Very replayable game as you have several choice who you want support to take over, or even take over yourself. So many games I complete the day I get it or within two days. This open game is huge and you can spend well over a week on one run through. This is my go to FPS. I love it.
First off I love run and gun games and was excited for a Mafia type game. But I gave up on this game. Not much shooting with a whole lot of driving. Despite that I enjoyed the first few missions and in particular the shootout when collecting protection money. I thought ok, finally get some gun play missions. Not really. Then I got to the auto race mission. The problem is you must win the car race to advance and after at least 100 attempts I simply gave up on the game. Sadly I don't think this was very far into the game. Driving controls are tricky and it's very easy to spin out. Slow down for corners and you get passed or knocked off the road. Yup, other cars trying to knock you off the track and it only takes a couple of mistakes and you won't win the race. In all of those attempts I never made it 2 laps staying in the top 5 let alone 5 laps and finish 1st. Many of the attempts I was flipped over and out of the race, or sitting dead last, before completing one lap. To make it worse the previous mission was stealing the fastest car in the race to have it tampered with to slow it down. I even watched youtube videos on how to win the race. Didn't help. They were obviously very good at driving/racing games as one took the lead on the first corner and never once spun out on a corner and nobody got close to him after the first lap. The funny thing is I found many similar complaints going back to when the game was originally released. If you have played a lot of driving/racing games, and like shooters, you may enjoy this game. To me winning a five lap auto race is a rather stupid "Mafia" mission. It's a shame there isn't an option to skip it after a certain amount of failed attempts. A waste of money for me.
