Fussbett wrote:

I bought this on an impulse after finishing up a big project, thinking I'll enjoy the unwind of just making myself in another video game, as is my way, plus I thought I might also make a few characters from The Wire to run around playing cops and robbers.

Well that was me thinking of a way to have fun in an MMO, which as far as I can tell is the anti-fun genre of video games. Instead of letting me have fun, APB locks all the dress-up features and you must grind them out. The character editor is the only good part of the game, so it's hilarious to see it restricted. Restrict the 1999 gameplay instead, guys! Let me play dollies for 3 hours before discovering that your game sucks. Remember how Spore even released the creature creator stand alone? They knew what was up. Instead, APB makes me play their shitty game for 3 hours before I could unlock sunglasses. Remember, sunglasses add no gameplay value or competitive edge like the better weapons, the sunglasses just make me happy -- so it's fucking PSYCHOTIC to keep those things away from me.

The gunplay is sub-Counter Strike shallow, the driving/shooting is sub-GTA IV multiplayer, the city is boring and nondescript and lightly modeled, it runs like garbage on my system (a system which runs Battlefield games just fine), looks like shit on my system, and I would've supplied screenshots for this post but I currently can't play the game without a hard computer lock up after 1 minute. ONE MINUTE.

tl;dr: Everything bad about MMOs merged with the gameplay of Quake 3 mod Urban Terror.