A rather amusing diversion, but most of the fun comes from character progression rather than game progression -- in other words, you'll spend much more time jumping, shooting, driving and throwing just for the sake of building your skills than you will doing such to eliminate gang bosses.
Each level of skill progression offers a substantial boost in your character's ability, so it is a fine reward for putting in the 'practice' time, but there's nothing to really drive you to actually complete your missions. I've mostly done them just because I happened to be in the area.
Controls are generally intuitive, just press a button and you know what it does. There are some actions which are not so obvious (like crouching) that may force you to read the manual to figure out what the voice in your head is talking about. (Is he supposed to be a dispatcher or what?)
As with the overwhelming majority of 3D games, there are plenty of annoying moments where you can't see what's going on as well as you'd like, but nothing major enough to make the game frustrating.
I really enjoy the comic-book look of the graphics, and it's also fitting for a super-cop rampaging through the city and beating the snot out of crime any way he feels like. I don't know what method they use, but the visuals don't have any of the glitches common with cell-shading, so I'd call it an improvement.
The game has the same structure as the Spider-Man and Hulk games, with collectibles and challenges scattered around the map and missions popping up as you play.
Over all, a very strong title that gives the player just a little too much freedom to not play the game.

Learning Curve: Takes a second

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