Let's forget about Halo...

[WeasteDevil]

... and look at a real work of videogame art.

I'd be interested in those that know London well as to what street they are racing down at the end of the video?

Is it a real street, or have they simply thrown something together that looks like it's London?

Anyway:

http://www.gamespot.com/video/942026/6179462/gran-turismo-5-prologue-official-trailer-4

 

[KingEric7]

Is that gameplay or a scene?
It's staggering either way. It's actually getting to the point where it's becoming difficult to distinguish between reality and a game.

 

[golden_blunder]

it looks good as usual but the problem with GT is that it bores the feck out of me

 

[air_mood]

Crysis is one to look forward to as well. Excellent graphics.

 

[LizardKing]

Looks like Oxford street to me

 

[WeasteDevil]

Is that gameplay or a scene?

It's all produced by the game engine, the "replays" are at 30fps, the actual game plays at 60fps, so they can add extra to the replays for many reasons, but it's all produced in realtime.

Here is a current "in game" video on the Daytona track.

http://www.gpara.com/movie/gt5p/20070922/02.php

Remember as well, this is all low definition. This game is running in full HD.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Looks like Oxford street to me

I'm not that familiar with London to know.

 

[Deleted 20801]

That's almost certainly Coventry Street.

At one point, you can see the green banners for Trocadero.

 

[Deleted 20801]

Look:

 

[WeasteDevil]

Is it real though, the depiction of the street, or are they just making it look like that?

Don't tell me that the cnuts have gone down every street on the course and took 5 million photos to get it right.

 

[Deleted 20801]

I wouldn't put it past them. That's what the people behind Driver 3 did, and that was a couple years ago.

 

[LizardKing]

The Getaway was based in London and almost all the streets were almost perfect.

In fact, when I went to London for the first time I knew my way around because of that game!

 

[WeasteDevil]

I can understand landmarks, but every single building?

 

[golden_blunder]

i loved the Getaway driving part because of the realism of the streets

 

[Deleted 20801]

I can understand landmarks, but every single building?

Yep, they've been doing it for years on a few games.

 

[UBERScholes]

People should start graffiti'ing fat cocks all around London, either make the game cripplingly inaccurate or make sure they appear in future games

 

[Deleted 20801]

I'm up for that.

Fat cocks around London it is!

 

[LizardKing]

There's already an unusual amount of cocks in London as it is

 

[samabachan]

Why not just get a load of Lampard cut outs? Or even better, Lampard lookalikes?

 

[Jimble]

Why not just get a load of Lampard cut outs? Or even better, Lampard lookalikes?

?????

 

[narnar]

Holy shit its Lampards better looking brother.