Games like GTA...open world city?

K1LLSW1TCH said:
I did really enjoy RDR, the only thing that annoyed me was the unnecessarily large amount of time it took to travel virtually everywhere. Setting up a campfire to fast travel wasn't a great solution either because you have to watch the stupid animation twice and go into a menu to do it. :p
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Definitely annoying. Mostly I found myself just riding from place to place just enjoying the scenery. Another animation annoyance was skinning, which was entertaining at first but that soon wore off...ffs just get in with it John!

Still an awesome game though :)
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
I've been playing Sleeping Dogs after picking it up while it was on sale on the PS Store and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. The only thing that saves the game for me is the hand to hand combat. The city feels bland as hell, there are no interesting areas at all, on PS3 the draw distance is terrible and the graphics are really muddy which totally breaks any sort of immersion as you can often only see a few metres in front of you while driving.

Which takes me onto probably the worst part of the game, the physics are absolutely atrocious, you can press square to ram other cars which seems to turn your vehicle into a heat seeking missile, both speed wise and destructivity wise, the cars can all turn on a dime and motorobikes seem to grant you the ability to ram into pretty much anything without even losing balance. It's one of the worst open world games I've played this generation, the whole thing feels like a complete mess. That, and there's absolutely nothing that tells you whether you're advancing the main story, or whether you're just doing a side mission, apart from the obvious "favours" that they've added into the game. The talent on offer in regards to voice acting is pretty impressive, it's a shame the actual dialogue is rubbish though, feels like they shorehorned Chinese phrases into sentences for no reason other than they can.
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Interesting take on the game, considering the near-universal positive critical reception. I agree the physics are easily the biggest let-down, in addition to gun implementation which feels rushed and glossed over. It's a shame because at is core the game has a lot of potential - the Hong Kong setting feels fresh and original and as you already mentioned the voice acting is stellar. If you are at all curious to try the game, go with the PC version - unlike a lot of developers United Front/SE actually took the time to release an optimized version with significantly improved visuals.
 
TheVoice said:
I hated SR3, pure crap. The 'humour' smacked of trying too hard, visually disappointing, terrible controls, completely broken vehicle handling that makes LA Noire look like Gran Turismo, and rather naff missions, most of which (for a good part at the beginning at least) are just "Go here and do this lame mini-game".

Once GTA5 arrives, Saints Row will once again return to being surplus to requirements.
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Totally agree. That said though, I shamefully admit finishing the SR3 main plot missions :o It always feels like a poor & young teenager's GTA though. Plenty of immature (and cringeworthy) humour.

As others have said earlier, Sleeping Dogs is a criminally overlooked recent game with GTA style similarities, and the voice acting is stellar. Well worth your time and money.
 
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Have you played all the GTA games. It's worth going back and playing the oldies if you haven't. with some PC mods they don't look that bad. GTA:SA had a hell of a lot more to do compared to GTA4.
 
If your big on Japanese culture then Yakuza 3/4 as someone else has mentioned here is pretty good. Not as "open world" though to be honest, but I've enjoyed every game in the series so far
 
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