I can't believe nobody has mentioned this game: Need For Speed SHIFT

[Arclight]

So aggresive points are actually negative points? If that's the case, forget I said anything. I thought it actually rewarded points for "unsportsmanlike conduct".

Goes to show I shouldn't complain about something I haven't played. Or at least make sure I get the facts straight.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Arclight

So aggresive points are actually negative points? If that's the case, forget I said anything. I thought it actually rewarded points for "unsportsmanlike conduct".

Goes to show I shouldn't complain about something I haven't played. Or at least make sure I get the facts straight.

I thought you already had the game lol

The points are awarded to you(it never goes negative) when you either race clean(the game calls it precision driving) or race aggressively(aggressive driving) and you'll get a profile deeming you either a precision race driver or aggressive race driver depending on which type of point you get more. The points are used to level up your driver level which gives you bonuses such as money, unlocking of paints, rims and vinyls, add more garage and invitational races.

Archlight if you have a passion about car I suggest you give it a try. If you like Grid you'll like this one too and the graphics are better and I must say the car control is more realistic than in Grid and I think most people would agree with this. I don't know if there's a demo if there's one try it

And umm I pl;ay it with keyboard and I'm doing great though I have to tune every car to under steer.
I've even unlocked the fifth(final) tier/level and won it in third place in first attempt.

I've been hoarding cars and have the best of each tier and all of them are upgraded substantially. My Murchielago is even a works car that qualify it to race with upper tier cars which are really the best super cars out there. I have the most expensive and fastest tier 4 car which is the Zonda R(racing) which is even faster than the usual Zonda(well 2nd most expensive actually the Veyron just bleeds more money by a hundred grand). I'm planning on getting that Mc Laren F1 now. All with the magic of keyboard. lol.

[Arclight]

Playing with keyboard is fine, and an accomplishment to brag about to boot, just saying that the people complaining about it always have the option of plugging in a controller. Kinda negates their complaints.

I might try it, at some point, though normally I only play the more realistic ones. Gran Turismo is a favorite, I hear good things about Forza but I won't touch another Xbox in this lifetime, TOCA Touring Cars was nice and DTM Racedriver was pretty awesome too. I'm not sure SHIFT is on the same level.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Playing with keyboard is fine, and an accomplishment to brag about to boot, just saying that the people complaining about it always have the option of plugging in a controller. Kinda negates their complaints.

I might try it, at some point, though normally I only play the more realistic ones. Gran Turismo is a favorite, I hear good things about Forza but I won't touch another Xbox in this lifetime, TOCA Touring Cars was nice and DTM Racedriver was pretty awesome too. I'm not sure SHIFT is on the same level.

Umm I didn't mean it to brag after all it's just a game however I meant to entice you to try the game

Well to me aside from those I complained about I found SHIFT to be a good racing experience game. I'm not competent to judge whether it's realistic or not but it's obviously not meant to help professional race driver win their races . It just feels like a good racing game. And that's a rarity in these days.

[Arclight]

I agree it's a good racing game. Most of the reviewers even say it's a must-drive for fans of the genre. Looking at some gameplay, it looks great, but the physics seem more arcade than sim. The cutscenes in between races are very NFS; anyone familiar with the series will recognize SHIFT as a NFS game in a heartbeat.

Looking at it, I'm more inclined to fire up my PS2 and play some GT, than go out and get this. I don't think this is really what I'm looking for.

Gonna give the demo a try, we'll see.

A good one from the series and fun to play, expept the drifting part. Just forget about it, you have to be really accurate with speed and hand brake.
Offtopic
Right now its all about Dirt 2 baby

[ajrimmer42]

Dirt 2 is damn good

I quite liked SHIFT but it was too much like GTR, and tbh I'd rather stick with that. Until NFS gets back on par with Underground 2, I'm not particularly interested. I want less crappy circuits and more modding/street racing!