The best driving simulator

SON240sx Automotive
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I am looking to get a very good driving simultor.

I’ve played GT2, GT3, LFS, F12002. I’ve heard of RARS but never played it.

The criteria that i need in this simulator are:

  • physics engine (as close to real thing as possible)
  • a lot of good tracks, not necceceraly real ones, but good and different ones.
  • Suspension tunning, I’d like more to play with more variables then ride height.
  • Graphics don’t matter to a certain extend, but don’t want to be racing boxes.
  • Console or PC don’t matter, if its good enough i’ll pay for it.

Since i’ve never played any of the above games with a wheel what do you thing is THE best racing sim. Don’t forget about FORZA and GT4 coming soon.

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For my personal preference I liked “NFS: Porsche Unleashed”, just because the engines sound so great.

But as far as sims go, all around, probably the Gran Turismo series…

3

LFS is top for PCs.
GT3 (GT4 soon) for PS2.
Project Gotham 2, altho it’s arcadey, for Xbox.

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ya the GT series is th closest you will find, gotham isnt really a sim

5

Just wait till december 14th and pickup gran turismo 4. if you want it to be an even better simulator get the GT4 force feedback steering wheel. :wink: ($199.00)

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Gran turismo´s full name : “Gran Turismo, the real driving simulator.”

7

Damn $200 for the steering wheel… and I have the perfect setup for it…
But I so want parts for the silvia…
:frowning:

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That’s what i am probably going to do, exept its delayed untill first quarter of 2005. I will buy that wheel now and play LFS (since you can use on PC as well). I was just wondering if there are any very good sims that i didn’t know of.

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lfs is wicked… tons of people were playing it online before you had to purchase it…

need for speed is arcady but fun

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That’s what i am probably going to do, exept its delayed untill first quarter of 2005. I will buy that wheel now and play LFS (since you can use on PC as well). I was just wondering if there are any very good sims that i didn’t know of.[/quote]

are you shitting me??? dammit, I paid for that game in october 2003 and have been waiting eagerly ever since. jan 04, may 04, july 04, oct 04, dec 04, now 05’!!! I hope it will be flawless after so many years spent on it since gt3 was released. the screenshots ive seen so far look like photographs.

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Wow that sucks, this is why I never pre-order games.

12

Don’t any of you have a mod chip?

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My PlayStation does, but the PS2 is a bit trickier, I’ve got a DVD burner though so maybe I should get it done…

My only “fear” is they will start doing the same thing they did to the PS-One games where they made games that could detect the chip and not run.

I’m debating chipping it though for some of the drifting games that they won’t release here.

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:wavey:
i ahve it, last week pcied up Metal gear solid and underground 2, week befrore got san andreas, i love its a lot better than paying 80 for a game, they stick it to you ahrcore for those games

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for psx I had a really cool chip, it was just a gameshark that clipped on the back of the original psx’s that would suspend everything after the playstation does its check for a regular game, then it let you swap the discs and play your burnt game, it was really something, only cost me 20 bucks plus I could bring it to my friends houses or whatever. If anyone knows where to get these for ps2 (I heard of one called Magic Swap now) let me know.

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you dont need gameshark for the new chips, there all direct boot, and mine has had no problems, accpet the dvd player doesnt always work, but idont need it as a dvd palyer anyway so that dont bother me

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I know the chips dont need gamesharks, but the one I had was a gameshark with the chip in it so you didnt have to take apart your playstation at all, just externally plug in this and play…