Caparo T1 is ridiculous.
Just picked it up today already played an hour or two unlocked a bunch of achievements and am really enjoying it
I'm bored of the game now.....I haven't beat it yet but all iw ant is the nurburgring and don't feel like playing the remaining 4 hours to get it..... Aswell, online is boring, faster then anyone else i've run into by a large margin. If Xboxlive would get the match play set-up i'd have something to keep me excited for a while.... BTW, out of curiosity am i right that you have to make it to europe in hotshot to unlock the N-ring? If not how do you get it? EDIT: if anyone wants to play send me a message. Gamertag= theSt1gg
wait till you see it full-screen on an HDTV. btw, I just hooked up the steering wheel this week with the new wheel stand.. works great! still haven't been able to play online though.. nothing happens in the lobby... A couple of good things since my initial review: * I've figured out that you can pre-buy your car packs or buy them as needed before a race * I've figured out that the Arcade mode is just preset race events, and that there's a different mode for custom races * I've found the Custom Races area where you can select any car, track and condition But.. * I still don't see a Gotham TV option.. was this taken out? * I still can't connect to an online game.. what gives? * In the garage, I can swap out cars, but where did those cars come from? And what do I do with them? I can't seem to pick up a car in a garage and race it.. ~shahedc . ~shahedc .
PGR on Demand is new the Gotham TV. Haven't really tried to find it though. The 4 Garages are just kind of there to be there. I wished they had kept those like PGR3.
Here my $ 0.02: + graphics are great + in car view is awesome, even the sound is muffled 0 car control is not as realistic as in Forza2 - most user unfriendly interface - horrible sound - doesn't fully support 16:9 HDTV: what fit perfectly in Forza2 is now cut off all around It is better than PGR3, but a far cry from PGR2. This franchise is going downhill. Forza2 is better.
I didn't change a thing between Forza2 and PGR4 yet the text you see at the beginning of a race (the one probably telling you to click on start) is cut off on my display.
Both Forza2 and PGR4 look fine for me... perhaps something with your "rig"? What are you running for an A/V setup?
That big grey monster plug in the back of xBox360 with the RGB cables going into the HDTV. Switch set to HDTV, not TV. It is not a big deal. I think when all is said and done, the bottom line of whether I'll play this game or it becomes a dust collector lies with the feedback of the cars. At my beginner's level I have only driven the Lancia HF and it feels like a boat. But then again this is a car from the seventies/eighties, so I'm still hopeful by the time I'm getting to the Enzo the feel will be better. Still Forza2 gives a lot more and better feedback through the wheel. And that is already a slight step down from GT4 on PS3.
That's how I've got mine set up... runnin RGB cables to my receiver then out to my HD projector... odd that it's giving you a problem. go to Custom Match and take the Enzo, or whatever out, it's good stuff... not a real-world as FM2, but not quite as arcade as PG3 - IMHO. Granted, I'm playing with the controller, not the wheel... On a wheel related note, I got a letter from Microsoft saying they were going to send be a box and pre-paid label to ship the wheel back to them and I'd get a new/retrofitted one back in 2-4 weeks. If I used the wheel, I'd be pissed. Anyone else get the letter?
c'mon people.. let's see some photos of your setup!! this is slowly turning into a Hard Forum wannabe.. LOL But anyone going to be online tonight? I would love to play online--just got the game..
I should be on after 8pm central... you want to see photos of the game, or you want to see photos of my 106" screen? gamer tag is: nopassn
Ok, I tried that: Actually picked the Zonda for a ride through town. The Zonda is beautifully replicated in Forza2, you can feel the car slide and move and take it sideways through turns, it is incredibly well balanced and you can feel all that. In PGR4 you feel nothing. Once in a while it starts to slip and you hear a bit of a chirp, but no idea what the car does. Bottom line is, that the physics model in PGR4 is very poor. This is an arcade game, not a racing simulation. Too bad, but I'm done playing this. A waste of time.
I think it's all a matter of what you're looking for. I put PGR4 at the top of the heap of games like Burnout, Test Drive and Need for Speed. It is an arcade game...I don't think it was ever meant to be anything but that. It's very well polished, has great rendering of cities, and controls much smoother than any of the other series mentioned. I'd say it's more 'art' than 'engineering'. It blows away Test Drive and NFS on the XBOX 360. Not even close. Forza2 and Gran Turismo are for hardcore gear-heads. You have to do your homework to make your car competitive, and you have to actually understand driving strategy. With the amount of depth the game allocates to car set up, it's not acceptable that you wouldn't be able to 'feel' the differences through an FFB wheel. I wouldn't say PGR4 is a bad game...actually I think it's a GREAT game for what it is. That is, a well-rendered tour de force involving dream cars in real world cities (complete with details like banners in stores, billboards, pedestrians cheering, etc). It looks outstanding, and the cars look great and drive better than similar types of games. It puts equal focus on the track/route environment as it does to car appearance/driving. Make no mistake, though, this is no Forza 2 or GTR competitor. I have room in my collection for both Forza and PGR games.
Well said. Bottom line, Forza and the like are sim racers, PGR and the like are arcade racers... apples and oranges.
