Finished the game on Hardcore just now. 24 hours in, 33%.
Pretty much done with it, felt like I got my money's worth.
Likes:
- graphics are awesome, the varied landscapes, locals, water, vehicles, explosions, etc are all great and make the game feel awesome. It really is the strongest suit of the game, I can't imagine how much time they put into each area
- missions for the most part are fun
- physics are good, saw way too many funny scenarios where AI chasing ran into oncoming traffic (while riding a motorbike.. yikes), ragdoll explosions, etc
- goofy story and terrible voice acting grows on you
Dislikes:
- ammo system is terrible, throughout the game, even at the end you're fighting for ammo, it gets better but there should be some rewards like infinite ammo for the pistol etc after a certain point in the game
- the health system is crushing, make the health respawn slower or something but the system as it stands is terrible, health kits are too far few between
- improve the ease of clearing an area. I wasted too much time trying to find generators and other misc stuff. let me spend my money on a way to find what I'm missing
- cutscenes, esp the black market ones got old VERY quick, the black market system needs to be revamped entirely
- some missions had way too long of travel time, considering the size of the world I don't really want to travel 4+ Kms to get to the first checkpoint. The mission structure should closer match the area you're in. It's not bad but it could be further improved imo.
I had a lot of fun, I hope the game sells well enough for a sequel. They have a winning formula here and there are a lot of places for improvement to make a sequel an insta-buy. Coop would be a killer feature.
