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by max1966 » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:16 am
I'm an xbox gamer which colours my opinion and limits the value of my comments however.........my mate has always been a PS gamer and has waited patiently for this.
Last week at the alloted time he collected his copy sat down to play and then dreaded me turning up at the back of 8. Why, because he had quickly realised that the full game was no different to Prologue only bigger.
I turned up hoping it would be everything to all men so as to push forward the development of driving games, sadly this wasn't the case.
Don't quite know what it is that makes GT5 and Forza 3 so different. Whether it is the simulation side of GT which gets in the way of it being FUN or whether the dynamics are flawed, but played back to back with Forza it is lacking something. Not visually because the premium cars and the environment look stunning but enjoyment is lacking, too challenging, maybe.
Referring to the Elises TG challenge in particular. If you've ever played Forza the standard setup for all the cars is suspect. Most have balloons for tyres and the Elise in particular suffers from this causing it to have no grip. Adjust the tyre pressures down and you can dial in under/oversteer but most importantly the graphics, and feedback from the wheel, allow you to collect the car without having to have a second sense. The TG challenge is, with my limited ability and a controller, almost undriveable and just too unrealistic, when did an Elise ever have so little grip, and although I've never driven a 111R can you really power slide in 2nd and 3rd like that?.
I read somewhere about Forza's ability to simulate tyre deformation and use this to determine levels of grip, not sure if this is the difference but something works, there is a communication with the car which GT5 doesn't have. Only played for about 3hrs so more may help, I'll carry on playing it at my mates but it isn't the game I'd hoped for.
This is not fanboyism.................if you've played both where do you think the differences lie?
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max1966 on Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
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