So far, I have a few beefs.
1. While cinematic, the "sandbox" is redonkulously huge for the amount of driving we have to do. If there were other police stations we could start at, it wouldn't be so bad.
2. The driving would be less horrendous if the cars handled better than a 2-legged donkey. My husband says the company that made this game also did Saint's Row (I have been corrected, see other posts. It's actually GTA, which my husband had actually said... I misremembered what he'd told me). I expected more from their cars, although I haven't found them all yet. And the fact that there are "high speed" car chases makes the crappy handling painfully worse. When the game asks if you want to "skip this action sequence" because you keep hitting things and losing the suspect it makes you feel like a 9 year old at a go-cart park who thought he was going to drive a cart, but then his older brother said he was too little and left him on the sidewalk.
3. Having your partner drive may mean that you miss something important, like "discovering" a landmark, catching a street crime broadcast, or finding a film reel or car... And, your partner could be a worse driver than you! Mine rear-ended several cars, ran down a street lamp, and plowed through a crowd of pedestrians so far... But if I drive I go so slow that it takes EONS to get where we're going.
4. There is no self save feature. The game auto saves at certain points and heaven forbid you don't reach one before you turn off the game (and think you did). Why can't game makers get it through their heads? Players would like to be able to save the game, of their own initiative, in addition to the auto-save feature.
5. The AI is a bit off. You're blasting your siren to get people to move out of your way, and cars STOP in your path, and pedestrians RUN AT YOU. What the crap!? I thought the siren was supposed to make it easier for you to travel, not more nerve-wracking.
Other than that, the game is AWESOME!!!! The story is rich, the graphics are amazing, the dialog does not sound like garbage, and the "mini-game" (reading peoples' faces for the truth) is difficult and interesting so I don't feel like I'm just strolling through the game. It also looks like they got some grade-A actors in to portray a lot of the characters.
1. While cinematic, the "sandbox" is redonkulously huge for the amount of driving we have to do. If there were other police stations we could start at, it wouldn't be so bad.
2. The driving would be less horrendous if the cars handled better than a 2-legged donkey. My husband says the company that made this game also did Saint's Row (I have been corrected, see other posts. It's actually GTA, which my husband had actually said... I misremembered what he'd told me). I expected more from their cars, although I haven't found them all yet. And the fact that there are "high speed" car chases makes the crappy handling painfully worse. When the game asks if you want to "skip this action sequence" because you keep hitting things and losing the suspect it makes you feel like a 9 year old at a go-cart park who thought he was going to drive a cart, but then his older brother said he was too little and left him on the sidewalk.
3. Having your partner drive may mean that you miss something important, like "discovering" a landmark, catching a street crime broadcast, or finding a film reel or car... And, your partner could be a worse driver than you! Mine rear-ended several cars, ran down a street lamp, and plowed through a crowd of pedestrians so far... But if I drive I go so slow that it takes EONS to get where we're going.
4. There is no self save feature. The game auto saves at certain points and heaven forbid you don't reach one before you turn off the game (and think you did). Why can't game makers get it through their heads? Players would like to be able to save the game, of their own initiative, in addition to the auto-save feature.
5. The AI is a bit off. You're blasting your siren to get people to move out of your way, and cars STOP in your path, and pedestrians RUN AT YOU. What the crap!? I thought the siren was supposed to make it easier for you to travel, not more nerve-wracking.
Other than that, the game is AWESOME!!!! The story is rich, the graphics are amazing, the dialog does not sound like garbage, and the "mini-game" (reading peoples' faces for the truth) is difficult and interesting so I don't feel like I'm just strolling through the game. It also looks like they got some grade-A actors in to portray a lot of the characters.
