Pwngamer.com says: Racing season has begun again, well for the gamers anyhow. Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed is now available and we have been racing around like mad to bring you this review. It is not an easy market to delve into, especially when Gran Turismo 5 is currently dominating the genre and the much anticipated sequel to Forza has the lime light. Granted, it won't be due till probably 2012 at this stage, but today the podium position is Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed...
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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.
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definitely. Great game.
No because its not a sim
NEXT!!!
Yea, a terrific game, but please don't put racing sim in the same sentence as Shift II.
GT5 dominating the market? With a 84% overall average? LMAO!
all of the sim games out there are great, seriously. i havent tried shift2 yet, but from what my friends have told me is that gt5 still has the most advanced physics. im not gonna lie, to most gt5 is boring and to an extent, and that includes me.....until i plug in the racing wheel and go to town!!!
anyways i thing the need for speed series have done a great job bouncing back, but my favorite one is still UNDERGROUND 2. i wish they made another one like that. ohh well. gt5 may have gotten an 84% but no console game has better physic, you can add all sorts of thing, in the end you buy a racing game to race, everything else is lettuce and tomatoes.