Top Gear - Top 50 driving games

Top Gear wrote:
7: GTR 2: FIA GT Racing Game – PC (2006)
Imagine a GT racing championship getting the same all encompassing treatment as F1 gets in its own games. That’s what happened for two glorious, fleeting years in the mid 2000s with the GTR games. GTR 2 in particular was a revelation, fettling a handling model that showed enormous potential in the first game into the most authentic and demanding racing experience around. There’s a reason why there’s still a rabid fan base holed up playing this game today.

What’s more, the game’s garage was populated by cars from the full-fat era of GT racing, where Ferrari 550 Maranellos diced with Maserati MC12s in the GT1 class and where a cross-eyed Morgan Aero 8 GTN was still an acceptable steed for an assault on the Spa 24 hours.

The Spa 24, incidentally, is where all the game’s numerous systems come together in concert, multi-class racing plus dynamic time-of-day and weather make the enduro a real occasion, even if you compress the whole thing into just 24 minutes. Technically uncompromising PC sim racing at its very best.

Kalinin wrote:it's not only about dated graphics it's dated everything.... even the coding part

Crimson764 wrote:And just because it's dated, makes it no less of a good game. It rightly deserves to be in the Top 10 for what it does. Working Day/Night cycle, multi-class AI racing, and dynamic weather. Which some racing titles back in 2006, never even had!

Crimson764 wrote:Well duh... of course it's dated. And for that matter so is rFactor, GSCE, and Automobilista. They all use some form of  ISI's gMotor engine which traces it's roots back to SCGT (1999).  

GT Fan 8899 wrote:Cmon guys...again this shit ?

You know it´s going to end in everybody being butt-hurt again, so just stop this discussion on what is the better sim.

I appreciate them all , they all have their good and bad sides, but thats not stopping me from enjoying them.

Scorpyo wrote:

Kalinin wrote:it's not only about dated graphics it's dated everything.... even the coding part

I have to agree with you about fact that it is dated but...

With all it's faults and limitations that game is still best racing game of all times if you look at the games as a whole package/experience.

Yes some other (read as newer) games are better in some aspects but that usually mean only one aspect ( or 2 in best cases) and suck big time in all other.