Watered down gameing.Lots of things to do in Liberty City but none of it plays that well.
Now for the game it's self.What made me decide to give this a try this time was not the great reviews but the fact that I love the whole sandbox gaming idea.I liked Crackdown so I felt like I may have come to like this series.So first off the amount of things you can do in this game is great !The effort they put into making Liberty City feel alive is top notch.Not the greatest graphics in the world but the scale of it all is amazing.
Here is the problem.They put so many things in the game to do that it waters the game down.Here is what I mean.Its great to play darts,pool and bowling.It's cool to jump in cars and race around or get into gun battles.However in trying to give us all these things to do.They did not take the tame to make any off it play well.If you think driving the cars wile drunk was hard.Driving the car sober is not much easier.The mechanics for any thing you want to do in this game is frustrating.It's not really a hard game it is just that nothing seems to play well except maybe darts.Taking friends places just becomes annoying and counter productive to the main story.Even those get old as well.Take this guy here.Take this package here.Go there and shoot this guy.It's all so repetitive.Wile I can appreciate what they tried to do.It just dosn't work.
So I give this game a 7.5.Just for the effort of trying to pull this huge game off .The game may get an M for mature rating but as far as the score goes it should only get an E for effort.