I though it was a game with a lot of potential that was ruined by some utterly stupid decisions made during development. As such, I played it for a couple of hours, almost tore my hair out with frustration at it, then deleted it.
Main criticisms:
1) Every few seconds the game takes control away, shows you a cut scene where Max blunders into the middle of a room (which you know is about to be attacked), swans around without a care in the world, then has to dive behind the shittest piece of cover once the baddies inevitably swarm in. Then the game gives you control back, and you're stuck in a crap position you'd never have gone to if you'd been properly in control. Repeat. Oh, and every time it does this, it always switches you back to the basic pistol - which is doubly annoying if it's out of ammo.
2) The method of changing weapons is awful. And if you go the wrong way through the list and select the wrong weapon by mistake (hovering over it for half a second counts a selecting), Max is very good at automatically throwing his other gun away. So your pistol is out of ammo, you've just had a cutscene where the game has dumped you into a crap position and switched you back from the rifle to the empty pistol. In your haste, if you scroll the wrong way through the weapons, he'll pull out a second pistol (also with no ammo) and then throw the rifle away. Aaaand you're dead.
3) The checkpoint system is awful. No manual saves, and after the game has killed you via one of the methods above, you find yourself rewound through 10 minutes of gameplay and through a couple of big battles to an ancient checkpoint save from yonks back. Meaning lots of stuff you've already done has to be replayed.
Ergo, combine these three things and it annoyed me to the level of being uninstalled. Wouldn't waste my money on it if I were you until Rockstar learn how finish their games properly.---
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