This is a great new edition in the Driver series. The charming aspect always has been the mix of open world and storyline – San Francisco seems to come in closer to a storyline-thing. Due to the Bird's eye view you really don't find yourself roaming about town as much as you would in earlier titles of the series.

But that doesn't cut away on the fun at all. It's a very well balanced game and makes for hours of great gameplay. After all, it's about racing through heavy traffic in all kinds of sport cars to haul trucks – what's not to like?

First off: If you're at all into the theme of the good ol' gangster time, this game is definitely fun to play. It's a a nice take on the Gangsters approach and is good fun. At first glance, and for the first couple hours, the game is great fun.

Unfortunately it lacks depth later on – you find yourself just „tagging along" the storyline and basically just waiting until you're ready to click the next building so you can get into the next in-house-fight.

The fights are quite well done and entertaining.

There's a lot of potential and I am looking forward to a sequel with more depth: More freedom of choice & more options on the city level, with a bit more depth in your gangster's progression (e.g. RPG-elements).

I'm a big fan of strategy games and simulations, and have quite some experience in them. But with Europa Universalis I feel you don't have much of a chance to get on board if you haven't played earlier versions.

It seems to be a great game with endless depth, yet that depth is not structured in a way that you can work your way from the big to the small. Instead, you're facing a mostly text-based UI with endless menus and icons that provide only the most detailed aspects all at a glance – it was impossible for me to get an idea what exactly I should be doing and where I could, even though playing through the tutorials.

I'm not saying this is a bad game, I'm saying that you'll have a hard time to find out if it is.