This game plays better than the original GTA 1 and is also nicer in terms of what you do in the game. While in GTA 1 you were a mass murderer, basically, in this game you're a wrongly accused fugitive. The graphics are obviously nicer (this is a modern game) and most cars have fantastic feel to the controls. You can also do more stuff, such as holding up a gas station or breaking and entering into people's houses. This is probably not a game I'll remember forever, but it's a nice game to come back to and play a short session once in a while. Controller support is good, so it's a nice laid-back experience even at my PC.
This a fantastic game. I'm adding this review merely to say that it doesn't run on modern MacOS. There's a Mac download on GOG, which probably works in older versions of MacOS, but not any current one. Twice I got excited about the fact that this game has a Mac installer (it's a great fit for a short sesh, even on a laptop!) and installed it, only to realize it just won't start. Zero stars are taken away for this from the rating, because GOG doesn't market this game as Mac-compatible anymore. When I bought it, it _was_ Mac compatible, now it's not. Technology marches on and all that.
Full disclosure: I'm not a huge adventure gaming fan. I read a raving review for this game back in the 90s, but never played it. So I thought I'd give it a try. Before doing so, though, I found that review, and re-read it. It said things like "no illogical puzzles", "no need to try everything on everything", "no need to scan the enviroment for tiny objects", and "hilarious". I'm sure that, at the time of writing, comparatively to other adventure games of the time, these were accurate statements. But as I played the game, basically from the first puzzle onwards, the game is filled with the problems mentioned above. You have to do some things several times in a row for them to give results. You have to notice a wire in a mesh of other wires of same color. You scale a wall by putting a bed spring in front of it and using it as a trampoline. I'm pretty sure we can find other adventure games of that era that did much poorer. I also think we might find some that are better. In any case, taken without any nostalgia, as a player in 2020, this games is not very good. I would only play it with a walkthrough readily available, as a form of interactive cartoon of sorts.
