Bizarre Creations have released another impressive screenshot from their development of Project Gotham Racing 3, this time showing one of their attempts to test the limits of the Xbox 360.
The company were testing the crowd-rendering system of PGR3 and decided (as you do) to really push the limits of the Xbox 360 hardware by including 35,000 spectators standing on one of the corners. In the end they failed in their attempt to break the 360; the console handled the massive crowd without any slowdown while running at the game's normal framerate:
The most remarkable thing to me was that this was all running at the game's normal frame rate. Not a bit of slowdown. It takes a while for our expectations to adjust to the "next generation" of video games, but I suppose things like this are what we will be seeing from now on... (!)
Seeing all of these virtual spectators shuffling around and waving their arms is a memorable sight. In the newer builds of the game some of the crowd have cameras, and if they're a few rows back you can see them holding it above their head before taking the photo. They've even got a flash! Remember all of these guys, gals, and even children are motion captured for extra realism.
Wow, that's a LOT of spectators... via The Console Wars
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