This brings me to my next point–the micro-transactions. The only way to avoid this discrepancy is to join or make One-Make rooms which will ensure that every player uses the same kind of car. And while your AI opponents in the single player are brain dead and blind fools that never react to your own driving, the real human beings you’ll race online are where veterans will get their challenge.Ī warning: you’d better make sure you have a top class car Super Car or else racers will leave you in the dust.
Each lobby has a certain category attached to it, which makes it extremely easy to discern which room would be best suited to your racing skills and preferences.
The online mode is simple yet deep and drives home the idea of a “racing community.” Anyone can create a room in the lobby or join an already made one. Polyphony Digital really showed a lot of love in the level of detail they put into these effects and it paid off greatly. I also found myself enjoying the day/night time effects and the way such conditions affected the racing. You do have to keep up maintenance on your car, like changing the oil and upkeeping the engine, through the use of the Pit Stop, which I felt was a nice feature that really made you pay attention to the state of your vehicle.
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In other words, the overall visuals and technical hiccups are compatible to an early PS3 game and are not what should have been an incredibly polished last go on PS3 before hitting what is now the the current gen. I use the word “lightly” because at the most you can only love-tap your opponents and stage barriers, causing crashes on the level of bumper cars. For instance, sports cars should sound distinct from compacts and convertibles from racing, among others.Īlso, there’s suppose to be real-time damage to the cars at play as you race and crash–ahem– lightly tap other cars. To go even further, every single engine sounded exactly the same–that generic grumbling sound instead of an unique engine roar unique to the different types of vehicles. However, when paying close attention screen tearing, pop-ins and frame rate drops become readily apparent and, as this article points out (rather hilariously), the people look absolutely terrible, with gems such as this: Best of all, the game lets expert players dive right into these options unaided while newbies can use the recommended feature that gives you the best cars to choose from, depending on the racing class.įrom a distant the environments look as beautiful and well-detailed as the cars themselves. 6 has plenty of car purchasing options as well, with over a thousand different models. The cars are gorgeous and being able to customize anything from the engine to the suspensions to the body weight, tires, brakes, transmission, clutch, flywheel, etc. Honestly, the tracks playing in the menu screens are much better composed and you can actually listen to them.
There’s a bunch of boring rock music playing in the background of each race but you won’t even notice, or rather won’t hear it because the roaring engines drown out everything. Once you get into the actual racing the fun truly begins, with an improved physics engine and very smooth controls. Track loading times are faster than the previous installment but still lags a bit. Now let’s break down the the gameplay during a race.