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| Shift 2 Unleashed Interview with Andy Tudor |
Monday, 28.02.2011 |
 At the Gamersblog Live Event the Guardian sat down with lead designer Andy Tudor and made an interesting interview about the upcoming Shift 2 Unleashed.
Excerpt:
What level of detail do you have to go into to make a modern racing game realistic?
Starting from scratch, with the cars in the game, we get the CAD data from the manufacturers. We have great relationships with the manufacturers, and they want to be in our game. Of course, we want them just as much, to showcase these amazing cars that most of us can't afford to buy. They give us all their assets, and when you look at those amazing cars, there's craftsmanship in terms of the technical side of things – how fast they go, their acceleration and so on – and then the aesthetic side. So the craftsmanship that they put into the real cars, we try to recreate as accurately as possible, in 3D as well. And it's the same with the tracks. We try to get as many tracks in as possible, and to get them mathematically correct, but we also take the guys out to track days, so they can drive the tracks themselves. Because what you find is that what looks correct on a Google Earth map doesn't necessarily give you the same sensation when you drive it. You find yourself thinking things like: "Oh my God, that's way steeper than I thought it would have been, or than the mathematical height elevation tells me it is."
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How do you reckon Shift 2: Unleashed stacks up against Gran Turismo 5?
I've gone on record before saying GT5 and Forza are on pedestals at the moment: everyone believes they are the games to beat. They are great products, but they stop at being a numbers game, a mathematical simulation of great physics, whereas we go beyond that with the emotional and social aspects. This has happened previously in games, when FIFA was trying to keep up with Pro Evolution Soccer and Dante's Inferno with God Of War: it's the same kind of sparring we have with our competitors. We'll see where we go, but we're in it for the long haul.
You can find the interview - partly as video, partly as text - here:
 Shift 2 Unleashed Interview with Andy Tudor
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