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GTA 5 Vs GTA 4: Graphics Engine Side-By-Side Video Comparison

NowGamer: How far has Rockstar's GTA game engine come?

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Feckles4942d ago

Wow, how things have changed. I still consider GTA IV to be a great looking game, but this really demonstrates how much V has improved upon things.

On PC at any rate...

WANNAGETHIGH4942d ago

Who cares about graphics... If Gta5 is as boring as Gta4 then they can go to hell.I'll stick wiv SaintRow3.

Venjense4942d ago (Edited 4942d ago )

GTIV was a great game at the time IMO.

omi25p4942d ago

i finished SR3 an hour ago. Its garabage, The story sucks, The kill of the main characters to quickly and sure there is a lots to do but almost all the things you can do arent that great because of the adverage gameplay

irepbtown4942d ago

And this is just the trailer. Imagine the finished game :O

Cant wait :D

Getowned4941d ago

GTA4 wasn't boring but it wasn't as great as SA or Vice city.Still I got a lot of enjoyment from GTA4.

-off topic-
Is saints row really that bad I was going to pick up saints row 2 and 3 for christmas they look like games I would enjoy and i seem to be seeing a lot of like it or hate it opinions.-note- I never played SR games before.

HSx94941d ago

I hope you people understand rockstar didn't just record GTAV gameplay and show a trailer of it... No, it went through many forms of editing and the directors made sure it was perfect, so really there is no reason to compare as of now, until real gameplay is shown.

Grip4941d ago

@omi25p
thank u idiot for ruin the game.. keep up the good work moron

RedDevils4941d ago

I have played Saint Row before, it was the worst decision I had ever made, it was poor man of GTA even GTA 4 were better and that was the worst GTA, that say a lot about Saint Row, if Mafia 2 had free Roam I bet I would enjoy playing it more than SRW3 imo

dcortz20274939d ago

I agree, GTA IV had sh*tty graphics and it was boring as f*ck. It didn't deserve the good reviews and scores that it got.Please make GTA fun again Rockstar, please make GTA V like the PS2 GTA's!

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beastgamer4942d ago

knowing that gta v will have dogs, make it the best game

TimmyShire4942d ago

Ha, that GTA 4 video is really well done.

fastrez4942d ago

Nice comparison. GTA V is surely going to be ace.

Shaman4942d ago

Thats PC version of GTAIV and I don't think trailer was PC version actually, at least not going by what was said on B3D. There is shimmering and aliasing(post processing, like AC:R) so its doubted that was PC trailer.

bozebo4942d ago (Edited 4942d ago )

Wouldn't matter. They develop the game for consoles so it only looks slightly better on PC (better level of detail, resolution, AA, some higher quality shaders, higher resolution shadow maps).

Basically why Skyrim on PC is below par for PC games circa 2011 but is extremely good looking for a console game. It's just what happens with multiplats.

GTA is like, the only multiplat I ever get on consoles first. Not sure why, maybe my 360 won't break again if I give it some use. Also the PC ports of GTA are typically horrible.

dougr4941d ago (Edited 4941d ago )

Wow, I disagree big time. The difference between GTA graphics on my i5 2500k/GTX 580 computer system and my PS3 are night and day. The computer looks 100X's better; nowhere near as blurry and much more detailed. Those differences are hardly considered "slight". Not only that, you can turn up the view distance, detail distance, and traffic density which all add to the much better visuals of the CPU version.

As for what I think you were trying to get at, especially with Skyrim is that I agree. Especially in Skyrim's case I cannot believe they made the detail level distance so small. If you are standing on a mountain and there is water in view, it will likely look like shit. Up close I think things on Skyrim look amazing, but you can definitely tell that the developers didn't go the extra distance much to optimize the pc version of Skyrim.

As for your last comment on GTA not being optimized for pc, GTA was a very weird console port on how it acted for different people. I had a PC that should have played GTA perfectly with AMD parts, but yet I couldn't get the darn thing to run the game at anything above around 20 FPS but my next computer, a model built with Intel and Nvidia runs the game perfectly with no problems. GTA IV is definitely a weird console port but the extreme difference in graphics just makes it impossible to go back to console GTA when you know the grass is much greener on PC.

bozebo4941d ago

"Up close I think things on Skyrim look amazing"
What is this logic?

Things look BAD up close in Skyrim and great from a distance. The textures are silly low resolutions.

dougr4941d ago (Edited 4941d ago )

I'm not talking about staring at the floor or anything I'm just talking about the look of things in your general area not necessarily focusing right in on textures just overall. If you think Skyrim looks good from a distance though, I don't know what to tell you, because that solid waterfall I'm looking at right now that isn't even a mile away sure doesn't look very good to me.

I'm not someone who will get caught up in textures and what not, but I believe that Skyrim looks pretty nice especially inside cities, sure it isn't Battlefield 3 quality, but I still enjoy the look of the game big time.

T9004941d ago

GTA on PC even though a bad port was still far superior to the console version.

The reason PC gamers whined about it is because they have high standards. What console gamers dont understand is, even when PC gamers are whining the version they are playing is still leagues ahead of the console version most of the time.

GTA 4 on consoles wasnt even HD, the PS3 version specially looked very blurry in the distance. On PC the best way to optimise the game was keep shadows on medium everything else maxed out, and keep the draw distances around 22 (console draw distance was 12 or so). Anyways, with those settings PC version ran flawlessly on any quad core cpu and moderate GPU around 1080p with 50-60fps.

