You may like the first half or the second?
Anyway I enjoyed this game, most of the way through the 70s era, after this I realised it wasn’t as special as I thought it was. The storyline got boring, it’s a pretty obvious storyline, this could be said for Black but that was something special. The game starts with you as a wheelman, then halfway through you get put in prison because of a set-up, you most likely spend the rest of the game getting revenge (I haven’t even completed it yet, and am not planning on), I enjoyed being the wheelman a lot more, it was fun and made you think you were the best driver in the world when you skipped between the traffic, another thing that spoilt this was that I was going through the missions not knowing when I was going to jail, and in the second part of the game everything gets reset, so the stars you were collecting to get extra health restarts and your have to go to all those places again or maybe different places to get those stars.
Okay I was enjoying the game up until the second half, I played some of it then stopped playing it, and haven’t played it for ages. Usually I stop playing a game because a mission annoys me, this one I don’t want to go back to, and its not because of its annoyingness, the missions aren’t really hard in the first half, they get a bit hard in the second. But that isn’t a problem, the problem is the distance needed to travel to get to your next mission, it takes longer to get to your next mission than to complete it. So really the game wasn’t as good as it should, but most likely better than 3, this may have been because of the games storyline, I mean its not easy skipping 28 years from the start of the game and pleasing the audience still. You see I may like the first half but others may like the second more. I’m not sure whether this review has helped tip your decision on whether to get this or not, maybe you should wait until its cheap, or alternatively just replay that dusty copy of San Andreas on your shelf.