Bloody Hardcore advanced simulator for the hardcore simulator fans ONLY.
First up, let's make no mistake - it is a brilliant achievement for a racing car game. If your system has the balls, and I mean two of them (dual core) and you're video card is nice and fat (7600 and up) then the graphics and framerates are going to hit 75 plus at full pelt.
Surround sound didn't work for me but then again that's just probably something to do with my system coz it works for half the games anyway. But even in stereo, your pants will fill with excessive amounts of liquids when you hear these engines roar.
The best thing about GTR 2 is the supurb amount of customization options that you have for adjusting the realism of the physics. This will annoy some of you because you really need to spend the time here to make it worth your while. Once you nail these settings, then you will know what the meaning of true racing mayhem is. This is as real as it gets. Make no mistakes here, this is also the most advanced racing simulator I have ever seen. I am totally losing every race and crashing almost every lap. I am using a logitech gamepad to play as well and it's not too bad once you tweak the controls well.
If you want to use keyboard, then don't bother playing this game at all. It is an absurd idea. This really needs a steering wheel and pedals to truly capture and present the best gameplay. I will continue to play GTR2 because I haven't seen anything this good.. EVER.
Ignore all reviews that say the graphics are bad and there's bugs etc.. this is just not true. For all of you that experience this typical whining phenomena, then you should all buy the game instead of downloading the pirated versions. It's all the junk of piracy in your registry that is probably ruining all of your gaming experience anyway.
GTR 2 is cheap now, I picked it up for 40 bucks at EB games sale. Put Need for Speed underground down and play a real racing car game.
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