This game is fun and mentally retarded. There's only one thing to do in this game, and that's to blow ♥♥♥♥ up for 'Merica!
There's one thing about this game that I despise, and that is traversing the map. To go from one location to the other is a legitimate road trip. It's way too time consuming.
The game came out 16 years prior to me writing this review, and this was one of the first, if not the first game to have a massive open world, spanning 1,035 kilometers without a single loading screen. Even today, I am amazed at the grand massive vistas, and to the furthest horizon, your able to traverse, and find a new vista, then another, then another. But it gets tedious the longer you play it.
Another thing that I hate about this game is the fact that, although there's plenty of towns, basecamps, and military bases to blow up, there's only something like 20 different versions of each. So, there's tons of places to blow up, but just about all of them are identical. So over time, you feel like... "I've done this a trillion times."
I hear speed runners have somehow been able to get 100% completion in 30 hours... I hav no idea how that's even possible, but evidently it's true.
In my first playthrough, I didn't complete the game. I just got bored, because I just wanted to blow things up, but... found the formulaic design for each place to blow up and stopped playing.
This time around, I was far more focused on the stories and missions. I went through most of the game, this time around, not knowing I could upgrade my vehicles and weapons. That was tedious, but, I was playing on casual, and I do recomend you play it on that setting. It's an incredibly stupid game, so... there's no reason to go all hardcore with it.
I beat it in 48 hours, with partial completion, and I feel I got my money's worth. I might keep playing it from time to time, when I'm bored and blow ♥♥♥♥ up. But my desire for 100% completion just isn't there.
I hear the other games in the franchise have much improved ever since this game's release, and I look forward to experience what stupidity those games have to offer.
The story isn't "The Room" levels of stupidity, but it's rather stupid. I wish the acting was THAT stupid, but it's really just the rediculousness of how things play out that get you to let out a humourous huff of a chuckle.
There's one part where one of the main characters jumps out of an exploding helecopter and your player character saves his life by grabbing his arm, at the top of a skyscraper, and the dumbass is talking about 'Merica margaritas and roasting pigs or some gibberish. I kinda love it, but I wish they got even worse actors... I mean, the voice acting sucks, but it could be much more gloriously sucky... Seriously. I'd buy that game.
There's nothing to be taken seriously about this game, but you're play it Just Cause you can. You know what I mean?
