If you're still reading, you're probably thinking that this sounds like a fun game. Unfortunately, this is where the good part ends and it's downhill from here. Besides the refreshing vehicle combat features, Wheelman is a mish-mash of successful features picked from popular games and poorly incorporated here on one disc.

First up is the open-world action-adventure setting complete with a five-star wanted system straight from Grand Theft Auto. Even the missions and pre-mission cut-scenes are reminiscent of GTA, only with a poor script and even worse voice acting; it's so bad it makes Vin Diesel sound good.

While some of the missions are fun, most of them are just about average. There's really only two things you can do in vehicle missions -- chase and get chased. So all the missions are pretty much variations of these two basic objectives. Variations come in the form of vehicle types, combat sequences and the end goal. And while the driving missions get a little boring at times, they never get nearly as bad as the on-foot gun combat segments.

Combat mechanics are so basic that I wonder why they even put them in. Why make me get out of a car and shoot people when I can do it from the car itself? Or better yet, just let me run people over (you can't do that, by the way). It's basically duck-auto aim-stand up-shoot and repeat. Repeatedly. To add to that, there are perfectly cubical concrete blocks specially manufactured and placed in the environment just to take cover -- an insult to your intelligence.