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The storyline is as disposable as a piece of bubblewrap once you've popped all the bubbles. Vin plays the titular hero, Milo Burik - the Wheelman. Whatever the job, whoever the client, he turns up and does what he does best - drives like a fucking maniac causing mayhem, destruction and a fair amount of needless deaths but the twist is he's actually an undercover cop sent to the culture-riddled Spanish city of Barcelona to investigate and infiltrate three rival gangs who are trying to carve the city up like a Christmas turkey.
Los Lantos Cartel - Led by the psychopathic torturer Paulo Lial, a man constantly hovering on the brink of insanity. Twitchy, paranoid but always in control. A very dangerous man to betray, as you find out when you meet him for the first time and see his little box of very rusty and very sharp tools.
The Romanians - Nasty, underfunded but always capable of turning up in greater numbers than their enemies. Led by Radu Negrea, an ex Russian gangster who will stop at nothing to eradicate the other crime syndicates.
The game opens just as the demo did, with our Vinnie...er I mean Milo sitting in a car outside a bank waiting for a client. The sultry but ball-bitingly tough Lumi Vega is the first character you'll encounter in the game, a petty thief and robber who has ideas above her station and possibly a plan that could blow the warring gangs in Barcelona apart. budget car and van rentals After a frantic escape from the bank robbery, Lumi lets slip the scale of the ultimate heist she's got a hand in, and the entire game will hinge around that job.
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The teeming city of Barcelona has been nicely realised in the game with plenty of traffic, not too much graphical nastiness (bit of tearing during cut scenes oddly, but nothing much during the gameplay itself) and plenty to see and do. There are cinematic jumps scattered throughout the streets. Hit one of these and you're treated to a nice slo-mo cinematic view of your car / bike / 18 wheeler screaming over the camera, wheels spinning in space.
The Wheelman isn't a totally atrocious game nor is it an essential purchase. It falls neatly into that category of titles that you'd quite happily leap at the chance to buy for 15-20 quid, but feel is a little bit too lacking in key areas to make it an instant full price purchase at launch (yeah I know, I bought it but I'm a sucker for anything budget car and van rentals with driving and guns in it, what can I say?)
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I played the demo, it's unapologetically arcadey. Which is a plus because it's not trying to deliver the next great driving game. It's just picking a few driving game elements, exaggerating them and then making them work. It's shallow but like MM3, fun.
Worse or better than Midtown Madness? Probably worse, only really because of the severe lack of polish (one minute budget car and van rentals I was driving down a packed street, next minute I'm quayside or on a beach then the game engine caught up and I'm back in the street again).
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Finished the main storyline, if I can be bothered I might do some side missions but it's entirely possible to completely miss them out and just go for the main missions (you can go back and hoover up the side stuff once you've finished the game if you like).