[atoav]

To be honest I was so amazed by the feel of the world that I completed the mainquest (and all side quests) by either walking or driving there. I rarely used any form of waypoint to skip the inbetween.

I think the architecture, the roads and the districts are very well designed. I think the quests take you to interesting no places and show interesting perspectives on life in sich a city.

What the game lacks to some degree are more emerging observable things with the NPCs moving throughout the city. There should be more things happening. Be it quarreling couples in 100 variations, a car crash that is being locked down by police or emergent behavior between police, gangs, emergency services, hookers, onlookers. Create situations that emerge from the systems of the city.

[EamonnMR]

I played the same way. Well, I took a motorcycle because the traffic was always way too slow. Sometimes I'd stop to Judge Dredd some random Crims if it was on the way. The world looked pretty, but the traffic and pedestrian AI was just so weirdly silly that it wasn't exactly an immersive experience. Relaxing to blast through traffic at 120kph on an Akira bike though.