While some of my favorites like Dead by Daylight, Resident Evil 7, and Red Dead Redemption II make this game's violence pale in comparison, I can absolutely see how influential this game was on later video games' ability to have that gore in them at all. It's brutal, realistic, and extremely antisocial, the stealth executions shot to resemble a home movie to challenge the player's own reason for enjoying the graphics: Are we no better than Starkweather himself, controlling Cash and forcing him to slaughter other guys like it was going out of style? Maybe we're not, but the game wasn't bad. The aforementioned stealth executions got rather repetitive and the AI felt extremely janky at times, but there's a fun try, die, try again gameplay that reminds me a little of later stuff like Hotline Miami and the use of light and shadow as a stealth mechanic feels really advanced for the PS2. Overall it's more a neat piece of video game history than it is a great video game, and it features all of the violent, angry atmosphere that one could hope for from the early 2000s.