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Is this a mission? E.g. Get this woman to an orthodontist within 60 seconds.
Forza Horizon 2 on the horizon! [XO,X360]
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Is this a mission? E.g. Get this woman to an orthodontist within 60 seconds.
hahah, yeah, like the song "On a mission" by Gabriella Cilmi. At least those teeth really shine, orthodoxy of next gen graphics. -sry the bad pun- Maybe after the orthodontic treatment you might fancy her, she'll charm you. Like a extremely attractive female vampire throwing you into a spell.
Is this a mission? E.g. Get this woman to an orthodontist within 60 seconds.
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WOw, those screens are so damn beautiful ! Its a photo mode? with filters? or does it look like that, cos it looks too real !
At least she's solid and not a card-board cutout. One of the greatest limiting factors for last-gen weather realism was that high quality rain caused the crowds to turn all floppy and fall over.
Is this a mission? E.g. Get this woman to an orthodontist within 60 seconds.
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Photo Mode, the game looks great but it´s not in anyway on that level.
Eurogamer rated it at 9/10 and from the time i spend with the demo, i think they are on the money.
This game i will have to own and play, i had a lot of fun, imho perfect balance of simarcadish if there ever were one. When the backend steps out you can correct it in a natural way, you feel the loose of grip when the car jumps etc.. And the scenery is beautiful and the cars as well.
I am a bit pressed for money this month, if i weren't i would have bought this game and be playing it nau.
Compared to Forza 5, the loading times are reduced to acceptable (it´s basically streaming everything) and the DLC packages you buy get delivered to your garage, not just opened up in the game.
Of course i haven't had the pleasure of the full game so i have no idea how much DLC there is, and if the real price of the game should include the DLC packs
Those are all photomode. Actual gameplay isn't quite as clean (although it's still pretty great by console standards), and the effects (motion blur, etc) aren't as high-quality.
This is a gameplay shot:
And there's a couple more in the post I pulled that one from.
The rainy weather is very impressive. But when the raining has stopped and the roads are still wet - the sun starts shining on the scenery, on the small pools... I guess at that moment the game felt very next-gen to me.
More importantly, this is the first car game in awhile that makes me smile when playing.. I guess the sense of (and actual) freedom plays no small part in the fun factor.
More importantly, this is the first car game in awhile that makes me smile when playing.. I guess the sense of (and actual) freedom plays no small part in the fun factor.
Ill take a shot at answering this albeit with some likely inaccuracy.
Forza horizon uses Forward+ rendering. It doesn't have the footprint requirement that deferred has. It comes at a cost of different penalties like needing to calculate geometry twice.
Forward+ is still forward rendering so it can perform MSAA more efficiently than deferred.
It is imo and ideal engine for Xbox One hardware, as in just a good fit for ESRAM. No footprint penalty, good MSAA, 1080p, decent geometry numbers and great number of dynamic lights.
You can see the slideshow about it here:
http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/Develop_2013_ForwardPlus.ppsx
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Digital Foundry: The making of Forza Horizon 2
Eurogamer have a DF interview with Forza Horizon 2's developer, Playground Games.
More of these please DF!
Eurogamer have a DF interview with Forza Horizon 2's developer, Playground Games.
More of these please DF!
That's a really great article. Sounds like the developers did a really good job, and also that work was very efficiently shared with Turn 10 on both assets and code. There are some lessons to be learnt here by some other teams I could think of.
Eurogamer have a DF interview with Forza Horizon 2's developer, Playground Games.
More of these please DF!
And that game is another example of excellent 30 fps being awesome in the right hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5sA7gRt69s
looks like the shadows of the clouds are faked as they move in another direction then the shadows on the ground.
looks like the shadows of the clouds are faked as they move in another direction then the shadows on the ground.
Interesting, I have yet to stop to look at the clouds. The ground textures are amazing in spots, the way the road correctly meets the dirt, etc.
Considering the sun's position in the sky and it's movement and similar shape of the clouds and shadows, it seems to me that shadows are correct/real-time.