Hi Simcoe!
Well, it seems like i simply wasn´t that cold blooded
Like is said i had great difficulties to play the game with the pad on the ps3. And i only had two chances to drive it on the two different race-seats with a G25. So, after waiting more than 40 Minutes i took place on the big one and was simply very excited
So i did my 4 laps, concentrated on the (for me unknown) track und enjoyed the motion of the seat. And when the 4 laps were over i firstly realized that it was very easy for me to drive the MC12 on the limit with the wheel. And then i began to wonder!?
Well, there were definately driving aids activated but still some spun off the track or they braked to late. So it could not only depend on the driving aids.
I think the steering is somewhere between GT5 and FC ! But please don´t nail me down to that!
The MC12 didn´t act like some cars in GT5P, that go around a corner like driving on a rail but it also didn´t feel like FC where you have to work extremely with the throttle & brakes to bring the balance point of the car to where you want it to be at that moment. It´s really difficult to describe! But i liked it!
At the end, everyone has to decide for himself if the game fulfills his sim-expectations! I really hope that we will get a demo soon, that this demo supports steering wheels and that we will be able to choose driving aids and driving style!
At least i´m pretty happy about other guys in the GTRP-Forum that where at the gamescom and played shift on the sim-racks. About 80 % of them confirmed my impressions and i know most of them from FC or the SCC Beta. None of them is an Arcade Fan.
But a little bit of Arcade can be real fun! I never expected me to say something like this, before i took place on that gameseat in cologne! I hope that you will all understand these words after playing the demo or the final game. I really do
(well, otherwise i will get beaten!=
)
There is something that is a real (and very important) part of Racing that Shift delivers and that you will
definately not get in GT5 (you also could not find in the other parts of the series). But sorry ! I really can´t tell you what it is. It´s that one thing that made me smile during my laps on the race seat. And i really hope that it wasn´t just the motion of the chair. When i drove a lap in GT4 on the Nordschleife with my favourite car ( Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2,5-16 V DTM-Racecar) i always was fully concentrated. Definately no smiling!
But at the end: Smiling and having fun with a game is a part of playing!
After hunting a lap time or another gold-medal in GT5P, didn´t you sometimes get the feeling of just acting kind of binary? It wasn´t anymore about driving a scary and powerful racecar at full speed around a challenging track, enjoying the sound of it and finally being able to "rule" the car. It was about handling a nameless object with the right speed over a grey colored "line" and finally beating a time!
You can also experience this in many other (really good) racegames, but sometimes this happens more often or earlier and sometimes this happens less or later. FC was one of these games where it happened very rarely to me. I always knew what i was doing but i never forgot about that simulated car i was driving. And i think that Shift will also be able to permanently remind you of the race-action and the fun!
Well, like i said: It´s really hard to describe!