The Forza Horizon demo has landed on Xbox Live as an exclusive for Gold members for a week. It's the first public taster of the 'action racing' work of Playground Games, and is building towards the release of Forza Horizon on October 23rd, 2012. Having spent a day weaving through traffic and taking part in the three included events, here's our first impressions of the … [Read more...]
The five most exciting things about F1 2011
We here at ORD love F1 2011, which is impressive considering it’s not even been released yet. But with the game’s launch less than two weeks away, we thought we would share with you the top five reasons our collective pants are so wet. 1. Revised handling model Don’t take this the wrong way, F1 2010’s handling was great but there were a few glitches. For example, you could … [Read more...]
iRacing partners with McLaren Electronic Systems for F1 and NASCAR data
iRacing has partnered with McLaren Electronic Systems to incorporate ATLAS Express data analysis software, which means you'll now have similar data acquisition and telemetry software to that used by every F1 team since 2008, and on NASCAR's standard ECU in 2012, to give you the most amazing insights into how your virtual race car is performing. iRacing is also releasing an … [Read more...]
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit review: 4/5
The Need for Speed series. One of EA's longest-running franchises and without doubt the oldest and most successful race series of all time. It has, for some people like me, been a catalogue of “must try harder”games, despite its sales. It was conceived by Distinctive Software, who were well known in the 8 and 18 bit computer days, including developing the initial games in the … [Read more...]
Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed – details and previews
With a release date set for Spring 2011 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, more details have been emerging for Need for Speed: Shift 2, including some brief hands-on time for some sites, and an interview with lead designer Andy Tudor featured on Eurogamer. Given that NfS: Shift 2 is explicitly being pitched as a rival to Forza Motorsport 3 and Gran Turismo 5, it's interesting to look at … [Read more...]
Bad set-ups can lead to good lessons…
I've slowly been working my way through the single-player event list in Forza Motorsport 3, and having had good results with the racing spec Cadillac CTS-V, I figured a B Class version would be a good choice for 31 laps of Mugello. Unfortunately I was either drunk or not paying attention when I tuned the B Class version. To put it mildly, it was slow, handled like a tank, and … [Read more...]