everything this game wants you to do (hack into places, operate drones, fight to free britain and return the met police and the conservative party to power) sucks and everything this game wants to discourage (cruising around the west end in a stupid hatchback listening to dnb and shooting anyone with a job you don't like) rocks

honestly my expectations were intentionally low but i was so excited just to tool around in london. and the first couple hours where i ignored the Game part of the game and just did that were incredible! i love my city so much! i was ignoring the map and the quests and just navigated around and found stuff i recognise and was having just a whale of a time!

unfortunately, it's all got this horrible sticky layer of extremely shit aesthetic layered over it. the politics are obviously wishy-washy lib garbage but i dont even need to tell you that, just all the neon looks terrible, the clothing options are trash, it's this clownshow of total trash Game layered on top of incredibly strong foundations.

some respect to them for the ambition of the legion system but it doesn't work and isn't interesting. i just wish it was angrier and more nihilistic yknow? or just more empty and relaxed. something like that. whatever. game's a mess, london is cool.

gave me motion sickness and hand cramps. in a good way, mostly.

very cool idea but a little lacking in execution. i'm actually reminded of Uplink, a completely different game which has the same sort of hardscrabble atmospheric problem-solving vibe to it; a developer wanting to completely capture a very specific thing. i like that.

i like this.