Red Dead Redemption 2 IMDb: Rating, Cast and What It Means

The Red Dead Redemption 2 IMDb page is filed as Red Dead Redemption II (Video Game 2018) under tt6161168, genre-tagged Action, Adventure, Crime — and it carries a user rating of 9.8 out of 10, which puts it among the highest-scoring entries of any kind on the site.

Who is credited

IMDb bills the performers the way it would a film cast:

• Roger Clark — Arthur Morgan
• Benjamin Byron Davis — Dutch van der Linde
• Rob Wiethoff — John Marston

All three are full performance-capture roles, which is why they are listed as actors rather than voice credits.

Why 9.8 is not the same as a review score

IMDb has no critic metascore for games. The 9.8 is a straight average of user votes cast by people who went looking for the page — a self-selected audience. Compare it with the critic aggregate, where RDR2 sits at 97 on Metacritic. Both are high; only one of them is a review average.

The awards on the page

The awards tab is where the entry earns its number. RDR2 took four wins at The Game Awards 2018 — Best Narrative, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, and Best Performance for Roger Clark — on top of well over a hundred Game of the Year awards across the industry.

Not to be confused with

Red Dead Online has its own, much cooler IMDb entry. If you are looking at a page scoring in the sixes, you are on the wrong one.