The Big Forza 2 Thread *

Now about the game....

 

Ok let's try . Some of these 4wd cars in games are, by default, set up for either rally or tarmac conditions. This makes a big difference in the handling. So if a game like Forza supports this kind of setting (for instance VCD customisation or whatever it is called these days), then this means you can tweak the handling to give it just that little bit more of a RWD feel that can help with racing on a bendy track. This is important in terms of how a car's driveability translates to a game.

How well two cars compare depends for a very large part on the track you compare them on. A short twisty track with few long straights is going to cater for a whole different category of cars than a long straight with two bends in it, for instance.

 

I dont trust those japanese car shows. Seen so many of those videos on the net where they have some japanese cars racing against Ferrari's, Porsche, Lambo's etc and for some weird reason those Japanese cars always seem to win or be really close. Wich is just bollocks.

 

Most of the Lambo's and Ferrari's aren't really as track-focused as those Japanese modded cars. It's really not that surprising, really...

 

Can't see how the engine placement has hurt the 911's track performance. It's one of the most successfull racing cars of all time. The engine placement is ecxellent for the track - means you can get the power down earlier than in a front or mid engined car. It just needs a difference technique.

 

I concur to an extent. It's excellent on dry asphalt, not so good on the wet though IMO.

 

No it was around a track. I have no idea if the japanese cars were tuned because I dont really understand japanese that good. Ofcourse Ferrari's etc arnt perfect for the track but I dont believe if you got these 4 lap races and the supercars are up front and suddenly get overtaken out of the blue by some japanese car like the euro car is standing still, I just dont believe that. Even if the Jap cars are tuned you still not going to get past a supercar like its nothing.

 

I've seen a couple of those videos, I can't remember what they are called though, but i think they are staged. Although the best driver always get the underdog.

One I remember was 911 Turbo, a Lambo (Murcielago or Gallardo), A Fezza of some sort and an NSX, there might have been another car or to (maybe another Fezza). Somehow the NSX won on the last lap! The subtitles even made a note that the NSX was seriously down on power compared to the others, and the track wasn't a tight twisty track like Anglesea or the Top Gear test track.

 

I enjoyed the handling of both the skyline and STI much more, it's not an AWD issue.

AFAIR the swaps are fairly realistic, always from the same family of cars. We'll have to see how they handle the powertrain swaps, they have some serious gearheads over there though, so I don't expect it to be too outlandish.

 

Coswroth YB engine >>>>>> All

This is what happens when you put one in a little Ford fiesta.

 

I'm in the states, yeah. And driving in a straight line is racing. No less than ice racing or autocrossing or canyon runs or legal speed limit road rallys.. Racing is a competition where you see which driver can do it faster. Period.

And of course, comparing cars alone, a GTR is superior to an old trans am in almost every conceivable way. But racing isn't really about that and alot of people just don't understand this. On that nite, an old Trans Am was faster than a GTR.

 

Yet somehow got beat by a GT-S that runs like 15.5?? I don't know how fast your buddies car could've been if it got beat by a stock GT-S. Good thing the skyline driver couldn't drive I guess!

 

Can't wait to throw a 3 rotor 20B in an RX-8, should be wicked fast.

 

...car nerds

this thread has been total jargon to me for the last 6 pages.

 

The Celica didn't beat the Trans Am. The Celica driver beat the Trans Am driver.

And the GTR driver lost to the Trans Am driver.

"15.5" Doesn't mean much of anything in this scenario. We're talking about a stretch of road around 1/8 mile. Uneven, cold pavement. Big-boobed girl flagging. There's alot of xfactors that go on in a thing like this.

In case anyone missed it, the funny point of the story was that alot of spectators came away thinking the Celica was "faster" than a GT-R. They didn't understand how many things count towards the outcome of a simple little drag race!

 

New Video

http://www.xbox-archiv.de/Videos/FM2_XBOX-ARCHIV.DE.zip

 

http://www.fileplanet.com/174505/170000/fileinfo/Forza-2?r=5

Off screen video from the recent Forza show.

 

Even though the video is 30fps, it certainly looks smoother than that.

 

for a moment i thought i was watching FM1