Its good to be the king.
The radio stuff they came up with for this game was simply unreal. You cant find this many unknown performers with such awesome beats in any game, across multiple genres.
You could play the game from the old top down angle view as well which i thought was cool, and you could spend months getting lost in all the side stuff.
No one has done anything innovate like this in a long time, the content of the game is slightly too short, but this game will always be one of my favorites of all time.
Its funny, high speed action still beats out games they make today and includes several things those other games dont, not to mention the sandbox, open world approach that started it all.