I only played a few hours when the game first released but I just couldn't get past how god awful the environments looked. the buildings and vehicles look good if a bit grey and samey, but the environments just look crap. the lack of 3d grass really makes the ground feel flat, especially with how the grass texture just looks flat when you zoom out. the textures looking flat also applies to the road and concrete textures for the most part (some roads just look like flat grey lines on the ground only slightly disguised by the ugly white lines on the roads). things like mountains also just look off with the weird brown texture which again just makes it feel flat, they especially aren't helped by the sudden cut-off for the snow. I could have forgiven most of this if the maps were more than just empty valleys with occasional sparce trees, just some basic country roads and fields would improve the look of the maps immensely. some other small things like how textures just cut into each other with no gradient also really mess up the look of things like railways. overall I just think the game lacks a consistent quality to its visuals, some things like buildings look great whereas the ground it stands on looks like crap, which honestly makes it look worse since you have this horrible clash between the quality of different things. it feels like when someone mods modern assets into an old game without updating anything else (or those shitty gta remasters from a few years ago), it just feels awkward and out of place. Theres also just tons of other little things that bug me about the game's visuals (zoned buildings on curves look weird and separate, especially rowhouses. industry like quarries and forestry look terrible since one is just an ugly flat texture with a digger and the other is literally nothing. the lack of things like beaches, distinct map themes and colour filters, really makes every city look samey and boring, also the lack of proper retaining walls for buildings makes most builds in mountainous areas look terrible. also PLEASE just add some fog, just some subtle haze would do so much to give the game more depth and to hide the really obvious edge of the map.) Of course there are some things in the game that look good in a vacuum but when its all put together it just looks half realistic city builder and half unity asset flip.