While people have vastly varying opinions on the overall quality ofGran Turismo‘s ability to simulate actual driving, the general opinion around the water cooler is that it’s the closet thing you’ll ever get to real racing unless you actually participate in some real racing. Its closest competitor in the world of popular racing console games isForza, and theForzaguys have beentalking some smackonGTever since the recently releasedForza IIIwas announced.
Now thatForza IIIhas been released and the competition has been able to check it out, what does legendaryGTdeveloperKazunori Yamauchi think of it? Well, it’s not quite a racing simulator, but it ain’t bad. A few guys around theGToffice, including Yamauchi himself, have played the competing racer and he came away withthis,“I was watching the guys at our company trying it out in the office. I tried it a little bit. It’s very similar in a lot of aspects to Gran Turismo.Some base components of the game are very different fromGran Turismo. It’s a little bit different from what a simulator is. You can feel it when you drive it.”
I’d say that he was being viciously backhanded, but there was nothing backhanded about that. He came out and said thatForza IIIisn’t a simulator. Upfront and to the point that Yamauchi is. Nice to see they’re checking out the competition, though. Anything inForza IIIyou wish would show up inGT5when it lands in March of next year?
[ViaCVG]
