Tourist Trophy

Daz

The *PS2* motorcycle racing game from Polyphony Digital. Bloodyhell, just bloodyhell:

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/driving/touristtrophy/news.html?sid=6141032

Looks better than most of the 360 stuff out there.

Asthane

Yep, it's that time of the dev cycle, when games like Vagrant Story come out for the mature systems, yet everyone's got eyes only for the new systems and abominations like... Evergrace.

TomDunne

Wow, very cool. That's the nice thing about a system's games at the end of it's lifespan, as dev teams squeeze the last drops of graphical goodness out of them.

Apropos of nothing, I have decided to buy a motorcycle.

JonMurphy

Definately looking forward to that. It will be interesting to seehow the riding model plays out, although it does sound like you can't dynamicly shift your weight around like MotoGP (xbox) or Isle of Man TT

Rick Stirling

I've always wondered why the motoGP (climax, xbox version) team didn't bring out a road racing game.

It does look uterly stunning, and it does look better than a lot of the Xbox 360 stuff.

Cubik

Fantastic materials and textures, shame that the riders siloettes does reveal their lowpoly orgins. Looks stunning with all that blur too.

SouL

pwned.

JonMurphy

Rick - GP3 was actually handled by the Nottingham studio, not the Brighton team that did the first two. Given the fun we had producing assets for them , I'm surprised it made it out the door.

*happily ploughing through Forza atm*

Rick Stirling

I havent picked up the 3rd one - but the first 2 were superb. The Xbox versions shat all over the PS2 versions.

Daz

What studio is making this 360 version of MotoGP? Looks awesome:

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=30497&mode=thread&order=0

hawken

wonder if you can use the GT wheel with this title

TomDunne

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Climax, same as always.

SouL

I wish the shadows had a slight bit of purple to them... and that they weren't so 'fuzzy'

http://www.worthplaying.com/press/199/MOTOGP2006_024.jpg

That shot looks wierd... look at how dark the shadow being cast by the rider/bike is... yet the riders themselves are barely casting any shadows.

Fuse

see that's the problem with many driving/bike simulator developers .. despite the loads of blurr/bloom and hdr and superhigh rez models it still doesnt have that feel of photorealism that polyphony accomplishes ..

i mean .. gran turismo 4 was absolutely gorgeous on it's own, and we are talking ps2 hardware here .. yet i dont think Project Gotham Racing achieves that level of photorealism .. despite the hardware advantage ..

that 360 version of motogp looks good .. but it doesnt look remotely decieving .. developers are really milking the hdr for all they can and it just looks off ..

soul's right on the need for purple shadows

Daz

I agree. If you squint your eyes and look at the TT shots, it actually looks real. You overlook the polygonal edges ( specially with your eyes half shut ;-) ). What makes it look 'real' is largely colour palette and tonal values. Polyphonal just seem to be masters of that stuff. A lot of other developers seem to have this 'checkbox' mentality of features they're meant to have, without actually stopping to look at the overall picture and see wether or not it adds anything.

Rick Stirling

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Sigh...Isn't this true for so many games these days.

Fuse

2 trailers are up at gametrailers.com god it looks so spectacular .. cant believe it's ps2