Close, but no where near the experience it almost was. Say, SUB-PAR GTA experience with touch of the movie & 03 graphics
When playing Splinter cell (again almost a year old) on my rig and then switiching to this title, WOW what a shocker... The cars are actually SUNK into the road surface, the textures are crap, the LOD distance modeling sucks, the models are 03' standards at best, whatelse... no quick way to bring up a map, change clothes and many more issues...
Look at the damn coffee cups in the first hide-out room... THERE FREAKING CUBES!! no where near a 6-8-100 sided cylander... done ranting, but while the gameplay is enticing, these graphics, menu load times and overall experince are horrible... Pick it up if you can find it for 29.99 or much, much less.