First post, by Almoststew1990
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- Oldbie
This is a heads up for anyone that thought that these games were ripe for remastering, The DE is not very good.
- The art style is subjective but the consensus seems to be that it does not particularly enhance the graphics. The city graphics are nice though.
- There are numerous graphical glitched - minor stuff but stuff that chips away at the experience
- The shooting mechanic is pretty hopeless even with a controller (i.e. what it was designed for) with lock on "suction" happening over half a (wide)screen. Whilst looking forward Claude with lock onto a corpse about 5m back and 160 degrees to his right rather than the guy sprinting straight ahead. Usually aim assist is, like, a centimeter of physical screen distance, on this it will literally lock on over a distance of 10cm, you can go from looking straight up at the sky *press aim* locking onto a guy in front of you.
- Drive-bys are pretty hard now as previously you pressed a button to look 90degrees left or right, release the button and you look straight ahead. Now you have to rotate the camera and then rotate it back again, using the mouse / right analogue stick.
- SSAO, blur and depth of field have been used to make the game extra shiny and look objectively bad!
- Character models are terrible with people often appearing with stupid necks, more than one set of elbows
- Some music has been removed from the game. You can't add your own music to the game I don't think.
- I've come across a number of non graphical glitches like invisible walls in the middle of a car park (and right behind a car spawn!)
- The GTA3 rain effect is so dense on-screen that it made me feel physically motion sick!
All this for £55 whilst removing the original games from Steam. I'm not a steam monopoly fanboi (I'm quite happy using other launchers) but the removal of the old games bugs me. Fortunately I've had them in my library on steam and disk for ages.
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