So i just revisited forza 2...

my God.

This game

is so

very

intense!

Picture the scene - It's a 5 lap of silverstone grand prix and i am in my F355 challenge:

3..

2...

1...

GO!!

It's been a while. I slam down the accelerator (its mid-rear drive) and the rear wheels squeal and buckle in protest. Panicky, i quickly ease off and give my car a chance to "get a grip", and shifting up to 2nd i soar ahead of the rest thanks to a neat little weight reduction upgrade. But the relief is short lived - he first bend is coming up. Taking a wild guess i ease off the throttle and power in at 110, Turning the wheel right round and feeling the back wheels struggle to keep a grip. I miss the grass on the outside by a milimetre and heart in mouth i wham down the throttle yet again.

Right after that is my least favourite bend in the whole game- right angled that gets sharper as you go along. I play it safe and watch with dismay as the F40 whizzes past me, laughing at my caution. So i decide to knock it up a notch (BAM!) and at the next turn, i hit the handbrake and skid all along the sweeping hairpin, clinging on to the wheel so hard it hurts and revving with mega caution. By some miracle i don't spin out.

I'm feeling great. So great that i forget completely about braking for the next bend. I push down on the brakes with all my might and, shifting down frantically, come to almost a complete standstill. It's a disaster, however the day is saved and thanks to some miracle AI intervention the F40 is still behind me. Feeling relieved i get it together and power down the straight and completely ace the last 2 hairpins, coming up incredibly fast and braking for dear life to hit the apex and go out again at an amazing speed. I soar onward and complete the first lap.

But it's not over yet........

Epic.

For the record all this transpired on champion difficulty - Simulation damage, no assists (including teh nubzor ABS), AI on hard, and most galling of all, no racing line. With the force feedback wheel it is one hell of an experience.

In fact i would go so far as to call it the king of all racers

so Get playing this game, all of you!

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Best racing ever imo. The only "problem" is the lack of interior camera view. After playing PGR3 i just cant play using the outside one!!! Just hope they include it on Forza3.

I didn't really like it, but maybe that is because I don't really like racing games.

Best racing ever imo. The only "problem" is the lack of interior camera view. After playing PGR3 i just cant play using the outside one!!! Just hope they include it on Forza3.

PAL360

Horrible art style. Hope it's changed for F3 or I'm not touching it. btw I thought forza was better than forza 2. TechGuru89

Overrated game. terrible graphics, broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

GT5 is the king of racing games

Best racing ever imo. The only "problem" is the lack of interior camera view. After playing PGR3 i just cant play using the outside one!!! Just hope they include it on Forza3.

PAL360

yea this is the only problem i had with forza 2.

gran turismo is Overrated game broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

forza is the king of racing games

Best racer ever, Mario Kart 64 doesn't count.clembo1990

Overrated game. terrible graphics, broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

GT5 is the king of racing games

LunchBox-

I just revisted it yestarday, and it's painfully obvious I suck at art. Seriously, I just stuck some lightning on a black car and that was me....

Started a new game, which meant deleting the old one (I've done this a couple of times, can they not just put a new game option in?). Still remember everything from my last play through.

Overrated game. terrible graphics, broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

GT5 is the king of racing games

LunchBox-

since Burnout Parsdise, I have absolutely no inclination to play any other driving gamePOJO_MOFO

[QUOTE="LunchBox-"]

Overrated game. terrible graphics, broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

GT5 is the king of racing games

doobie1975

:lol: I don't understand broken controls either, what's wrong with them. Then there is the GT AI... :lol:.

My only problem with the game is a lack of courses, you end up playing the same courses over and over about 50 times per course during the main game.

[QUOTE="LunchBox-"]

Overrated game. terrible graphics, broken controls, horrible AI and track design.

GT5 is the king of racing games

doobie1975

The game is awesome, but I haven't played it in awhile. Like you, I will have to revisit it when I have time. Can't wait for Forza 3. Hope it comes out this year.

