Ok...I've played about 6 hours so far. I've completed 7 cases...on my 8th now. I'll share my pros and cons:
Pros:
* Facial animations are sick....absolutely the best in video game history.
* The stories are generally really good. Each case makes me feel like it's a new week on a
crime tv show..not sure if that's a good or bad thing I guess.
* The interrogations are pretty cool. You ask questions, and try to read the faces and give a
'Truth' 'Doubt' or 'Lie' response. If you give the latter, be prepared to have some evidence
to back you up.
* Graphics seem alright, nothing spectacular. I've noticed a few bugs and glitches but nothing
terrible.
Cons:
* Street crimes..there's 40 of them. They randomly come over your police radio while you're
cruising the streets. You can either respond and go right away (bank holdups, etc), or
ignore it and they'll come about another time. I've done about 15 so far, and they're so
easy...I mean EASY. Some of them you don't even have to kill anyone or apprehend a
suspect (see my above post).
* I completed one of the street crimes down in a subway station on the tracks. I killed the suspect, and as it was finishing...a shuttle came through and obliterated me. However since I had just killed the last bad guy, it cuts right back to me at my squad car reporting what had happened.
* The open world. Sure, you can ignore your current objective for awhile and just roam the city exploring, but I just don't feel like there's any point in doing so. You literally have the game to play, the street crimes (easy as pie), and stuff like viewing landmarks (pretty dumb). There's literally nothing else to do in the game, so you'd best LOVE the main part of the game, or this won't be for you.
I'm sure there's something I might have left out. The game is really fun...I played the hell out of it yesterday and will continue to do so. It just feels like there's something missing. I almost feel like since the Rockstar name is on the label, people just expect a certain amount of things to do in a game. I know I know, this isn't a GTA or RDR, and I have no problem with that. But it's kind of like actors...such as the cast of Friends....or something else maybe Star Trek. It's hard for them to do any other gig because people just think they're that character from that show and can't take them seriously as anything else. When I play a R* labeled (I know they produced it) game, I assume there's going to be a million things to do, and this game just doesn't have that. That's a difficult stigma to remove.