Saints Row 3 'matches GTA IV graphics'

CVG: THQ has claimed that the graphical prowess of Saints Row 3 will match that of Rockstar's GTA IV.

[Mista T]

that's not really that great

plus they are hypocrites because they touted how much better SR2 was compared to GTA4, even though they both stunk

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Christopher]

And only how many years later? Saints Row 2 is kind of a guilty pleasure, but definitely not on the same level as GTA games.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Yeah, its definitely not on the same level as GTA4. Its like, way more fun. I hope the ps3 version is in 3-D too. Can't wait!

[GWAVE]

Achieving GTA4's graphics is not an accomplishment. In fact, "matching" the graphics is more like something to be shameful about.

[Christopher]

@Da-Shredder: I guess to each his own. For me, GTA4 was a great story and I enjoyed it a lot more than SR2. A hell of a lot more.

[FragMnTagM]

What OPEN world game looks better? I can't name one besides RDR. And it uses the same tech with a couple years tweaking. Saints Row and GTAIV both were a blast for me. It seems people just forget how to have fun.

I had enough fun for the money I spent on both of the games. Don't know why people always have to hate. Just because they took out a few things from a previous version doesn't mean the game was crappy.

Playing with friends online and doing crazy jumps off of really high buildings into another friends helicopter blades and flying across the map to your death was a lot of fun.

Rolling 16 deep, messing with cops, racing bad ass cars through digital NY was fun as hell for me.

Saints Row 2 has crazier stuff to do, but to me it gets older a little bit faster than GTA. Customization through the roof is pretty damn awesome, but the cars barely look like anything real and still don't manage to look very cool. The characters you can create, however, are absolutely classic.

Both good games in their own right. Can't wait for Saints Row 3 and GTA 5.

[badz149]

they do know it sounds REALLY bad, right?

[va_bank]

Was way more FUN than GTA4. For me GTA4 only beat saints row in graphics. SR2 reminded me of the original GTA3, while GTA4... felt like a GTA knock-off with good graphics.

[Nintenuendo]

This. Exactly this.

Saint's Row 2 was so much more enjoyable than GTA IV, at least in my opinion. Compare mini-games like "Insurance Fraud" and "Septic Avenger" to... well... darts... and bowling.

Plus, getting your gang to dress in all ninja suits and blow up old people with a laser-guided rocket, while riding on the back of your co-op partners tricket-out Meter Maid car, is absolutely priceless.

[Greywulf]

I don't know why everyone jumped on the GTA bandwaggon. I've been a fan of the franchise, but GTA4 was rubbish compared to Sr2. SR2 was more hardcore/dirty/crime than GTA4 could ever be. GTA4 was the first GTA I stopped playing due to boredom. After that bank robery thing, I just realized it wasn't fun. And theres nothing to do to kinda kill time in the game until you feel like a mission again.

People some how got confused into thinking GTA was about graphics? And not the ability to beat the hell out of people with anything you want? Then they started claiming GTA was about the story?????

If Sr3 matches GTA4's visuals, its only that much more of an insult to the lack of direction Rockstar has taken the series.

Saints Row already takes the Gameplay award home... well for fans of GTA.

I mean for example, some ass was complaining about the DRIVING in GTA4 vs Saints Row... as a negative thing? As if its a car simulator????

w/e.

Day 1.

[nickjkl]

woah woah woah you couldnt do anything in gta3 i think you should go play gta3 and remind youre self how empty it is compared to gta4

[VINNIEPAZ]

Cannot wait to even see pictures of this game. I love the SR series.

[jay2]

I find that very worrying, how long ago did GTAIV come out?
Love the "brand new" technology that matches GTAIV.

EDIT @ F.D, see the 2 posts below bud.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

If you think about it, the studio thats making SR3 is smaller, has less money to develope their games AND les time, so it's pretty good considering those facts, i just hope they don't go to much for graphics then gameplay, though ive never played a SR, so im not sure about the franchise.

