So! I suppose I'm a little late to the discussion, but seeing as I got the game for free, and is perhaps the first game out of the three games I got (with Titanfall 2 and Skyrim Special Edition) that I'll finish first (or second, depending on when my brother finishes Titanfall 2), I've played several hours, just finishing up the carnival story mission. So far, it's not the best game of this type, but I'm liking it so far. Early on, the amount of enemies there were to fight, it made them seem like pushovers, where I could just run up to all of them and just mash B to take them all out, but when more guys come into it, more sneaking and shooting comes into place, and it's a lot of fun to me. Something that helps it is that Lincoln moves smoothly and animates well enough, though animations otherwise sometimes isn't that great. I also noticed that when swimming in areas, you sometimes can't climb up from a place you imagine you could, so you have to swim to find a place that you can, and that's a bit frustrating.
As for glitches that have been talked about with this game, I have experienced very little so far; the biggest one is just enemies clipping through objects, or even my character during take-downs. I didn't finish the first or second, but like the second from what I remember, there's not much to do in the open world, so it feels a lot more like a linear, story focused game than an open world similar to GTA. There are a few open world games that I like running in, instead of driving, or riding a horse, and this is one of those games so far. I've ran from point A to B more than I drove. The only issue with that is that you won't get to hear the good '60s music as much, but it's cool when you run by buildings and hear it. The NPC chatter is alright, though all of them basically end with one of the two saying a word like 'yep', and sometimes that doesn't fit the tone of the conversation. It's also weird that the lethal and non-lethal take-downs are switched through the options menu.
Is that just another way of saying 'do you want to turn off the gore/blood' option, similar to how Gears of War does it? I think they do the same thing, at least it does when it comes to taking down a mission target, where it says to kill someone, and as I do a non-lethal take-down, it says I killed them. Also, I generally like to go non-lethal, but I changed it back to lethal because it doesn't really make sense in terms of story. The atmosphere is pretty great, and I liked the carnival I just played (or the Mardi Gras in the beginning), and it kind of reminded me of Bioshock Infinite's Hall of Heroes area, but just walking around the streets so far is pretty good too. The clipping in a few parts made me chuckle, and the brutal lethal take-downs which sometimes don't fit the moment were also kind of funny, where it makes me think 'did they really deserve that?'
As for the racial stuff, at least to me, it's not really that affecting aside from knowing it's obviously not a good thing. It's been done before, even if it hasn't been done so much in games; it doesn't necessarily feel new, shocking, or special where I'd recommend someone play it because it has a message or something. The beginning of the game, many people say it was strong, but aside from the end of the beginning, where it presents Lincoln's motivation to do what he does throughout the game, I didn't much care for it. So far, it's a good, fun game with a pretty good atmosphere. The soundtrack, aside from the licensed '60s tracks, is also pretty good, where it's not so much a soundtrack I'd listen to out of the game, but a fitting one that enhances the situation and place you're in.
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