Have been playing it for 2 or 3 hours. A quick review so far.
- Moderately impressed by visuals. They're good, very good at times (the water effects are impressive), but most areas look bland. I played Tomb Raider just before and was more impressed with the setting, the shadows, the faces and the atmosphere there. In my eyes, because the art direction was better, the graphics were better too.
- Are people really wearing those kind of clothes in Chicago? Colors everywhere!
- A lot of very nice details. Roaming is very enjoyable.
- Major problem: I don't like how hacking works and looks.
- "Crime" system is very average.
- I'm glad I didn't have to shoot once: car chase, hacking, but no bang-bang yet. I know it will happen, but I liked that in the beginning.
- However, I hated the way the story was told in the first part of the game. Basically, you start threatening the guy who murdered your wife and child, and you're prompted to shoot him. You have no choice but to push the button... But the magazine was deliberately empty. I have no choice but to fire, but I don't know what my character knows (empty magazine)? Any connection I could have with the protagonist vanished in the first 3 minutes of the game.
- Because of that, story looks average to me. One character acted like an irresponsible idiot in the prologue, endangering my life, I can already tell he will be a villain in a way or another. (He has a chin puff too, that's why he's doomed to be a bad guy/traitor in the long run)
- Also, the game starts with a long, talkative, unskippable cutscene.
- And you still look like an idiot whenever you're staring at your phone, in my opinion. Instead of a phone, they should have make a sort of "google glasses". It would have make more sense (the digital trips) and would look better. But a protagonist with glasses? Ubisoft would find it nerdy.