LOL...
"You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy"
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Lazy programming. You don't need to recreate entire texture sets to support TIME OF DAY!
(there are lots of ways to handle this on the fly - and it makes it much more interesting, as the time could change - if you wanted to - while you were driving on the level).
That is now officially the lamest reason I have ever heard for "running out of disc space".
Gesta Non Verba
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