You pull up the PDA, select the mission you want and you can be warped to that spot. You'll never get this in Wheelman because you can just jump to any mission you feel like. One of the greatest things about any of the GTAs was connecting with the city you were inhabiting - knowing shortcuts, tight turns, or where people lived.
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It's just a bunch of random instances in a sun-bathed Spanish town. You don't feel like you're a part of this city. Sure, the missions can give you upgrades and such, but how does that make sense in this world? There's no in-game economy, so you're not earning money for these tasks you're just doing them to do them and get the best rank. Why are you smashing into other cars? Just because you want to, I guess. When you choose to do a cabbie mission, you just teleport into a car that's already got a passenger. What makes this feel disconnected is the fact that these things just pop up without any rhyme or reason. When you pull up the world map on your PDA, you'll see green icons for story-based missions and then a number of colored icons for the seven categories of side missions - stuff such as driving people to certain places in a Taxi, taking out your opponents in Rampage and escaping your pursuers in Fugitive. OK, that's a lie it seems like this game is designed to be a direct knockoff of GTA. See, you can get through the so-called story of Wheelman in about eight hours, but this is designed to be like the sandbox world of Grand Theft Auto. Making this feeling of detachment even worse is the fact that this is a botched take on the open-world environment. These are pretty big storytelling flaws.Ĭue the Blues Brothers music. Who am I really working for? Who knows! Why would the CIA come to Barcelona? Who cares! All I know is there are three factions of bad people in the city and I need to work with them all to find the big thing. I get profiles of characters from the RAI between missions but I causally told some dude I worked for the CIA at one point. Seriously - I'm an undercover agent, but I have no idea what group I'm working with. Throughout the game, you'll tear through the streets of Barcelona chasing a document in a tube, a guy named Felipe and more, but you'll never have any idea why the hell you're doing this thanks to the nonexistent story this game packs.
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From there, you're Vin's undercover persona Milo, a no-nonsense driver for all sorts of bad guys. Vin just meets some dude from an agency who hands him a folder of info and vaguely mentions a world-ending thing that's in Spain.
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I say "apparent" because the story is pretty much never explained with the exception of a short cutscene at the beginning of the game. Wheelman is an apparent undercover mission in Barcelona starring Vin Diesel. In short, this is not an interactive The Fast and The Furious. Sure, there's an abundance of cheesy Vin Diesel dialogue and fiery moments, but there's also the complete lack of story, mentally handicapped enemies, a repetitive city and some lame missions.
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What I got was a whole lot more - and not much of it was good. As a man who enjoys the occasional crappy action film, I came into Wheelman expecting cheesy Vin Diesel dialogue, an unbelievable story and lots of explosions.
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I don't think my expectations were too high for Wheelman.