It is the most fun I've had playing a game for a long time. It's also one of the funniest games I've played, with references to other games, films and the like).
There are three parts of one big city (called Liberty city) and they are representations of a semi-real city with the first part being the dock, a china town, red light district and general industrial buildings. The second area is a bussiness district and looks vastly different (with less trucks,vans, etc and more land-rover like vehicles and sports cars). The third area is the more rural part with an airport and an observatory. Each part of the city has hundreds (if not thousands) of pedestrians who react differently to what happens. If you blow up a car (crashing it too many times or otherwise) don't be surprised if you see people rushing over to it and checking the wreckage. If you kill someone, wait around and eventually an ambulance will arrive to try and save them, which, if you steal one, you can save people as well (you don't have to kill all the time) and this in itself rewards you after you have saved a certain amount of lives (same with killing people as a vigilante, getting fares in a taxi, and putting out fires in a fire engine).
The missions are brilliantly structured, and complete-able in a manner of different ways. But the brilliance of the game is not for this reason alone-it is also very open ended. If you don't want to do a mission just yet, don't. Steal a taxi and collect fares. Don't fancy that? Nick A police car and become a vigilante. Or you could just go on a killing spree (although the police, swat, and eventually F.B.I and the army will stop at NOTHING to either kill or arrest you). The choices are endless, and the benefits are many.
To summarise: I love this game!!! And I think you would to.
If you are not easily offended and you have A PS2, buy this game. If you have A PC buy it next summer (when it's released). In all honesty, I would say that this game is worth the price of the Playstation 2 and should be at least played by everyone.
I give it 10 out of 10.
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