PGR3 vs Forza 2

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I hadn't played PGR for a few months until last night. I was sitting there playing Forza when my mate sent an invite into a PGR race, so I thought fair enough why not. When it got to the race I wondered what the hell I was looking at!

When I first got my 360 on launch I thought PGR looked brilliant, but after playing Forza it pales in comparison. The F50 GT looks like something off Jet Set Radio! I also noticed PGR's environment going very blurry at high speeds, whereas Forza is nice and smooth.

Anyone else been surprised at how good Forza looks in comparison to PGR?
 
Ripper said:
I hadn't played PGR for a few months until last night. I was sitting there playing Forza when my mate sent an invite into a PGR race, so I thought fair enough why not. When it got to the race I wondered what the hell I was looking at!

When I first got my 360 on launch I thought PGR looked brilliant, but after playing Forza it pales in comparison. The F50 GT looks like something off Jet Set Radio! I also noticed PGR's environment going very blurry at high speeds, whereas Forza is nice and smooth.

Anyone else been surprised at how good Forza looks in comparison to PGR?
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The environment going blurry is what happens at high speed surely :confused:
 
Ripper said:
I also noticed PGR's environment going very blurry at high speeds, whereas Forza is nice and smooth.
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I actually like motion blur, and I wish Forza had it too.
 
PGR3 is better than forza for my money. They are different games but PGR looks better to me and feels faster. Felt more variety too.

Both are good games though. I do think the handling of the faster cars in forza is much better though. Sometimes with stuff like the F50 on PGR I felt I was driving on ice.
 
Been a while since I played PGR3 so cant really compare the two, I know I liked PGR's variety in terms of tracks and different kind of races, where as Forza just has one kind of race style and not enough different race tracks.
I like more realism in car games so Forza wins in that aspect, damage is crucial in the cat and mouse games :D

Both as good as each other on terms of MP action :)
 
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completely different games tbh, if you want a console arcade game, then pgr3 would be the better choice, if you want a console sim title, the forza 2 would be better, simple really
 
pre1twa said:
Ever travelled on a plane and looked out the window as you are taking off? It does not go blurry!
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eh? Course it does, same effect as the more relevant scenario of looking out of a speeding car...
 
there is nothing sim about Forza 2, the whole game can be completed without any real effort or buying any upgrades as there are other methods like the Auction House. I never had to touch any upgrades or even look at them to buy and add to a car - thus calling Forza2 a simulation of a real driving game is abit silly IMHO
 
usually thats more reference to any semblence of a slightly more reaslistic physics engine.


often this term is thrown around in that any game requiring you to consistently brake for a corner a sim, in all honesty though forza 2 provides more than that, brake pressure is a factor, as is the application of acceration, understeer and oversteer are very predominent.

the fact that you can purchase, upgrade, hire drivers etc are nothing to do with it being a sim, just extras stuck onto the racing genre in general


and if you chose to race against good gamers then youll find upgrade AND fine tuning will play a pivotol roll in where you end up (assuming you are of a similar level of ability to said opponents)
 
pre1twa said:
Ever travelled on a plane and looked out the window as you are taking off? It does not go blurry!
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That's cause the scenery you're looking at is at least a hundred metres away so it's not moving much in relation to you. Look down at the runway and it is blurring. Look at the road surface at the side of your car next time you're on the motorway, again it blurs.
Ripper said:
When I first got my 360 on launch I thought PGR looked brilliant, but after playing Forza it pales in comparison. The F50 GT looks like something off Jet Set Radio! I also noticed PGR's environment going very blurry at high speeds, whereas Forza is nice and smooth.?
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Yeah it's a shock going back to PGR3 after playing Forza 2. PGR3 doesn't render in 720p, it renders in a lower res and upscales to 720p, which is why it looks so awful in comparions to Forza 2. It was a somewhat rushed launch title and they couldn't get it running smooth enough in 720p. The motion blur is a deliberate effect they put in btw.
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there is nothing sim about Forza 2, the whole game can be completed without any real effort or buying any upgrades as there are other methods like the Auction House. I never had to touch any upgrades or even look at them to buy and add to a car - thus calling Forza2 a simulation of a real driving game is abit silly IMHO
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Sim refers to the physics being realistic, it's got nothing at all to do with how the game is structured or the difficulty, or even what driver aids it has.
 
laughs@ any real life "blurry" effect at takeoff - what are you all on (drinking too much in the Airport is my bet)

I have bad eyes and even I dont get any "blurry" effect (or certainly not in the way that its portrayed in PGR anyway)

Its different people's perception though I guess - but forza 2 every time for me
 
it hardly goes blurry, but objects closer will move out of vision quicker than objects further away (this to me doesnt imply blur, just fast motion surely) and any blur could probably be attributed to not so perfect eyesite


saying that i take my glasses off and anything beyond 3" is a complete blur...doesnt need to be moving for that :p
 
It's nothing to do with poor eyesight. You drive a car at 70 and look down at the road right at the side of your car (I mean down by your door), you will see it blur. Happens on the train too, but only stuff close to the train which is moving the most in your vision. No one said the horizon blurred or distance objects.
 
id hardly say it was a blur blur, but then looking at the road to the side of my car at 70 id be more worried about the subsequent accident i could potentially have :p
 
I find PGR3 more fun due to the fact that cars in classes A, B and C actually appear to have usable brakes.

In FM2 think about touching the brake and it locks up in an instant.

Oh yeah and that stupid ******* off track timer can just **** right off :/
 
funny i only lock my brakes if i scew up badly....never just slam on the brake trigger...unless youve turned abs on and itll brake nice and smoothly
 
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