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Author Re: 'Forza' zooms past 'Gran Turismo' to winner's circle of simulated racing
Raph

2005-06-27, 8:30 pm


"Paul Heslop" <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:42BEE745.C4C0DD52@blueyonder.co.uk...
quote:

> X-Games wrote:
> <snip>
>
> That article isn't even well written... but by the by. Forza is a
> great game, and as I am pretty bored with GT it is a sure fire
> diversion, but it only beats GT4 hands down in the fact that it has
> online play. I really do enjoy the game, and i wish the two companies
> could have meshed the two games together, but Forza looks cheap when
> compared with GT4. The AI in both games is thuggish, but in Forza it
> is almost as bad as an arcade game.
>
> When I play GT4 I am often stunned by the beauty of it all, where
> forza seems almost washed out at times. The driving experience in
> Forza is grittier, so it can be more fun, and the little baubles like
> stickers etc are a great touch, but all that crap about GT4 only
> having hundreds of cars because it gives you many versions of the same
> car and I can bet you if I have twenty prize cars in froza I'll have
> the same model more than once in a different variation.


Quick question....my husband is a big fan of Project Gotham 2 - I know that
is less of a sim, do you think that Forza would be a game that players of PG
would also enjoy or is PG too much of an arcade racer to be compared?


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