When not in melee combat, driving, free running and shooting should account for most of your time in Hong Kong. Getting behind the wheel is fairly responsive, albeit exceptionally fast paced, and the biggest problem is the camera’s occasional inability to track quick changes of direction. Gun fights utilize a basic cover system, but they do offer up one exceptionally cool feature: when you vault over cover, time slows down and allows you to drop your enemies. Free running is crisp and makes you feel like a bad ass, even if seemingly half the city’s population can match you stride for stride.

Pressing the face buttons in pairs triggers more powerful attacks, and there are even moves that require you to hit three of them simultaneously. The three-button moves proved to be exceptionally tough for me to pull off, even in the Lesson Mode (read: tutorial), as it felt like I was pretty much enveloping the controller with my hand.

It’s mostly solid, although jumping from object to object is sporadically irritating as it can be difficult to properly gauge distance, which leads to some tumbles. The game’s camera is another potential hazard when being pursued since Monster is invariable right on your heels. That results in being unable to see yourself from the default camera position.