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Forza Motorsport 3 was one good looking game, but Turn 10 have upped the ante once again.
The major difference is the lighting. It is absolutely amazing, looks a lot more natural. HDR rendering is a lot better, especially when driving out of a tunnel, where we saw a weird dazzling effect in FM3, which looked kind of violet.
Thanks to a technique called image based lighting we also get amazing reflections, especially on cars. Shadows have been improved nicely, mostly inside the cars with the cockpit view selected. The dynamic shadow movement looks really good, as do the sun glares.
Car models looks fairly similar during races (but we have up to 16 cars on track this time), but they really shine in the menus, especially in the Autovista feature.
Photo mode has also been improved, and they have added a 3840x2160 resolution option, so taking photos will be a really a fun thing to do. We will probably see lots of artistic pictures from the community in the coming months.
This is mostly a graphics comparison, but you can see a difference in handling as well. Driving the Golf or the Renault 5 is more tricky in FM4, they do like to lose grip.
The handling in general has been greatly improved, it feels a lot more natural, but of course it is not an actual simulation, and it is not arcade either. I think it is the perfect thing in between.
Both games were captured at 1280x720, but I decided to put them together in a 1920x1080 frame with 1:1 pixel mapping. The clips were cropped by 12.5 % on the sides, but there was no scaling applied, that way you can see more details on a big screen.
The Forza 3 clips may seem a bit jerky sometimes, that is because I had to use time stretching to match the laps as closely as possible, which is very hard to do while driving, mostly because lap times in Forza 4 are significantly longer (between 5-10 seconds).
I have not yet checked what happens to the sound when time stretching a video, so I only included the game sound from Forza 4. I will test this next time I am doing a comparison of some sort.
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