I've had the game since launch and overall I'm very pleased with most of it but the rain effect from the inside cockpit view is abysmal. It's nothing short of square white chunky pixels the size of my thumb nail that hits the windscreen and the wipers have no effect at all.
Plus you cant see anything in front if you, yes I know a few of you might say that's how it is in racing as the other cars kick up so much spray that its impossible to see a head in real racing but its the same when you have a clear road a head. Now I do a lot of driving in real life and I can confirm even when its raining hard with my wipers on I can see pretty well a head.
I've seen PS2 games with better rain effects than this game so all those promo vids and tv adverts showing these amazing rain effects and quoting in small print at the bottom of the tv screen "actual ingame footage" are misleading and ....well, false advertising
Why after 5yrs plus in production do I get the sense that this game was rushed out, I know Kazunori Yamauchi has been quoted as saying he feels the game is unfinished in his eyes and future patches will remedy this but PD could have at least got the main components of the game perfect. They only had to look at other driving games to see that GT5 needed to have a big improvement when it came to the rain effect.
I'm not sure future patches will be dealing with graphical issues so I'm guessing that we are stuck with chunky square white pixels sliding up our windscreens
Plus you cant see anything in front if you, yes I know a few of you might say that's how it is in racing as the other cars kick up so much spray that its impossible to see a head in real racing but its the same when you have a clear road a head. Now I do a lot of driving in real life and I can confirm even when its raining hard with my wipers on I can see pretty well a head.
I've seen PS2 games with better rain effects than this game so all those promo vids and tv adverts showing these amazing rain effects and quoting in small print at the bottom of the tv screen "actual ingame footage" are misleading and ....well, false advertising
Why after 5yrs plus in production do I get the sense that this game was rushed out, I know Kazunori Yamauchi has been quoted as saying he feels the game is unfinished in his eyes and future patches will remedy this but PD could have at least got the main components of the game perfect. They only had to look at other driving games to see that GT5 needed to have a big improvement when it came to the rain effect.
I'm not sure future patches will be dealing with graphical issues so I'm guessing that we are stuck with chunky square white pixels sliding up our windscreens