If you are able and willing to look past the dated gunplay, vehicular physics oddities, and some very frustrating missions, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the level of immersion this nearly 20-year-old game offers. The day/night cycle, weather effects, satirical radio stations (and their genuinely hilarious ads), and the sheer scale of the world all combined to form an experience like no other at the time, pioneering multiple aspects of the modern open-world action genre.