Great game but it does not lie within the wrong scope of the game.
And for a 4 year old game in development, you just have to have had time to develop more AI for those stupid cops which seem like they haven't done any improvements in. Oh... I run over the bridge which I'm not suppose to do yet and I'm suddenly the biggest threat in the national history - how can something like that not lower the game's in every aspect?
Missions are either simple as killing a bug or as irritating as they can be. Once you deliver drugs for Little Jacob you have four guys surrounding you - and you better have an armour or you're screwed. And the next time you just have to get to a place within a certain time. So the mission differs from very simple or very irritating.
Ok, new features add great value to the game - like getting friends - which you can't even kill of even if you try a hundred times. I can't believe they can be so valueable to the story. Hell, what the hell is wrong with this game? Shouldn't Vlad be rising from the dead soon because I killed him too, why did he die when all the others I've blown up, shot to dead, driven to death does?
Yeah, you have a cell phone; you can call ambulances, cops, firetrucks whenever you need one of those vehicles but what's the point? And if you shot a civilian, pedestrian they don't rise up like they've done in all the other GTA game.
So every aspect of this game's story is simply stupid, and every feature of the game is simply stupid. Because the only enjoyment in this game is driving over pedestrians to see them fall in funny way, or go on a rampage run across town, or listen to funny radio shows.
That's the only enjoyment in this game. AND YES, you can "SOMETIME" choose someones destiny that will probably later on in the game have some value in a "kill someone" mission. What a great improvement from San Andreas! Ha!
Now i'm in the middle of thing where i'm just doing stupid things, for bad money or for bad reason and once in awhile you get that plain stupid mission that gets you irritated and makes you loose it and also lowers your trust and reputation to the mission giver.
What the hell is wrong with this game? I played to a point where I climbed up a ladder, and when I was about to get down on it again everything bugged out and now I can't even play from that point on anymore. I had to reset the Xbox and start over from a long time ago, since I'm doing these "pick up a hundred passangers and deliver a hundres of drugs" time, which is funny because the game doesn't autosave during those missions.
Isn't that awesome?
Great improvements, but if they've focused so much on the story (which sucks to play anyway) I understand why they've lost so much time to do the essential things that this game needs to run good.
If the true thing that keeps this alive is driving over people, shooting cops and simple just stalking around doing nonsense things - in the end, with reflection it don't longer feels like a game. It just feels like "Just Cause" in every cause, and every game alike it's own copies.
The storyline is another story, because what happens is good, but how you interactive in the story is just a goddamn hellhole to be in because it's not entertaining. I can do a mission, but I cannot almost do two at the because I've gotten so bored of the last one so I have to release my anger over it for a long while.
Chase that care, chase that car and kill the one in the car, chase that car and kill that one in that car or rescue the on in the car so you might get "ONE" mission from that person 10 hours later on in the story - which is very pointless.
How can this be called a game? It's a goddamn simulation of a city, full of cars, people who don't matter, with a story that just blows away with the Liberty City wind and doesn't affect you in anyway.
I know for a fact that if any GTA story would be made into a movie, it would be awesome because the stories are always well written, but how can one go from one "good" game when it came (San Andreas) to this piece of **** when they've just done nothing but redesining the city, adding few new cars, boring new features which lacks EVERYTHING that makes them worthwhile, a less interactive story that feels as pointless as a bottomless pit.
If this game is 30 hours long to complete, it will take me 300 hours if I try. Because I can't stand to do it.
I'm just saying to everyone who will buy this game, that you might as well replay San Andreas because that game is better in everyway. And everything new in that game doesn't feel "cut and pasted" like here, but with so small improvements that you don't even care about it? The most impressive feature: The reaction of NPCs. That's about the only thing that makes this better than San Andreas.
Buy it at your own will.
Don't take me wrong, I believe it is a good game, just a good game you have to have constant patience with to be able to enjoy it. And remember to hang out with everyone at everytime you get, otherwise they might get angry. WKTT is the best radio channel by the way.