I picked it up last night and am having fun. Graphics suck ass tho but I usually play SR games for the retarded mayhem.
Is the engine still terrible, in the sense that as soon as a car is out of view (which only takes a couple hundred feet) the car is vanished? like in Saints Row The Third?
this even includes cop chases. if you are able to get out of view of the cop, you can literally slam on the breaks, drive in reverse (towards the direction of the pursuing cop) and the cop car is gone, because of the shitty memory system in the game that just erases everything that isnt on the framebuffer (or whatever)
I'm so sick of these surface-deep engines which only produce decent screenshots, the worlds have no permanence. Hopefully next-gen fixes this. I want my open world games to have a little more permanence to them, as far as object locations and what not. If a cop is chasing me and I end up 1000 feet in front of him, I should be able to slam on my breaks and that cop eventually catches up to me. That doesnt happen in Saints Row. That cop car 1000 feet from you is GONE and instead the game relies on spawning other cops closer by to your vehicle.
STUPID and yes I am raging this morning. The next gen consoles have terrible (TERRIBLE) cpu's, so this probably wont change at all, and pc ports will still be turrible.