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Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

Olly Greenfiel

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by Olly Greenfiel » Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:17:49

For those of you who are not PC only snobs, there were some awesome videos
of GT3 on Techtv's Extended Play TV program. The cars look great, and are
obviously high poly count models. The cars appear to move very realistically
, which gives me high hopes that they will have a good feel, especially with
the new force feedback wheels from logitech and others.
Anonymou

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by Anonymou » Sun, 15 Apr 2001 23:38:20

I played with a demo version at the Atlanta Auto Show.  It looked great but
played just like the original PS versions.  The AI drivers don't really have
a concept of where you are on the track.  They'll bump you from behind, bump
you from the side and generally just make a nuisance of themselves.  You
neither lose speed or accumulate damage so it doesn't really affect the
outcome of the race, but Polyphony is touting superior AI in GT3 so it's
dissapointing.

The movies I've seen on the web and on Extended Play have looked better than
what I saw at the auto show, so there is hope.  Maybe they've made great
strides with the AI.  But I will say this... I've never seen a japanese
racing game/sim that has any sort of intelligence to the computer controlled
cars.  I just don't think they give a damn about AI.


andre

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by andre » Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:39:05

Ah, but you're forgetting about Super Slalom Back Story VIII: Tomisha Driver
Speed Relay!

When you are in the Golden Shout Super! stage, the AI would react very
realistically, sometimes throwing in a SUPER TURBO KICK TIME!!!!! when you were
right in the middle of a race. Now *that* was realism.


> I've never seen a japanese
> racing game/sim that has any sort of intelligence to the computer controlled
> cars.  I just don't think they give a damn about AI.

Mike Crai

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by Mike Crai » Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:50:48

Don't you mean a PS2 AND an XBox?


> I saw it and like you, I was blown away. It looked amazing. The car
> models are PERFECT. They also said that the engine sounds were sampled
> from the actual cars. If the final product looks like that and sounds
> as good as they say, I'll have to buy a PS2 instead of an Xbox.

> Todd Walker
> twalker at jam dot rr dot com
> http://twalker.d2g.com

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:17:49 GMT, "Olly Greenfield"

> >For those of you who are not PC only snobs, there were some awesome videos
> >of GT3 on Techtv's Extended Play TV program. The cars look great, and are
> >obviously high poly count models. The cars appear to move very realistically
> >, which gives me high hopes that they will have a good feel, especially with
> >the new force feedback wheels from logitech and others.

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Mike Crai

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by Mike Crai » Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:49:15

Extended Play also claimed the polygon count for the cars is approx. 10 times
what it was in GT2. Weather enhancements and a very cool semi-transarent
"dashboard" also look promising.


> For those of you who are not PC only snobs, there were some awesome videos
> of GT3 on Techtv's Extended Play TV program. The cars look great, and are
> obviously high poly count models. The cars appear to move very realistically
> , which gives me high hopes that they will have a good feel, especially with
> the new force feedback wheels from logitech and others.

  michael.craig.vcf
< 1K Download
Sjoerd de Roes

Anyone see Gran Tourismo 3 on Extended play, Awesome !!

by Sjoerd de Roes » Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:20:32


GT2 was a psx game.
10 times the car polygons isn't that much.


> > For those of you who are not PC only snobs, there were some awesome
videos
> > of GT3 on Techtv's Extended Play TV program. The cars look great, and
are
> > obviously high poly count models. The cars appear to move very
realistically
> > , which gives me high hopes that they will have a good feel, especially
with
> > the new force feedback wheels from logitech and others.


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