Have you ever played NFS underground, Pro Street, Carbon, Collin mcrae Dirt,? Well, this is even better racing!
After playing a few titles of great racing games both on PC and Console I did negliate the Race game's for a while but this game did bring me right back on track.
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The story is very simple and thats a good thing, the action under racing is what the developers focused on when they built the game, and that's fine for me because that leave me to race more and less of the lame "racedriver save the world" action found in Juiced and NFS titles.
You are "nickname" and have one goal: to win all the championchip and race's you can, build your own crew and race!, don't forget to add sponsoring, this is a great way of get more money to spend on faster and diffrent cars to run more race.
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The graphic settings do not include a whole lot to take control of but it's more than enough to fine-trim your best opt. for your PC, and to give it a whirl you can pump the AA/AF up and get stunning quality.
This game is a really good looki'n game, and the detail of the texture and effects is nice. The crash scene's make me smile, a bumper hanging after a duell with the rival make the game look even more realistic, the cars and race maps are very attractive, good built in this game.
The sound is great, a V12 sounds like a V12, and a small turbocharged engine sounds just like they do, A fly by car sunds like they do.
When you race in a arena you can hear people cheer for you, and the rest of sound is just quality, your soundcard will shine in this game.
The performance is on a quite high level, this game need a fairy strong graphic card(GPU) to run fluid on higher resolutions with high detail settings.
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How do you make a racing game fun?
-You make the cars perform and handle diffrent, and the skill to drive diffrent type of cars should "obvious" be diffrent, this is somewhat the only weak link in the game, most cars handle the same on the track, even a stock mustang ain't so diffrent from a Bugatti Veyron, but their is a option to make the handling of the cars more accurate, set the driver assist to a diffrent setting. (you can descide how much they ahould aid the driver.)
One big feuture of this game is the abbility to re-wind and re-play the part where you messed up on the track. For an example: You are on Le mans 24h race and are on pos.1, you give to much gas in one curve and crash, re-wind (hit the re-play button) and play the curve again but with less gas, and still be on pos.1!
Ingame controls is just the way all this type of games are,(standard keyboard settings) I have not had the chance to run the game with a steering wheel, so I can't give an input on that yet.
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This game is highly addictive, and the vissual/sound is great.
If you, like me love racing and fast cars this is the right game to get your hands on. This game is better than many other recent racing game titles.
I rank this game as one of the better racing games up ot date!