It takes away from the exploratory nature of the open world, and reduces a great deal of the story to a mere tap of your finger. While it is helpful to restart missions after you die, after all driving across town after getting shot to death is a difficult task, the fact that you can access the missions without having to initiate any contact with the person giving out the task is a little concerning for me. My only concern with the mission function is that they can be assessed from the pause menu. Cliché dialogue aside, the missions are well crafted and aren’t overly difficult. While there are missions in the game, in fact there are 23 missions, 27 jobs, 12 races and not to mention side missions like delivering burgers or picking up patrons in “your” taxi. You roam around the world, driving, running, shooting, punching, stealing. This is where City Of Saints starts to get interesting.Ĭity Of Saints is your typical crime based sandbox game. The real story emerges through playing the game, through exploring the open world of Rio de Janeiro and completing missions and tasks as you see fit. While the script itself is rather lame, those of you who take gaming seriously know there is more to the story than just cut scenes (which can be skipped mind you). Betrayed and blown up, Angel seeks revenge against those who have wronged him, but committing a ridiculous amount of crimes and getting involved with numerous nefarious characters. Set against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro, City Of Saints follows the downfall and rise of Angel. Filled with excessive cursing, sexual innuendo and a bunch of other adult themes (there is a disclaimer prior to starting the game) this game is defiantly not for the easily offended, children or those who study literature. City Of Saints has a ridiculously corny, and often overly crude story line. For what it’s worth, videogames like GTA are particularly cheesy. It’s almost just as easy to claim that this genre of game (or movie, or novel) inherently comes with that extra bit of cheese. It is easy to dismiss the medium of videogames as a poor format narrative, arguing that perhaps film or novels are more appropriate for well-crafted story telling. The next installment of their Gangstar series is back, this time set in Rio de Janeiro, but with all the illegal shenanigans fans of the series have come to expect. Their latest title Gangstar Rio: City Of Saints is no exception. Gameloft have managed to time and time again deliver console worthy games for iOS gamers. There are those who would identify as “hardcore” and who still enjoy playing their mobile devices. We enjoy casual Friday’s at our casual-contact jobs, and during spare moments we casually remove our iOS device from our pocket (iPad may require cargo pants to do this) for a spot of casual gaming.

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