Forum Overview :: Grand Theft Auto IV
 
Street Racing by Jerry Whorebach 08/23/2011, 3:56pm PDT
Lap 1: As soon as I start rolling, the game starts struggling to keep up. I lose pedestrians, decorative foliage, and - most significantly - on-track hazards like dumpsters and concrete dividers. The latter wouldn't be so bad if they didn't still have the ability to stop my car dead in its tracks - sending Niko flying through the windscreen - a full second or more before they become visible.

Lap 2: Traffic thins out, to the point where I'm driving entire blocks without seeing another car. Textures start disappearing in earnest, leaving the road and surrounding buildings a solid, creamy beige.

Lap 3: Geometry starts to go. Entire buildings wink in and out of existence. My car no longer follows elevation changes in the road, remaining at "sea level" even when that entails driving straight through hills as if they were some kind of mirage. My odds of winning at this point would be pretty slim, if I got the impression my competitors still existed in any meaningful sense.

I don't get it. What about this is supposed to be fun? As far as I'm concerned it's pushing the boundaries of what could even be considered "playable". This is the sort of experience I'd expect from PC shovelware, not the highest-rated Xbox game of all time. What happened to all the reviewers who complained about the camera occasionally passing through walls in God Hand? Those guys should've had a field day with this one!
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My experience with GTAIV by Jerry Whorebach 07/31/2011, 12:37pm PDT NEW
    Watch me tell THE MOST ACCLAIMED DEVELOPERS IN THE WORLD how to do their jobs. by Jerry Whorebach 08/04/2011, 5:15pm PDT NEW
        Argh! I meant 1/6th of a second, not 10 frames - I know GTAIV isn't 60FPS... NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/04/2011, 5:20pm PDT NEW
    Street Racing by Jerry Whorebach 08/23/2011, 3:56pm PDT NEW
        Nobody else had that experience. Quit making shit up. NT by Everyone else 08/23/2011, 5:02pm PDT NEW
        I think your xbox is about to die NT by tech support help guy 08/23/2011, 10:45pm PDT NEW
    this game was bleak and boring, like ineptly translated gogol NT by august and everything after 09/25/2011, 1:11pm PDT NEW
 
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