My first impressions of this game - Liking it a lot but finding it a little hard to understand why people are going nuts about the physics? I think perhaps it is more realistic with a wheel, and i'm playing it with a controller, but i;m just not fully
feeling it yet, though I am doing ok. To me the game suffers from the sydrome of a lot of car racing games, that the car kinda feels like it is on castors and tracks unrealistically from side to side when steering normally (rather than oversteer/drifting where such lateral motion is understandable)
I always look for driving games to behave whereby when you steer, you are effectively orientating the nose of the car in a direction and the rear wheels, in a sense, rotate on the spot and then drive it in that direction (though obviously not this literal as the car is contantly moving forward) but with GT5 and many other games I feel the cars "strafe" a little...it's often more apparent in replays but in this I feel it when driving too. I also feel although people seem to be pleased with apparently less understeer, I think even at low speeds, lock the steering and the car snaps sideways across the track a little unrealistically.
It might be because it's a while since I played GT, I never had GT5P and have recently been playing Forza 1 and Ferrari: The Race Experience which has very different handling, but I like it a lot. That said, it could be because I don't have any particularly fast cars in GT5 yet so I guess they are bound to steer tightly. And i'm still enjoying it tons, the car candy, beloved tracks and cool new tracks, and I love how *all* of the standard cars are on rotation in the used dealership...I know I should be saving money but I keep having to buy impractical cars, like a tail-happy Alpine which is really struggling in the classic car challenge
Feels like mariokart.
Same thing with the Top Gear Test Track! Which level do you have to be at to unlock those tracks?! Thanks!
