The citizens of Chicago have plenty of variety to offer, alongside ordinary pedestrians you can find beatboxers, rappers, human statues, drinking buddies and lots of other people, although there is an issue with repetition NPCs also have lots of conversations between each other including very lengthy ones, these NPCs feel a lot closer to a real population than most open world games can manage even today. There’s never any shortage of objects to hack, ranging from utilities like raising forklifts to reach vantage points, to combat items like overloading infrastructure to kill or ko enemies (blowing up pressure valves, raising bollards into the path of oncoming cars, disrupting traffic lights to cause a jam), and special craftable hacks that can be used anywhere, like the blackouts and ctOS jams.

The game is willing to play rough as even on normal Aiden can only survive a few shots before going down, it balances this out through the hacks and by having somewhat realistic AI, even when in direct combat enemies won’t magically know where you are like in many other shooters, they’ll know where you are if they see you and if they don’t see you they’ll either search or lay down fire at your last known location, letting you use sneaking tactics even in open firefights, enemy factions also have to actually call in reinforcements on the radio before they appear, rather than materialising them out of thin air.

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