Exclusive: Forza 2 - EG Laps

Published 16 May, 2007 Duration 3:31

So, you've always wondered, for all of our pro-skills, just how good are we at games? Thanks to the wonders of technology, you can now judge for yourselves. Here's intrepid EGTV cameraman James Hills taking it home in the blue Impreza.

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  • souljacker2000 #1 5 years ago

    that Jag looks fugging amazing... i didnt think this looked too good til now... now back on my most wanted list

  • Der_tolle_Emil #2 5 years ago

    oh my god please make that horrible music go away :(

  • Andee #3 5 years ago

    I actually though the Jag looks terrible, its just, well, wrong. The Forza guys really need some better artists.

  • souljacker2000 #4 5 years ago

    wots wrong with it? perfectly styled.. in proportion, heating of the break discs(in general) ....ORGASMIC

  • Hypnopedia #5 5 years ago

    Jag looks fine to me as well, looking good....extrapolate on "wrong"?

    :D

  • muftak #6 5 years ago

    again replay mode not ingame stuff.

    graphic still dont look as good as they should do

  • Inflatable #7 5 years ago

    muftak, replay = ingame..

    If you played the demo that's on XBL, you would know.. And for a simulation racinggame that runs solid at 60fps it looks pretty damn good imho..
    Edited by Inflatable at 16/05/07 @ 17:22

  • Hughes. #8 5 years ago

    I remeber being impressed by a racing sim running at 60fps... 6 years ago. Looked pretty close to this as well.

  • Andee #9 5 years ago

    Ok, i'll expand. When i say 'wrong' i mean purely in the sense that the lines of the car don't match the 'real' car close enough for it to look convincing. Further problems are, for example, the detailing in the lights and wheels, and those glowing breaks look awful imho. Just not very accurate in an aristic sense.

    I'd use the gran turismo games as an example of it being done right, gt4 appears to have far more accurately rendered cars. Even look at some of the pc games like GTR/Legends, they have some of the same vehicles, but look much nicer.

    I'm probably just being picky, but with Forza 1 being my favourite driving game ever, i just hoped this kind of stuff would of been better.

  • weaselrat #10 5 years ago

    what a ..............you use it to open a door and it's sometimes called a handle. ;-)

  • Syrok Verified Community Coordinator, Tarsier Studios #11 5 years ago

    I hate that racetrack.

  • andromeda #12 5 years ago

    you boys playing that on the 360 wheel?
    Havent tried it yet , gotta set it up later

  • Xerx3s #13 5 years ago

    heh.

  • Hench #14 5 years ago

    LOL, who was driving that Subaru?

    Why focus the attention on the Jag when you used the Subaru Eurogamer? Don't want to show off those classy driving skills then? ;-)
    Edited by Hench at 18/05/07 @ 09:30

  • Jamaicangmr #15 5 years ago

    I thought it looked good but not great. I was hopin they would've put alil more effort into the track though as it looks like the version from GT4. The Car models look detailed enough to satisfy. I don't know but maybe am expectin too much from games nowadays.

  • zErOb_cOOl #16 5 years ago

    "I hate that racetrack."

    Ha ha, yeah hated that track on GT4 too. I had to stop watching that vid....the music....the music....noooo!

    I've never been a fan of Forza but I'll admit I thought the graphics were good in this new video. If it runs at 60fps then even better too. The full reflections in the cars is done to a sick level of detail, and everything else looks present and correct. What's people's beef with the graphics?....the fact the PS2 was throwing out similar graphics years ago with GT4?

    I have to admit I was impressed with what I saw in this video off the bat. Anyway, hope the game doesn't have the same sluggish unresponsive "realistic" handling of the last game.
    Edited by zErOb_cOOl at 19/05/07 @ 09:33

  • phl0w #17 5 years ago

    At least now it offers a proper sense of speed in all views, not only in the unplayable level-with-tarmac-bumper-cam from Forza1. Since that's, i.e. sense of speed, what counts most in racing games (for me that is), I can live with a Forza2 that looks like that. Now if it could create a proper feel of weight of the cars too, like GT4 did, I'd even get a 360 :p

    Looks like the cars were made by the same team in Thailand or from wherever they were, who had made the ugly ones from Forza1 too.
    Edited by phl0w at 21/05/07 @ 09:44

  • Macross #18 5 years ago

    lol the cars look great, dont forget that this video at its low res and quality doesnt exactly do them justice.

    I feel sorry for whoever was in the VX220 he got royally screwed over the the subaru driver ;) Thought he was comfortably leading the Jag until that point.

  • Talha #19 5 years ago

    Well first let me assert that I think the game will be fantastic.

    That said - it LOOKS disappoiinting. I know it must be pushing about 400 times more pixels that last gen, but - what is the end result? It still doesn't look as good as GT4, let alone GTR. And yes, I am a graphics whore - graphics are a large part of what driving sims are about. If all MS can do is give us this ever-so-slightly artificial cars, they have a lot to learn from about 10 years of realistic looking driving sims.

    I am by no means saying it is bad looking. It is just - hate to use it - 'meh'. Arguments about heating brakes and other details do count, but they do nothing to improve the FEEL of the visuals.

    Due to that, I won't PRE-ORDER it now - just buy it when it appears on the shelf.
    Edited by Talha at 24/05/07 @ 08:05