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Has technology of the car really come that far?
Just how far has the car industry come in recent years? From being a luxury way back in the 1930’s to the cheap affordable way you can buy them now using car contract hire it is amazing just how far they have come.
The knowledge of the games industry is the best way I can talk about the change in technology. With this I am going way back to the days of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I could cover the first ever racing game but seeing as I was only really around from the realease of the SNES it is best that I only cover the time after this. The first real driving game that I played was F1 pole position which was released in 1993 and at the time was an awsome game.
In the short space of four years see's the release of F1 pole position 64 on the Nintendo 64. It is amazing to see the difference between the two games. The cars went from being 2-D to being 3-D which is huge leap in technology. The graphics don't change enourmously until the latest generation of consoles, the Xbox 360 and PS3's graphics when it comes to driving games look almost realistic.V.
Of course this hasn’t just happened in the gaming world, many things have been tried and failed or been made into a huge success over the last few years. I think that the best invention to come to the car industry in many years has to be the invention of the Hybrid car. They save on a lot of energy which is going to be useful when all the oil runs out in the not too distant future and in all honesty some of them look pretty awesome. Some of the newer models of the Hybrid cars have system that powers the battery whenever you brake the car.
Some of the other technology in the car is fantastic such as the touchscreen's and the never to be forgotten tomtom system.
These Hybrid cars are no doubt the cars of the future but now, when buying a car you want it looking good as well s being affordable. Spend a lot less money on a leased car? The Audi contract hire looks pretty good as well as being as little as £214 a month.
Playing a game is perfect for choosing your new car
When playing the new Grand Turismo, I really do have to say how awsome the cars look compared to their reall counterparts. When playing these types of games i could really go for one of the top of the range cars that I am racing with. However, when you really think about it, are they affordable?
With car contract hire they can most certainly become available with as little as £214 a month. Before, when playing driving games I have never really found myself to be interested in cars at all but after playing some of the newer ones like Grand Turismo it is difficult not to see what people see in some of these fantastic cars. The graphics in games like this really are top notch. In ten years the industry for gaming has come so far enabling more funding for games such as Grand Turismo 5. I remember when I was playing Formula one on the N64 and I thought that was amazing and that was probably around about nine years ago now.
It is truly amazing to see how far the power of the graphics have come after loading up the new Grand Turismo. It is arguable that playabilty is better than graphics and to a certain extent this is true but you also can't argue with the awsome graphics that the new games have. It wasn't until recently whilst playing one of the graphically stunning looking games that I decided I could really do with one of these awsome looking cars.
Are these brilliant graphics put into the game for playabilty or just so you can really see how good these cars are? In short yes, numerous games get a lot of their funding from advertising in game! it is truly amazing how you can pick from so many different car names as well as choose the unique colour for you. In other words you can look at what car you fancy buying and the dream colour without even having to leave the safety of your living room. Fantastic!
As well as this, with hires like Audi contract hire for ridiculously small amounts of money a month, the cars you see in games can truly become your own.