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Type: Racing

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2007-10-06 12:09:47 by Manager

The great Ben Ward, Community & Web Lead over at Bizarre Creations, has taken time to answer a big bunch of questions about Project Gotham Racing 4. Thanks to the XCN, we can find out more about their thoughts about PGR3, team online racing, DLC and much much more.

 
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DLC Tourist gameplay
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DLC Faux gameplay
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DLC Tourist gameplay
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DLC Faux gameplay
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Geometry Wars Waves
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Geometry Wars Waves
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Superstar Challenge London
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Superstar Challenge London
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Speed Challenge Las Vegas
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Speed Challenge Las Vegas
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Electric Car
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Electric Car
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Cone Gate London
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Cone Gate London
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Time Vs Kudos St Petersburg
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Time Vs Kudos St Petersburg
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Time Vs Kudos Quebec
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Time Vs Kudos Quebec
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The first 10 minutes: PGR4
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The first 10 minutes: PGR4
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Geometry Wars Waves
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Cone Gate London
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Electric Car
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The first 10 minutes: PGR4
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Speed Challenge Las Vegas
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Superstar Challenge London
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Time Vs Kudos Quebec
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Time Vs Kudos St Petersburg
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Live Action vs Game
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Live Action vs Game
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Live Action vs Game
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Presentation: End of championship
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Presentation: End of championship
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Presentation: End of championship
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Snowy Quebec presentation
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Nürburgring under the snow, off screen
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Gamersyde No Comment: Audio Design
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Cone Attack, Las Vegas
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Shangai by night, motorbike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Saint Petersburg in the fog on a bike
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Direct feed intro
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Direct feed intro
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Direct feed intro
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Direct feed intro
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Direct feed intro
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Direct feed intro
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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Snowy Quebec
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GC07: Intro
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GC07: Intro
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GC07: Intro
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E3: Offscreen gameplay
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E3: MSFT PGR4 gameplay
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E3: MSFT PGR4 gameplay
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E3: Marketplace trailer
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E3: Marketplace trailer
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E3: Games montage
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St Peters Rain
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X06: Teaser
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DLC images
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DLC images
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Game Convention images
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All environments
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E3 images
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Bike (video?) captures
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Bike images
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The weather system
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A mysterious city
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Quebec City
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First 12 official screenshots
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PGR4 DLC Pack announced
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Bizarre Creations interview
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The first 10 minutes: PGR4
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PGR4: Live Action vs Game
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PGR4: Even more video
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PGR4: Snowy gameplay
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No Comment: PGR4 cities
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Gamersyde No Comment: PGR4 audio design
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More PGR4 gameplay
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Direct Feed PGR4 intro video
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Direct feed PGR4 gameplay
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PGR 4 goes Gold !
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PGR4, back already
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One PGR4 image
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PGR4's interface detailed
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PGR4 images
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GC07: PGR4 Intro video
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PGR4: Gameplay and features
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GC07: PGR4 images
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PGR4 screenshots montage
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E3: PGR4 gameplay video
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E3: Xbox 360 games montage
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E3: Demo and trailer of PGR4
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The bikes in Project Gotham Racing 4
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One PGR4 screen, and a lot more!
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Quebec City in PGR4?
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4 Project Gotham Racing 4 images
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Project Gotham Racing 4 images
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Images and video of PGR4
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X06: PGR4 teaser
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Author Message
Optimusv2

Optimusv2
Since 1070 Days

2007-05-04 02:21:24 PGR4 direct feed screens



More here

http://www.jeux-france.com/news20092_project-gotha...

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LEBATO

IS WRONG LEBATO - IS WRONG
Since 1300 Days

2007-05-04 02:25:24

These are old, someone posted them, don't know who.

EDIT: Though, babelfish translation says this in that little paragraph:

"Project Gotham Racing 4 should be born in Europe before the end of the year."

So hopefully when those other guys said next winter they really meant THIS winter.

Scarface

Scarface
Since 1165 Days

2007-05-04 02:43:14

Rain on the car:)
reminds me of the whole sweat in sports games last year.

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Schmooboo

Schmooboo
Since 735 Days

2007-05-04 02:56:14

yeah, Table Tennis had the whole sweat thing nailed. too bad game was so shalow in gamemodes.

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Phaethon360

Mr Pantsies Phaethon360 - Mr Pant<s>s</s>ies
Since 1024 Days

2007-05-04 03:02:16

http://www.jeux-france.com/images2_4_20092.html

Swiss cheese on a hot plate! Man that looks good :D! Might hold off on Forza 2 to wait for this. I'm not dying for a new racing game, and PGR3 was my favorite.

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Bingham67

Since 796 Days

2007-05-04 03:43:10

Lies you will crumble to Forza 2 and you will buy for Sparta.

