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First, the good. No, rather, the a-mazing: the car models. My goodness, it looks like real there are real cars, and you're just watching a video. Also, the tracks look amazing; my Dad thought I was watching Top Gear when he saw me driving the Eiger Nordwand track. The physics are even better, and more accurate than GT4....high torque rear drive cars actually snap oversteer in this game when you mash the throttle in a slow corner. That rocks. The sounds, oh, the glorious sounds. GT4 had a problem, nay, an epidemic of sound shittiness, in that Ford GTs, Corvettes, and Aston Martins all sounded like Honda Integras. No longer. The first time a drove the Z06 in this game, I about died from the sounds coming from my tv. I can't wait til I have enough money to buy an F430, if for no other reason than to hear the engine note.
Now the bad, in so much as I am slightly disappointed in the content: no modding of the cars, at least as of yet. There is also a fairly small selection of cars, and no used cars, and it doesn't keep track of mileage, oil and fuel usage, etc. I hope that these things will be rectified for the full version of the game, and that the garage and car dealerships turn out more like GT4. There is also no photo mode, which is not entirely disappointing, but I liked to play around with it when I got new cars in GT4, so I kinda miss it.
The ugly: the AI. Damn it, these guys didn't fix the retarded AI of the opposing cars who will hold their line, no matter what, and will plow right into you as if you weren't even there. That is so annoying, and was such a problem in GT4, that I cannot believe they didn't do anything about it.
All in all, its a great game, even if only a prologue. I just hope that means that the full version is going to be even better, whenever it arrives (probably some time around 2013, right?) |
