Juiced 2

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Anyone got their mitts on this yet? After the Pro street awefulness, I am hoping this will be a little better. It surely cant be worse than the first one? Or can it?
 
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I think its a good step forward from the original and the cars actually drift properly, unlike pro street that behaves like the car has 23 patio slabs on the bonnet.

I found the demo good fun even with a keyboard (its the generic microsoft "I ONLY WORK WITH A 360 PAD COZ IM A WINDOWS LIVE" game situation), especially the drifting is cool and its fairly pretty and well optimized too,as its constrained to 30fps in the demo, which my machine managed happy with AA on and everything up
 
Has anyone created letters for custom decals?

I was going to recreate Top Gear's racing car, for the puerile humour of the parts of the sponsor's names that were on the doors, but I thought about the work required to create letters from the geometric shapes (using many small straight lines) and decided I couldn't be bothered :)

I'm finding it OK as a totally arcade racer and blatant console port (e.g. the keys for choosing options in menus are A, B, X and Y, depicted as small round buttons). If you don't expect any degree of simulation at all or any degree of information about performance, it's fun, although the interface outside of a race is clumsy (as expected from a console port).

My gripes:
You can't see figures for power, weight or handling. They are all combined in some manner to create a single "performance" score that doesn't tell you much at all.

You can't see the effects of a performance upgrade on this figure without buying and installing it, so you can easily take your car above the limits for the league you want to race in. You then uninstall it, but you've wasted your money.

When spectator betting on a race, there doesn't seem to be a way to choose which car to watch (and therefore be able to cheer, boo or bet on during a race). I tried the entire keyboard. I wouldn't be surprised to find it's only possible using an Xbox360 pad.

I advise trying the demo first, unless you have a small cap (it's 1.63GB).
 
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