Bolts4941d ago

Skyrim is the best looking open world RPG on the PC. You won't find anything better. Plus any complaints about low res is completely pointless seeing how you can mod anything in Skyrim to be as detailed and high res as you want.

bozebo4941d ago (Edited 4941d ago )

"Plus any complaints about low res is completely pointless seeing how you can mod anything in Skyrim to be as detailed and high res as you want. "

Can I? I am not a texture artist. The high res source textures sitting on HDDs at Bethesda's office (do you think artists work with 512x512 lulztextures?) would be nice though if they bothered to consider that the PC version could use them.

Also, the open-worldness has almost no effect on graphical potential these days. Skyrim handles the distant mountains and forets without any problems and the textures + poly counts are certainly to a high standard considering the screen-space that they will consume.

It's just things in towns, the interiors, the rock textures, the pentagonal fence polls etc. that are very out of place. And a lot of the armour and weapons have extremely low resolution, blurry, textures. Again, it's about how much screen-space and player focus the objects attain. Some assets are beautiful then others are blurry, low-poly and consuming loads of the scene.

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galgor4942d ago

Have to be honest, when I first saw the trailer for V I didn't think the leap was that great, but after watching this video it's definitely a vast improvement.

Alls we need now is a release date!

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GTA5 Has Sold Over 215 Million Copies, Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 74 Million Units

Take-Two announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2025, also sharing an update on the sales of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
The anticipation for GTA6 has reached fever pitch, with the latest trailer being the biggest video launch of all time.

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LostPotato21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

Milk...get your milk...and so much more. Really when you release the same games in three editions over 15 years it's amazing how much money, and the amount of sales you earn. It's amazing how no one can compete.

Mr_cheese20d ago

To be fair, no many companies could release the same game over and over. They've earned that whether we agree or not

DarXyde20d ago

I mean Resident Evil 4 has had longer legs and still hasn't done anything like this.

Profchaos20d ago (Edited 20d ago )

GTA v isn't the only game that's released three consoles generations running but nothing has sold those numbers including GTA San Andreas which is now 4 console generations deep.

anast20d ago

Looks like a 2040 release for GTA6

gold_drake20d ago

thats insane right?
absolutely insane

rlow120d ago

No surprising considering that it’s been on every major platform and store.

I decided to look up the longest and most sold games list. To my surprise Tetris has takes the top spot.

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GTA VI Early Comparison Highlights Massive Jump in Character Detail, Environments & More Over GTA V

A new Grand Theft Auto VI early comparison video highlights the massive jump in character detail, environments and more over its predecessor.

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Snookies1229d ago

I mean, considering the amount of time between the two. It better be a massive upgrade. Especially with the amount of money Rockstar raked in from GTA Online.

MDTunkown28d ago

Most of scenes are pre rendered

andy8528d ago

Literally none are. If you know anything about rockstar they don't do that. Confirmed by themselves that this is all in-game

MDTunkown28d ago

Is that why first gta5 trailer looked better than the final product? Or is that why same happened with rdr2 ?
Rockstar told 50% are cutscenes and rockstars always used better models during cutscenes than in game.
You legit seems to know rockstar very well.

andy8527d ago (Edited 27d ago )

It didn't though? And neither did RDR2. In fact it was actually the opposite. What's with the hate boner? If you don't like it just avoid the topic

InUrFoxHole27d ago

Why don't either of you provide proof. This is just a he said, she said argument at this point

generic-user-name28d ago

You're either lying or just don't know what pre rendered means. Pre rendered means that if you change the character's appearance (clothes, accessories etc) they wouldn't show up in the cutscenes because they were already made and aren't being rendered in real time. This is something that doesn't happen in Rockstar games.

"Is that why first gta5 trailer looked better than the final product? Or is that why same happened with rdr2 ?"

In fact some of the scenes in RDR2 looked better in the retail version than at launched.

anast27d ago

The OP is taking the shot-gun approach: say a bunch of random tripe and see if something sticks.

repsahj27d ago

Damn! GTAV graphics are still awesome! But, I am so excited to play GTA6!!!

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GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced

Rockstar’s iconic title Grand Theft Auto V is making headlines once again—but not for the reasons fans might hope. Less than a year after GTA V joined the

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ocelot0740d ago

I believe it's been on ps+ a few times over the years of I'm not mistaking same goes for gamepass.

VenomUK40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

‘GTA V Gets Pulled from PS Plus as PC Players Continue to Favor Legacy Over Enhanced’

That’s an awful clickbait title. The use of the word ‘as’ means the first statement is the result of the second, when in reality they’re not connected.

Profchaos40d ago

Also the same for red dead redemption 2 and GTA trilogy (albeit they split that into individual games)

Tacoboto40d ago

It just got put back on Game Pass recently too.

GTA V is the pass-around sub title, and it probably doesn't even matter because everyone owns a copy or even two by now.

FortWaba40d ago

Trash article and trash website.

Doesn't even mention WHEN it's leaving.

gold_drake40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

so i looked cause i was curious, its still avaliable to me.

the headline is misleading asf.

also, how did no one report this. the editing is horrendous. they'd have my arse for this ha

gamerz40d ago

Noticed my copy of gta5 on Steam was already upgraded without me doing anything. How can you still play the legacy version?

Shiore2u39d ago

There should be a second listing right under it in your library.
https://i.imgur.com/712MsIQ...

Chard39d ago

Is there anything wrong with the enhanced version if you’re just playing single player?