Digital Foundry: Watch Dogs Wii U

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fatslob-:O said:

curl-6 said:

Metal shading on cars looked decent to me, certainly much better than the flat, dull vehicles of WD.

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Technically, what your shading isn't really metal on a car's surface, but rather it's paint so that can ultimately change the reflectivity properties ... 

Games often usually treat the car paint like it's plastic. The car surface shading in Watch Dogs is just fine for the most part but the quality gets diminshed because of the lower resolution ...

The lower resolution may be partly responsible for the apparent shortcomings of the textures and shaders, true, but that in itself is a point in NFS's favour, that it commands both a framerate and resolution advantage.