it's not in development for 18 months. it's been in the works since early 2008 or even late 2007 since on Twisted Metal: Hand On there's official info about the game from Jaffe.
so i can't compare it to racing games because here we have guns and i can't compare it to other openworld games cause it's a car combat game? interesting. version shown at E3 was butt ass ugly no matter how you look at it. it's not an excuse that this is first car combat game since Full Auto 2 on consoles for the poor quality of the game they showed that is that far in development. i would be ok if they showed trailer of the game and nothing else, but they allowed everyone to play it. in every video of the game i saw there were glitches, chopped animations(some things didn't have any animation at all), saw cars and rockets running through walls and graphics was almost exactly like Saints Row and that game was noted for bad graphics already on its launch.
don't make excuses beause it's open world when you don't know how big the maps nor how they will handle destruction cause from what we've seen it looks exactly like in EDF2017 but without all those huge explosions that game had. Crackdown 2 have tons of explosions hundreds of characters on screen and still looks better so far(same goes to Just Cause 2). not to mention the maps they showed weren't that much bigger that what we've seen in games like Battlefield. the only big level was one for the Nuke Mode and it still was about the size of single GTA3 island.
i know this will be reported again because some sony fan will be butthurt that someone is criticizing ps3 game, but that's the truth.
