Great mechanics with some new not so great mechanics and a really stupid story. The beginning of the end for the series. It would only get worse from here, especially with how dumb thug 2 was.

I am fully biased in my review as this is probably the game that wins "most replayed singleplayer story game" for me. I would guess at maybe somewhere around low 100s for amount of replays but really i can't know. I played it all the time as a child and got the time down to a few hours for a runthrough.

9/10