There is no way to talk about this game without relateing to the GTA series. I have to admit it's a beefed-up version of GTA for next generation. The development team at Volition certainly does a good job improving many aspects of the GTA series. There are many good aspects of the game from creating your own character to online gang wars. I really appreciate the deep character creation feature of the game. And also being able to spend drug money on platinum watches and exotic cars is very satisfying. Small touches like defending your own turfs and wearing gang color for stats boost all really add the game's overall presentation. Now here comes the bad parts of the game. One thing that bothers me the most is forcing players to take side missions to gain enough respects in order to take on main missions. This is just wrong!! Side missions should be there for players who wanted to spend some time away from the main story route. It gets to a point where if I want to finish the game, I am forced to take tons of side missions, which are not interesting at all. This kind of gameplay disturnbs the story flow and it's the main reason that I've stopped playing the game. Some minor issues like stupid AI of police cuts down lots of fun as well. You can wage a war at police for hours and you won't see SWATs come, what's the fun in that?
With some small tweaks in game design, this game could well be a contender against GTA, but it failed at adding those minor gameplay tweaks.
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