GTA 5 on PS5 and Xbox Series X still doesn’t sound like it’s worth buying

techradar.com:

Rockstar has finally outlined what improvements we can expect to see in GTA 5 Enhanced Edition. But I’m not sure they’re substantial enough to tempt players back to Los Santos for what could potentially be the fourth time.

GTA 5 Enhanced Edition has already come under fire for looking “exactly the same”, at least according to some commenters, who slammed the game’s latest trailer on YouTube. And now that Rockstar has outlined what players can expect from GTA 5 Enhanced Edition from a technical perspective, I doubt that narrative will change anytime soon.

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In a blog post on Rockstar’s website, the publisher said that GTA 5 Enhanced Edition will feature “graphics modes with up to 4K resolution up to 60 frames per second, texture and draw distance upgrades, HDR options and ray-tracing, as well as offering the technical advancements of the latest console generation with faster loading times, immersive 3D audio, platform-specific features like advanced haptic feedback, and much more.”

That all sounds very much par for the course when it comes to the majority of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, which isn’t a bad thing, of course. But what’s hard to determine from the above is whether Rockstar is comparing other technical improvements – like texture and draw distance upgrades, as well as faster load times – to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, or to the PC version.

If it’s the former, then the Enhanced Edition will merely bring the fourth release of GTA 5 in line with a version that is now almost seven years old. Yes, ray-tracing will be a genuinely new addition (outside of the PC modding community), but I’m fairly confident that “up to 60fps” won’t be possible