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Originally Posted by twitchyzero
weren't you the one taht said Uncharted Drake's Fortune graphics suck balls back in 2007?  |
I don't think so.
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Originally Posted by taylor192
What do you find ugly about it? No flaming, honest question.
The standard cars are hit or miss for ugly. Some look great (Veyron) while others look awful (on one of the Skyline race cars the exhaust was some poorly done pixels in the centre of the trunk lid).
The tracks for the most part look fantastic. Someone commented that the corners were not round - I have seen parts where the guard rails are not round, yet that seems by design cause the Cape Ring track has some fantastically round walls.
The menus look fine, not ugly, not great.
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After a few hours of playing today, the main thing of course is the 'standard' cards. They look like upsampled PS2 graphics because... well, that's what they are. If you think they look good... well you are probably really stupid. If you think they look 'decent' then that's your opinion, and I disagree.
The tracks look terrible for the most part, because while the textures are generally nice,
there are no lighting effects at all on any of the track features. That means that everything int he world looks 'bright' and horribly unrealistic. There are a few shadows here and there, from overhead elements, but that's it. Aside from that, the game just has a fullbright look of a PS2 era game.[/quote]
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Originally Posted by taylor192
Which racing games look better? 2010 F1? Project Gotham Racing? Forza?
I don't think it looks as good as it probably could, yet compared to what is out there it is among the best, and I'll take the trade off for more cars and more tracks.  |
I'm not really comparing it to any other racing games. Maybe it looks better than all of them, I'm not sure. It is definitely disgustingly ugly after playing F1 2010 on PC for several weeks. But comparing PS3 to a decently equipped PC is like comparing a PS1 to a PS3.
I didn't play much Forza 3, but I know Forza 2 at least had backgrounds with lighting effects, giving it a more realistic look overall.
I guess it's that this was supposed to be 'the next big thing' for the PS3 after Uncharted 2... Of course those are high expectations to live up to, but what I am disappointed the most about is that it didn't even come close to living up to expectations. It not only doesn't look like an amazing car-porn game, it looks like a rather ugly one, with 80% of the cars being nothing other than upsampled PS2 models. When you do get to see 'premium' cars, the ugly background stands out even more, as it looks like you are driving realistic cars in a cartoon world.
But as a game, it's fun! I won't argue with anyone about that.