Agnates said:

What started out (in perception at least) as a throwaway kids game now looks like a good action game. It's motionplus and Move right?

gamingeek said:

Don't agree with glamourising smoking.

Mikami is sick of making huge titles yet he's making Vanquish?

Maybe it's not such a huge game? It could only be two hours long.

gamingeek said:

Don't agree with glamourising smoking.

Mikami is sick of making huge titles yet he's making Vanquish?

Mikami is a heavy smoker so that is why.

He said God Hand did not sell so he needs to make a game that will sell well so that he can then do something he really wants to do. Like a noodle game.

angrymonkey said:

GG, bring your no more heroes love into reality -

Deadly!

I saw that on the news the other day. That's crazy.

"They are doing the reinvented-for-modern-times thing. Let's hope that is the right thing. " Ugh...isn't that the whole point of a remake???

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

Don't agree with glamourising smoking.

Mikami is sick of making huge titles yet he's making Vanquish?

Mikami is a heavy smoker so that is why.

He said God Hand did not sell so he needs to make a game that will sell well so that he can then do something he really wants to do. Like a noodle game.

This is why Japanese development has lost ground to the west. Lol

The first revelation in today's Gran Turismo 5 presentation was that, of the 1,000-plus cars featured in the game, only 200 or so will be what Yamauchi described as "premium" cars. Unlike the 800-plus "standard" cars, these will feature meticulously detailed interiors, and after collisions, their panels will be modeled in such a way that they can come apart and fully deform. The standard cars still look superb, but the level of detail just isn't the same. In fact, most of the standard cars have been taken from previous GT games and optimized for the PS3's graphics shader. For the record, even though standard cars can't be damaged in the same ways that premium models can, they'll still be susceptible to physics-based damage, dents, dirt, and scratches.

At one point during the presentation, while showing off close-ups of engines, wheels, and grilles that compared real photos to GT5 screenshots (almost impossible to distinguish between the two), Yamauchi conceded that his team has "actually gone too far in modeling some of this detail" and even went so far as to suggest that it might be "more suited to the next generation of PlayStation." The most impressive of these shots--even more impressive than the Audi wheels and ceramic brakes, or the Ferrari engine underneath a glass hood--was undoubtedly the one that showed the interior of a racecar, possibly a Nascar. The interior was absolutely packed with minute details, including a carbon fiber panel of switches and buttons, safety wires, and, of course, the driver's harness.

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Germany's Nurburgring is one of six previously unconfirmed tracks for GT5 being shown at this year's E3. The other five are Circuit de la Sarthe, Rome, Madrid, Tuscany, and the test track from BBC's Top Gear TV show. All of them are, predictably, incredibly detailed, and Yamauchi revealed that the city circuits of Madrid and Rome (the latter of which incorporates the incredible-looking Colosseum) each took two years to finish. The Tuscany track, on the other hand, will see you racing through a wide-open environment composed largely of fields. The most impressive track, though, was the Nurburgring, not only because it's so huge, but also because of the ridiculous amount of work that has gone into re-creating it. For example, when racing in a 24-hour event at the track (which you will have the option to do in real time), you'll not only get to see the day-night transition, but because it's such a long event, you'll notice that many of the spectators have tents or camper vans that aren't there during normal races. Polyphony Digital has photographed every inch of the famously graffiti-daubed track in order to make sure that it's as accurate and as up to date as possible in the game. Some of the offensive stuff has been removed, but if you've written something family-friendly on the track in the past year or two, there's a good chance it has made it into the game. And hey, you can even take a photo of it as proof.

The last big reveal of the session was that, in addition to the previously announced 3D support, Gran Turismo 5 will support head-tracking via the Sony Eye camera. Furthermore, it will do both simultaneously. To try to illustrate the effect of head-tracking, Yamauchi displayed an image that showed a car interior expanding far beyond the confines of a TV screen. He pointed out, though, that the only way to really understand how the head-tracking works is to experience it for yourself. So, as soon as the session finished, we ran to Sony's booth, grabbed a wristband that would grant us access to the media-only upstairs area, and did just that. We lucked out, in fact, because a moment before it was our turn, one of the two GT5 stations was being used to show off 3D while the other was using head-tracking. We were the first people to try out both simultaneously after watching the Sony reps set it up.

Getting the head-tracking working correctly, especially in a busy trade-show environment, appears to be something of an undertaking. There were a dozen or so different variables being changed with sliders onscreen as we waited, and while the camera was clearly able to recognize and track the movement of a player's head, the way the game and steering wheel were set up ultimately resulted in the camera being a bit closer to the player than it's ever likely to be in your living room. Regardless, with some exaggerated head movements, we were indeed able to look left and right from inside the cockpit of the Dodge Challenger that we'd opted to take for a spin around the new Rome street circuit. Unsurprisingly, particularly given that we were using a force-feedback steering wheel to play, the car handled very believably and, unsurprisingly, it took us a couple of corners (and a couple of spins/collisions) before we felt completely comfortable with it. The effect of the 3D was also quite impressive, and while it won't add to the game the same way that the head-tracking will, it's as good a reason as any to invest in 3D-capable hardware if you're still in need of a good excuse to do so.

robio said:

Stay away from the IGN "who won E3" video.  Completely pointless to watch.  No real strong opinions in it. Just each guy pulling for their own console and pretty much a waste of 5 minutes.

We should start a thread on GOTE3. -- All the individual publications.