I kind of agreed with you until now. <_<
Now I just think you're wrong. I don't know about mods because I've only played both games on the Xbox 360, but GTA4's driving is to me better than in any other sandbox game ever. The vehicles are FELT, they relay an adequate sense of mass and inertia, and they respond to bumps, collisions and terrain logically and believably. SR2's vehicles feel a lot less like you're driving something. The way Niko motions at the wheel is also a little thing that does surprisingly much to enhance immersion: he turns the wheel like you actually would because it has a realistic-seeming turning radius, he turns his head to look behind when reversing, and he responds to the car interacting with the environment with his body jerking appropriately. He looks like a man driving a car.
I hated GTA4's driving at first, before I got the gist of it completely. Now it's most natural and satisfying. I know, however, that you've played the game enough to have made a final conclusion and there's no changing it.
GTA4's on foot controls, on the other hand, are rather horrendous. Clunky as hell, and I hate how there's no getting around the camera automatically readjusting itself. SR2 does a far better job in this regard.
Now I just think you're wrong. I don't know about mods because I've only played both games on the Xbox 360, but GTA4's driving is to me better than in any other sandbox game ever. The vehicles are FELT, they relay an adequate sense of mass and inertia, and they respond to bumps, collisions and terrain logically and believably. SR2's vehicles feel a lot less like you're driving something. The way Niko motions at the wheel is also a little thing that does surprisingly much to enhance immersion: he turns the wheel like you actually would because it has a realistic-seeming turning radius, he turns his head to look behind when reversing, and he responds to the car interacting with the environment with his body jerking appropriately. He looks like a man driving a car.
I hated GTA4's driving at first, before I got the gist of it completely. Now it's most natural and satisfying. I know, however, that you've played the game enough to have made a final conclusion and there's no changing it.
GTA4's on foot controls, on the other hand, are rather horrendous. Clunky as hell, and I hate how there's no getting around the camera automatically readjusting itself. SR2 does a far better job in this regard.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.