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Hertston · 04-06-07, 02:02 PM

By all means get SH4, especially if you have a PC that will allow you enjoy the additional eye-candy. And it's a new theater to play in, after all.

But.. at present SH3/GWX is comfortably the better product, IMHO. SH4 doesn't do anything important that SH3 doesn't do, and in it's present shape it doesn't do properly a lot of things that SH3 does. It's not a "bug ridden POS", but it is broken in places. SH4 is prettier, but in all honesty not much; certainly when you've finished playing with the external views. Even some of the difference is primarily just the 'cinematic' lighting effects and I still can't decide if they actually look any better or not.

A year down the line SH4 will be the better product when the devs have fixed it (which, to be fair, they seem determined to do) and the modders have played around with and added to it. At present, though, after a dabble I've gone back to SH3. I'll try SH4 again when the next patch is released.

04-06-07, 02:02 PM	#35
Hertston Swabbie Join Date: May 2001 Location: Cornwall, UK Posts: 9 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	By all means get SH4, especially if you have a PC that will allow you enjoy the additional eye-candy. And it's a new theater to play in, after all. But.. at present SH3/GWX is comfortably the better product, IMHO. SH4 doesn't do anything important that SH3 doesn't do, and in it's present shape it doesn't do properly a lot of things that SH3 does. It's not a "bug ridden POS", but it is broken in places. SH4 is prettier, but in all honesty not much; certainly when you've finished playing with the external views. Even some of the difference is primarily just the 'cinematic' lighting effects and I still can't decide if they actually look any better or not. A year down the line SH4 will be the better product when the devs have fixed it (which, to be fair, they seem determined to do) and the modders have played around with and added to it. At present, though, after a dabble I've gone back to SH3. I'll try SH4 again when the next patch is released. __________________ "Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves..."