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Excellent Racing Sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 24
Date: May 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

approximately 300 licensed cars. a wide variety of playable tracks. Some of the best graphics seen in a racing game. The most realistic racing gameplay ever. very realistic damaging. This is the most impressive racing game ive ever seen.

Gear up for some insane driving action !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: May 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Forza Motorsport for the xbox really was one of the best driving games for that system and todate still looks decent.

Well now the Xbox 360 has had a few other decent car games each with there own little twist on the action . So now Forza Motorsport 2 has been released for the xbox 360 . Let me say if you been holding off on getting a car game for the xbox360 the wait is over !

Just like with the first forza motorsport game the graphics for the 360 really put the player more into the game . Whatever kind of tv you got hooked up to the 360 , you would almost think you was watching real cars racing ! The graphics do honestly look that great , all the little details as well the areas your in look verry well done. It seems they took there time working on this . All there hard work on this Forza Motorsport 2 has made this a must have title for most any xbox 360 owner.

The controls for the game is like any other , little time for learning what does this or that but overall most players will be able to start the game and just go at it .

The audio to me seems to fit well with the game . I have my 360 hooked up to a 1000w sony theater system and the crashes, and all the other sounds come out great . The game still sounds verry good off tv speakers , but most tv speakers have got alot better compared to tv's of the past .

Also Forza Motorsport 2 is loaded with about 300 cars of different makes. This is verry cool also , because it gives you a chance to drive some of those cool cars. Another thing is personalize and tune , I think most everybody likes to tweak things to make it go faster or whatever. It sounds kind of cool to tweak a car that would go from 300mph to 330mph or more after tweaking . Just check out all you can do with this feature , it adds a good amount of replay value as well .

Final thought about Forza Motorsport 2 - The game has a good amount of replay time to it as well the fun factor . If your looking for a great game that will keep you busy with all it offers . I would say Forza Motorsport 2 is well worth the price where ever you get it at.

Good luck and Please remember to drive safely :)

Gran Turismo who? The crown is still in the hands of the Forza franchise.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: May 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Since Forza Motorsport came out in 2004 for Xbox racing games have had a lot to look up to. Forza 2 simply takes everything that was great with Forza and makes it better. Better graphics, better cars (looks especially), better physics, better everything. It's just amazing and you have to try it yourself to know what I'm talking about.

I've already got my Chevrolet Camaro 1969 SS 396 running tracks. Hell, I think I'm going to throw the chevy 427 in it this week and see how she does!!! I love this game!!

A must for any Xbox 360 owner.

On your marks... get set... GO!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: May 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Forza 2 continues what the first Forza did so well, it provides an excellent simulation style race for the Xbox360. The game is gorgeous to look at and the damage to your car adds something that Gran Turismo never did for me... Realism. The game is excellent in the aspect that you can pick it up and play and for all you gearheads out there the customization aspect of the game will keep you busy for hours, nope, days, nope, MONTHS!!!!

Forza 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short as most game reviews are the same.
I have about 10 hours into this game so far.

In my opinion this is the best racer to be released on the 360 to date.
Some of the things that really stick out:
Graphics are superb; damage is worth it all!
Sound is great
Play is smooth as silk
Multiplayer is really fun, it is also nice to be able to talk to the other players while the game is loading. Not too many games have that option.
Another cool multiplayer bit is you can watch a race going on and you can use a telemetry view which gives a lot of different stats on the car you are watching, this is really neat to see.

The only gripe so far I have is when playing multiplayer there is no music during the races. If you play music from your hard drive be sure to turn the music volume all the way down on the main menu or it will mix the game music and your music together when in the lobby and it sounds awful.

Race on!

Why are you reading this?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would go write a lengthy review of Forza 2 but unfortunatly I am not going to because I can not pry myself away from this game for more than a few minutes at a time, if you are reading this, that means you are interested in the game, and if you are interested in the game, even slightly, BUY IT NOW and tell all your friends to buy it as well, I promise you will not be dissapointed.

AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is really good sim. especially if you have the Microsoft Racing Wheel which by the way has dropped $20 in price! Having the racing wheel will make the game a whole lot better. like if you go in the grass or rough terrain the wheel will rumble and twitch and be harder to control and its proven to what a real car wheel would feel like plowing into grass going 185 MPH. Theres also around 350 cars with thousand of upgrades. You also has the option to switch engines example i put my Ferrari F50 engine in my Nissan Fairlady the engine has 850 Horse power and 1100 pounds of torque so when i enter an online race and they see a Nissan fairlady against a lamborguine the first thing they say is NOOOB!! Then i hit 60 MPH in 2.3 seconds and beat them by 7 seconds. Thats when i say whad u say to meh?

The NEW Racing Standard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 33
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Up until this point, I had always considered Gran Turismo the best racing game on the market. Forza 2 has taken the crown.

There are alot of features I like about this game, I'll limit them to five:

- Simple controls
- Damage system (something Gran Turismo has never had)
- Brilliant UI
- Online features (career, auction house, car gifting)
- Car customization

Currently, I only have two minor issues with the game. One, it's pretty easy to upgrade your car to A Class or S Class after a few races while the computer continues to race D/C Classes. The other issue is that the tracks themselves are a little bland (of course, this is a tradeoff in order to create highly detailed car models and run at 60 fps).

Buy this game. Then buy a GTI and upgrade it to 700HP. Good stuff.

Wow! Forza 2 delivers the goods!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a nearly life long gamer who enjoys most every genre of games. Having said that, the racing game genre is one that has failed to hold my attention in the past. I have plenty of experience with GT, the NFS series, PGR and most of your run of the mill arcade racers (Daytona, etc.), but the sad truth is, most of those games have failed to hold my interest for more than a few days. Forza 2 is different. I am addicted at this point. The gameplay is excellent, the customization options are unreal (particularly the custom paint jobs that you can apply if you want to expend the time and attention to detail), the choice of cars is astounding......the overall package is fantastic. I have seen people criticize the graphics on other sites.....I disagree. The in-game graphics are very nice, the user interface screens are very appealing and the level of statistics and car detail available is second to none. I highly recommend this game for racing game junkies, or just general game lovers.

Good racer, but AI is retarded

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun for the first few levels, but then becomes a very tedious grind once you get past level 20. Tracks are too few, and not very interesting. Really need more variety and alot less super twisty tracks. Turn 10 needed more speedways, and less King Cobra type road courses.

Also don't help that the AI are horrible drivers. Racing is a game of giving and taking. I just wish the Forza 2 AI learned when to give ground when they are outbraked into the corner, or just much slower than you are. The AI also is way too overaggressive to the point they will drive through you at any given time. This happens alot if you ramp up the difficulty that forces you to break much sooner to stop from locking up your brakes. The AI also is quite slow in their cornering. It gets quite irriating wiping out as the AI for some dumb reason brakes on the exit of the corner instead of hitting the gas.

The damage seems a bit unrealistic. Even on the highest settings it seems more arcade style damage than anything else. A car shouldn't be competitive enough to go for the win after smoking the wall at 100 mph like the Forza 2 cars do with full damage on. I don't see the point of having damage if your going to use it more towards a gimmick move to promote sales. If your going to have racing damage do it right or don't do it at all. Forza 2 seems to go about half way and stop.

Its nice that they let you do cool stuff to your paint job. Wish they would have a spray brush option to do some fine tuning instead of doing everything with decals on top of decals.

Overall a good racer if all you have is the Xbox 360. I'd honestly suggest the GT series over the Forza series. Not as a fanboy, but from the fact the GT games are more better rounded on all fronts. The Forza series seems to go half way really good then seems to rush through the other half for some reason.

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