I don't know where to start, because i really feel like that i am fooled. I guess i need to start from the begining of the hype and the date was june 2012. My jaw dropped when i saw the announcement gameplay trailer and i thought that i needed massive upgrade to my pc to play this game smooth and at the max settings because this was it, the milestone, I made all my friends watch the video, also made one of my friends to buy the game, but i was wrong and it was really hard to me to confess that.
Let's start with graphics. First of all my pc runs game between high-ultra settings, but it's sure that this game's system requirement is too high for it's graphics and it's world. I thing there is something wrong with graphics of this game and it confuses me. During the daytime graphichs look old like the game is 4-5 years old but in the night and especially rainy night are look really fascinating. Here are some examples; ( By the way i used some mods to improve my graphics.)
The gameworld fells like unnatural, not living for instance whenever i got out from my motel everytime a random girl yells at a boy from balcony and throws his bag to street, everytime same action but different npcs, also at the corner of the street everytime a couple makes out, when i start the game hours later different couple makes out at the same point. Ubisoft said that "Every NPC is unique, you will never meet a NPC twice." There are at max 10-15 different looking NPCs in game only difference between them are their clothes and hairs. You can see same fat looking dude in different clothes for 5 times in 2 minutes, all these reasons killed the living world experience. Driving physics and vehicle handling are broken for most car types,at the start it felt like simulation but it's bronken also the damage model seems to be a bit poor, for instance from time to time after so many hits, the main body area of the car appeares to be in pretty good condition even some time you don't even see a scratch. Mini games was fun for some time. Soundtrack was poor, it has very few songs. My playtime 26 hours shows on record on steam but it weirdly stopped recording my playtime and doesn't records anymore. Now The Story and missions, 8 out of 10 mission are sneak in some area or building, steal some data and get out. The Summary of The Story (Potential SPOILER) is betrayal&revenge.
In conclusion, this game was my very first pre-purchased game of my gaming life and now i am sure that i will never pre-purchase any game if it's not a sequel.