Wow, a couple rounds of beer for the staff indeed.
They showed a "drone camera" in one of the Developer live streams, but I believe that is only available on the PC version
Just read it and it's a very to the point honest review. Definitely worth reading as you said.
It's the kind of review I've always known James was capable of, when he didn't have a 🤬 up his 🤬
. I've watched his input on the WMD Forum and he's a very intelligent guy and very knowledgeable when it comes to sim racing. His input was well thought out and very exact. When he takes off his troll hat he becomes a very good sim racing journalist.. 
It's not the same but you won here a deluxe buy+season pass, a 100 euro buy would certainly buy a beer someone there :-D great work and great reviews. Can't wait for tomorrow's preload to start.Well this is going quite well indeed!
Metacritic at 89 on both PC and PS4. Unsure if it will stay there, most probably not unless we get a more '5 out of 5's...
It's pretty much 60 at all times. And yes, the team worked themselves silly to add much more overhead in things like Livetrack 3.0, fully 3d trees everywhere, an almost completely rewritten rendering engine and still ship running at a much higher average frame rate.
I found it inordinately subjective as usual. However, in fairness, taking the metaphorical egg on his face to acknowledge the broader positives is far more revealing than the praise from any mainstream review, and getting a heads up on how the pace of the AI are affected by mechanical grip was worth the read.It's the kind of review I've always known James was capable of, when he didn't have a 🤬 up his 🤬
It's still going to review higher than this though unfortunately.
I think you need the balance though, there is nothing worse than reading a fan gush over everything and gloss over any flaws because they love the series. Like I don't bother with Dark Souls reviews because they completely ignore the flaws of those games as I see them so aren't useful to me.
A game like Forza looks extremely appealing on the surface but it doesn't have that much depth, a perfect game for today's fast food YouTube generation with their instant gratification needs. A game like PCARS 2 has a lot more depth but you don't get to experience that from playing the game for a few hours. So all those reviewers that play both games for a few hours will naturally give Forza a higher rating. If they would play both games for a couple of weeks/months I believe things might have a different outcome (depending on how realistic they want it to be).
I buy nearly all the racing games, I'll be missing out on GTS because I don't have consoles anymore. Still undecided on Forza 7 though because FM4 really killed my enjoyment as I didn't like the direction the series was headed and I don't think Dan really appreciates the importance of the racing side of motorsport plus no word on wheel FFB yet and no VR is a big bummer. I suspect I'll be playing it on a controller in next years summer sale.A game like Forza looks extremely appealing on the surface but it doesn't have that much depth, a perfect game for today's fast food YouTube generation with their instant gratification needs. A game like PCARS 2 has a lot more depth but you don't get to experience that from playing the game for a few hours. So all those reviewers that play both games for a few hours will naturally give Forza a higher rating. If they would play both games for a couple of weeks/months I believe things might have a different outcome (depending on how realistic they want it to be).
I see Forza as a great stepping stone for people coming from other games, it's an excellent introduction into the racing genre with all the handholding features like a rewind button, a friction assist and today's addictive internet features like loot crate gambling and levelling up. Some people will be pleased with that and never want anything different and that's fine. But other people - the true Motorsport fans - will find the shortcomings in Forza quite fast and they will want something more realistic. For that audience PCARS 2 is by far the superior game.
In my books FM7 and PCARS2 aren't even competition because the games are so completely different. I preordered them both since I am both a sucker for shiney stuff, levelling, collecting cars loot crates and all that, but also for realism and true Motorsport experiences. But for many people the choise seems to be PCARS 2 or FM7 which I don't really understand since the games are so different.
It's actually great that new-to-racing fans get into FM7 as their first racing game (if the alternative is non-racing games). Those are the potential new customers for PCARS 3 in 2-3 years.
I love the salt from AMD fanboys who clearly don't have a clue, a quick look at the 1440p results where the AMD cards close the gap clearly shows the standard AMD CPU bottleneck. It's not the developers fault it's AMD's rubbish drivers.
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