Forza Horizon shots, details surface ahead of E3

Beauty – rendered – shots.

A plane?

@1 I know! That’s what it said though. Sounds like the Bugatti race from Top Gear to me

Looks good.

I don’t want to pay attention to this game, because it looks like it has the potential to be one of my favourite games of all time, but I’m sure it’ll just end up making a complete mess of things, so I’ll try and keep it at arms length.

It worked great for Test Drive Unlimited!

Okay, that was mean.

What? What do you mean?

They’re target renders. These shots are about as real as Sean William Scott’s acting skills.

lmao, you know your game looks unbelivable when phonybots start to cry its rendered just because it looks so much better than that old fart GT5.

^ yep, y’hear that Ireland? You’ve been unmasked!!

P.s. Racing a plane?!

@9 Yeah, and here was thinking I was an Xbot…

Playground Games have a good pedigree so I’d expect good things from this.

Wouldn’t be too surprised if it looks like this given it’s 30fps and the GT / Forza sims have to run 60fps. Not to mention not having to worry about all those expensive physics calculations.

@12 The amount of post-processing effects in the background is well beyond anything the 360 (or even the PS3) are capable of doing in real time. You might be able to do that to a still shot in-game, but that’s it. The actual gameplay or replays will look nothing like that.

“Not to mention having to worry about all those expensive physics calculations.”

What, like making you bounce gently off a wall after hitting it at 200mph?

@12
Article mentions its retaining the physics. Though they could rein it back in speed, currently Forza physics run at about 240Hz don’t they?

I’m getting a few Need for Speed back when it was about rolling coastal roads and super cars vibes too. Open world plus off road … Forza is Forza

RE:Screenshots
Forza games always do this, as does Gran Turismo. Shots released tend to be processed screen grabs. Stuff you can do in game in replays, not that representative of what you will experience in gameplay.

Ahaha, someone believe it’s real?

LOL. These are prerended shots with AA, FXAA and fancy lightning effects. GT5 and Forza both do this to make things look beautiful. PC can easily make these games look like that, but not Xbox 360 or PS3 with hardware that is from Cretaceous period.

Your Xbox is not a magical device that magically upgrades shaders, graphics cores and video memory.

@15: Yeah, they say it uses Forza physics but doesn’t mention just how much. At the end of the day it’s an arcade racer, they’re not going to use the full on calculations.

As for the graphics, the “post processing” just looks like the usual horrible coating of OTT bloom and motion blur. It doesn’t look significantly better than some other 30fps racing titles which have been released recently. No question these are bullshots (who doesn’t do that for a racer these days), but as I said before, I doubt the reality will be too far from them.

Going to wait and see on this one, wasn’t hugely impressed with Forza 4. If I hadn’t of played the hell out of the Forza 3 I’m sure I would feel different about 4. Just felt too similar with new cars.