The discussion of how far along Turn 10 is when it comes to Forza Motorsport came up in another thread (The Initiative partnering with CD) and I responded there but it’s completely off topic so I’ll post it here as it’s more relevant. And I figure people will be interested in what Turn10 js up to.
No think of it as a CG trailer but instead they used realtime assets. I don’t think we heard any car sound effects in that. We probably didn’t see any real-time physics at play. It’s just a corner of a section with some assets placed in there and some lighting. That’s my guess.
I want to try to find the GDC talk for you because you’ll see how they progress on their graphics and they cover their production pipeline… Watch for an edit here with the link…
What I like is that they cover a lot of the mistakes they’ve made from 1 to 7 did a lot of people pointed out over the last many years (stuff that games like Driveclub and Gran Turismo have done so well), so give me a lot of hope in terms of the next one looking pretty realistic.