Anyway looking forward to this game. :)

docLEXfisti

docLEXfisti
Since 1297 Days

2007-05-04 18:40:52

well I didn't see all of em until now and they look really, really nice. Personally I hate rain, but in a game I love it . . ... hehehe

some were 1080p - is it officially confirmed already?

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Jato

Jato
Since 1055 Days

2007-05-04 23:47:24

Please NO 1080p, is this the future of 360 games. Graphical sacrifices to achieve 1080p.?! Meh...

Anyways, some screens look good or atleast one of them.
Hopefully the final car models will look like this:


So not gonna happen..! :P

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KORNdog

KORNdog
Since 582 Days

2007-05-05 02:02:37

do you think the new rain water on the car could maybe create a sort of aliasing optical illusion? sort of like when you see people wearing plaid jackets.

Acert93

Mr. Bad Cop Since 1149 Days

2007-05-05 09:42:18 In reply to Jato (2007-05-04 23:47:24)

Posted by Jato
Anyways, some screens look good or atleast one of them.
Almost every screen so far looks as good, if not substantially better, than any other racer on the 360 so far. In the other thread someone was dogging a single shot with a messy wheel hub and ignored the other 4 shots with stellar hubs.

Simply, if only one of the shots look good then all the other racers on the platform suck graphically.

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Jollipop

Jollipop
Since 1061 Days

2007-05-05 12:42:38

That pic above looks weird, it looks like a diffused pixelated mess.

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Jato

Jato
Since 1055 Days

2007-05-05 23:42:55 In reply to Jollipop (2007-05-05 12:42:38)

Posted by Acert93
Almost every screen so far looks as good, if not substantially better, than any other racer on the 360 so far. In the other thread someone was dogging a single shot with a messy wheel hub and ignored the other 4 shots with stellar hubs.

Simply, if only one of the shots look good then all the other racers on the platform suck graphically.
Well, this is the only screenshot that really impresses me:
http://pix.nofrag.com/86/78/de4bbcfa51c95521e95067...
The other ones are not even close to being as impressive as the above one. For instance this one:
http://pix.nofrag.com/6e/4c/2ac5d5a6c14f1c95d5968a...
Probably just bad screens/captures, but that's just what I see.
Posted by Jollipop
That pic above looks weird, it looks like a diffused pixelated mess.
Looks photorealistic to me, I see nothing strange with that pic. Maybe you are seeing the ground textures reflecting on the car or something..?

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KORNdog

KORNdog
Since 582 Days

2007-05-06 04:02:50 In reply to Jato (2007-05-05 23:42:55)

Posted by Jato
Looks photorealistic to me, I see nothing strange with that pic. Maybe you are seeing the ground textures reflecting on the car or something..?
he mains the rain, and it is what i was getting at a few posts before his. the rain looks great, but look at where the light is reflecting off the car. it looks like defussion or the "dissolve" layer effect in photoshop. and when in motion i can imagine it just looking very bad. sort of like aliasing.... only all over the car.

Acert93

Mr. Bad Cop Since 1149 Days

2007-05-06 09:12:45

@ Jato. Your comment was only 1 looked good, but we have read you praising a lot of shots from other games. So what are you basing "good" on? Your expectations of PGR4 or compared to other titles currently out?

Absolutely amazing wheel and tire detail, MB indicates this is probably a photomode shot: http://www.jeux-france.com/images6_4_20092.html

Again, amazing wheel detail, great paint shader, and very well balanced lighting on a very high detail car model: http://www.jeux-france.com/images6_4_20092.html

This is a great shot, especially if you can find a non-skewed, not over compressed image. Note the frequent and large (8px-by-8px macro blocking frequent in the picture). The over compression and resizing have destroyed the picture fidelity--but that said it has amazing wheel detail and lighting and the car is high quality, and the rain effect is excellent: http://www.jeux-france.com/images1_4_20092.html

Again, excellent car detail that shows off a robust lighting system. The car shows a lot of depth and the lighting accents and highlights naturally and even the tail lights show a soft red ambient glow. The wheels are extremely detailed with great reflections and the rain effect is super high quality. There are even realistic tire tracks in the snow. http://www.jeux-france.com/images0_4_20092.html

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Optimusv2

Optimusv2
Since 1070 Days

2007-05-06 10:44:42 In reply to Acert93 (2007-05-05 09:42:18)

Posted by Acert93
Almost every screen so far looks as good, if not substantially better, than any other racer on the 360 so far. In the other thread someone was dogging a single shot with a messy wheel hub and ignored the other 4 shots with stellar hubs.

Simply, if only one of the shots look good then all the other racers on the platform suck graphically.
Not arguing, but in regards to that dogging of a single shot with a messy wheel hub and other shots being ignored was a very similar thing done to forza 2 on countless occassions.

