Having recently bought every THQ game on Steam for about £25, and finding myself trapped ill at home, I've been playing this a lot the last couple of days.
In a "23 hours played since Sunday evening, and not much of that was Sunday or Monday" kind of way
So, um, yeah. I rather like. Wish I'd spent more time on the character creator now.
The game is just so much fun. There's something to do on pretty much every street corner for giggles that almost inevitably leads to massive bodycounts. Hell, I just like cruising around with the boyz (half of whom are currently dressing as swat team cops it seems) in the 4x4 with the rotary cannon on the roof, picking off people for the hell of it. Picking off cops for the hell of it. Shooting shit up, because there's no good reason not to. Joy!
From: Jim (BOBBLE_HAT) [#2] 10 Dec 2009 To: [LST]Al (AL) [#1] 10 Dec 2009
I'd always seen it as how the GTA series would have ended up if they'd kept the 'fun' aspect of the 2D games. I was really tempted to buy it myself, although from what I've read the general consensus seems to be that the PC version is horribly buggy and badly optimised. Is it actually as shoddily ported as has been made out?
From: [LST]Al (AL) [#3] 10 Dec 2009 To: Jim (BOBBLE_HAT) [#2] 10 Dec 2009
it's certainly not uncommon for props to completely miss characters during cutscences (cigars floating three feet from mouths, biker helmet through the side of the skull for example), but I don't know whether it chugging is my PC or the game.
Controls, I find myself using keyboard and mouse on foot and when in combat whilst driving, but for flying and fast driving I use a pad.
I think I'd be annoyed to have paid full price for it, but given it was bascially pennies, I'm more than happy.
From: [LST]Al (AL) [#8] 13 Jan 23:44 To: Dark King (DARKKING) [#7] 14 Jan 1:08
Possibly, though it is, um, not particularly well optimised on the PC. And the controls are a bit off- I found myself having to have my gamepad on my lap, so that I could swap between that and keyboard/mouse.
I got it as part of a massie THQ pack for little monies.
From: Grog [#10] 14 Jan 2:49 To: Dark King (DARKKING) [#9] 14 Jan 5:35
More broken and less polished than GTA, but about ten times more fun with it. It was one of my favourite games of 2008 (it's about a year old on PC, but came out a few months earlier on the consoles) and definitely worth a purchase.
From: [LST]Al (AL) [#11] 14 Jan 8:19 To: Dark King (DARKKING) [#9] 14 Jan 22:51
I later "pimped" that truck- still had the roof mounted machine gun, but it also had massive wheels with low profiles, spinners, ankle shredders, lots of gold metalwork, a purple "camo" scheme and blue windows. Plus upgraded engine and armour. It was awesome. Especially as unlike the GTA games, if you destroy an upgraded vehicle, it's easy to retrieve it for a small cost.
Dying in a mission isn't the end of the world, like it can be in GTA- you get put back to your previous checkpoint.
Props frequently float around nowhere near the character who is supposed to be using them. The bugs are mainly cosmetic- I found no game breaking ones.
Good game, but on PC, when you're pelting about at full speed, it stops for half a second every five seconds, meaning you have to judge turns etc. oddly.
Despite that, it's amazing.
Spent most of the game with massive steel toecap boots, ripped jeans, red-camo vest, black waistcoat with red piping, black opera gloves, a mohawk and a top hat at a jaunty angle.
I was a man. Natch.
One of my favourite things is that your character is a proper psycho. In GTA 4, Nico would whine about how he just wants to go to America for a quiet life, and as he was controlled by me, he'd shoot people in the head if they pulled out in front of him when he was going to take a turn. Then go back to whining about how killing is naughty.
In SR2, your character in the cutscenes is someone who would go on a killing spree for the sake of it, so it gels more when you kick a granny in her cunt, as there's no whining about the terrible life you have.
From: Ralome (DZEE) [#14] 18 Jan 0:38 To: TheCastrator [#12] 18 Jan 18:45
Sounds like the undertaker. Clunge punting an OAP after dancing wildly in her face. Then, hop in a car and have your female character sing along to Take On Me in a deep English male accent. It is quite a thrilling experience.
From: Bob Pooner (USER_NAME) [#15] 1 Mar 23:39 To: [LST]Al (AL) [#3] 1 Mar 23:42
I got it for PC and I just couldn't get on with the controls. Didn't feel too great. I played the first game on 360 and the controls seemed fine on that. Oddness. Might get it on 360 pre owned.
From: Bob Pooner (USER_NAME) [#17] 1 Mar 23:53 To: [LST]Al (AL) [#16] 2 Mar 20:42
The view point wasn't great either... could have done with some kind of zoom control so you could zoom out a little bit. Might give it another go as I said.
