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You may have read on the Celsior
page about Toyota asking Sega to produce high quality car models. Sega or
CRI of Aero Dancing fame to be more exact took on the challenge. The end
results were that impressive that Toyota asked Sega to produce a disc for
each of their new cards that were to be released in 1999. These discs were
for show room display ONLY meaning that they were never for sale. This
Land Cruiser disc is one of the many discs that were made.
On this disc you can find videos of the history of the Land Cruiser plus
loads of other information relating to it. Some of the videos are very
interesting. The main part of interest though is the actual 3D polygon
model of the car. There must be more polygons packed in to this car than
anything else on the Dreamcast. You are able to view the car from any
possible angle in real time 3D as well as customizing it with extras, new
pain job, graphics and even a new interior. The idea is that with this
software you’ll be able to see exactly what your new car would look like
before you bought it. Once you have made all of your choices you’re able
to take you new car out on the road for a test drive. It’s just a shame
that this is a rolling demo and that you can’t actually drive it Still,
it’s a very impressive bit of polygon modeling. Easily the best to appear
on the Dreamcast and even better than anything I’ve seen on the Xbox, PS2
and Game Cube. And let’s not forget that this was made in 1999!!! I wonder
just what the Dreamcast would be capable of if it lived on in the main
stream instead of the cult machine it is now.
Below you can see some screen shots of the actual polygon models used on
this disc. I’m sure you’ll agree that they are very nice.
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