The LEVEL DESIGN! The other reviews mention the cast and characters, music, but they really undersell just how diametrically different the levels are designed in this remake. The original was filled with beautiful, emergent sandboxes and setpieces where you really had to play mindfully and tactically. You were facing off against a relatively small group of very deadly gangsters, with the clumsy roll of desperation and mediocre aim. Tommy is after all an everyman in over his head and that feeling was captured very well in the gameplay. In the remake, you are a supersoldier who zoops instantly between cover and dispatches hundreds of headshots and bombastic explosions with ease. Every single mission has been reduced to excessively scripted sequences and extremely linear shooting gallery corridors. Yes the original was janky but theyve smoothed out the gameplay experience so much that its become rather generic.
