Well I thought I would bring the thread to life seeing as it was related to textures. (Plus I remembered that point due to your mention of textures.) I was actually really surprised (unfairly I guess) to see poor textures like that. I guess when the game came out it was difficult to increase the quality of the textures due to the already difficult to meet hardware requirements. (It is an old game... 2004, not THAT old, but compare 2000 games to 1994..)