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Midnight Club impresses with "100,000 polygons on cars"

Ben Kuchera :

"These cars are 100,000 polygons," I'm told at Rockstar's booth. "That's not how many polys you'll see in Maya, that is the actual, in-game count." The man helming the controller dutifully pans around the car to show it off. It is impressive looking, down to the detailed interior. We then put the camera inside the car. Welcome to Midnight Club: Los Angeles and,yes, there is a cockpit view. "This is my favorite way to play," the Rockstar rep tells me, beaming ear to ear."

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synetic - 852 days 17 hours ago

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so what gt5 have 200000 polygons but its better than PGR4 only have 90000 polygons

edit -> ops i said gt4 >__<

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i Shank u - 852 days 15 hours ago

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the likely reason this game and PGR 4s cars get dwarfed by GT 5's car poly count is midnight club and pgr have more detailed cities and environments that take up alot more polygons the GT 5; the reason is not because polyphony = god, like someone said. the city in midnight club looks sic as hell, rockstar is putting up some damn impressive grphx this generation of consoles

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power of Green - 852 days 11 hours ago

1.2 - With so many things going on!, on the surface of the vehicels is that needed?.

GT5 doesn't have water physics effects, frost physics effects, dirt physics effects on the paint jobs either, the environments lack all kinds of stuff aswell and still PGR4 comes out on top. lol

On topic I love this series the traffic in DUB Edition has me hooked on these games hope the same can be said about this one.

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Kaze88 - 852 days 17 hours ago

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That is pretty impressive.
GT5 uses about 200 000 polygons per car, which looks awesome too!

Edit --> Damm synetic you said that GT thing first T_T

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AngryHippo - 852 days 17 hours ago

3 - ummmm....

I don't think people understand the title, Midnight Club.....not Gran Turismo, and here we go with comparing games....again, jesus. I really like the midnght club games, such fun to play. This looks pretty impressive too.

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SofaKingReetodded - 851 days 19 hours ago

3.1 - what is it with people

that complain about every little thing people do around here??

did anyone ever think why it is that PS3 vs 360 threads get well over a 100 posts easy??

people thrive on conflict, LIVE WITH IT

same goes for the retards that have to announce to the world that they are diving for cover because they feel a "flame war" coming. It's not the german army invading ahole, it's a bunch of retards calling each other names on a message board. And you know what?? if console wars are the hop topic of the moment, then wtf are you to complain about it??

complainers = drama queens

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RussianSniper - 852 days 17 hours ago

4 - Well

We have the right to compare this to GT5's 200,000 polys considering Rockstar is trying to show off how good their car looks.

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AngryHippo - 852 days 17 hours ago

4.1 - ok....

....fair and decent response, have a bubble.

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i Shank u - 852 days 15 hours ago

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but you make a blind comparison, not taking into account environments and otherthings that are much more detailed in pgr and midnight club. i dont think polyphony has some magical - polygon unlocking key that other devs dont have; rather, they choose to balance their polygon use differently, and the results are the most stunning cars ever in a game.

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mr_steveo - 852 days 17 hours ago

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Synetic... pgr3 uses 94,000 per a car on average. No idea yet wot pg4 has progressed to?

But makes grand turismo seem even more impressive at 200,000 per a car, and runs at 60 frames per a second AND has 16 cars on track at once. Impressive is a understatement.

But the bling boys who buy this dont really give a golden sparkling necklace about this kinda info, as long as its got the bling appeal and the cars have big alloys. sorted for them :p

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resistance100 - 852 days 16 hours ago

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And now has damage aswell :D. Now it will have to be impressive damage, however its unlikey that Yamauchi will release anything less than what he calls perfect

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MK_Red - 852 days 17 hours ago

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This is RockStar's Midnight Club not some random racer, great post and great game.

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Danielson - 852 days 17 hours ago

7 - HuH?

why would they try and show of by saying they use 100,000 polygons when gt5 i using 200,000, not much to gloat about there, but either way there both impressive.

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junk56 - 852 days 16 hours ago

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lol GT5 has double that.

oh damn everybody said it already

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rareairtone - 852 days 16 hours ago

9 - But Midnight Club is a different game

While it is impressive what polyphony digital has done with GT5, it has a very controlled environment. Midnight club will have many civilian cars, crashes, its an open world game so it has to make the environments nice up close as opposed to GT where we will stay on the track. I guarantee that the trees GT uses save a lot of memory given how many tracks they are going to use.

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PS360WiiRocks - 852 days 16 hours ago

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Never knew this was Rockstar. But who cares if GT5 has more polygons, it's a first party exclusive, they almost always look better than multi-platform games. 100,000 is good and a progression in gaming, why are you complaining?

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Meus Renaissance - 852 days 16 hours ago

11 - No one can gloat about their racers

If they're not as good as GT Prologue. The bar has been set.

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MaximusPrime - 852 days 16 hours ago

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the midnight club game was pretty good on ps2. So i may get this game for PS3.

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Jamaicangmr - 852 days 16 hours ago

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Ok i love the GT series and am very impressed by GT5 but come on guys lets give Rockstar there just cause. Yes GT5 is more impressive but conciderin this is a mulitplatformer it's very impressive. Those numbers are higher than even the Xbox360 exclusives. So they have a reason to be proud. Lets not take that from them shall we...

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FordGTGuy - 852 days 16 hours ago

14 - As like with every other Gran Turismo

Alot of their promises are going to end up in the wind. So lets wait and see before we think anything is edged into stone.

Loving how people disagree with me yet its the truth. If you were to even follow GT from its beginnings you would know the unkept promises and delays.

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rushbd - 852 days 15 hours ago

15 - Comparing any game with GT5 is foolish

It's not a game man. It's LIFE. I cant believe how much dedication Mr. Kaz has. It's awesome. I mean can u imagine? 200000 polygons with 1080p at 60 FPS + damage ?? Unthinkable.

Comparison to such huge thing is not possible. It's like comparing someone to God.

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resistance100 - 852 days 15 hours ago

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Agree with you there, no matter what anyone says its an impressive feat to include damage aswell (which no one expected)

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Ortiz83 - 852 days 15 hours ago

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who's god...

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djt23 - 852 days 13 hours ago

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wowoowow that alor for racer

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Daz - 852 days 13 hours ago

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Gt has very good polys but it also got to think who is macking the cars, you can get decent cars out of 90.00 as in pgr. But more detail with higher polys what you properly wont take notice racing at 120 But nice to look at when buying a car.
But anyway midnight is a good series and i cant wait for this.

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power of Green - 852 days 11 hours ago

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LOL PR4 has so many effects that happen on the car your point is pointless. lol

I loved DUB: edition still my fav.

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cartman313 - 852 days 10 hours ago

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Sorry, but I gotta say it.

What do tampons and Honda's have in common?
- Every Pu$$y has one.

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gta_cb - 852 days 9 hours ago

20.2 - @ cartman313

nice comment dude, and i am watching South Park right now lol

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AIZEN SOZUKE - 852 days 4 hours ago

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GT5=realtime cg=best graphics ever

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Chriswsm - 851 days 21 hours ago

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I am not washing that car. 100,000 polys would take all day.

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