Many months of waiting behind ... how many hours the game. Introducing: Forza 2 - Universal sink your time! To publish this review, the editorial had to take violent measures to rescue me from the world of Forza Motorsport 2, up to contacting Microsoft and forced disconnect from Xbox Live. The game spans no less than the most popular MMORPG, - who is a paradise for racers.
But let the big words and still move on to the review and the facts: why today the second part of the series is the best race on the planet?
The main thing - is, of course, the physical model. No wonder developers are so proud of it, and so praised it. She is flawless. Very realistic handed grip tires with the road: cars properly broken in the demolition, stalled and slipping. Does not lag behind and damage system, which in turn set simulation, becomes a good teacher, fair competition on the track. After a clash with an opponent can hurt not only him but also to yourself: smoking, lost engine power, half the working suspension and get stuck gearbox does not contribute to victory. But, of course, nothing prevents povyklyuchat all these "inconveniences" and calmly rammed each and every one as before - the choice is yours. As the decision whether to configure the machine manually or rely on "automatic". By purchasing the relevant parts, you can customize everything your heart desires - from the suspension and tire pressure differentials up to the job and exit-camber. Moreover, each setting here is not fashion, but seriously affects the behavior of the machine physical quantity. For example, simply changing the pressure in the tires, you already feel a noticeable change in driveability. For particularly ardent fan settings even have detailed telemetry in real time, available both in the race, and during replay. Here you can otsmotret everything: the heating of tires, work shocks, overload faced by a car body, engine performance ... The only thing I would like more than this - a graphical display of telemetry for the entire race to represent the behavior of the machine itself is also "on average", and not at any given moment. But such details are interesting quite stubborn fans of racing and Forza Motorsport for all their sophisticated still manages to remain believable game "for all".
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One major feature of Forza 2 from other races in the fact that some people think: The game was created not to ride, but to ... draw. Yes, yes, it built a very powerful editor of vinyl, is capable of applying to the thousands of layers, and this opens up tremendous opportunities for artists. They draw not afraid of this word, real paintings on the bodies of steel beauties of machines and put them around the world.And not just on the forums - in the game you have the opportunity to buy such an exclusive and insanely beautiful car in the local online auction site for game currency. That you can not then reproduce the picture and solve all the tricks of the artist, showing a car at auction, the author of "locks" its design, which makes the coloring is not available for editing. Although in recent years at auction got a lot of cheaters, which in some way to open these coloring pages and multiply them into an insane amount, which, of course, spoils the relationship of artists to the game - many even refused to sell cars at auction, preferring to just put them on the forums. Hopefully, the developers are taking steps to eliminate this scourge. In the meantime, artists have found a way: they're going on the official forum forzamotorsport.net and sell the car in person at the hands of other forum users, so we advise to register and refresh the knowledge of English, if you want to show off the championship exclusive airbrushing. By the way, recently on this forum and opened a new section where users sell the car, not only painted, but tuned and configured in any class. For example, over 300 thousand of loans you can buy excellent Volvo S60, zatyuningovannuyu under the limit of A-class and very cool mood. An excellent outlet for those who do not see a buzz of painstaking assembly, but wants to win online.
 | |  | On specially prepared sports cars are often very difficult to get away from the start, without the option Traction Control. | | Apart from the usual mass-produced cars in the game, there are specially prepared for racing. They already can not buy spare parts and change their coloring. |
What else makes it the most coveted race? For example, a system of tuning, which allows you to turn any machine in the long unsold sports car-class. Because the number of parts for each simply HUGE! Special diversity observed in tuning the engine and intake system-issue. Here you can change everything - from the ignition, fuel system and air filters to install turbines, increasing the working volume up to the engine entirely. As stated, the prevailing freedom of choice. Well, that somehow even the odds tuning and factory machinery, as in the last part, they are divided into classes: from D to U. Each class has an upper limit of tuning points, for example, Class A finishes in the eight hundred and fifty. So, taking the Mini Cooper S from a class D, you can easily, conjured over it like to be in the garage, zatyuningovat baby to the ceiling B-class and compete on equal terms with a prepared Subaru Impreza. This is especially true in multiplayer, but about him later - first on the single player game.
Here you will find many, many competitions and championships that will take away many, many times. Maybe a little less than in the last Gran Turismo (do not need to be licensed and to participate in special assignments such as "will overtake rivals, after lagging behind for half a"), but still a lot. But the races are held here with the restrictions as to the class of machines and producing countries, and on a certain brand. For example, there are competitions where permitted only Nissan Silvia and the Toyota Altezza. Well, of course, not one or two nights you will take an Endurance-race, each of which lasts about an hour.
 | |  | Species from the cockpit in the game there, but at least you can put the camera on the hood, and not to look at flying in the air devices. | | Can be graphically damage in the game and do not reach the level expected by all Burnout Paradise, but the machine's behavior influenced significantly. |
Unusual role in the game play money. They are, in addition to its primary purpose as a means of buying and selling cars, are also a kind of "experience". Money for winning the race are counted against the rider, and, surprisingly, the car. The more money won the driver (ie you) and a car, on which you are currently taking part in the competition, the higher your level with a typewriter. The maximum for the car - only the fifth, but the driver as much of the fifties. Than the titular car, the cheaper the spares for it, the higher the level racer, the more serious of his race admitted. And for the same race can earn you a completely different amount of money, since before its beginning you will be prompted to select the conditions with which you want to spend it. The smaller the assistants management you turn, the greater the level of complexity to deliver, the more money grab.
