Tried this much earlier this afternoon....
The character creation is certainly unique, but a bit nonsensical. Skill points being assigned as hours spent doing things then affects your body and clothing. I'm not sure quite why hours spent partying gives one a better skill at being stealthy!
The game then starts and is presented with a bit more of a story than I was expecting with Lamar introducing you to things as your character arrives in the city.
You are forced to do a race against other players first which took a long time to load. You have to choose from some fairly rubbish compact cars which I have to admit I'd not even bothered driving in the main game and they handle terribly. Managed to come second and then the game just did nothing for ages once the race finished. Eventually said it had lost connection to the server.
I got back into the game and Lamar had another mission but it seemed I was now in the open world and it said there were other players and I could see people leaving. Trouble was, I saw no way of actually knowing where other players were so I didn't see anyone else.
Had a drive around and found that there are a lot less cars and things happening compared to single player. It also appears that some areas are blocked off, as I couldn't get into the airport to steal a plane.
Went back into single player and then when I switched to my characters I was stuck with a weird image below the world and I couldn't control them. I thought my save was corrupt, but after exiting it seemed alright again. I then couldn't get connected back into multiplayer.
I think its probably going to be best to give it a miss for a while.
You have to activate 'Special Parent' using the Y button on Xbox. You need to press it again to deactivate a special character like John Marston and go back to custom ones.
The character creation is certainly unique, but a bit nonsensical. Skill points being assigned as hours spent doing things then affects your body and clothing. I'm not sure quite why hours spent partying gives one a better skill at being stealthy!
The game then starts and is presented with a bit more of a story than I was expecting with Lamar introducing you to things as your character arrives in the city.
You are forced to do a race against other players first which took a long time to load. You have to choose from some fairly rubbish compact cars which I have to admit I'd not even bothered driving in the main game and they handle terribly. Managed to come second and then the game just did nothing for ages once the race finished. Eventually said it had lost connection to the server.
I got back into the game and Lamar had another mission but it seemed I was now in the open world and it said there were other players and I could see people leaving. Trouble was, I saw no way of actually knowing where other players were so I didn't see anyone else.
Had a drive around and found that there are a lot less cars and things happening compared to single player. It also appears that some areas are blocked off, as I couldn't get into the airport to steal a plane.
Went back into single player and then when I switched to my characters I was stuck with a weird image below the world and I couldn't control them. I thought my save was corrupt, but after exiting it seemed alright again. I then couldn't get connected back into multiplayer.
I think its probably going to be best to give it a miss for a while.
You have to activate 'Special Parent' using the Y button on Xbox. You need to press it again to deactivate a special character like John Marston and go back to custom ones.
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