This is going to make Yahtzee have to do a 2-parter.

The train that politely stops for trucks @2:38 is something I can't believe they didn't catch in QA.

Is this thing getting a PC port? I don't plan on buying it, but maybe modders can turn it into something fun.

The first trailer I saw for this game made it look incredible.

Every generation needs its Shenmue I guess. Also, I don't know if any of you have BEEN to Chicago, but boxes and fences do melt just like that. Also, the L makes plenty of stops, maybe he just got lucky. Goddamnit this is disappointing.

This is the fastest selling UbiSoft game released. Please stop buying UbiSoft games, you're basically paying for the CGi trailers for their next ripoff at this point.

When he land the bike in the back of the truck, oh man.

I dunno, back in my day (as long as they weren't game breaking) bugs like this were considered a fun thing.

there's a tradeoff in how much can be tested in the "massive open world" games people demand while an on-rails game is comparatively simple to get polished and bug-free.


also some really nit-picky shit in here...Ooo, no bullet splashes in water! there goes my immersion!


(or is this the same bitching and moaning every time a new "generation" of games comes out and e-autists come out in force to find every instance of something not a perfect copy of reality)

(full disclosure; I don't own the game or give two shits about it)

I already knew this was going to be shit.

Why? Because sleeping dogs was kinda shitty. It had some cool moments in the beginning but most of the game turns into saints row 3 kind of grinding for sway in the city or some such. Drearily boring repetetive quests that are all the same.

But it was really fun to fight people hand to hand. Too bad that stops being possible once you go far enough in the game and everyone just has guns.

3:09-3:39

None of these adequately show the biggest fault in this game: the driving.

Its like trying to navigate a shopping cart at mach three over roads made of some kind of non-Newtonian fluid. In order to maintain any control whatsoever you have to switch to first-person mode which actually influences the programming to make turns less 'cinematic' and more immediate. First-person driving mode isn't an option on console, so you're out of luck if you didn't pick this up for PC. Accelerating while turning is basically like not turning at all, and trying to do anything fancy like navigating through alleys or slipping between cars is next to impossible.

This would be forgivable in another game where driving played a much smaller role, but you're supposed to be "the best driver in the city" with dozens of missions based entirely around car chases, when going a block without smashing into something is an achievement.

And that's not even to mention the mandatory use of U-Play which serves as some kind of completely inept middle man who intercepts all your connections to the Ubisoft servers and loses them on the way to Steam. I'm yet to be able to connect to the servers for online play, but I have spent probably half an hour of my life watching U-Play try to connect to them in vain before it will let me play my game.

In essence this is a multiplayer-focused open world driving game in which you can't play online or drive.

Who is the market for this? People who read the Assassin's Creed books?

Best PS2 game ever.

I was all set to play this ironically until he mentioned the mandatory mouse acceleration. What the serious fuck?

Can anyone who works or knows people in the programming industry explain why it is that game developers seem to love saddling PC gamers with ever more egregious mouse acceleration? I know it's usually a symptom of a game that's been hastily ported from consoles, but surely, with mouse acceleration being one of the loudest and most consistent complaint across the board, making sure the mouse controls can be fine-tuned should be considered a top priority by every last porting team, right?

I don't see anything wrong here. It's a video game, not a fucking simulation of the universe. Of course it's goofy.

Glad we're tired of invisible walls, finally. I think I gave up on playing NEW BEST EVER GAMES when Ninja Gaiden came out at the end of the PS2/Xbox lifecycle, and it was basically a fucking rail shooter for how little you could go off the beaten path, except at least rail shooters don't pretend to be more than they are.

Fuck "triple-A" games. How did that term even get invented for this shit?

The spiritual successor to Skate 3?

yawn, this "game" looks about as fun as 99% of what's out in the market today. I'll stick to Mario Kart 8

Oh god, they modeled the train tracks with 90 degree turns!

90 DEGREE TURNS!!! That you watch the trains take at full speed!

https://i.imgur.com/NRHeLh6.png