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

PurpleHaze89

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

LunchBox-

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

my God.

This game

is so

very

intense!

Picture the scene - It's a 5 lap of silverstone grand prix and i am in my F355 challenge:

3..

2...

1...

GO!!

It's been a while. I slam down the accelerator (its mid-rear drive) and the rear wheels squeal and buckle in protest. Panicky, i quickly ease off and give my car a chance to "get a grip", and shifting up to 2nd i soar ahead of the rest thanks to a neat little weight reduction upgrade. But the relief is short lived - he first bend is coming up. Taking a wild guess i ease off the throttle and power in at 110, Turning the wheel right round and feeling the back wheels struggle to keep a grip. I miss the grass on the outside by a milimetre and heart in mouth i wham down the throttle yet again.

Right after that is my least favourite bend in the whole game- right angled that gets sharper as you go along. I play it safe and watch with dismay as the F40 whizzes past me, laughing at my caution. So i decide to knock it up a notch (BAM!) and at the next turn, i hit the handbrake and skid all along the sweeping hairpin, clinging on to the wheel so hard it hurts and revving with mega caution. By some miracle i don't spin out.

I'm feeling great. So great that i forget completely about braking for the next bend. I push down on the brakes with all my might and, shifting down frantically, come to almost a complete standstill. It's a disaster, however the day is saved and thanks to some miracle AI intervention the F40 is still behind me. Feeling relieved i get it together and power down the straight and completely ace the last 2 hairpins, coming up incredibly fast and braking for dear life to hit the apex and go out again at an amazing speed. I soar onward and complete the first lap.

But it's not over yet........

Epic.

For the record all this transpired on champion difficulty - Simulation damage, no assists (including teh nubzor ABS), AI on hard, and most galling of all, no racing line. With the force feedback wheel it is one hell of an experience.

In fact i would go so far as to call it the king of all racers

so Get playing this game, all of you!

ORIGINAL POSTING WITH PICS HERE

pi3m4ster

Agree 100%...

My favorite is "The ring" endurance race...it took me hours to get a proper car set up for that race...And you just cant put into words how intense and immersing the game is...ONE mistake and your done......you will have to start all over.....When the challenge is about an hour long it means something...

Let me say that again "it means something"..There are no you can bounce off other cars or walls without consequences ...Cant drive like a d-bag....You need to nail your "Standing" start...Have a tested and efficient car set up...Understand the effects of the set up on endurance races so you can have a spot on Pit Strategy....all doing this without assists.....Sim damage ....There is nothing else like it on consoles...

I wish fan boys would get it though there head Grafx is not the way of immersion for this genre....Immersion is quite simply what I stated above...

Forza is a great game. However, it desperately lacks fun factor. It's inredibly realistic and offers true form driving but when the graphics are mediocre and there is no sense of speed then it just isn't appealing after a few races.

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

LunchBox-

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

well, it's better than DiRT...

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]

my God.

This game

is so

very

intense!

Picture the scene - It's a 5 lap of silverstone grand prix and i am in my F355 challenge:

3..

2...

1...

GO!!

It's been a while. I slam down the accelerator (its mid-rear drive) and the rear wheels squeal and buckle in protest. Panicky, i quickly ease off and give my car a chance to "get a grip", and shifting up to 2nd i soar ahead of the rest thanks to a neat little weight reduction upgrade. But the relief is short lived - he first bend is coming up. Taking a wild guess i ease off the throttle and power in at 110, Turning the wheel right round and feeling the back wheels struggle to keep a grip. I miss the grass on the outside by a milimetre and heart in mouth i wham down the throttle yet again.

Right after that is my least favourite bend in the whole game- right angled that gets sharper as you go along. I play it safe and watch with dismay as the F40 whizzes past me, laughing at my caution. So i decide to knock it up a notch (BAM!) and at the next turn, i hit the handbrake and skid all along the sweeping hairpin, clinging on to the wheel so hard it hurts and revving with mega caution. By some miracle i don't spin out.

