Fantastic AI, great selection of cars and perfect difficulty.
User Rating: 9.9 | Forza Motorsport 2 X360
This is Gran Turismo for the 360. Having played both I can say I prefer this a lot more. The AI is fantastic on this, they will make mistakes if you start catching up on them. They will try there best to pass you, ducking down the inside or maybe giving you a little nudge. In one race, one opponent forced me onto the grass, the next lap I got him back. Definitely the best AI I have seen in a racing game. Try it on hard, turn off all driver aids (traction control, ABS, etc) and you get extra credits. This is simulation at its best. I tend to try all races on hard first then gradually lower few settings if I find it really difficult to win. Forza 2 is quite a bit shorter than Gran Turismo games (already 24% through since I got it about 1 a week ago). But in my opinion thats a good thing. GT3 had to many cars to collect and most of them were not great cars. I haven't seen one car I wouldn't want to drive in Forza 2. Plus you can smash them all up :). I have had a few spectacular crashes at high speed, seeing parts fall off and other cars go into you nearly makes you cry seeing your pride and joy get totaled. All the cars handle differently and behave unsettled at too higher speeds on corners. So you got to make sure you find the sweet spot for handling and speed on every corner. Great sounds from the cars, awesome music (which dials down as you enter a race, which is good as you don't want to listen to that as you changing gears. You will want to hear your opponents catching you up). Nice crash sounds and sound effects when bumping into other cars. Graphics are good, little puffs of smoke if you pull a drift or if spin out (which I have done once with a Corvette) leaves you in a cloud of smoke. Nice reflections and HDR. Using the photo mode you will notice the graphics more.
Upgrading cars is little different with the Performance index. I have yet to see a race where you are restricted to a certain class. So I don't see the point in it to be honest (maybe there will be some later on in the game or it is for online only?). Winning races will get you discounts towards some upgrades. I do have a few little problems with the game, when selecting a race and you already have a car that is eligible to race it doesn't seem to give you a option to view your other cars that can enter (well I not found the option to do that, PM me if you find it). If you are using a small TV like myself you might find all the options and menu's quite hard to navigate at first, or maybe thats just me. I not tried online as I don't have Xbox live and I'm only 24% through career so this isn't a comprehensive review. Not really looked into the painting and adding decal and all that on cars because I just think it is a waste of time. I rather be racing. My brother has had a few goes at it and he seems to spend hours customizing cars. So it seems pretty addictive. p.s. This is my first written review. Hope you find it useful. Also putting value as 10/10 as I got a discount on it. 
