I'm willing to buy the AA+AF would improve things argument completely but I'm not
quite sure adding them to the widescreen shots above would equal the GTR2 screenshot near the top of the page. As a regular Photoshop user believe me there's a whole raft of things you could do to a screenshot to improve it- improving colour depth, colour balance, richness, adding smoothness, removing engine glitches, adding depth of field, adding motion blur, adding supposed engine effects and so on.
At the end of the day, I'm looking forward to seeing what GTR2 has to offer and don't want to get negative on it mate- the proof is in the pudding and I'm happy to wait for that rubber pudding (with a petrol jui and carbon fibre coolee) and not go overboard on speculation! It's slightly odd to see the varying quality on offer in the preview shots doing the rounds and I'm always mindful of game companies faking things (Sonys' PS3 footage anyone?!) but Blimey
didn't do this with GTL, to their credit.
If it looks like GTL, has decent netcode and the weather stuff then I'll buy two copies