Preface: I hate being negative, but this game really burned me when I got it back when it was new lol
Like many of the time, I bought into the "SOCOM but gang-based" hype train that surrounded this game. Obviously, we were all mistaken, for many reasons.
As a kid, I played the hell out of it, but only because I was really big into the crime-game boom of the era. The story is a crock, full of stock archetypes and tropes that don't even have GTA's benefit of being a satirical farce, or Max Payne's stellar writing and performances. Instead, 25 to Life is closer to something like "Watching a kid play with action figures by smashing them together" and the gameplay feels like the gunplay equivalent of that. Everything feels floaty and weightless, the level design is boring and uninspired, and the enemies fought have different skins but are otherwise generally indistinguishable.
The soundtrack, I recall being enjoyable, but I can't say as any of it has stuck with me since.
I never played the multiplayer, so I can't really comment on it.
Like many of the time, I bought into the "SOCOM but gang-based" hype train that surrounded this game. Obviously, we were all mistaken, for many reasons.
As a kid, I played the hell out of it, but only because I was really big into the crime-game boom of the era. The story is a crock, full of stock archetypes and tropes that don't even have GTA's benefit of being a satirical farce, or Max Payne's stellar writing and performances. Instead, 25 to Life is closer to something like "Watching a kid play with action figures by smashing them together" and the gameplay feels like the gunplay equivalent of that. Everything feels floaty and weightless, the level design is boring and uninspired, and the enemies fought have different skins but are otherwise generally indistinguishable.
The soundtrack, I recall being enjoyable, but I can't say as any of it has stuck with me since.
I never played the multiplayer, so I can't really comment on it.