Why is RDR2's Online not factored into its reviews?

Dan The Man

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This is a strange omission from almost all reviews of this game, yet other games that have online functionality have their campaigns AND online ranked together. Should RDR2's reviews be revisited and re-tweaked after Online comes out next month? And why does this game's online functionality not affect its review score?

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It has been acknowledged that the online portion of this game hasn't released yet. However, seeing as some games get reviews weeks or days in advance and their reviews include the online portion of the game seems to break the reviewing system as a whole when games like RDR2 treat online components separately.

The thing is, should the online components for all games that have both an online mode and a single-player mode be treated separately in reviews? Should SP games that have MP components incorporated into their scores or MP games with SP incorporated into their scores be revisited and reviewed? Should MP components be entirely disregarded when reviewing a game?
 
What is RDR2?
 
Usually an online portion of a game involves a lot more than just the physical game itself. When you play online, it gives you the chance to play with other people and you can't predict out other people are going play or how they're going to react to something. A review, you're just giving someone your opinion of something and you can't give an opinion on something may not be available yet or that hasn't happened yet.
 
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