Xbox 360 Project Gotham 4 : Bikes, Weather, DVD9
Keepn em honest here on 360Wire - something had to be said. Apparently, over at some other site, David Karraker from Sony took a stab at the 9Gig DVD format the Xbox360 uses for games. “We took a lot of heat at launch for including Blu-ray in PS3. Now it looks like that investment is being justified. At 50GB storage capacity, Blu-ray gives the PS3 plenty of headroom for developers to fully realize their visions well into the future.”
Ben from Bizarre Creations posted on their own forums:
“You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD.”
At first it sounds like cause for a Sony Fanboy BBQ, that is untill I dug a little deeper and found a clarification at bizarrecreations.com :
“DVD size is absolutely not a factor that we consider when designing our games… and PGR4 is no exception. DVD9 gives us more than we need to create a fabulous experience for you guys.” “We’ve never had to cut content to fit on the disc, and we probably never will.”
Now, if you haven’t been living under a rock the last few weeks, you’re probably aware PGR4 is going to include Motorcycles to help you rack up them kudos points. What I wasn’t aware of was that this iteration in the series will include 10 different weather effects on any given track. From a light rain setting to a lightning storm setting, looks as if DVD9 is kicking some serious Motorstorm tail. Snow or ice effects on the Nurburgring anyone?? Check the screens and the explanation here
Posted by Erick - August 1st, 2007 -