i played this for an hour... the first batch of initial mission had some hilarious presentation
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the game begins with you taking out a bunch of stereotypical terrorist complete with turban and "death to capitalism" message,you gun a few of them and then they launch a nuclear missile which you stop by climbing on it while "i don't wanna miss a thing" by the aerosmith plays,after that you become the president and get to pick some moral choice like "curing cancer or eliminating world hunger" and where to punch the annoying journalist (punch the dickhead or punch the dick in the head?) after that the aliens attack and you stop them by climbing on a giant red and blue striped turret,but the alien attack succed anyway and they put you into a 60' sitcom,everything is nice and colorfull and you are forced to move around by dancing like an idiot,there is even a laughtrack! of course you escape the 60' reality and get put into the far more sadder reality of steelport
after that you run some filler mission which introduce the new superpowers,if you played any other superpower sandbox game like crackdown or prototype you already know what to expect as the control are pretty much identical,hidden around the city there are now bugs and powering your new superpower require you to spend them adding a collectable element
other than actual story mission there are now side mission which usualy involve doing and completing some side activities,doing them give you new weapon,so far i got a boring shotgun and...
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a gun which kidnaps people by beaming them up which sadly i still haven't tried
some side activities i have done include
- climbing towers using your new super jump power,pretty meh but at least as you climb you unlock checkpoint so if you fall down you don't have to climb the whole thing again
- races where you use your new super speed instead of driving around
- tank mayhem but you use a spiffy alien tank instead
- normal mayhem is still there too... one round of mayhem used a new weapon
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a black hole generator,pretty fun
- fraud insurance plays the same but since you can now run at super speed,you can smash really hard into cars without the need for adrenaline which overall make it's easier and less annoying
what else... there is very little reason to drive around a car since a lot of the bug are usualy hidden on top of building so you just go hopping around and picking them up... i guess they realized this too so they added the ability to listen to the radio even when you are on foot... you can also now summon and enter any vehicle you have used in a jiff... that also includes the tank from the tank mayhem activity which makes any normal encounter a joke
the only encounter that gives any sort of challenge are the big aliens,these can only be defeated by destroying their barrier with your magic power,will instantly destroy any vehicle your board and have the annoying ability of farting explosive bullet and jumping around
