Did I enjoy it? yes, but overall very disappointed.

Pros:
- Better UI & Interface than DDS1
- Good mini map
- Having distributors was a great addition
- Having dealers bring you the cash was a good addition
- Interesting recipes & methods for making product
- Map is very beautiful
- Better feeling of control of your organisation
- Special clients is an interesting touch
- Multiplayer was a good add on (even though I’ve never played multiplayer)
- Better way of managing clients
- Big interesting variety of lab equipment
- DIY table, making lock picks & explosives was interesting
- Influencers were interesting to increase rep in an area
- Always enjoyed the music….other than one of the songs in the rave bar in the bay

Cons:
- The map being x6 lager than DDS1 but feels so empty & lifeless
- Cutting your product, having a lab tec making product & addictiveness/overdoses should’ve come out on release, not several months/nearly a year later
- None of the characters or the story have substance to them, never felt connected or drawn in by either
- I felt more like heisenberg than I did a cartel boss even with throwing money at my lab tec I still spent most of my time gathering ingredients and “cooking”/Growing
- Pushed out updates but never really felt quality tested and ran in to just as many bugs/crashes than I did in the last update (see all previous reviews from others or go on post from Reddit users to see more details)
- I felt punished for defending myself against thugs. You’ll get a good slap with a “person of interest” leading to a raid for holding your own, I get it you do crime people get upset but it felt over the top at times
- (Don’t read this part for spoilers) I lost all motivation when the Mexican cartel wanted me to make packed lunches for the rebels to “prove myself” why couldn’t supply them with explosives, make weapons at the DIY table or supply them with money instead?
- The police don’t cause me as much anxiety as they did in the 1st….they’re just annoying NPCs on patrol
- Poor system for bribing officers to get out of a search. There is literally a police station in every town, why can’t I just bribe the officer/chief behind the desk to get rid of the “person of interest” or stop police searches for a day or 2?
- Influencers were meh, interesting idea but could have been a boss?

With the story taking place post Pablo Escobars death. My takeaway from the trailer, I thought I’d be taking on other bosses/cartels who want to make a name for themselves post Pablo by blowing up compounds, taking labs & fighting their thugs to gain control of territories but nope. There’s no grit to this game. There’s no real competition, I was trying to make it Eddies story before he moved to the states and his struggles but honestly, it hardly a cartel/dealer sim, it’s too peaceful and pretty.

Even though the game is listed as complete it honestly still feels like early access. I had much higher hopes for it.

To end it all as this review has taken me a lot of time and thought. I think overall it’s not a bad game and is different in good ways from the 1st but also poor in other ways. If you want to buy it, then buy it when its on sale. I’d highly recommend DDS1 with the economic overall mod (although they don’t allow full mod support for either which sucks because I like to see other peoples creativity).

This will be left as a negative review for the time being unless they make some good changes. I have a lot of hope for this franchise which I dearly love but other developers are catching onto this genre and are making games (which I I won’t name out of respect to this team) who could blow this out of them out of the water. Maybe they need the competition to make them more competitive and put out something more gripping.

Apologies for the poor grammar and lengthy review, I just feel very passionate about this subject.

I am an ex drug addict and this game made me relapse. 10/10

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