Tommy Milner, who was one of the four drivers who helped propel Team Need for Speed to victory in January's Dubai 24 Hours race, recently took a spin around Laguna Seca in SHIFT 2 Unleashed behind the wheel of the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1. His navigation of the famous 'corkscrew' turn is nothing short of brilliant.
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I'm not impressed with much in terms of racing this gen. Graphics have been really raised racently, and it wasn't by the "two kings" (GT and Forza) in racing. Shift 2 and the upcoming Project Cars are now DOMINATING racing games graphically, GT5 and Forza 4/H do not even compare. But physics and gameplay-wise, most everything's been "off" aside from a select few. My short list would be.
#1 GT5. It's still rocking everybody in terms of gameplay and variety. It's got every kind of 4 wheeled racing almost from Karts to F1 and everything in between. GT needs to step it up graphically now though. Forza is the LEAST of their worries there.
#2 Motorstorm Pacific Rift. Just the #1 most fun and intense arcade/off-road racer ever made or ever will be made. SOOOOOO much variety compared to the bare bones (but great) first game, and a way better racing game than the 3rd game which was more like Split-Second than MotorStorm in THIS Motorstorm Fan's opinion.
#3 F1 Championship Edition. This PS3 exclusive launch game is imho still the best F1 game this gen in terms of the racing.
#4 FerrariChallenge/SuperCar Challenge. Alot of people havn't heard about these, they got VERY little attention. They sucked because not alot of cars, but it's a fact that System 3 put into these PS3 exclusives (they were on Wii too, but they weren't as advanced) the most advanced, realistic physics to ever be in a console racer. The same physics they put into their PC sim. Good graphics for the time too. Very under-rated.
#5 Shift 2. This is only here because I think graphically, it's a sneak peek at the next level in racing sim graphics. Project Cars is improving on that. But Shift 2 has HORRIBLE physics and I disliked playing it. If Project Cars can get the physics more in line than Shift 2, and have enough of a garage to have the variety in the racing while keeping the online field fairly even like GT5 does, it will truly be the next level of racing sims, and something may actually pull me away from GT5, which nothing has based on gameplay.
Also: WipeOut HD- awesome game, awesome value, it's expansion makes it an even better value, top notch quality.
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game seems ok.
Still not up to Gt5 standards.
Sounds great, sound about as good as GT5 (Unlike the trolls that wouldn't even know what GT5 is like).
Looks good, but to bad I don't care for any of the Shift games, plus 360 users don't seem to care about it anyways.
Give me Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and I'll be happy.
well I just ran the course to check the way the tracks look.
Boy does Shift 2 make GT5s laguna look empty as heck.
Also my maxed out 88 accord coupe *299hp* only ran the track at 1:40.510 with cold race *hard* tires.
a full 19 seconds slower then that vet.
Edit:
At peak grip *right before tires started smoking*
I ran a 1:37.993.
:D so that vet is pretty dang fast lol. >.> or my coupe is just very slow.
NFS S2? no way MEH!