GTA 3/Vice City PS4 vs PS2 Graphics Comparison/Analysis

Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City were hugely impressive games in their day, but performance on PS2... well, let's just say it wasn't great. PS4 emulation improves visual quality and improves frame-rate, so what's the catch?

[JacksInn]

Amazing how back in the day when I was playing these games, I never spent even a second thinking or noticing frame rate pacing or jaggies, I was just having the best days of my life.

[fifthgear]

Portland, Black sentinels, the Banshee in the showroom, the Red Light District, payphones, trying to jump the Callahan bridge without progressing in the story. Oh man, the memories.

[eduardolobos]

thanks god i have bought those all 3 gta games for ps4 before the fuckers rockstars delisted them

[OMGitsRuthlessOfficial]

It looks better, but the pricing is fucking stupid. 15$??? You can get the GTA Trilogy for less than that!

[gun_majster]

Gta VC has the best soundtrack of all time

[vesselinkrastev]

Holy shit! I remember Vice City having frame rate issues but I had no idea I was playing at 20 fps. I still keep the GTA Trilogy collection on PS2 just for the sake of having it on the shelf but there's no way I'm going back to them.

[fifthgear]

2:42 Damn, notice the flicker on the PS2 version. Watch the blue sky.

[TrashTalkin]

Minor nitpick, but next time when comparing two video signals, could you please graph the lines in more contrasting colors? Blue and red would be fine, but I'm colorblind; these two colors are too similar for me to see a difference.

[Ouail]

Sony launches emulation of PS2 for PS4, digital foundry: launches lots of videos of the emulation,
Microsoft launches retrocompatibility with more than 100 titles right now: digital foundry launches only one video about fallout 3.

conclusion: Sony Foundry.

[TheSuperNESman]

Its funny cause nobody gave a rats ass about the framerate when these games originally came out, now everybody is upsessed.

[DaveSimonH]

Just when I thought I was out of PAL, they pull me back in.

[thiagovidal]

Seeing videos today from games we all loved 15 to 20 years ago makes me wonder when did we became so whining? I see these games that were perfect for me back then and realise they were running at 20fps even and I'm like: "wow".
Nobody cared back then... we just had fun and fully enjoyed the game for what it was... Today we spend more time complaining on the internet than actually having fun and playing video games.

[omarh]

Tough one. In some shots the PS2 version looks better, in others the PS4 looks better. I'd pick the PS2 version though overall, only because its the original platform for the game. In the end, I'm kinda upset with what they did with the PS4 though. So much more could've been done to develop the PS4 into even better machine, but some potential feels lost. The difference between PS2 and PS3 is huge. But with PS3 and PS4, not so much except for slight graphics tweaking.

[DomoTheRussian]

People saying "My PC can handle 60 FPS without any problem but PS4 doesn't!" doesn't know one huge thing. Is the the gameplay is tied to framerate and going beyond 30 FPS lock introducing a huge ammount of physics based bugs in the game, which makes the experience bad. Yeah, there is a way to sync frames properly with NVIDIA adaptive vsync, but back in the day the tech wasn't there so people didn't had the option to sync frames with fancy vsync/gsync options.

[JudasBenPesach]

I got just gta 3 for the ps4 and I say it was worth it. Sorry people, but people need to get paid when work has been done to add trophy support and better resolution and frame rate. I hoping to see more games on offer in the future.

[fifthgear]

Liberty City Stories was the worst offender of all GTA games on PS2 regarding framerates. Sometimes I felt like the fps was falling down to single digits. Most of the time the game felt like it was running at 20fps. I wouldn be surprised if that were in fact the case.

[JamesSmith-swnk]

If I remember correctly, PS2 loader, playing games off of a hard drive helped fps drops.

[sculpturex]

the price is ridiculous. I could live with $10 per game ($5 for less popular one), but $15? A big NO!
and please, PS1 classics should only priced at $3 per game now & $5 for multiple discs game

[gabrieleriva]

Xbox version was better for both titles. 480p, 60Hz, DD 5.1, custom soundtracks, better details, and playable on the Xbox 360.

[kenmasters]

it's amazing how your brain remembers games.