I have to say, I'm really excited about DriveClub - actually, more than I am in GT6 or whatever the next one will be. I've grown kind of tired in the GT series - the monotone engine noises and the stale race tracks. The series is a masterpiece, no doubt, but it just lacks the adrenaline punch you get, when you drive cars such as these on a beautiful mountain pass road or through some canyon. I still think the original Need for Speed was one of the best driving games - with excellent fun factor and some superbly tracks. I especially liked the A to B races, rather than the circular tracks. A lot of speed is missed when you drive at over 100mph on a 7 metres wide track, or indeed through a Canyon that is at the maximum the width of two cars side by side.
Burnout was great, but too unrealistic and in a game like that, I miss having real cars. At the same time, the last Need for Speed went too far towards arcade or "Fast & Furious" bling bling for me to even play it at length.
DriveClub looks like the ideal mix between GT type realism (I hope) and the great driving roads we once had in some games. And that with an extremely attractive concept of how we could be playing this in groups with or against each other online. Fantastic. Count me in.
Now I really hope they make this 60fps or if not, that I somehow erase that out of my mind and hopefully won't notice... (knowing that a driving game is only 30fps irks the hell out of me, even before I actually play it).
