more detail =/= better, more detail could mean more things to look wrong. Like the pipes and lack of shadow in the internal parts really killed that pic for me. Sometimes less poly but a well done normal map and specular map could yield better result.
And I didn't say it looks like Forza as a compliment, I say it as a critique, That pic has one thing like forza, which is the unnaturalness of it. A lot of detail, quite accurate model but it doesn't look real, even older GT series or the one on PSP has always been able to look very real from a distance even if there isn't a lot of detail in the closeup, and should always look better than Forza, however in this one pic it fails.
I do have to disagree with the last part, Forza does looks better in action than in screenshots.
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The picture is very high res so you're going to be able to pick out things that you would never have seen otherwise. I can see jagged edges on the wing mirrors and around the lights that I would never have seen if it were in a normal sized screenshot. The carbon fibre texture looks fine when it isn't zoomed right into. I never said GT5 was going to be that perfect. Wow. The point of this is to show just how much attention to detail that PD put into the car, especially with the modelling. To be honest I think the way that the carbon fibre looks on the bonnet there in that pic is down to the shape of the bonnet. It looks fine in this pic of the same car but from the back - http://www.gtpla.net/wp-conten ... megapixel-shots-NEW-2.jpg
