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What's up with the rear-view mirror?

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Looks like pixel-art.

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haha the rear view mirror does look horrible.

All the shots from car interiors look pretty bad, and humans look nothing like the real thing (although closer than other games), but the cars... wow... lol.

It's like they were pictures of the real thing =/

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Let me be the first to say, Forza what? Forza who? lol

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The trees look like lol...or rofl :D

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Are you really complaining about the trees? Jesus this is the prologue man, its not even the real GT5. But for real did you see the grass in some of those screen shots. Theres actually individual blades of grass and the only reason i saw that is cause i started to look for the most anal retentive thing like the rest of yall. Also true on the rear-view haha but I assume that since the DEMO! is many months from release that its gonna be all right.

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What you mean forza what? forza was never a direct competitor to gt5 pgr4 is..

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Doobie: thanks for showing how dumb people can be, you made my morning

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The town looked like a real photo

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I can't believe some of you are actually complaining!

The game isn't done yet and it is the most incredible in game graphics I have ever seen and far superior to any racing game on the 360 graphically. As far as how the game plays, I can't speak for that since it has not been released yet.


The mirror and a few other little tweaks I am sure will be done before the game is released. To only think that when the game is released that the graphics will probably be even Better!

With great games out or coming out soon and this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as what the PS3 can do, again why do people hate on the PS3?

And again, the PS3 hasn't even been out for an entire year yet(In the US anyway). I can't even imagine what will be possible in 3 to 4 years.

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Insight on why the rear-view mirror looks like crap:

In real life, the mirror and what is outside are in two different depths of field so you can only focus on one thing at a time. Looking outside will make the mirror look blurry while looking at the mirror will yield the opposite effect. Since you'll be playing this game on a 2d screen, the ps3 can't intuitively know what part of the screen your looking at, (unless there is a way to move your head around in the game while driving), so I think polyphony might have purposely kept the mirror like that to add to the 'realism'.

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Outstanding job fellows!

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wowzeers batman

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Ok, with my anal-retentive graphics nerd hat on, this is what I saw *wrong* with these shots.

1. Blocky aliased shadows, particularly noticeable in the cockpit shots.
2. Weird aliasing on the fender and bumper in one of the shop shots of the red car.
3. Hilarious Atari 2600 rear view mirror.
4. No bump map on brick/stone street where the mercedes is parked. If this area is designed to be a beauty shot (looking at parked cars), they really should bump map the street.

Now, my criticisms from a less nitpicky point of view.

1. Best car models ever. The Polyphony Digital team is famous for obsessing over every inch of the track and every millimeter of vehicles, and they finally have hardware that shows this clearly. I read that for GT4 they flew around the world and systematically took photos of each race track, on a 9 foot grid (each shot was 9x9 feet). This included the actual track surface (top down shot) as well as any signs/banners and trackside stuff.
2. People models don't look too bad. The satiny suits they wear look pretty real. For a developer that has probably never modeled a human character, ever, it's a good start.
3. The lighting and motion blur effects look amazing. In one of the shots with a BMW Z4 passing under a banner, the edges of the banner are soft from the bloom and light source (sun) behind it. That's tricky.

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i am so pissed that i won't be able to damage my car in this game. that might make me skip it over. i was watching some replays last week of the fastest celica run (grip mode) of gt:hd, and the dude barrels down the final stretch before the last turns, doesn't brake, rides the wall at 150mph and gets the fastest lap time by 2s. its like.. wtf? someone that stays on the course can't compare. video games need rules or else realism goes out the window. i mean, if they talk about realistic physics, then shouldn't they consider steel barrier + 800kg elise = dnf? its like the only course that feels real is laguna seca because at least you get slowed down in the sand every time you are off the course.

screw the trees. i don't need pretty trees. this isnt "the real monkey simulator". and if my car doesn't get totaled on impact at 150 mph then i am not playing a "driving simulator".

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The series has always been incredible looking. Hard to believe we ever referred to the ps1 version as having "realistic" graphics after seeing these shots however.
As for the difference between the cars and the environments; look at who is making this game. Do you think they focused on the cars to start, or the trees? By the time it releases, I'm sure they'll have polished everything the way they've obviously done with the vehicles.

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The cars on Gt 5 wouldn’t damage if you crash, it’s almost 10 years waiting for that.

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That one with the car outside the cafe looks too real, I swear thats a real picture.

I am really looking forward to this game.

I still think GT:HD is the best looking title on the PS3 so I can't wait to see how good GT5 looks.

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the game aint even done yet they got till holiday for japan and 08 for america. i didnt here anybody caring about forza 2 until it came out and some stupid 360fanboy started comparing it to grand tourismo hd(rtard). poly isnt going to miss these things if normal people like us see those mistakes! who is still talking about gt hd that wasnt a demo for gt5 it was for gt 4 hd but they dropped it poly said there going to add some kinda of damadge system. i dont know why you want it so much it seems like people enjoy trashing there cars before the end of the race seriously i got sick of damage after motorstorm. forza 2 level of detail on the tracks haha not really if the trees werent 2-D you might of changed your mind but then again you might be still dwelling on gt HD for support in your claims. has anbody seen the still pictures in forza 2 compared to the gt hd the look pretty damn close but when there moving you realize forza 2 was a bunch of lies.

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lordroba - Youre 'theory' is idiotic. Hence, you are an idiot.

As far as the game looking good, sure it does. But wait until you actually see in game footage for yourself before you go all nuts. You know how Sony is when it comes to that. They have been guilty in the past of pulling that shit.

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I'm getting pretty tired of people wanting car damage. IT DOESN'T ADD ANYTHING TO THE GAME. Not even realism. You want realism? Fine. Get anything worse than a fender bender, and you lose the race guaranteed. That's how it happens in real life. Whee, fun!

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