| EEPiccolo said: OK, seriously, that can't be a full screenshot. If you look closely, you'll see that each rendered pixel is actually taking up 2x2 pixels in the JPEG image. That means the original image only had a 300 x 204. So the original looked like this:  And this image still looks more jaggy than it would in the real game, because stretching it then shrinking it back down again results in edge distortion. I don't think anyone needs to worry about aliasing (the technical term for "jaggies"), as I think this is just a bad pic. However, I would be concerned that there are many Gamecube games that look better than this, even ignoring the aliasing. |
Even assuming that it isn't the full screenshot the detail is pure crap.
The curb on the left is just a big box with a flat texture. No decals, no imperfections in the road, nothing on the curb. Just a big box with an ugly texture.
The trees are just plain ugly. I could make a better tree like that and about the only thing I'm good at modeling is placeholder art (which is what everything here looks like). They just quickly threw some planes together on a pole and called that a tree.
I have no idea what's going on with the the little wall to the right. It looks like it has the wrong texture applied or someone didn't map it right so now it's horribly stretched. Whatever the case, it's ass.
The terrain has only two blended textures and is pretty flat and that's just unacceptable. Once again, a really small texture applied on something really big looks like crap.
The buildings look like they could have a little more life to them but I'm willing to bet that if you get closer to them they are just a box (or maybe even 3 ooo) with textures slapped on them.
Now, granted this is a racing game and you're supposed to be moving quickly gives them some leeway on detail, but even this is just pathetic. All of that is why I was thinking this was just something that got leaked on the way to the publisher. This seriously looks like it's just exiting blockout and they're getting ready to put detail in it. I really *really* hope that's not representative of the final product.
