I never bought the first one, I'd planned to but I forgot about it, then the second came out. I had it on my wishlist for ages. I finally bought it during a sale.

I only started playing last week. I've had a few long sessions as it has been quite a lot of fun. I walked around a fair bit as I assumed the driving would be like Saints Row - terrible without a controller. But, amazingly it's fine. Some corners are finicky but the AI isn't perfect at driving, either. I'm still getting the hang of multitasking while driving without crashing. Every car is different. I find the older cars much easier to control.
There's so much to do. Side quests and mucking around. The gadgets are fun, and being able to take control of a lot of things throughout the cities. I haven't played a game like that before.

About the only issue I have is lag when I open up multiplayer. I've had a few CTD's possibly due to too much going on. It's good that I have the option to turn all that off and play single, then if I come across a multiplayer mission I can just activate it in the world. But, I mostly ignore that part as I don't care for multiplayer.

I play on Medium settings. It auto-selected Ultra, possibly due to my video card (MSI RX 480 8GB), but it stuttered around too much. My CPU is a bottleneck in my system (i5 4590). The world still looks good, though, IMO. No stuttering, now, even while driving at high speed and during gang shoot outs with numerous NPC's. I might further tweak the settings but I'm not too fussed.

Overall I'm finding it to be a lot of fun. An excellent addition to my library.

I never bought the first one, I'd planned to but I forgot about it, then the second came out. I had it on my wishlist for ages. I finally bought it during a sale. I only started playing last week. I've had a few long sessions as it has been quite a lot of fun. I walked around a fair bit as I assumed the driving would be like Saints Row - terrible without a controller. But, amazingly it's fine. Some corners are finicky but the AI isn't perfect at driving, either. I'm still getting the hang of multitasking while driving without crashing. Every car is different. I find the older cars much easier to control. There's so much to do. Side quests and mucking around. The gadgets are fun, and being able to take control of a lot of things throughout the cities. I haven't played a game like that before. About the only issue I have is lag when I open up multiplayer. I've had a few CTD's possibly due to too much going on. It's good that I have the option to turn all that off and play single, then if I come across a multiplayer mission I can just activate it in the world. But, I mostly ignore that part as I don't care for multiplayer. I play on Medium settings. It auto-selected Ultra, possibly due to my video card (MSI RX 480 8GB), but it stuttered around too much. My CPU is a bottleneck in my system (i5 4590). The world still looks good, though, IMO. No stuttering, now, even while driving at high speed and during gang shoot outs with numerous NPC's. I might further tweak the settings but I'm not too fussed. Overall I'm finding it to be a lot of fun. An excellent addition to my library.