[NYC_Gamer]

so THQ can only match the graphics of gta4?which came out in 08..

[Double Toasted]

Which were shit then...

[SOAD]

The Rockstar Advanced Game Engine cost about 100 million dollars to develop. So, I do find it impressive that THQ will match GTA IV's visuals, even though GTAIV was released about 2 years ago.

[comp_ali]

You must be ashame of yourselves , GTA IV was 2 years ago. speak about recent games or just shut up.

[MicroSony4Life]

GTA IV:

With an all but confirmed US$100 million budget and a development staff of 1,000 people, Grand Theft Auto IV is the most expensive video game ever created by man.

SR2:

Work on the game began July 1, 2005, with a small core team, and eventually 165 people were involved in the development, Kulas said.

I know SR3 will probally have the same amount of developers as SR2 and not half the budget that GTA IV had - so give them credit where credit is due.

[T9X69]

If they would have said RDR instead of GTAIV I would be impressed. Then again Saints Row has never been about graphics, much like the older GTA's. Saints Row is pure fun, I honestly could care less if the graphics looked the same as SR2, but saying SR3 is to match GTAIV isn't something to brag about. GTAIV looked good in 2008, now it kinda looks like crap lol

[FragMnTagM]

Just a few years of tweaking it a little. Both games look great to me. Especially on my PC, GTAIV looks really nice.

[Bluemaster77]

Do they know GTA came out like 2 years ago .... quite the accomplishment /s

[Adexus]

They're actually proud that their new game looks the same as a 2 year old one?

[sam2236]

So that means it'll have even more frame rate problems than SR1 and 2?

[BYE]

So they really gonna do SR3, interesting.

My guess was their next game would be a Red Dead Redemption clone.

[Hades1337]

Really? GTA4 came out 2 years ago and it wasn't exactly a graphical powerhouse back then.

[SOAD]

GTA IV had some amazing visuals and physics. People here claim to dislike it because it was too realistic.

[Dellis]

GTA Tony>>>>>GTAIV

[danmachine]

your acting like gta 4 graphics are crap.
they still look good to this day and are the second best graphics in open world games behind red dead redemption.

if an open world game looks as good as gta 4 then that is a good acheivement.

i will beleive it when i see some screenshots of saints row 3 though.

[Kamikaze135]

It has to do with GTA IV being so old and Saints Row 3 having more than enough time in development to surpass it.

[MicroSony4Life]

Some games dont get the Royal treatment - so this is something huge for a team of 150 developers.

[DelbertGrady]

They just see what's right in front of them.

If they had any attention to detail and looked around a little they would see the intricate physics system(animations, cars, water), the advanced lighting, the amount of moving objects on screen at once, the detail in every texture, the draw distance etc.

[FragMnTagM]

GTAIV is still a great looking game in my book. If they were to take that engine and rework it for a linear game, it would easily compete with Uncharted and Killzone. Having constraints, i.e. linearity, allows for graphics being able to be pushed really hard as everything is scripted. The game engine doesn't have to do any guesswork on top of rendering high polys and running top notch physics.

There are a ton of things going on at any given time in GTAIV including some really good physics, fantastic lighting, and the engine has to pre-render a radius around the character so that movement is seamless with very little pop up. That is quite an achievement for a multiplatform game engine.

RDR pushes that same engine even further and it shines. From the horses muscles to the hair on a bear, that game looks really nice. Same engine more efficient code, and a lot less random things happening.

People just like to hate no matter what the topic is.

[Kamikaze135]

Seriously? GTA IV is pretty old now by today's standard and never looked good to begin with. The lighting was great, but that's about it. If anything, it should be looking as good as what GTA V (at least say that so people won't think they're digressing to GTAIV, lol). Or look as good as InFamous 2 =)

[dougr]

Hey, lets see how many times each of you can say the exact same thing!!

