From Gaming Nexus:

Cyanide Studio is hard at work on their annual update of the Pro Cycling Manager – Tour de France series. The 2010 edition has a new graphics engine that allows for photorealistic textures, new lighting effects and bigger environments. Check out these new screens to see what the engine can do.

Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive are extremely pleased to reveal the very first images of Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France 2010. These images illustrate the incredible improvements added to this ever-more popular sports game series.

Benefiting from a new, more beautiful and more powerful graphics engine, Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France 2010 marks one of the most important steps since the launch of the series.
The hundreds of races are more beautiful and immersive than ever thanks to many new improvements added to the environments such as high-resolution photo-realistic textures, new handling of the flora (which is now lusher than before), reworked ambient lighting, gigantic environments, and more. The game offers an unprecedented experience to all cycling fans! […]

Check out the high quality screenshots on Gaming Nexus.

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Tags: Cyanide Studio, Focus Home Interactive, Pro Cycling Manager, screenshot, Tour de France