Gah! All these games! so litle time!
Tried it. the amount of hurdles you have to go through before you can actually play the thing! Activation - check. Play? no. Register and Install Social club- what? ok. Done. play? Yes - no! Install Winblows live first. Ok done. play? yes, but you must be online to load or save.
What the heck!/?
Finally, after asking on their forums i found you can play offline if you select an Offline Profile, but you still must start thru Social Club and Winblows Live! And they say they don`t want to encourage pirating!
Sorry for the rant, but I would`ve thought twice before getting this game as the box only warns you about activation, not the rest of the guff.
Of course, not much space to say what i think of the game itself, but…
It`s very, very good. the graphics are a bit shoddy, but the sheer work put into it is quite incredible. It really is like being in a real american City like New York. there must be a zillion animations of people of all kinds doing their own thing.
I really try to play as a respectable criminal, I wont hurt innocent people. I try to abide by the law if I dont need to any dodgy jobs, but when you have to it`s involving - and even realistically scary.
For example, I was speeding away from a job when i hit an oncoming car. We both swung about and hit the wall. There were two women in the car. One stumbled out holding her stomach in pain while the other woman just lay, head against the steering wheel with the horn continuously sounding… her eyes closed, mouth open.
The fighting is pretty grusome too. Arm, leg stomach shots bring down opponents realistically and sometimes they`ll pleade for you not to finish them off.
And there are loads of normal every day things you can do and much of my time is spent just calling the (suspicious ) girlfriend or going to play darts with the m8s.
Radio, Tv, etc are incredibly well done.
Voice acting is incredibly good. The rastafarian Ming mentioned for example is SPOT ON (my brother is a rasta…hmm). the Polish type accents are also pretty on too.
This game has had one helluva a lot of work put into the Human side of a metropolitan city!
