I find the cops way too easy to get away from. But it's more in-depth than most games like GTA. There seems to be way too many cops on the street as well, keep getting done for hit and run. It's so annoying but you just have to drive around the corner to get away from a cop on the street.
Cops chasing you in a car while shooting out the window with a tommy gun... that's cool. It's hard to get away from 8 cops with tommy guns blasting at yah not impossible though which is good.
Not sure, I play with the defaults which are well chosen. It is annoying that you have 3 controls to get in a car. F to steal, Q to break in and E to get in one you own or already stole (I think, E is the general action key).Are you not aloud to change the controls?