It certainly did, with all the absurd padding that only a video game could muster. For all GTA's faults, it actually let me play the story instead of having to stop every mission to go grind more respect at a side activity I didn't want to play (usually). If Roman wanted to go bowling in SR2, you would actually have to do so every single time to maintain a proper amount of respect points.
I understand why people like 2, it has some of the best elements of the series. But it was still considerably flawed.
It certainly did, with all the absurd padding that only a video game could muster. For all GTA's faults, it actually let me play the story instead of having to stop every mission to go grind more respect at a side activity I didn't want to play (usually). If Roman wanted to go bowling in SR2, you would actually have to do so every single time to maintain a proper amount of respect points.
I understand why people like 2, it has some of the best elements of the series. But it was still considerably flawed.