Did we really put up with GTA when it sucked like this?

LOADS 'O' LOADS

San Andreas might have - impressively - boasted a gigantic world with no loading. But action-splintering pauses were all too common in GTA III and Vice City, leaping up whenever you crossed a bridge between two separate areas.

Look, we're not petty or anything, but nowadays our brains get bored after even a second of enforced inactivity - and there's no way now thatwe'd have let GTA get away with such heavy boundary-crossing penalties.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.