Man Furismo Jive. It’s Kevin Butler’s next advertisement project and boy, are we pleased? That gives us hope that not only will we see plenty of Gran Turismo 5 at E3, but also that the game will finally come out this year. To celebrate we thought we’d highlight the reason why the game is taking Polyphony Digital so long — the studio’s attention to detail.
Check out the following screenshot. As pointed out by Jay of GTPlanet, it shows a zoomed-in picture of a wing mirror, sporting the detailed reflection of the track ahead. When you compare this to the image it originated from, you’ll suddenly understand the true attention to detail that the development team has been working for. Rendering an effect that’s almost invisible to the naked eye is just about as detailed as a video game engine can get.
We’ve also included a new gameplay trailer of the game’s Nürburgring track, which was on show at the real 24-hour endurance race, which starred Polyphony’s own Kazunori Yamauchi. Driving a Toyota #72 Lexus IS F with his team, they finished 4th in their class and 60th overall. Not bad. Enjoy our Gran Turismo 5 screenshot gallery here.
Just amazing, this game is going to push PS3 to it’s limit.
If you zoom in on the racer’s head and look past his helmet, you can actually see his facial features which indicate that he’s currently in a depressed state of mind, slowly rotting from the inside and about to give up on life because he can’t even win the race.
Wait… what? Why is such detail so important?
This is the reason why PS3 exclusives with custom game engine blows the competition out of the planet.
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Wow detail so fine that people cant really notice. I don’t think its all that important but its nice to know that there is some type of deep detail within the game.
it would be nice if they could a little more effort into adding detail to the 4 polygon plants
I am thoroughly impressed.
Ok, im a ps3 fan and im also anticipating this game. However, this is nothing special, this is called enviroment mapping and its been applied in games long ago. There are many other features in GT5 that people should be impressed by, like eye light adaptation simulation, HDR, depth of field.
Is that real? That’s crazy!
why are people impressed by this? most other racings games have had this for years….. Forza 2 had it. Forza 3 has it. Burnout has it. Project Gotham has it.
also, BBQ, Forza 3 has the eye adaptation (as do nearly all other games worth their salt these days), HDR and depth of field. those 3 ‘features’ are nothing special in this day and age. nearly every GOOD game has them.
Joe, it’s common for the games to have reflections on the bonnet, but not so much on the wing mirrors – and usually the effect is removed/filtered out when it’s too far away from the screen. Often, the polygon count of the reflection is also reduced.
BTW surprised noone saw the little message….
Patrick Steen,
thats all well and good, but like i said, many games including Forza 2 and Forza 3 do this exact same thing.
if ps3 games can look this realistic then ps4 games should look more realistic than real life lol
PS4 will have cinema quality (cinematography) not real life as PS3 is already on the brink of reality.
@Joe
How could forza provide this much detail when it is only on xbox 360 and ps3 has better graphics (please dont have a fanboy rant over this comment i prefer pc over both ps3 and 360 and im not a fanboy) honestly gt5 has been in development for so long you expect this sort of thing forza on the other hand wasnt
hahaha i just noticed in the pitcure that if you zoom in you can read a message on the mirror im pretty sure it says “if you are looking for a release date you wont find one” im not sure its that exactly but its there on the enlarged image of the mirror
BUT it could be, that these great pics are just from a new Photo Mode and that the game itself doesn’t look so wonderful detailed. But what really counts is the handling of the cars and that part of the game WILL be great!
yeah i also want the driving to be near perfect, if not perfect
Little message.: “Looking for a release date, you want one”
Thats all I can make out
Opps nevermind, it’s: “If you’re looking for a release date, you wont find one. =)”