The only thing I would comment on is that it surely didn't look cartoony or feel like floating. On mine, these things were planted, and solid...best I have seen on a console so far.
Absolutely, not sure what Bevo is playing.
Prsonally, I think this is great, this has really wet my appetite for the full game, its so much fun to drive the cars, and thats key, fun. I read on the ForzaCentral forums people were complaining that the track sucks, the cars have no weight and too much grip, all of which are rubbish imo. The track looks amazing, am I the only one who thought of El Capitan from GT4 while driving it? Only better. The cars feel truly weighted, beautiful to drive, look very nice, and with the whole too much grip thing, you look at your cornering speed sometimes and then think, if I was driving this on a road would it be sliding now, in many cases the answer is no but I do understand that point a little more, sometimes the cars really dont slide out when you would expect them to.
AI, another key point, as someone above said it is very difficult on hard to win races, hell I struggle for podiums and even on medium, winning isnt easy. The AI arent just fast version of scalectrix though, the usethe whole track, they will avoid you if they can and I even seen a few of them have realistic looking crashes, including one where the car ahead clipped a barrier on the fast esses and spun across the track spraying debris everywhere.
Damage, seems to affect your car a lot more than FM2, I crash the Evo on the final turn, big hit on the front and a rollover, car was pretty undrivable after that, wouldnt go straight barely picked up speed and so on so very good on the front.
Sound, the cars sound excellent, again as stated above. Each car sounds true and beleivable, the crash sounds are marvellous as they were in FM2 and the little things like with the 911 race car the little spits and crackles from the exhaust although barely audible, are there.
Graphics, there were some pic postedearlier which looked shocking, if they put anyone off, dont worry, it does NOT look like that. Touched on graphics earlier in the post but I will elaborate a bit more here. I will be honest, this is probably the weakest bit of the demo. Im not saying they are bad though, they are, stunning. The track looks fantastic, I have actually crashed a few times while admiring some of the scenery, track surface looks brilliant. Could probably use a bit more AA but its nothing major. Still looks very crisp and very sharp. The cars also look excellent, very nicely detailed, if anyone was skeptical about this side of things then dont be, fantastic. Interiors are brilliant too, I will agree with some of the guys, you do feel a bit close to the windshield, but it is still very nice. Also, love the menus, incredibley slick and sharp.
Physics, I wont go in depth here, I dont have a good wheel (logitech something or other, £20, not good) so this is based on controller use. Its much better than FM2, much much better. As said before, the cars feel nice and weighty. The R8 feels excellent, nice grip at the rear but steps out when you give a bootful, the racecar feels like dancing on a knifedge which is intense exciting and a lot of fun. The Mini as said before is a lot of fun, nimble, nippy with very nice lift off oversteer effect, something I dont remember in FM2. It is very very good. If you want to be amazed further, go into a replay and choose one of the camera angles that gives a real close up of the wheels and tyres, watch the tyres flex on the corners, unbeleivable to watch and feel, really great for a console.
So to round off, Im very excited about this now, the final car list and track list is gonna be great and if the whole game feels like this I will be very very happy and I dont see a reason why it wont.
Provisional score: 9/10
BTW, if any of you have not found this yet heres a small interesting tip to add some variety to the racing. While messing with the control while racing I hit left on the D-pad and the timing sector in the top right became a drift points accumulator, very reminiscent of PGR, quite fun to muck around with and we could potentially do a small leaderboard on a per lap and per race point basis.
Hopefully I havnt droned on too much and I hope this helps sway those who are unsure.
, the textures and colours look flatter and it doesn't look like a cartoon but I can see what bevo means when he said it looks cartoony. It's not bad but it doesn't look as real as GT5
(that 🤬 sucks. was looking forward to playing it all day) Plus the Ferrari 458 looks nice
. Looks like it's back to Forza 2 for me.
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