Gran Turismo HD: Real Life Cmparison

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Yulegoat said:

zaphodile said:
You know, I don't think it's that it has alot of polygons, but they have got the lighting exactly right... Makes me wonder why not more games (that try to be realistic) look like this, besides Crysis.

Yep, 360 and PS3 have the capacity to run enough polygons so it's not the limit these days. Real professionals have been able to render 100% realistic cars for years (check out suurland.com) and now they're able to do that with flares, reflections and all real-time which is very impressive. The things that are paid more attention these days are reflections, flares, motion blur, background blur and soft focus in addition to the 'dirtyness', anti-aliasing and sharp textures. I can make an image to you to show what these filters do if you're interested.

PS3Owner: check out Forza 2. There are some not-so realistic things about GT-HD. For example, in the top picture you can see how the filter is actually replicating the objects in background and not really blurring them.

EDIT: here's some in-game pics of Forza 2 (they're still working on the graphics):

Seems like they're one step ahead because of the motion-blur of the wheels ;)

Forza comes out this month whereas GT comes out.. next year Maybe... so im pretty sure graphics will have improved even more by then