yeah first one hella sucked, they need to step there game up big time to even try to compete with GTA.
Only reason why I could see why you didnt like SR is because the buttons were diffrent from GTA and that threw you off, cuz I know it did for me in the begenning. Or probably you like how in GTA you have to hit the gym every few minutes to work your guy out, that shit gets boring IMO. Overall SR game is fun as fuck. Online just gets a little gay cuz the lag when u running hard to catch fooz. Im sure the kinks will get worked out when SR2 comes out.
That heist looks pretty tight, looks like a completely different game than SR and GTA with strategy features, hopefully its not too short cuz it seems like it will be.