Just saying we should probably be prepared for some of the same for PGR4 as more game media shows up for it.

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Acert93

Mr. Bad Cop Since 1149 Days

2007-05-06 12:09:00 In reply to Optimusv2 (2007-05-06 10:44:42)

Posted by Optimusv2
very similar thing done to forza 2 on countless occassions.
Absolutely not. There is a ton of really, really poor media for Forza Motorsport 2 for 2 reasons: 1) most of their early footage, especially their first few shots Che called "Great" looked horrible and 2) because it simply doesn't look really great, instead servicable. Our own BlimBlim is playing the game right now and has flatly said what IGN, TeamXbox, and others have said: FM2's graphics are servicable at best.

It is pretty hard to argue with Blim, IGN, and TeamXbox when our eyes are seeing the same thing. I bet in 5 minutes I can find a load of bad FM2 footage. Of course the old excluse for 9 months (!) was: "It is an old build" Looks to me they are effectively shipping an old build by the expectations they set and the frequent excuse of "its old". And the cherry on top of their bad PR (all talk no walk on graphics, bashing the competition, using GAF to leak their shortcomings instead of their PR site, lieing on a number of issues like MSAA, MB, letting Xbox.com inform consumers of cut content, on and on) is that they are now doing exactly what they bashed others for: releasing pics from their photomode, with many enhanced features. All the time their PR on photomode had a lot of Forza fans bashing PGR's pics and photomode when essentially the Forza shots were effectively the same.

And all of this going back to the point that Turn10, not consumers, set PGR as the standard Turn10's FM2 would destroy graphically and then releasing substandard shot after substandard shot.
Just saying we should probably be prepared for some of the same for PGR4 as more game media shows up for it.
Not really imo. I think the trend will be for a select few Forza fans mocking PGR and looking for any excuse to validate Turn10s pretty lame PR that targetted PGR3.

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GriftGFX

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Since 1178 Days

2007-05-06 17:12:04 In reply to Acert93 (2007-05-06 12:09:00)

Posted by Acert93
Not really imo. I think the trend will be for a select few Forza fans mocking PGR and looking for any excuse to validate Turn10s pretty lame PR that targetted PGR3.
I agree. Expecting the same response to PGR4 is setting the bar a bit too low for Bizzare.

LEBATO

IS WRONG LEBATO - IS WRONG
Since 1300 Days

2007-05-06 19:24:23

I'm going to sound like a hypocrite, but let's not judge the game by that one, horrible screen. Now, it's not hypocritical when you consider the shot looks worse than PGR3, when we know they have done better and when we have seen shots like the others, especially that one Jato does like.

With Forza 2, it was more like lots of bad shots, and a good one here and there.....from photomode no less. Like Acert says, they would always use the excuse of "it's an old build" and when the final game comes out what? "Our build looks better" or what?

Here, just so you be happy and have faith in Bizarre, some of my shots;

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7141/lambo2gt5....
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9194/testarossa...
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6065/bmwz82wt8....
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/8959/interiorsy...

In fact, if the game looked relatively the same, but now in 720p, weather effects, and a few tweaks here and there, it would still look unbelievable.

Jato

Jato
Since 1055 Days

2007-05-06 22:42:29 In reply to Acert93 (2007-05-06 09:12:45)

Posted by Acert93
@ Jato. Your comment was only 1 looked good, but we have read you praising a lot of shots from other games. So what are you basing "good" on? Your expectations of PGR4 or compared to other titles currently out?
Ok my bad, what I said there was not exactly what I meant to say. What I meant say is: "Some of those screens look good, and one in particular"
Anyways, the first screens that appeared of CM:DIRT did not impress me either. But that's not saying I don't find the game impressing now. I've seen it in motion and it does look stunning imo.
Also, I don't have the technical 'know-how' you have, so I probably look at different things than you do or don't notice certain things on those screens that you do. But I just look at these screens and compare them to real life, and the closer it is to real life, the better it looks. Mind you, I'm purely talking about the screens I see before me here.

About those screens you refere to, I just don't see it. Yes there's some nice things about them and I'm sure you're correct. But I just look at them as a whole and I don't see anything to get extremely excited about. Especially when looking at the enviroments which imo are very bland and dull. Obviously the bad weather conditions have an affect on this as well.

Anyway, I get the feeling you are thinking that I'm being picky and have unrealistic expectations or whatever, but the fact of the matter is, that most of those shots just aren't that visually appealing to me. I'm NOT saying the game looks bad, because at this point I have no right to say that, but just looking at these screens I see ONE screen in particular that I find very, VERY impressive. And the other screens just don't appeal to me...

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Jato

Jato
Since 1055 Days

2007-05-06 22:56:36 In reply to Jato (2007-05-06 22:42:29)

Btw, what are those shots of other games I've been praising, you're referring to..?

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