My first experience was less than stellar... I actually went to the cab place to try to do the first mission to make some cash. After waiting outside the poker game, I pulled out and started to drive Roman back. I drove all of 30 feet when I got killed by one of the baddies with a pistol shot to the head from across the street. To my knowledge I hadn't even been injured before that... it seemed to be a freak shot.
When I restarted I goofed off for a bit, beat some people with a bat and figured out the sprinting. I was hoping the people in town carried more cash... evidently not.
