they confirmed during gamescom the weather is dynamic.  from the phrasing it sounds like you can even customize what kind of weather you want and how the weather changes over the course of a race to suit your desires.

More importantly, how can you call Driveclub not beautiful, no matter what your opinion on this game is from a gameplay perspective, you just have to acknowledge that the game looks stunning.

Both games look good visually. I might pick up Driveclub later on when the price drops. Not sure about FH2, I should probably play the first one before I try the sequel. Of course the idea of having to hook my 360 back up to my TV just seems like such a pain. I don't even know if I want to bother.

Well it wouldn't be the first surprise of the year thanks to the ps4 and everything assosiated with it.

Can open world really be used as an excuse after we've seen ISS?

Fanboy reviewers will make sure FH2 scores higher than DC

Already defensive now?

We can always trust Polygon to give us a respectable review.

I think so.

Ryse looks better than ISS on weaker hardware (though, obviously was nowhere near as good a game).

And whilst it is always an area of debate, its generally accepted that rendering an open world takes far greater tolls on resources than linear games (The Order for example, is also looking far more graphically impressive than ISS).

All devs are not made equal and neither are games.  I guess the question would be what exactly do devs concentrate on the most with their development time.  I would say the real question is how the total package between both games turn out.  Each game is striving for something different so certain aspect of those games will have a different focus.