QUOTE(Deftech @ Feb 3 2006, 11:28 PM)
May I ask how GTA 3 was next gen of last gen?
The only reason I bought the PS2.
It was revolutionary in so many ways. It took a game like Carmageddon2 (3D, great physics and destruction) or Driver (3d, not so great physics), and combined it with GTA2 (get out of your car, shoot and do various missions onfoot).
No other game before it had done that. Plus it did the impossible on the PS2 in streaming on-the fly (which the bandwidth etc on the ps2 wasnt meant for, or so they said). Without constant streaming it wouldhave been one street - load screen - other street - loadscreen etc.
Sure it had somewhat tacky controls and sure it could be done better, in fact the Driver3 engine on the PS2 is in many ways better and more sophisticated (hard shadows, better physics), and in more ways far worse, but that game came years later as a ripoff of the GTA3 pioneered "genre".
I just dont see any other game being that revolutionary on the PS2. And unless Rockstar (DMA) comes up with something really special for next generation, we wont be seeing such a leap, and it will be more Saints Row esque next-gen.
What they could do with a massively multiplayer GTA game is food for thought. Like players joining rival gangs, the police force, the fire fighters and ambulance crews. A living crime-filled city balanced out by AI and real players.