No-one seems to be willing to respond to my post so I'll pose it as a direct question instead. Specifically speaking to environments... Download an HD gameplay only feed of PGR4 and GT5 (no fly-bys or replays!). Watch them... Then answer this:
Do you honestly believe that the (gameplay!) trackside details -- i.e. all environment detail outside of the cars themselves is better in GT5?
Yes, the car modelling is amazing. The surrounding cars while racing look great in GT5 and from the gameplay video, the game looks pretty darn smooth.
But, the track sides, barriers, signs, and other enviroment detail are much lower in quantity than in PGR4 and I think PGR4's graphics in this department are untouched.
PGR was shooting for environment if you remember their original interviews...
All that said, if GT5 gets the environment to look like the tracks, it's going to be freakin' amazing. I'm not nearly as big a graphics fiend as I am a gameplay fiend and I think that on the 360, Forza2 > PGR4. Once you go 60fps, it's hard to go back.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
