Well, jsut had a play for about 20 minutes, dunno what to say other than im disappointed. It got a lot of hype and looks amazing in the videos etc.
The handling is very wierd, car doesnt respond as you would expect, its very slow and lumpant to drive, even the GT cars dont feel very sharp to drive. You get no real confidence to throw it into a turn as you dont know what will happen.
The time penalty thing is very very stupid. You go to get a slipstream, get close and wham you get a penalty for not even touching the car........WTF!!! Next, you go to overtake a car on a turn, and they dont shift whatsoever and will happily force you clean into the gravel pit. Also, you will be in front of anotehr car, and low and behold he will drive straight into you as they dont come off the racing line. He will hit you and knock you off *** track then you get the time penalty for the stupid AI.
Games can pull off time penalties, but they need to have good AI etc to do it, unfortunately FM2 doesnt have that cleverness therefore time penalties are very ghey.
Dunno what to say really, i expected it to be fun tight racing, but its not, if you get into a tight scrap you end up with time penalties, if you go for a risky overtake around the outside they force you off the road on the exit and when you try to race properly with clean overtakes you cant do it either due to stupid AI.
I dont know what to say, if it was GT HD for the 360 i would have been extremely pleased. I wasnt expecting a sim (frankly nothing has beat Live for Speed IMO), but certainly something fun to play i was expecting. Personally i find racing around in test drive unlimited more fun. Ill definately buy this, ive wanted it for ages, but to be honest i cant see me playing it much.
I was really hoping the 360 would do a good fun racing game after PGR3, but F1 and GT HD on the PS3 have mroe of a fun factor. Frankly i think it feels a bit like PGR3.
Very disappopinted TBH.