I'm feeling great. So great that i forget completely about braking for the next bend. I push down on the brakes with all my might and, shifting down frantically, come to almost a complete standstill. It's a disaster, however the day is saved and thanks to some miracle AI intervention the F40 is still behind me. Feeling relieved i get it together and power down the straight and completely ace the last 2 hairpins, coming up incredibly fast and braking for dear life to hit the apex and go out again at an amazing speed. I soar onward and complete the first lap.

But it's not over yet........

Epic.

For the record all this transpired on champion difficulty - Simulation damage, no assists (including teh nubzor ABS), AI on hard, and most galling of all, no racing line. With the force feedback wheel it is one hell of an experience.

In fact i would go so far as to call it the king of all racers

so Get playing this game, all of you!

ORIGINAL POSTING WITH PICS HERE

masiisam

Agree 100%...

My favorite is "The ring" endurance race...it took me hours to get a proper car set up for that race...And you just cant put into words how intense and immersing the game is...ONE mistake and your done......you will have to start all over.....When the challenge is about an hour long it means something...

Let me say that again "it means something"..There are no you can bounce off other cars or walls without consequences ...Cant drive like a d-bag....You need to nail your "Standing" start...Have a tested and efficient car set up...Understand the effects of the set up on endurance races so you can have a spot on Pit Strategy....all doing this without assists.....Sim damage ....There is nothing else like it on consoles...

I wish fan boys would get it though there head Grafx is not the way of immersion for this genre....Immersion is quite simply what I stated above...

Oh yeah.. endurance races are so intense despite being incredibly long. The S-****mugello one is probably one of the most hardcore things i have ever done. No racing line or assists.pi3m4ster

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]Oh yeah.. endurance races are so intense despite being incredibly long. The S-****mugello one is probably one of the most hardcore things i have ever done. No racing line or assists.DJ_Lae

It is good, though Id like the next to look more realistic.

What i love doing is getting a cheap car, and just upgrading the angine, nothing else. I do everything to make it faster.

So I go incredibly fast in my small car, easily overtaking the expensive cars, then at the bends everything fails, you dont really turn and in the end you get an extremely quick car with no steering. Then you go for all the other cars :D

sadly i dont have a 360 sooo im waiting for GT5 but i might as well get a 360 and F3 because i dont see GT5 commin any time soon

I played it the other day and I have no idea how I ever liked that game.. graphics, sound, controls I just 100% hate that game now.

I played it the other day and I have no idea how I ever liked that game.. graphics, sound, controls I just 100% hate that game now.

Darkslayer16

[QUOTE="Darkslayer16"]

I played it the other day and I have no idea how I ever liked that game.. graphics, sound, controls I just 100% hate that game now.

pi3m4ster

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better gameLunchBox-

My favorite is "The ring" endurance race...it took me hours to get a proper car set up for that race...And you just cant put into words how intense and immersing the game is...ONE mistake and your done......you will have to start all over.....When the challenge is about an hour long it means something...masiisam

Oh yeah.. endurance races are so intense despite being incredibly long. The S-****mugello one is probably one of the most hardcore things i have ever done. No racing line or assists.pi3m4ster

I liked it from the demo, I usually don't like racing games. Might buy it later.

Horrible art style. Hope it's changed for F3 or I'm not touching it. btw I thought forza was better than forza 2. TechGuru89

[QUOTE="LunchBox-"]

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

PurpleHaze89

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

Yup, Forza is the best racer on the track. It's the sim king in SW's. :)

[QUOTE="PurpleHaze89"]

I've been thinking of picking this up for a long time now since i don't have a good "next gen" racer yet. But i'm not sure if i should wait for the sequel =/

LunchBox-

save your money. Get GT5 pro, Much better game

Awesome game, fun to race with your friends late night