I have the game and it is pretty cool. Heres the thing though their is no multiplayer or anything like that. It just a big story mode to it, the game is 3 disks. I have only played through the first one though. I have been taking my time with it. Your like a crime scene investigator you get look for stuff and interrogate people.
Yeah it's definetly not a freeroam game like the GTAs or Mafias, in the end it is quite linear although you have some choices that will effect how things will turn out. The driving physics aren't too bad, but the driving is a really small part of this game anyway. I usually try to skip the driving parts by letting my partner drive to the scene.
I have played through the first disk and few missions from the second and so far I'm liking it. Usually when I play it I pop in the disk and play through one mission, because if you start to play longer the things start to get somewhat repetitive and boring.
Stability:
jlv wrote: You can do some fairly tame whips with it set to 95, but to really get it sideways you need to set it under 60.