Is this game better than first one?

[wyte boi]

I havent played first one where should I start

[TYLER M]

i think this one is better

[wicked lester]

I'm still early in the game, but it seems to have way more content and everything good from the first game is still here.

[loudpack]

TS2 is way worse than TS1.
Think of TS1 with less content, less preposition on nearly everything. Cant even decorate your house like you could in TS1.
Game is hot garbage, the only noticeable difference is now you get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ heists which just have you spamming repeat mission until you 10/10 it.
Game is in desperate need of a content patch, new levels ect. Instead, devs are just building another "coop" TS game instead. They are focused on quick money grab games instead of making something good.
Needless to say, TS2 will be the last game i purchase from this group unless something changes!!!

[MoreEvilSquid]

It appears to have less content and less vanity options to spend your loot on, but the mechanics seem a bit better, plus you can now (finally) knock people out (the first game you were forced into doing stupid things to dodge people's schedules because some people never ever left their house and you couldn't do anything about it - here it's the opposite, because AFAIK everyone leaves their house at some point, and everyone is able to be knocked out).

Hopefully they'll add further content down the line though, so far it seems like the first game just had more stuff to do, and (important to some people) ways to actually spend your cash apart from just buying more tools. Also the vehicles you can own appear to be inferior, but hopefully I'm wrong on that one.

On finally, it's actually possible to HIDE THOSE GODAWFUL onscreen "instructions" - in the first game, for reasons I can't figure out, it was impossible, so you had this list of keyboard commands constantly visible on-screen for some reason. Why the hell someone thought that was a good idea, and why that was never fixed, is beyond me. This game at least has customisation options for the UI to do away with all that.