Smuggler’s Run impressions
Posted by @ 12:28 PM, EDT
DailyRadar posted their impressions along with movies of Rockstar Games’ PS2 racer.
A bit of it:
Three playfields might not sound like a lot, but when they stretch for over 25 miles across - well, that's a lot of terrain to cover. In order to avoid excessive load times, each world is loaded once at the beginning of the game; individual missions are then loaded on the fly as needed. It's obvious that familiarity with the landscapes, which took a team of seven artists over a year to complete, should come easily after a few hours of play. Amazingly, each world is so huge that numerous paths and areas might never be crossed during the course of the game's 35 missions.Full article