won this from subway and decided to try it out.
this is so bad. I guess there are more than enough car enthusiasts out there to support it, but every time I try out a realistic racing/driving sim, I'm shocked again by how fucking boring these games are. Seriously, driving sim gameplay is the worst shit ever. I'd rather play a bottom of the barrel FPS. That's not to say the game part is objectively bad...I mean, people like all kinds of shit that's terrible like shitty sitcoms, reality shows, summer blockbuster movies, Call of Duty, McDonalds, etc.
But the loading is just...incredible. I installed 8gb, then it kept flashing mini "installing" screens all while I was navigating the menus. It's still a laggy, excruciating mess just to get to a point where you can actually play a track. I especially like how you get to a new menu and you get about 5 seconds of stealth loading before you can actually move the cursor. Going to the garage and trying to look at cars is a whole other level of shit. If it took like 5 minutes just to select my very first car thanks to all the loading, I can't imagine navigating that shit when I have all the cars unlocked. Then the loading times before the races themselves are about 30 seconds long, giving you enough time to reflect on how the game is making it an incredible pain in the ass just to play it.
This is the style over substance shit that I hate. How fucking hard is it to come up with a stylish, but simple and snappy, interface? I may have given the gameplay more of a chance if I could quickly switch between races and modes, to try a wide variety of things. Instead, I get some fucking elevator jazz music and a menu that plays hard-to-get, as if the game couldn't give less of a shit about my presence
and the graphics themselves are nothing to write home about. The shadows remind me of the forest level in DMC4--they're so jaggy and weird that the game would probably look better without them. The tracks are sparse with lots of low res textures. The cars are sort of jaggy...I'm not sure why a game with practically nothing going graphics-wise would have issues with tearing and jagginess. Meanwhile, a game like Vanquish is fucking insane with all kinds of crazy shit happening on screen at once and in an incredible amount of detail, yet I have to actively search to find blemishes/low res textures.
what a turd.
I'm gonna play some Pac-Man to wash the taste out of my mouth.
