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Hello everyone, Kirk Hamilton here. If you're listening to this, there is a good chance that you read my review of Rockstar's Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 and or listened to me and Jason talking about it on this week's episode. As a bonus episode, I wanted to try something slightly different, do something we've never done before, which is a complete reading of my review that I would do and then put on the feed.

So that is what I've done.

I won't waste any more time with Preeamble because it's a pretty long review.

I'll just say thanks so much to everybody who's reached out to say they liked the review

or engaged with it or think they got something out of it.

That really means a lot.

Without further ado, here is my full review of Red Dead Redemption 2.

From tip to tale, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer.

It is the rare blockbuster video game that seeks to move players not through empowering

gameplay and jubilant heroics, but by relentlessly forcing them to confront decay and despair.

It has no heroes, only flawed men and women fighting viciously to survive in a world that seems destined to destroy them.

It is both an exhilarating glimpse into the future of entertainment and a stubborn torchbearer for an old-fashioned kind of video game design.

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