EDGE: "The presentation begins with developers assuring us at some length of the previous game's financial success. It seems of little importance next to what we remember: a game that fell far short of matching its potential, juggling various systems but fumbling their interaction with each other, ineptly handling both the staples of gunplay and driving on which the game placed too much emphasis.
To what extent are these failings addressed in this most inevitable of sequels? There's still a disparity in graphical quality compared to its open-world contemporaries, still an over-abundance of explosive action for a licence that demands little of it, and still the awkward insertion of EA's own storyline into the comprehensive existing fiction."
