This game is compared to GTA a lot, and from now to even before it came out I heard the boasts that this game was so much better than GTA. I can only go along with that in one category: Fighting. The hand-to-hand combat does surpass GTA's unarmed fighting controls/moves/visual are better but that is the only aspect of this game that has anything on GTA. Instead of being a hit man for the underworld you're a police officer meaning you can't just go around killing everyone you want (can be a good or bad thing depending on how you view it). Instead of stealing cars you confiscate cars from drivers telling them you're the police and you need their vehicles. Pedestrians aren't as helpless as they are on GTA and will fight better harder and sometimes use guns. When you drive around random crimes are committed and it's up to you to stop them. The controls to driving are harder than to GTA and takes some time to getting used to, which also can be a good or bad thing control a car in this game at high speeds is more realistic in GTA. You start off with two handguns and can pick up guns from criminals you bust (or kill). You cannot reload guns and as soon as it is out of bullet you drop it to switch back to hand guns. The missions aren't as spectacular as GTA and sort of get repetitive after a while. Shoot him fight him that's as far as the missions basically get. You never really die in the game and if you're defeated don't get a game over but a bad ending. I guess that isn't' that big of a deal though I didn't like that aspect of it. There are small things in the game that just make you shake your head. Any car you pick is strong enough to push five cars bigger than it, and bowl over huge trees, but if you run into a bush you'll be halted in your tracks, that and you can drive through metal fences but you cannot wooden ones (guess they decided to make the wooden fences out of the wood of bushes). There are little glitches through the game (maybe because I rented a bad copy? Not sure). This game doesn't take long to beat, and if one puts the time and effort into it you could get all the endings just by renting the game once. Worth Renting? Yes But buying is a different story
This game is compared to GTA a lot, and from now to even before it came out I heard the boasts that this game was so much better than GTA. I can only go along with that in one category: Fighting. The hand-to-hand combat does surpass GTA's unarmed fighting controls/moves/visual are better but that is the only aspect of this game that has anything on GTA. Instead of being a hit man for the underworld you're a police officer meaning you can't just go around killing everyone you want (can be a good or bad thing depending on how you view it). Instead of stealing cars you confiscate cars from drivers telling them you're the police and you need their vehicles. Pedestrians aren't as helpless as they are on GTA and will fight better harder and sometimes use guns. When you drive around random crimes are committed and it's up to you to stop them. The controls to driving are harder than to GTA and takes some time to getting used to, which also can be a good or bad thing control a car in this game at high speeds is more realistic in GTA. You start off with two handguns and can pick up guns from criminals you bust (or kill). You cannot reload guns and as soon as it is out of bullet you drop it to switch back to hand guns. The missions aren't as spectacular as GTA and sort of get repetitive after a while. Shoot him fight him that's as far as the missions basically get. You never really die in the game and if you're defeated don't get a game over but a bad ending. I guess that isn't' that big of a deal though I didn't like that aspect of it. There are small things in the game that just make you shake your head. Any car you pick is strong enough to push five cars bigger than it, and bowl over huge trees, but if you run into a bush you'll be halted in your tracks, that and you can drive through metal fences but you cannot wooden ones (guess they decided to make the wooden fences out of the wood of bushes). There are little glitches through the game (maybe because I rented a bad copy? Not sure). This game doesn't take long to beat, and if one puts the time and effort into it you could get all the endings just by renting the game once. Worth Renting? Yes But buying is a different story