Impressive Looking First Forza Horizon 2 1080p Screenshots Released

[walsufnir]

SvennoJ said:

walsufnir said:

I believe you didn't read the article on IGN where they say:

 

"“We believe next gen beauty isn’t about poly counts,” says Fulton. “It’s not about texture resolution. Those are last-gen concepts. Next-gen beauty is about light.”

“It’s about light and how it plays on every surface in the world. How it reacts to them. How it scatters from them. It’s about the way sunlight glints on the bodywork of a car. It’s about the way the entire world reflects back at you from the surface of a puddle in a cobbled street.

“It’s about really revealing those imperfections that make something feel real. I’m talking about the minute scratches on a brake disc. I’m talking about the flaky paint and rusted metal of an old barn door. That’s what next-gen beauty is.”"

I've never looked at a brake disc, I guess the barn door looks nice after you crash. Looks like next-gen is about screenshots...

Add heat shimmer, realistic puddle forming, water spray, drifting snow, dust devils, bouncing hail, wind gusts, drifting fog, rain evaporating of a hot road surface, reflective road paint, road reflectors, reflective signs, headlights that cast shadows for all cars, all stuff that you see while driving. puddle reflections and flaky paint is last-gen.

We will see what they are able to do to make their fakes look like real because a lot of stuff looking real is of course not simulated as real