Probabaly the graphics engine is not very refined, I have seen such things happen before in other games, like for example Sports Car GT (EA). This is something that can happen usually when NOT licensing an external, refined, graphics engine and the team has instead to develop their own one. UBI had not an engine for naval simulations, with a model of the sea and had to develop one starting from zero, and while it spared some cost, the result is not very satisfactory (The sea is horrible in SH3 when viewed from a certain altitude), as it usually happens with the first version of many programs (I don't blame the dev team for that, they did a decent job starting from scratch). EA's Sports Car GT engine later appeared in later evolutions in F1 2000, F1CS, F12001, F1 2002 and F1Challenge, and in this last version the engine is beautiful, runs very fast and uses teh processor well. But it is the result of 5 years of developement
, something SH3 is not sure to have in the future.
Watch Akella's engine in PT Boats...they are now in the 3rd evolution of their engine and that's something one can inmediately notice
