The last chapter is seriously fucking good. Soundtrack is right on. Good ending. Overall a very enjoyable game. A little bit too hard for me at times, but by the end I was operating at peak efficiency and killing flair. Nicely old style shooting fun, with some really stunning animation and visuals.

Ohh, didnt know there were unlockable cheats?! Im going through on hard now, after completing medium. Its less difficult that I would have thought (whilst going through it 1st time on medium). Loving it.

I'm on Hard and parts of it are certainly living up to the name...

I've been playing this with free aim and I'm loving it.

Finished it this evening. I quite enjoyed the campaign, it's well detailed, I found Max far more endearing than most leads for games like this. The score ramps up excellently as it goes on and I'd say the sound design in general is top notch.
Now why I'm glad I rented.
 I was really looking forward to going back to see the arcade modes and New York minute. Sadly, these aren't proper arcade modes as you're forced to watch almost all the cutscenes in their entirety which makes New York minute impossible to put up with. Simple mistake, that I bet they won't fix. They've crafted a fine multiplayer game too, with the same piss poor matchmaking featured in every R* game. You're constantly being put against Americans and this is a game where every second counts, blink and you die. the only way to take out American players is behind their backs like a dog. So, a lot of missed opportunities. Seriously, though I would be all over this MP if they could just get that simple thing right. A bit disappointing then but certainly worth a rental for the campaign. It's my favourite Tony Scott movie after Top Gun.

I have been collecting the clues and golden guns, and knocking off some of the grinds and trophies. Everything is laid out specifically to help replaying the game. Every chapter is divided by checkpoint, you can tweak the difficulty and check all of the things you collected and failed to. It even lays out the name of the clues so you can know what to look for! Enjoying this so much more second time around. I'm on Chapter 6 now and the fight in the office is so bloody great when you have full confidence in your abilities. I was diving, rolling with bullet time, ducking and jumping over stacks of files to bring down ultimate carnage on these misguided motherfuckers.

And yeah looking forward to giving the Arcade modes a go tomorrow. Seems perfect for the high score crowd.

I think usually if that takes up to 5-10 minutes, something is quite wrong.

This is an addictive experience. I recommend everyone who kind of enjoyed it upon completion but isn't quite sure, to play the first few chapters through again. Confidence and focus that you have acquired by the end of the game makes the rest of it a hundred times more fun. That stadium level and jumping down ALL of the stairs is just fantastic. Playing the office level again, and the second to last combat scene, where you are surrounded, is one I died on a dozen times first time around. But now that I was only using cover to set up another jump, they all went down quickly. And it really is incredibly pretty.

To do it perfectly and destroy all enemies while in air and be a terrible badass.

Good call. I watched Man On Fire last night.

And I'm thinking of buying and playing this, rather than watching A Bittersweet Life again, but here's my question to everyone who has - is it bittersweet enough?

I do know that. He's also very pleasing to the eye. Max, well, not so much. But maybe there's room in my life for both beauty and the beast.

Thank you Curtis, in some unforeseen way you said exactly what I needed to hear. 

Placing order... now.

Score Attack or whateverz is quite good. Like the HUD. Just got a platinum on my first go which was quite satisfying. Also some sexy cheats available once you complete the ingame achievements. 

The cheats are viewable by going into Story>Chapter Select

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How do you start a crew?

Hang out on low walls, clicking your fingers and swigging liquor from a bottle in a brown paper bag?