Great game with decent character development, great combat, great story, beautiful environments that are fun to explore, and an absolutely amazing soundtrack.
Extremely atmospheric game, and it tells its story without any dialogue, so you end up knowing just enough to sort of understand what's going on, but left with enough questions at the end to still be intrigued.
This is easily one of the most fun games I've played. It has excellent melee combat, which utilizes weapon durability, crafting, and a multitude of different weapons. Ranged combat is also very good, with a unique twist. Guns kill the zombies (and human enemies) very quickly, although it alerts all zombies to where you are, so you have to be smart about when you use them, or you'll get swarmed. The parkour is what really sets this apart from other games. You wouldn't think first-person, parkour, and zombies would be good genres to mix, but this game manages to pull it off exceptionally well. The world design is phenomenal. Every car, house, and lamp post is specifically put where it is to make the parkour flow. For example, a flipped over car creates a ramp that you can jump off of to land on top of a lamp post, and then jump to the top of a house. The story is the main reason why I don't give this game a 9 or 10/10. It just isn't that good. It obviously wasn't the main focus, but I still feel like they could've done better with it. The main villain is an obvious rip-off of Rais from Far Cry 3, except not done anywhere near as well. The side-characters aren't very interesting and are quite frankly 1 dimensional. The story also in general feels kinda rushed. You don't feel anything when something bad happens to a character you're meant to like, because they barely have any screen time to get to know them. But besides the story, it's a very fun game and I highly recommend it, especially since the developers are still supporting the game even though Dying Light 2 is a few months away.
Watch Dogs 2 is an awful game to put it simply. The physics are absolutely atrocious, the gunplay is clunky, the characters are 1 dimensional, and the story is just a massive cliché. The world itself is decent though. There isn't really anything unique to explore though, and there's a lot of copy-pasted buildings. As for the AI, it's above average; nothing special, but better than most games. Honestly, the only thing the game truly did phenomenally is the water physics.
This game is better than 95% of games out today. The physics are still better than any non-Rockstar made game despite being a decade old, the euphoria physics are still extremely fun and crazy, and the driving is the best and most complex of any GTA game to date. The story is very good, with you slowly rising up in the criminal underworld in a dark and serious story, while still retaining the humor the GTA games are known for. Oh, and the main theme is amazing.
Red Dead Redemption is simply one of the best games ever made. Between the soundtrack, physics, storyline, characters, and exploration, there is absolutely nothing you can really criticize the game for. Characters are all extremely well written, with nearly every character having an arc. The soundtrack perfectly captures what's going on in the game, and the euphoria physics makes the gunplay super fun and satisfying, especially when you shoot someone near a ledge and they dramatically stumble forward and flip off of it (completely dynamically). The world is extremely fun to explore, between the heavily wooded area of Tall Trees, the grassy plains of West Elizabeth, the lonely deserts of New Austin, and the exotic rock spires and mesas of Mexico, there are tons of points of interest and fun areas to discover.
I almost never give any games 10/10, but this game absolutely deserves it. This is as perfect as a game can get. Beautiful graphics, extremely well written story, memorable characters, amazing and diverse soundtrack, fun environments to explore, the best AI in any game, the best NPC interaction in any game, awesome physics (especially when it comes to euphoria physics), and extremely realistic animations. Most people criticize the game for being too slow, but this isn't GTA. It's not meant to be a fast paced shooter; it's meant to be a game where you take in the beauty, interact with the NPCs, and just enjoy the world. Mission design is also a thing people like to criticize for being linear, but they don't understand that they're meant to be linear. They're missions, not quests where you can go about it in 20 different ways.
Absolutely amazing game. It's everything that made the first two great, but more. More action, better physics (with the highlight being the euphoria physics, making for some really cool and dramatic deaths), better gunplay, and a fantastic soundtrack.
Very good game. Incredibly good physics for the time (although they do still hold up today) with the same fun mechanics as the first game. They kept the slow motion effect, and added new weapons, and thankfully removed enemies sitting behind walls with shotguns. The story is decent, but it's enough to keep you playing.
Pretty decent game, and even holds up pretty well today. The only reason I give it a below average score is the bugs. Sounds during cutscenes don't play 90% of the time, and the music never plays. I'm not sure if it's an issue with my game specifically or with the PC port as a whole, but some other people have also had these issues. Besides that, the game is pretty fun. The shooting mechanics and slow motion are really fun additions, although it can be unfair, because enemies are placed behind walls with shotguns, and one hit kill you before you have time to react.
