Proper attention to detail would be to create a much more detailed model and make it gaming compatable. That's why all major game companies first make high poly models, bake a normal map from them than use a lower poly model in game, or at least bake a shaded texture istead of just trying to recreate everything in the game engine.
Because the end result will look better, and much more resource efficient than modelling every individual items and leave the dynamic shadow to work its heart out. (Which doesn't seem to be enabled in that pic btw)
Well it's clearly down to personal opinion so the discussion will never end in that case. I was certainly not disappointed with the way Prologue looked. That was one of the main things I was impressed with about it! You can assume that Kaz is talking crap but no one can say for certain until the full game is finally released. I trust that he will deliver a cracking good game, whatever it eventually contains. I'm not sure about him saying there will be full engine swaps. I have not read this anywhere, just that you will be able to "fully tune" every car. Kind of vague but nothing about engine swaps. Most of the people that interview him seem to mis-translate stuff on purpose sometimes just so that they can spread wild speculation. Kaz always seems to keep his cards close to his chest, so it's often difficult to get anything interesting out of him.