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Of course, buying a car at auction requires resources, and considerable resources, often car prices may rise above one million. Where do we get that kind of money? The answer is simple: to get a career. But for those who want to receive the money and did not play (working?) For this clock, we give a little hint. Once you have opened Endurance-competition, prepare a car, certainly faster than competitors and hire a driver who will drive for you. (Yes, before the start of the race you will have the option Hire Driver, and there - and the choice of pilots.) Take one of the most recent, for example, S. Ito, who after the victory will prompt you for 55% of prize money. Of course, this seems like a lot, but the prize for the hour race is great, and travel about one hundredth once himself - long and boring. And since your pilot must come first and bring you over 100 thousand credits, but you at this time can watch a movie, climb a forum or do household chores.
 | |  | Winning the championship, you get not only money, but the new machine, which contributes to the rapid filling of the garage. By the middle of the game, he will be scored in more than a hundred copies! | | The easiest route in the game - an oval of the races Nascar. Here, most tuners compete in a maximum speed of freshly cars. |
Still single, not one thing for which many are now playing Forza Motorsport 2, for driving with a computer "idol" round and round, day after day - work, anyway, in our age of high technology is very sad. Whether business online battles with live opponents! Yes, the multiplayer here, in fact, the main mode of the game. And in general all the Forza 2 is impregnated all sorts of online add-ons.For example, in Freerun mode, you can not just calmly ride for pleasure on any car and any track, but at the same time and compare their best times in each class of machines with the main indices of players in the world, just looking at the table of records. But what is most interesting, at any of the top twenty, you can download the replays and the computer-ghosts "to learn their style of driving, which is very, very useful for improving skills. Well, of course, some online races with no gay friends! The game supports up to eight players on the road with a common voice chat. In a network, by the way, in the course of its own, separate rating pilots, in contrast to the single mode it is not dependent on money, and relies only on the number of race wins. Therefore, gathered in the lobby, all in advance can assess their strength, marvel at the coolness rivals and, perhaps, until it was too late to change the server.
Another interesting feature of the online mode in Forza Motorsport 2 - Official Tournament of the developers. They are held every week. To get a list of 192 best (exactly as in the tournament participants), it is necessary to qualify that, I must tell you, it is very difficult: There are thousands, and many of them - great racers. But it's the spur to improve, and sometimes leads to unexpected spending: for example, driving from Microsoft, which is sharpened by the game. He really makes it possible to go much better than a gamepad.
You still have a little argument in favor of purchasing Forza Motorsport 2? Oh yeah, you want to hear about the bread, on the schedule. Well, that must recognize that the game looks ... not the most beautiful in the world. But it is the prominence of the sixty frames per second, good texture and shine mnogopoligonalnymi models of cars. And the fact that trees are not the most attractive route or sometimes not very picturesque, can be considered an acceptable price to pay for such a gorgeous physical model in particular and simulyatornom part of the whole. Of course, a pity that the game is no view from the cab, but if developers start to create some three hundred of the cockpit, we would not have seen Forza Motorsport 2 in the next six months, and in fact we have already waited, decently, right?
To summarize, I want to say that Forza Motorsport has rightly be regarded as the best highway auto simulators in the world dedicated to not only racing cars, but the most common brands and their serial tuning. Time to Gran Turismo 5 will be lived not in vain.
| Expert opinion |
 | The Stig - Excellent! The best console racing car simulator at the moment. And, undoubtedly, the most realistic race with the possibility of tuning production cars. The game, for which the cost to buy the Xbox 360. Just do not forget to connect it to the "Live", because the full potential of Forza Motorsport 2 - on the web. |  | Artem Shorokhov - for now - the best a serious race in the world. How Gears of War in its genre. But personally, I lack the element of entertainment. Simulator - this is how the work: all the daytime absorbs without a trace, and then another, and the rest drawn. But rest with Forza 2 and I can not - just right so take a break from it. |  | Alexander Ustinov - a breath of fresh air for lovers of serious auto simulators, do not forgive mistakes, but also encourages skillful driving. And not the most sophisticated graphics - it is not a hindrance. And do not forget to buy a steering wheel. Oh, and another thing: do not linger at the auctions. They tightened. Even as delay! |  | Marvin - If you're a fan of racing games - a near perfect game for you. Although the absence of species from the cabin and makes it not so realistic, and horrible reruns scare aesthetes and GT-dependent. But even with all that Forza Motorsport 2 fully justifies the money spent. |
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