So I'm playing on Xbox and I was thinking about getting a disc with the ripper DLC code cuz I want to get the body WB play is down or rather service for this game is gone and I'm curious if I were to buy the factory seal disk from online with the code and put it and it's installed and everything will it still work

Over the years I've tried to play this game several times, always starting and losing interest for various reasons.

This time tho for some reason it did stick and I am very glad it did, allot of that has to do to me not playing an open world game for quite some time, not using fast travel ever, looking at the map very rarely and just not planting waypoints. Over the time one simply gets used to look for landmarks and navigate that way.

This game really takes a while to properly get you hooked and depending on how one plays it can really be bad. I found that for me not focusing to much on clearing a map but rather just drive around helped with the initial part, after that the game just rolled for me I never felt any need to go somewhere and do something just because it was on a list, that being said once the race was done I did not do any sidequests and just went on and finished the game it felt wrong to stop and do any sidequests there, thankfully I've done most of the stuff I wanted so that is ok but it is also a testament on how free you feel in the parts before the race starts.

The more I spent time in the world the more I started noticing some deeper stuff like how max seemingly knows what everything is even though people around him, even older doesn't seem to. This at first looks as an oversight but game plays really well into the idea that Max is indeed mad and with everything going around it is hard to determine just how mad he is.

I also like how plainly disturbing and violent the game is while at the same time being so normalized that you really need to just stop and look around you.

The whole digling part is just pure unspoken horror. There is that segment when you have to find Glory and in one of the holes there is a blind ( or that is how it looked to me) digling that just looks at you, says nothing and returns to the hole, that one made me pause for a while, even now thinking about it makes me feel real unease which not many games did for me, it is almost bizzare just how much in some moments this game reminds me of spec ops the line.

Chumbucket is a work of art, such a good character and such a good idea to balance Max. The part where Max is silent and Chumbucket pleads with him is just so very well done, it is moving in such a unique way. And given how for most part everything from the hideaway to the gastown has been pretty much cleared by that point and most of the stuff upgraded there is just this silent drive back with Chumbucket just pleading as he realizes where we are going, it was just such a good storytelling.

It is rare for a game to just allow everything to get so wrong and just leave you there. I know it is kind of foolish to expect a happy ending but I expected a somewhat amicable ending if nothing else not downright grim dark.

And when you finish the game you are brought back overlooking a cliff and chumbucket just says "Cars fixed, lets go" and you can't but wonder just how much of Mad there is in Max.

Fantastic game for all its flaws, glad I've listened to my gut feeling and kept trying.