All types of vehicles, common, without you getting blase about their use, and tremendously useful, make up the next aspect. And before someone says that being a pilot is tough, well, so is being an expert chauffeur. Sure, their weight, center of balance, acceleration and such vary, but you get a feel for those aspects immensely fast. Everything you steer is equally easy to start using. with the smooth, well-streamlined, responsive and intuitive controls(handling can be OK, and is seldom poor). No matter what situation you're in, you can "move", you can affect where you're going, how fast, etc. From there, you can attack, get into a mode of transport, and obviously get away. If you jump off a cliff(!) or are moving fast(when the ambient music switches to the energetic score), you can activate a parachute(or free fall). The focus? Going through them one by one: Extreme sports.
Why pick this up rather than the Rockstar original? This takes the basic core of that, and builds a lot of awesomeness on top of it(keeping in mind that, overall, this is not as good as the series that inspires it). Sheldon(McGonagle), your boss, Kane(DeLisle) the saucy arms tech girl, and you - Rico(Downes).
Of course, an invasion would risk international incident. The dictator, Mendoza(Tatasciore) has to be taken down. Things aren't much better in the fictional South American(and this gets and utilizes the possibilities and local flavor, tone, plentiful beaches, exotic babes, etc.) island state of San Esperito. Government is gradually moving towards totalitarianism, citizens are harassed for no good reason and other countries are worried it will go to war and cost many lives. Things, as you might expect, are not looking well.