We’ve seen some nice mods for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto games before, but boy, this new series of GTAIV tweaks take the cake.
What’s most impressive is that it’s a complete overhaul of the game’s visuals: there’s not just new textures and models, but depth of field, new lighting and weather effects as well.
[via Edge]
Julian
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 10:30 AMwhile they look nice, i found this game really boring.
completed 1% before returning
MikeZdoesit
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 10:37 AMYeah, realism and debatable controls killed it. LOVE saints row though.
Julian
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 12:34 PMjust bought saints row 2 on sunday. $15 :)
M1557
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 4:35 PMIf you found GTA4 boring, you weren’t playing it right.
Chazz
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 5:41 PMFor a GTA game it was boring.
Brimm
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 8:37 PMif I didn’t like GTAIV it’s because it wsn’t made right or to my expectation….not because I wasn’t playing it right.
Blackhawk
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 10:33 AMAmazing, simply amazing.
Kyle_Katarn
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 10:42 AM*Insert obligatory BEEG AMERICAN TEE TEE’s comment here*
Really nice. I might actually look into getting GTAIV for PC to try this.
p5yL3nT G
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:01 AMGTA IV runs pretty averagely on my rig; granted it’s byno means high-end. I guess this wouldn’t help matters. Looks great though.
Chazz
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:02 AMIs there a mod or patch or something out there that makes the game less of a crappy resource hog?
Shaun
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:29 AMObvious troll obvious.
Adam Ruch
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:35 AMK the nighttime shots finally hooked me. That’s pretty incredible.
attila
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:43 AMLooks amazing, but if I had an R8 which bounced on its springs like a 1930′s jalopy like that one in the video, I would take it back immediately…
blueevo
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:57 AMinteresting.. I wonder if it was just one person or a whole team or what?
rockstar should hire this guy. Give him a small team and do a PC port of RDR or LA Noire.
Gog
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 12:02 PMI doubt GTAV will look that good.
doubleDizz
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 12:10 PMHope Rockstar take this code apart and try and implement it for GTA5.
The lens flares reminded me of Kane & Lynch 2 a little bit
Cougies
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 1:46 PMActually I hope Rockstar hire this guy, and the guys that helped make the various mods put in the video. Their work is amazing.
Quinny
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 2:08 PMCar damage? Environment damage? It all looks very nice but how practical is it? I noticed in the video when driving around he was trying very hard not to hit anything.
In saying that most mods are works in progress so I hope that it get’s a lot of community support to push them along. Also all gaming companies should be hiring guys like this who have the passion to create masterpieces in their own time.
Neil Williams
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 1:15 AMI assume the avoiding hitting anything was to keep the focus on what he was trying to show, not the potentially crappy driving.
Todd Drexel
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:59 PMWould love to give this mod a shot, however my rig can’t even play with the advanced graphics >.<
AerintheABOUTAVERAGE
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at 2:56 AMOver the weekend I got back into GTAIV for some reason and I couldn’t get over how utterly absurd the graphical filters and effects were most the time. There are maybe 2 in-game hours of the day that don’t look too bad. The rest of the time I feel like my TV is floating in a muddy fishtank as I try to play the game from the outside looking through a nasty suspension of dirt and algae :-P
I wish my Laptop could run GTA IV because I would much prefer a mod like this to the vanilla game itself.