I got this game a little while back and I have just about completed it (91%) so I have played it long enough to give it an honest review (82 hours according to the stats) the map is huge, in the fastest plane it takes over ten minutes to fly from one side of the map to the other (I'm not bluffing), the scenery is amazing except for the 2D trees that you will notice if you fly a helicopter. the water graphics have to be the best I've ever seen in a game. there are story missions, faction missions, and also locations you have to complete, and collectable items. once you get used to the grappling hook, you will be able to outrun most vehicles and you will find yourself not so reliant on weapons anymore, due to being able to use the grappling hook as a weapon. there are loads of easter eggs and although many have been found there are likely to be even more to be found. the game has 104 vehicles on the disc and even more available as DLC. The game never seems to get old, and you will find more and more things to do as time goes on, like tractor burn outs, motorbike wheelies for extended periods of time and just plain general mayhem. one thing to note though, if you see a new vehicle, DRIVE IT, some vehicles are rare to come across and you're better off to drive them while you can, i still have three vehicles to find and I've looked everywhere. weapons and vehicles can be bought from the black market, which will make sure you never run out of vehicle's and ammo. One other great thing is this game must have done some extensive debugging, because after 82 hours, the only bug I have ever found in the game was the rotors didn't appear on a helicopter I hijacked. all and all, this has to be the best open world game I have ever bought, and one of the few games I would give a full five stars to. Well done Avalanche Studios 10/10.

You are on top of the glass encased walkway between two shanghai-esque towers, you are creeping across, when an armed helicopter does a peek-a-boo, coming up out of the unseen sky with guns blazing out of twin turrets… You fall with the breaking glass into the walkway interior, bullets ripping your flesh, so you fire your grappling hook out of the damaged walkway into the helicopter and get pulled out of the walkway and against the heli's shell, flipping up to its side you blow the gunner's brains out and fight the pilot from his seat and throw him to his death, you then take the heli's controls and turn predator into prey… Until another heli appears and you are locked suddenly, out of nowhere, in intense aerial combat… Your heli is badly damaged, you are about to be blown out of the sky, so you do what anyone would do… You dive out of the heli as it explodes into smitherings and grapple yourself to the other heli from a death fall, killing occupants and then landing on the walkway from whence you came, before resuming… They shouldn't have messed with you.

Or maybe you just want to cruise around an open world so massive and diverse, that it makes GTA look like the local sandpit.. And not the Just cause sandbox I am growing to love… Which rocks. Most underrated game of all-time. I hardly bother with missions… As for the differing and flowing handling of the vehicles (helis and planes etc included).. I say “bravo” to avalanche studios, “Bravo.”

Great game so much to see and do, great graphics.