find the place and complete the transaction.

That, is a level of immersion and a deft mastery of the open-world genre you won't find anywhere else. On top of this you've got things like the crossover into Mexico (complete with Jose Gonzales' haunting So Far Away in the background), one of the finest scripts ever written delving into philosophical and socio-political themes on the power of wealth, religion and purpose, and a finale that lets you seek revenge completely of your own accord.

When the bar of quality is this high, Red Dead Redemption II can happily be "more of the same", but on the other hand, perfection has already been reached, and the whole world should explore every last inch of this 2010 masterwork first.