It's great. My only complaint is that some things are not explained very well so it is easy to think I needed to do things a certain way until finally finding out otherwise. (I played 11hrs before I figured out how to increase my research speed). Distracting agents with the cover operation, the 6 unique super agents, trap synergies, heat from criminal networks, what is or is not suspicious in your lair, enemy intelligence, unlocking new minion types and the aforementioned research could all be explained to the player with a bit more detail. I basically had to trial and error all of those things out for myself even with tutorial enabled.

On the plus side all these systems are here working, I just had to figure them out. The criminal networks seemed pretty one-dimensional until about 8 hrs in when I could level them up and the missions required intelligence for everything except the most basic, I couldn't figure out how to distract enemy agents without starting a fight in my casino until I realised you don't really want to tag them until they have almost reached something suspicious and eventually you even get the tools to make this automatic. Traps seemed useless to me until I figured out what does and doesn't cause suspicion and realised just how much you can fill your halls with trap synergies to keep all but the most determined agents out of your illegal areas. I figured I could just let heat rise if I didn't mind that area not running a scheme until I.R.I.S. told me that thanks to multiple areas maxing out in heat at the same time I needed to be on the lookout for stronger agents. I got wrecked by the super agents until I found out in the discussions for the game that you can just not run schemes in the area they are in and they won't attack you, even if the heat maxes out it will just do the normal thing and send soldiers. My cover operation seemed to be mostly ignored by the agents until I really filled it in and made it a bit of a maze, I also noticed that marking an item to scam tourists seems to make it ignore agents so I shut that off across the board and now agents hardly make it into my illegal areas.

All together the game itself is great, I am impressed with the depth and the amount of stuff to do. It's just a lot of things are poorly explained, as far as I can tell even the things different from the first game (which I did not play) are poorly explained which is leading to some of the negative comments. Compared to other games that have released in the last 12 months, (you should know what I am talking about) there are no features I can remember from any of the trailers or pre-release footage that I have not seen make it into the game. I have everything I was promised. Even the pre-order bonus and deluxe items need to be unlocked through a side story like all other loot in the game so they didn't cut corners on that.

It's great. My only complaint is that some things are not explained very well so it is easy to think I needed to do things a certain way until finally finding out otherwise. (I played 11hrs before I figured out how to increase my research speed). Distracting agents with the cover operation, the 6 unique super agents, trap synergies, heat from criminal networks, what is or is not suspicious in your lair, enemy intelligence, unlocking new minion types and the aforementioned research could all be explained to the player with a bit more detail. I basically had to trial and error all of those things out for myself even with tutorial enabled. On the plus side all these systems are here working, I just had to figure them out. The criminal networks seemed pretty one-dimensional until about 8 hrs in when I could level them up and the missions required intelligence for everything except the most basic, I couldn't figure out how to distract enemy agents without starting a fight in my casino until I realised you don't really want to tag them until they have almost reached something suspicious and eventually you even get the tools to make this automatic. Traps seemed useless to me until I figured out what does and doesn't cause suspicion and realised just how much you can fill your halls with trap synergies to keep all but the most determined agents out of your illegal areas. I figured I could just let heat rise if I didn't mind that area not running a scheme until I.R.I.S. told me that thanks to multiple areas maxing out in heat at the same time I needed to be on the lookout for stronger agents. I got wrecked by the super agents until I found out in the discussions for the game that you can just not run schemes in the area they are in and they won't attack you, even if the heat maxes out it will just do the normal thing and send soldiers. My cover operation seemed to be mostly ignored by the agents until I really filled it in and made it a bit of a maze, I also noticed that marking an item to scam tourists seems to make it ignore agents so I shut that off across the board and now agents hardly make it into my illegal areas. All together the game itself is great, I am impressed with the depth and the amount of stuff to do. It's just a lot of things are poorly explained, as far as I can tell even the things different from the first game (which I did not play) are poorly explained which is leading to some of the negative comments. Compared to other games that have released in the last 12 months, (you should know what I am talking about) there are no features I can remember from any of the trailers or pre-release footage that I have not seen make it into the game. I have everything I was promised. Even the pre-order bonus and deluxe items need to be unlocked through a side story like all other loot in the game so they didn't cut corners on that.