If you're wanting to experience the mid-aughts era of open-world gameplay, this is probably one of the prettier games you could do it with. The remastered graphics look fantastic, and run almost flawlessly. The humor is certainly of its time; most of it was middling to mediocre even then and hasn't aged any better (though parts of the NPC dialogue, especially those voiced by Steve Blum, have a few good bits - it's a shame they didn't subtitle these to make them more accessible).

Still, this remake was competently done, the VO performances are still phenomenal, and it's a decent enough way to spend ten bucks and ten hours to 100%. Shout out to the developers for NOT making a "collect all of the probes" achievement - that was the right call.

[h1]A time capsule with flawed gameplay and writing but gorgeous visuals[/h1] If you're wanting to experience the mid-aughts era of open-world gameplay, this is probably one of the prettier games you could do it with. The remastered graphics look fantastic, and run almost flawlessly. The humor is certainly of its time; most of it was middling to mediocre even then and hasn't aged any better (though parts of the NPC dialogue, especially those voiced by Steve Blum, have a few good bits - it's a shame they didn't subtitle these to make them more accessible). Still, this remake was competently done, the VO performances are still phenomenal, and it's a decent enough way to spend ten bucks and ten hours to 100%. Shout out to the developers for NOT making a "collect all of the probes" achievement - that was the right call.