“Wow, Playground Games have nailed it!” That was my first impression of the game.
Then I started fine tuning all my advanced controller settings so they were identical to FM5 and it feels just as good. With tuning in FH2 this game is going to be great for the hardcore and the nerds too.
What I don’t like is something that really bothered me in the first game - The day/night cycle is far too fast, we should be able to change the speed of this. I get the feeling the weather effects are going to be the same. On long freerun sessions this is going to get annoying.
Secondly, the speed effects in cockpit view are terrible, the steering wheel judders all over the place. If this happened in real life in my new Hurican I’d send it straight back immediately! I hope this can be turned off in the full game as it can be in previous Forza games.
Thirdly, and this is a bug that has plagued all Forza games since the get go. smoke and now spray coming off the wheels still looks a bit sh1te. I was behind a rally fighter in a night time rain race and it looked like there was cotton wool buds stuck on the back of the wheels. then oddly, when watching the reply from above it looked as real as a video.
Hopefully they can sort a few of these things out with a day one patch now that the game has gone gold already.
It would be great to hear other people’s impressions or if there is somewhere else I should have posted this then let me know too.
Laters.