Not that much improvement graphicswise if you ask me. Which is a good thing, because that hopefully means that they have concentrated on the gameplay.

Looks like an attempt at a likeness of the Manx Doughboy.

shocking

They're so vein.

The rider at the fore and in the background have a different facial model to that of the Cav one, maybe this means that you can now add new facial models for riders.

Something like the FIFA series, where you can add O edit files (nif like meshes) for individuals

This would be great, no more pasting faces over the existing model and hoping it somewhat looks realistic.

Quite an underwhelming first screenshot.

Though will be good to have community faces work properly again (if this indeed will make it so?)

Licensed teams? cofidis, sky.. is really good.

#7: well, they had Cofidis and Sky licensed last year as well so nothing really new.

the FDJ jersey looks correct as well, not sure they were licensed last year?

Yes. All French teams were licensed in PCM 11 (not coincidentally, I guess).

Oh great, they're using A.A. for this year's screenshot(s).
Maybe the riders lack a little fat or have taken too much Aicar though, they really look so "vein".

#9 & 10: The FDJ jersey was licensed, but the riders came up with names like "Geesdon" or "Offrodo".

I would like to see if they improve not only the riders but also the bikes, e.g. shifting animation!

Some team sponsors are wrong again :/ ( CCC, RadioShack-Nissan etc..)