I dunno. I don't think this game is bad enough to call it soulless shovelware garbage, but I don't think it's good enough to be called a good game too. It just feels like somethings missing but I can't quite put my finger on it. The swinging looks great, but feels like nothing. The combat looks great, but has no substance. The city looks amazing, maybe actually the best a city has looked during the seventh generation (yes I am including GTA V) particularly the night, and dawn settings, but it feels flat. The city is filled with things to do, and details littered throughout but feels empty. I just don't know.
What I do know. This game has loading screens. A lot of them. And they are LONG. Like 3+ minutes for every one. And, if you start mission, end a mission, reach a checkpoint, die, do some mundane task, beat an enemy, beat a boss, your reward is another 3 minute loading screen. It gets worse. This game crashes. A LOT. The longest I've played without a crash is only 1 hour and 30 minutes, and what do you know, every time you open the game, you get greeted with another 3 minute loading screen. It's terrible. I almost dropped the game because of it. I thought I had installed it on my slow hard drive but nope. It was on my SSD, it's just that slow of a game to load.
What I do know. This game has loading screens. A lot of them. And they are LONG. Like 3+ minutes for every one. And, if you start mission, end a mission, reach a checkpoint, die, do some mundane task, beat an enemy, beat a boss, your reward is another 3 minute loading screen. It gets worse. This game crashes. A LOT. The longest I've played without a crash is only 1 hour and 30 minutes, and what do you know, every time you open the game, you get greeted with another 3 minute loading screen. It's terrible. I almost dropped the game because of it. I thought I had installed it on my slow hard drive but nope. It was on my SSD, it's just that slow of a game to load.