The game is super fun to play, but yeah I'm having a hard time recommending this to anyone, because of the technical mess it is.
If you can overlook the flaws and if you like the toy-box approach this is a game for you.
I'm having such a blast with stuff like flying a big patrol ship up to a mountain with ballons and boosters and "snowboarding" it down again or attaching boosters to cows.
Driving for the first time in this series is legit fun. You can drive at Burnout-speed and drifting really works now. Your eyes will bleed from all the blur tho ( same as with Burnout).
Can the Wingsuit-Booster be unlocked during the story missions? I have the deluxe edition just because that wasn't clear, so I got the Blackhand Wingsuit after a few story missions ...if not, I already hate myself for supporting this shady practice, because the boosters are not some minor thing, they add another huge layer to the awesome traversal. It's basically Iron Man.
I'm playing on the pro: Performance is stable, haven't noticed framerate dips, had one crash in my 8 hours playtime but the graphics are last gen at times...not kidding. No AA, motion blur, low textures = worst IQ I've seen this gen. I feel Avalanche tried to play it as safe as possible regarding performance and will now start optimizing the game, LOL!
The funny thing is that this series could achieve more if Avalanche just cuts the fat - the story and characters are so bad that they should just leave them out. Rico is bland as fuck - either give us a char-editor or make him more like 90s Banderas/ 80s action hero.