[Psychotica]

#2

Hey, lets see how many times each of you can say the exact same thing!!

[GusBricker]

SR's gameplay over GTA4's, except for driving.

The gunplay in SR is far superior, IMO.

[eagles1990]

If they are proud to match a two year old game's graphics. GTA 4 did not age well either. It looks average now that we have seen games like Uncharted 2 and such.....

[SOAD]

How can you even compare the visuals of an open world game to a linear adventure shooter?

[il-mouzer]

you people amaze me

[washingmachine]

wow, matches graphics,that bad eh. gta grphics werent all that,but then again the console gta wasnt the best. hope SR3 is less jaggie edges in ur face

[Ether]

I don't care about the graphics in this particular case. Saint's Row 2 was full of insane, wacky fun, just give us more of the same.

[AllroundGamer]

exactly, SR 1 and 2 was way more fun than GTA4.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

"Saints Row 3 matches GTA IV graphics" So it looks like crap?

[ian72]

For an open world game GTA4 looks great, and still does today. RDR looks the same as GTA4 and thats not been out long. Saints Row 2 was very poor graphically, I have seen better PS2 looking games. I think they have done well to get the game to look similar to GTA4/RDR. Saying GTA4 hasn't aged well is saying RDR is poor now graphically, as they are basically the same.

[Dawn_Of_Ashes]

saint row will match a 3 years old game .... humm ok...

[N4PS3Fanboys]

It's due for release in 2012, and it will match and early 2008 game's graphics? Rockstar has already surpassed their own graphics from GTA IV with Red Dead Redemption... And the game sure as hell better not take place in Stilwater like the first two games.

[Syaz1]

if it doesn't take place in stilwater, then it shouldn't be called saints row, coz that's where the gang is located at.

[ZeroX9876]

so their basicaly telling us that after they got beat graphically and in gameplay by GTA IV with 6 more months to work on it, it took them almost 2 year after saint row 2 to match GTA 4 graphics????? WOW! good job guys! /s

[fireplace]

Its not the graphics, its the phsysics engine that made GTA IV that impressive.

Shoot rocket launcher and watch the madness. It looks awesome even with blurry textures, and "dirty" graphics.

[WetN00dle69]

WOW! Really?
Saints Row 3 to match GTA4s graphical prowess...........and i bet they feel proud that they have BARELY achieved it. This should of been done right before Saints 2 got released NOT after two dang years! Hell Saints 3 should be close to looking like Uncharted 2 and not GTA4!

[EliteAssassin81]

gta4 graphics was and still is awesome. I would love to mix saints row gameplay with gta 4 graphics. People that say gta4 graphics were bad don't know what their talking about

[Cyb3r]

The graphics werent that great in GTA4 anyway

[ATi_Elite]

I don't know what you CONSOLERS are smoking but with your LIMITED systems playing a game with a huge scale such as GTA4 you should be happy with the graphics you got.

I played GTA4 on the PC of course with the enhanced graphics mod and the game looked very good for the amount of stuff poured into that game.

PS3 360 are limited in their capabilities so when Saints Row 3 says it can match GTA4 graphics you CONSOLERS should be happy as your CONSOLES have reached their limits.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

I personally think RDR looks like a PS2 game in HD because the textures look like complete garbage.

[djfullshred]

GTA4 had good graphics, even if there are much better graphical games on consoles right now.

Saints Row 2 was a fun game. If the graphics are as good on SR3 as the 2008 game they referenced, it does not mean the graphics are going to be crap. It does not mean that this smaller developer is incompetent.

The implication from some that games always have to get graphically better year after year (while the hardware remains the same), is a bit of a false expectation when it comes to console gaming.

[Led-Zeppelin]

Really?

[Led-Zeppelin]

GTA 4 graphics were sooooo 2008, get with the program its 2010. If it doesnt match GT5 or God of war 3 then its not very impressive.