Seeing split screen nowadays are rare and that's what caught peoples attention with this game. Playing with a friend at one couch brings many laughs and experience the crime saga together can be truly enjoyable, I think the game is just above mediocre but you still must play it. It's a special and new experience, the concept is new and while the story was okay the split screen made this game.
To begin with, the voice acting is kinda frustrating. It's so lame sometimes that it becomes laughable. The voice actors feel untalented and stiff. Character movement and shooting mechanics feel clunky. Gameplay wise it feels like an XB360/PS3 game with some bugs. There are some details that are small but still pretty bad like the prisoners coming into the prison with their own clothes. Or when Leo and Vincent are suppose to fill a cart with sheets and when you open it there are no sheets there at all. Or when Leo loses his parachute, parachutes cannot just go of like that. He also loses his guns and in the next clip he has it. Or Harvey telling his men to find the best hitman to kill Leo and Vincent, but that hitman can't even hit them with a gun when he's five meters from them. The story is great in the beginning, but the prison escape feels way to rushed, easy and unrealistic. Love the refrences to Shawshank though. This game opens up great but loses it in the middle. The plot is not pretty well written or thought out. The plot and cliches have been used so many times and it's kinda predictable to foresee the ending. Character development both feels good and bad but most time kind of lazy. The ending is also overused. Josef threw in so many things in this game so it felt very forced and if it's suppose to be this much stuff it should be longer.
But the story is not completely bad. It's original but we haven't seen it in a game that much and together with the gameplay it can be more interesting and fun. The story tries it best to make us empathize with Leo and Vincent by making them show feelings, their families and scenes were they talk about their lives and plans. It feels like a crime saga from the 90's and it was a long time ago I played a storydriven game like this.
Gameplay can be fun, it's very varied. Sometimes it's fast paced action, then later it's slow drama. But escaping cops, going down a torrent by boat, park core-ing through a construction site, shooting down an entire cartel and then escape with bikes. There's a lot going on and you get more than just one experience and genre.
The directing is awesome. This is were the cinematography along with the split screen plays a big role. So there's a scene in the prison were Vincent and Leo is in a fight and the camera switches between the players and makes them fight a little time each. Or when you escape trough the hospital the camera switches between the players with some satisfying camera angles and transitions. I can't come up with more examples but the directing is good as heck.
The ending is overused and predictable but the last 20 mins are still the most appreciated ones in the game. Honestly the game couldn't end in another way and that was the best way to close it. Kinda liked the sad endings.
6/10
To begin with, the voice acting is kinda frustrating. It's so lame sometimes that it becomes laughable. The voice actors feel untalented and stiff. Character movement and shooting mechanics feel clunky. Gameplay wise it feels like an XB360/PS3 game with some bugs. There are some details that are small but still pretty bad like the prisoners coming into the prison with their own clothes. Or when Leo and Vincent are suppose to fill a cart with sheets and when you open it there are no sheets there at all. Or when Leo loses his parachute, parachutes cannot just go of like that. He also loses his guns and in the next clip he has it. Or Harvey telling his men to find the best hitman to kill Leo and Vincent, but that hitman can't even hit them with a gun when he's five meters from them. The story is great in the beginning, but the prison escape feels way to rushed, easy and unrealistic. Love the refrences to Shawshank though. This game opens up great but loses it in the middle. The plot is not pretty well written or thought out. The plot and cliches have been used so many times and it's kinda predictable to foresee the ending. Character development both feels good and bad but most time kind of lazy. The ending is also overused. Josef threw in so many things in this game so it felt very forced and if it's suppose to be this much stuff it should be longer.
But the story is not completely bad. It's original but we haven't seen it in a game that much and together with the gameplay it can be more interesting and fun. The story tries it best to make us empathize with Leo and Vincent by making them show feelings, their families and scenes were they talk about their lives and plans. It feels like a crime saga from the 90's and it was a long time ago I played a storydriven game like this.
Gameplay can be fun, it's very varied. Sometimes it's fast paced action, then later it's slow drama. But escaping cops, going down a torrent by boat, park core-ing through a construction site, shooting down an entire cartel and then escape with bikes. There's a lot going on and you get more than just one experience and genre.
The directing is awesome. This is were the cinematography along with the split screen plays a big role. So there's a scene in the prison were Vincent and Leo is in a fight and the camera switches between the players and makes them fight a little time each. Or when you escape trough the hospital the camera switches between the players with some satisfying camera angles and transitions. I can't come up with more examples but the directing is good as heck.
The ending is overused and predictable but the last 20 mins are still the most appreciated ones in the game. Honestly the game couldn't end in another way and that was the best way to close it. Kinda liked the sad endings.
6/10