This game is absolutely mediocre by itself, I definitely think public opinion of it gets carried by the modding scene on PC. Because playing this game on the 360 was painstakingly tedious.
For one, the main storyline is extremely short. Like, WAY shorter than I thought it would be, considering even the FIRST game has a longer story. There are only 10 main missions, and they can take less than an hour to beat, each. So in terms of narrative, it's almost nonexistent. Rico's characterization is not great in this game, either. He's just kind of an asshole, and that's it. Granted his character isn't all that complex in ANY game, but it was kind of off-putting here.
So, what else is there to do besides the main story? The FIFTY MILLION tiny little settlements to liberate on this ginormous map that should have been half the size that it is. The developers just copy-pasted the same menial tasks to do about 300 times across the map. Easily added about 50 hours of playtime to complete this thing, just doing the same thing over and over again, it was life-draining. I appreciate the developers making a huge, diverse map and adding "lots of stuff to do" on paper, but at least half of the time and effort they put into that aspect of the game should have gone into the main story, and some more diversity in side activities.
Past that, the game is just okay-looking, controls are fine but a bit clunky at times, and overall it's just a very generic game. I would recommend only really playing it on PC for the mods, as there's not much to it when the game is by itself.
For one, the main storyline is extremely short. Like, WAY shorter than I thought it would be, considering even the FIRST game has a longer story. There are only 10 main missions, and they can take less than an hour to beat, each. So in terms of narrative, it's almost nonexistent. Rico's characterization is not great in this game, either. He's just kind of an asshole, and that's it. Granted his character isn't all that complex in ANY game, but it was kind of off-putting here.
So, what else is there to do besides the main story? The FIFTY MILLION tiny little settlements to liberate on this ginormous map that should have been half the size that it is. The developers just copy-pasted the same menial tasks to do about 300 times across the map. Easily added about 50 hours of playtime to complete this thing, just doing the same thing over and over again, it was life-draining. I appreciate the developers making a huge, diverse map and adding "lots of stuff to do" on paper, but at least half of the time and effort they put into that aspect of the game should have gone into the main story, and some more diversity in side activities.
Past that, the game is just okay-looking, controls are fine but a bit clunky at times, and overall it's just a very generic game. I would recommend only really playing it on PC for the mods, as there's not much to it when the game is by itself.