27th August 2004, 1:32 PM
All this coming from the same person who said that Jedi Knight is identical from the first and third person perspectives? Umm... I see those as very contradictory positions...
Anyway, my point is that the game design is the same. The changes in GTA3 do not result from changing the format of gameplay (challenges, missions, etc) dramatically, but by the impact of the new perspective. They didn't innovate, really, with GTA3, since the game design is just 'GTA in 3D'. You overstate how big the actual gameplay (and here I don't mean the impact on what the player percieves but the impact on the actual gameplay itsself) was impacted by 3d, probably because of how much you obviously prefer that perspective.
Anyway, my point is that the game design is the same. The changes in GTA3 do not result from changing the format of gameplay (challenges, missions, etc) dramatically, but by the impact of the new perspective. They didn't innovate, really, with GTA3, since the game design is just 'GTA in 3D'. You overstate how big the actual gameplay (and here I don't mean the impact on what the player percieves but the impact on the actual gameplay itsself) was impacted by 3d, probably because of how much you obviously prefer that perspective.