i feel the same as you, i'm not blown away by this game anymore.. at first the info on it on what you could do was amazing then the first trailer came out but now it just doesnt seem to look that good. graphics arent everything.. blah blah.. but they do help and i was expecting a lot from this game graphics wise. they should really screen the images and flush out the ones that have glitches in them at least .
but to me the problem is the shading.. or colours or whatever you call it.. they seem very washed out if you know what i mean.. kinda hazy/whiteish . for a city it just doesnt seem to be alive with colour. it looks kinda like an old photo from like the 70's or something that has that washed out look.
but that might just be cause its playing on the crapbox. if they did it solely on ps3 would be a lot better graphically and detail wise. not to mention the millions more things you could fit into the game ( including planes and countryside which i'll miss i liked to get out of the city and mess around in the countryside in san andreas not having to worry about cops being around ) because of the blueray discs. not to mention the higher processing power.
i hope next one.. gta 5. they put it on the xbox elite and ps3.. cause then you can have the 15/30GB capacity on the HDDVD.. or the 25/50GB capacity of the blueray to work with. instead of 4.7GB that the xbox 360 limits it to.
Y'know, we don't appreciate fanboyism around here. Just a heads-up. Also, the Xbox 360 uses DVD-9s, which have 9GB capacity. Which is plenty, considering the mammoth game Oblivion is only 6GB.
As for the fourth pic, the tire is definitely clipping through the ground. But it's only a minor graphical glitch that every game has. Now, the second pic....maybe we can finally climb up and over cars REALISTICALLY.