Red Dead Redemption for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

My biggest issue is with the controls - I abhor cutscenes you can't skip but can take damage in. It's horrible. The character controls were worse than the first Tomb Raider in like 1996. Getting stuck on things. Not being able to turn around without moving forward before turning. Horse randomly dies. Horse and character see 1 foot step as insurmountable cliff. The world is wide open, but is really just filler between cities/towns. Story lines were separated which made things hard to follow and honestly were just bland. Some of the missions were terrible. One was follow some one riding really slowly (everyone rides really slowly and you most times you can't ride ahead of them) to a location "bantering" along the way. Get there. Cut scene talk to push the plot forward in foreseeable, uninteresting manner. Dead-eye ruins things. There's no difficulty gradient. The missions are either ride to, or kill/capture someone in a different location Follow same slow rider back to original location. The challenges were interesting for the first few then got repetitive and were hard to keep track of despite the in-game tracking system. Voice acting - especially when you control his son who which is really annoying - was laughable at best. A lot of things were time dependent yet there's no real good way to advance time. Saving the game adds around six hours of in-game time, but that's annoying to constantly do. Fast travelling adds variable amounts. Lots of glitches: flashes on the screen, multiple times I had to restart my xbox because the game got stuck in a loop on a cutscene eliminating anything I hadn't saved. And the horse-calling. Don't get me started. Some times it runs away from you. Sometimes it runs around you. Sometimes it stands still. Maybe 10% of the time it actually comes to where you are. Half of that 10% it carries your momentum, the other half it stops or has you run in an opposite direction.
I don't understand how everyone loves this game.