There's enough to keep you in practice and spice things up at just the right moments (and they even spiced up the gunplay itself with some really nifty incorporations of bullet-time, borrowed from Max Payne), but the melee combat is where SD shines brightest.
No flying, but that's what Just Cause 2 is for! Besides, who would want to leave this place?! A good selection of vehicles, including motorcycles and boats. The streets are particularly beautiful when it rains, and the water is always beckoning you to take a dive or hop in a boat! There are tons of interesting locations to explore, indoors and out. Cruising through the streets of Hong Kong with some smooth hip hop, classic rock, soothing pop or old school soul on the radio is truly a pleasure both day and night (That's assuming you don't want to just throw on some speed metal or techno and floor it, you can do that too).
What's cool about it is the graphics are still really good, and the map is satisfactorily big. That's because you can really tell the developers put a lot of thought into every aspect of the gameplay itself, as opposed to spending 99% of their time on graphics and map size (ahem). This is easily the best open world crime game I've played in a long time (and yes, that includes both GTAs 4 and 5).
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Story isnt anything original, with characters that arent necessarily satisfying but its decent and well performed enough to warrant a full playthru despite nonsensical dating subplots that go nowhere.
While side content is fun, it could be more intricate and varried. Not a particularly big world but its is vibrant, alive, utilized well. Fun gunplay (not much gun variety tho ) and car chases. Combat is not as fluid as Arkham Games or as deep as Yakuza or DMC but its brutal and satisfying enough, although enviro kills are underused in non story mission sections. Drugs are part of plot and characters are seen using some in a couple of instances. Constant swearing with F words galore and vulgar uses of f-k and some uses of c_ and c-t as well as sexual references ranging from oral sex to pedophilia. Brutal torture scene, including use of a drill, a disemboweled body is hung in a parking lot. Blunt trama sprays surfaces, a villian is fed to an ice chipper in slow mo with gory slushy results, massacre at a wedding with lots of blood and later a hospital shootout. Slashings, butcherings, as well as some more colorful carnage (albiet less frequent) such as people getting faces shredded on woodsaws, head crushed by engine blocks and shredded by metal fans, burn detail after burning opponents, impalement on rebar, swordfish, metal beam, etc. While infrequent compared to many games, gunfights splatter blood and brain matter everywhere. Beating leave opponents and clothes bloodied and melee weapons more. Altho its less morally deplorable and lewd tho. Its WAY more violent than 4 and prior to say the least. Holy crap i laugh at how this kid i saw at the store was bargaining with his dad on how this game has less violent than GTA.
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