What's with Gran Turismo (and other games as well) and bullshots?

Seriously now?  Why is it that Gran Turismo only looks super amazing in these pictures and great everywhere else (same with forza 3 it seems). PGR looks great in gameplay, bad screenshots.

Anyway, want to know just how fake their bullshots are?  Take a look at Gran Turismo 5, I mean PSP.





No, just no.  You do not look like that.

So please, I beg, only post gameplay screens when talking about graphics, because oh too often the game look nothing like these screens.

This phenomina is not unique to GT or Forza by any means, every screensot that is ever put out by a PR machine has been through photoshop for at least a basic touch up, some spend longer than others and obviously a lot of videos/shots are pre-renders.

It's been being done since forever, what suddenly makes it so hard to swallow now? Seriously, it's called being media smart.

every1 does this i mean gt psp will be a good game but wont look that great so why would they bring out bad looking screens first.  They just use these to get the common person interested in the game

It's because the screenshots are rendered at a high resolution with all the fancy lighting effects, post processing and anti-aliasing turned on. They probably are the actual models from the game (notice the blurry road textures in the second pic), just tarted up a bit.

For example: if you have a screenshot from Forza Motorsport 2 at 1280x720, it'll usually look like crap. However, resize it to say, 500x280, and it looks almost real.

I really doubt those are supposed to be PSP screens, I've seen GT PSP media screenshots and they actaully look worse than the game does in motion (thanks to 60 fps etc). They don't even have the HUD area which makes the screen size smaller and helps it keep that frame rate.

And yeah, what Drain said.

THAT is from GT PSP?

I think it's because the screen shots are taken from replays with anti aliasing, more detailed lighting and stuff like that, even when you're viewing a car in garage mode it doesn't necessarily represent the in game quality of the graphics.

"I think it's because the screen shots are taken from replays with anti aliasing, more detailed lighting and stuff like that, even when you're viewing a car in garage mode it doesn't necessarily represent the in game quality of the graphics."

I'll just post the obligatory "post game specific topics in game specific forums" post and be on my way. 

"I'll just post the obligatory "post game specific topics in game specific forums" post and be on my way.  "

"@SmugDarkLoser said:

" @AgentJ said:

"I'll just post the obligatory "post game specific topics in game specific forums" post and be on my way.  "

Well it's regarding bullshits/mock ups in general.  It's not really about Gran Turismo.I say my obligatory "read thread before commenting" "

Seems pretty clear to me that the entire conversation has been about Gran Turismo PSP, and you are prone to making game specific threads in General Discussion, so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to be thinking.  "

I see where agent is coming from but I agree with smug, the thread is more about bullshots in general. To be fair the format of the op is somewhat vague.

For the most part, I think racing games take a lot of liberties with their media. Every developer wants to brag that their cars look the shiniest, this and that. When I watched the E3 trailer of GTPSP in action I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I thought the visuals were too good to be true there. Alas, I have not read any blogs or previews from anyone that went to play GTPSP. So were going to have to wait to find out.