Just got to the strip club, had to fight all the strippers.
Spent the better half of the morning just driving around.
I used to work in Venice right on the board walk so I drove over and checked it out, found the spot and most the streets are pretty much in order but they are exaggerating when they say it's an exact layout of the city by far.
Yes the streets all seem to be in the basic right order and all but from working in that spot for and visiting near by friends over 10 years around there I gotta say I got lost a few times on the game missing streets and turns because I tried to go off the way things looked. It does not look that spot on, if you go by streets you can get around a little better but still some turns and angles are off leaving you to end up on a street that in real life you would not enter onto because of the differences, as well as some places have no divider in the game that has a huge 100 foot plus section between lanes of opposing traffic, they left out the Hollywood palladium, the wax museum, the vipor room, tattoo mania, and all that fun stuff down in that area too.
The game play seems fun and although there are camera issues not have been horrible but it would have been nice to not have them at all.
One funny one was in a fight the camera backed off and went through the opponents face and I saw their face from the inside out.
Again, if you do not like hip hop your gunna hate the sound track as it is about 99% that.
I do not think the cube version can play your own music but there is a option to turn the sound down , select certain songs off, or just turn them all off.
If you like west coast long beach type hip hop, you'll be in love.