This is very short, grammatically incorrect, lacklustre and basic review. Just to give you a flavour if the game, this does leave a bad taste in your mouth! This is a negative mini review. Picking out all the bad points of the game, which I think is more important if you’re considering buying it. Ok well first thing I noticed was the graphics, reminded me of GTA. But GTA did it right. Animations were smooth and little details were all there to make the world seem real. The cars for example, the way they animate, are absolutely dreadful. So let’s break it down: Cars: First off there is only about 5 different cars. In the entire game (same goes for character skins). Car wheels hardly turn if at all, going over the smallest of bumps will make your car travel on one wheel (yes ONE wheel, which is impossible to steer or stop with), and the fact the cars handle like full trolley of food doesn’t help! You can assign a key to handbrake, but in reality you may as well not bother. Using the handbrake the car wasn’t affected at all, not a thing. Yet if I press “use” to enter/exit a car, the car stops instantly and your character calmly gets out. Driving around the city isn’t a GTA experience. In fact it’s dreadful. When you need to get from one part of the city to another, you hit “loading barriers” areas which when you pass through the game brings up a menu and you can choose which city to drive to next. If you expected GTA’s level of detail with scenery and driving etc then you will be grossly disappointed! Other driving bugs include, when you press the use button to get in a car, you can actually drive off and steer etc while your character is still climbing in. Shooting the driver of a car will cause him to automatically appear on its roof, dead! There are others but…I can’t be bothered to load the game again and experience them! FIGHT! So what about the fighting sections? Well if you played the demo you will be familiar to this. However things in the game don’t improve much. It’s the same thing over and over. Badly animated enemies spawning from nowhere and just shoot at you. You then must shoot back and try to do it with as much flare as possible for extra points! You can perform special moves, like wall walking and such, which all sound wonderful…but actually its not. Wall walking is just bouncing off the wall in slow motion (not walking across it). You have no control over your character while this happens (because all enemies are auto targeted!). There are different special moves you can perform. These include: Having 2 guitar cases in each hand, each is a high powered machine gun Golden Gun: One shot to kill Whirlwind: Kills all enemies (and about anything from cars to chickens) in your immediate area! You can also shoot dodge ala Max Payne, but it’s not done with any degree of expertise. Like I mentioned before, all enemies are auto targeted, so only enemies with red crosshairs on you can shoot. The others shooting at you wait their turn. Anything else? Well yea. There are other bugs in the game, that sometimes make it unplayable but some that make me damn right laugh out loud! If you pull a gun out in public, passers by will run around screaming. Fair enough you say. But they run into walls, posts, cars, each other and just die on the spot! What I didn’t mention: Storyline: It’s so dull and boring that you forget about it within 10 minutes. The character you play is also boring and totally forgetful! You just play the game from one boring mission to the next. The missions are just as boring as the story; these involve nothing more than killing 10 people in 1 minute, something like that. Hardly exciting. The story is totally forgettable. Other game features: Sounds, music etc. Again nothing important to write home about. Ergo not worthy of entry in this mini review In closing I would say this game would be a very small diversion from other games for a few hours. I severely doubt you will be playing this any more than a week after you install it. These are all my OPINIONS. This isn’t an in-depth review. If you want to know more about the game, ask! Thanks for reading ;)
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