Gran Turismo 7 vs Forza Motorsport - The Duel - Digital Foundry Graphics Breakdown
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Published 2023-12-13
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00:00 - Introduction
02:47 - What You Can Expect From This Comparison
04:38 - Circuit de Spa - First Drive
08:11 - Interior Comparison While Driving
10:21 - Toyota GR Supra Comparison
13:24 - Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Comparison
15:21 - Circuit de Spa Side by Side
20:16 - Google Earth vs Forza vs GT7 on Spa
24:21 - Spa at Night
27:49 - In-Game Timelapse on Spa
29:24 - Watkins Glen - First Drive
32:00 - Mazda MX-5 Interior Comparison: The Revenge
33:09 - BMW E46 M3 Gameplay Comparison
35:24 - BMW M3 Close-ups
37:29 - Real Hot Lap Around The Glen vs Forza + GT7
40:10 - Car Damage Model Comparison
41:57 - Why Does the AI Always Crash Into You?!
42:50 - Driving in the Dirt - Particle Comparison
44:01 - Materials Testing - Chrome Cars
46:21 - Materials Testing - Matte Cars
47:05 - Laguna Seca - First Drive
48:25 - Google Earth vs Forza vs GT7 on Laguna Seca
52:04 - Rain Comparison on Nürburgring GP Track
56:31 - Frame-rate Options
58:44 - NAME THAT GAME
1:00:34 - User Interface and Campaign Discussion
1:05:27 - The Wrap-up
All Comments (21)
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Most people probably don't understand the amount of work that goes into videos like these. Thank you for the quality work DF 🙏
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I'm blown away by how accurate the treelines are in GT. It's something most people will never notice until they see a side-by-side comparison like this but it shows how much care and attention went into recreating these tracks.
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GT7 is a true love letter to racing. The menus, the soundtrack - its all creates an amazing space to learn about and engage in motorsports
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This transcends far beyond a 'graphical breakdown', and is what it looks like when someone is in love with what they do, up to, and including complete mastery of it. Bravo John.
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As an astronomer I am delighted by how realistic GT7s night sky represents the stars and contellations. It's not 100% but the main contellations are there and star maginitudes are represented very well indeed. It warms my heart when games based on Earth have an accurate night sky for me to look at and enjoy.
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Huge respect for this video, can't imagine the hours put in. Also mega props for platforming a few of the issues with the newest Forza Motorsport, to have it come from such a respected publication when big reviewers just glossed over them is refreshing and very helpful overall. I hope we see a GT Sport to GT7 style glow up to the game in the future.
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This video is an incredible effort. GT7 has been one of the best games of the entire generation for me. The love put into this game...hardly seen on any other.
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So much love for racing was poured into this incredible racing sim that is GT7. Poliphony really did an awesome job here.
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Just a small note on crowd movement. While it's more engaging to see them waving and whatnot, at actual races people really aren't fanatically waving like at a football game.
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Another detail I hoped you noticed are the full colour LED screens around the track in GT7, if you go close and zoom in you'll see that the pixels are individually and realistically rendered, to the point that you can see the RGB channels the same way you would if you put a magnifying glass in front of a real screen.
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23:54 Forza spelt Welcome wrong
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Just got GT7 based on this video - for £30 too! I thought that Forza looked brilliant on Xbox series x but am blown away by GT7 gfx. Great job Mr Linneman.
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Kazunori Yamauchi and his team are really talented. And to think GT7 was a cross gen game. GT8 will be glorious.
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Both games are stunning but after this video I can only have much more appreciation for Polyphony's eye for detail. The likeness to the real world counterparts are insane.
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Johns the top guy. Always knows what he's talking about. GT7 developers attention to detail is unmatched in the industry. I believe there is a video somewhere where they talk about how they invested a lot of money into high tech cameras to capture paint.
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How is it possible that no game ever topped or even matched the awesome rain effects of Drive Club on PS4?
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The attention to detail regarding the treelines in GT7 isn't just impressive, but utterly bizarre! It's insane how they choose to model all these different trees in pursuit of accuracy.
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gt7 + psvr2 is so damn immersive. i constantly am in awe of the vehicles as i pass by
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I will be forever in awe of the magic displayed by the wizards at Polyphony Digital. The whole driving experince they deliver is a unique crossover between art and design and technolgy. Masterful. Also Huge fan of the musc selection aswell. Love the Chris Hülsbeck track and also DMC5!
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55:40 "Though for this particular effect my heart is still with Driveclub" - exactly what I was thinking! An outstanding comparison you've done here, just incredible. (as always) - DF is the David Attenborough nature documentary of gaming.
