I played this one back in the day, wasn't sure if I'd ever fully finished the story so wanted to give it another shot. The opening winter city is wonderful, one of my favourite environments from a video game. The music and the cars and the slushy snow and the lights at night - it's perfectly cozy. The environments and cars are my favourite aspect of the game, I don't think the story is amazing but it's good enough to keep you engaged, and little things like the music and the Playboy magazines to collect add to the fun.

Unfortunately I did run into a lot of glitches playing this on a modern PC - terrible framerate drops, sky flickering, and sudden crashes. I tried messing with a lot of settings up until I finished the game and nothing really solved it. also this game is RACIST. holy hell lmao. I feel like that deserves fair warning.

Overall a solid experience, I put about 20 hours into it this playthrough. Haven't checked out any of the DLC or worried much about the collectables, but I would like to go back through and try and find all the Playboys sometime.