http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24364

Quote :

"BIZARRE Creations has been getting a bit of stick in the gaming press for its Project Gotham Racing 3 game for Xbox 360. The screenshot publicity for the game shows cars against a background of New York’s mean streets. Reviewers looking at the screen shots insisted that they were too good to be real. They accused Bizarre of sending them faked screenshots. They decided that the shot must be a photograph that has been spliced into the background. Bizarre has responded by telling the gaming mags that the screen shot is real and have posted a picture of the wireframe model from the game to prove it. According to Bit-tech.net, which posted the pictures here, they even added a new screenshot of a different building containing still more detail. Everyone is now saying that the game graphics must be good. You can’t buy publicity like that."

The image that people thought was a fake:


So they posted the wireframe model of it:


And offered a new, more detailed building:

7/5/2005 3:20:26 PM

holy - shit

7/5/2005 3:22:06 PM

holy fuck

7/5/2005 5:19:57 PM

Wow. You can kinda tell the second one isn't real, but only after looking at it for a while and already knowing it was fake. If I didn't know it was fake beforehand I wouldn't have been able to tell. Anyone have any screenshots of any PS3 or Revolution games?

7/5/2005 5:24:10 PM

Holy crap. The real issue is was this running on the finalized Xbox 360 or machine that approximates the 360 hardware.

7/5/2005 5:52:51 PM

I think the title of this thread should be

"XBOX 360 graphics too good for reviewers"

am I right?

7/5/2005 6:45:58 PM

I <3 Bizarre racers

7/5/2005 7:08:14 PM

holy cow

7/5/2005 7:26:05 PM

Yikes

7/5/2005 7:38:54 PM

normal mapping. the wireframe looks really simple. It's the classic tradeoff between memory and computation.

[Edited on July 5, 2005 at 7:55 PM. Reason : dsf]

7/5/2005 7:53:50 PM

I think there is a bit more going on than normal mapping.

7/5/2005 8:33:19 PM

Well, it's mostly flat stuff. There doesn't need to be complex models. It's that the textures look so real that it's so amazing.

7/5/2005 8:54:05 PM

also, graphics always look great in screenshots or on the back of the box...
that could be from a videoclip in the game or something...
is it real gameplay footage? i don't see the cars... i want to see those

7/5/2005 9:02:01 PM

Welcome to $100 console games

7/5/2005 9:26:50 PM

7/5/2005 9:51:21 PM

Quote :

"I think there is a bit more going on than normal mapping."

no doubt, but I would guess that the biggest graphical boost comes from that

[Edited on July 5, 2005 at 10:18 PM. Reason : and the lighting, and the shadows ]

7/5/2005 10:17:05 PM

[Edited on July 5, 2005 at 10:46 PM. Reason : v]

7/5/2005 10:46:06 PM

well, skeet skeet skeet

7/5/2005 11:22:46 PM

nucking futs

7/5/2005 11:40:22 PM

good grief

7/6/2005 12:31:18 AM

siiiiiick

7/6/2005 12:51:25 AM

i won't be impressed till the people start looking real...


ok.. i lied... i'm impressed.


We'll know we've hit a plateau once the people look real though

7/6/2005 2:43:22 AM

those cars still dont look like theyre sitting on a track

perhaps when the game comes out it will be different

7/6/2005 2:58:02 AM

shit

7/10/2005 10:02:22 PM

Scans of screencaps from a magazine

http://www.jeux-france.com/news11788.html

8/16/2005 4:23:23 PM

this probably won't load



[Edited on August 16, 2005 at 4:26 PM. Reason : yep, just copy into browser, fucking awesome]

8/16/2005 4:26:04 PM

8/16/2005 4:33:19 PM

Headlights look like shit.

PASS.

8/16/2005 4:52:36 PM

bizarro, bizarro, i love you, bizarro

8/16/2005 5:22:36 PM

so, i'm reconsidering not getting the 360

8/16/2005 7:07:02 PM

The greatest graphics in the world don't add up to shit if the game isn't fun. Keep that in mind at all times.

8/17/2005 1:59:00 AM

these were the kind of graphics we were promised with the ps2 and xbox

8/17/2005 7:20:13 AM

somebody's bitter

8/17/2005 2:36:00 PM

3D screens of a car in PGR3
http://www.xboxyde.com/pgr3_3ds.html

9/6/2005 4:30:14 PM

i still stand by what i said

9/6/2005 9:39:37 PM

the graphics are that good, but you don't notice most of it because shit is flying by so fast.

9/6/2005 10:17:52 PM

If you look at the buildings, the second picture has about 1/10th the detail of the first. Both look awesome in any case, but I wouldn't put it past them to alter screens.

9/6/2005 10:45:41 PM

Amazing in-game video of PGR3 for the 360

http://www.scene.org/~riot/PGR3/pgr3.wmv

[Edited on September 29, 2005 at 2:25 PM. Reason : blah]

9/29/2005 2:25:41 PM