Simbin's first AWD recreation, this predictably grippy super-coupe is the ideal foil for GTR: Evo's awesome centrepiece, an incredibly credible depiction of the 24km-long Nordschleife. The closest you get to an official Lambo in the game is the new Gallardo-based Audi R8. Might be a bit of squeeze, but I think I'm going to go for it.
#Race 07 vs gtr evolution mods#
Oh well, there's always mods (they're starting to appear already) or old friend GTR2. With SimBin-buddies Blimey currently coding a Ferrari-focussed sim you would have thought the odd Fezza might have sneaked in. Carbon-fibre cheetahs like the Gumpert Apollo, Koenigsegg CCGT and Saleen S7 do a sterling job of filling the glamour gap, but there's an air of absence all the same. When a sim dev gets the science right, the poetry usually follows.įour badges you won't find in GTR: Evo's eerily people-free pit lanes are those of Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati. It's all so perfect, so utterly convincing, the fact you don't know the name of your chief mechanic, or didn't get to ogle the cleavage of a polygonal grid girl before the start, doesn't seem to matter in the slightest. The Wagnerian clamour of the V8s, the palpable sense of mass in motion, the furious tyre versus road judo. Hurtle them round any of the 40-plus circuit configurations and any misgivings about spartan presentation and fusty graphics soon evaporate. Serves me right for trying to read the graffiti. Find it next to Crashium and Pleaseslowdowndearium on the Periodic Table). Cars like the Aston Martin DBR9, the Lister Storm and the Gillet Vertigo Streiff would be rubbish at a boot sale - what with having boots the size of actual boots - but on the track, they're in their element (Zoomium.
Most of the newbies are the kind of alarmingly well-endowed automotive porn stars that go through life without ever visiting a Tesco car park or attending a boot sale. The closest thing to a populist feature in GTR: Evo is the crammed garage RACE's 20-strong field of touring cars and open-wheelers have had to shove over and make room for two dozen additions. GTR, GTR2, GT Legends and now this, an expanded version of last year's excellent RACE 07 have all had SimBin's input and have all put realism firmly before razzamatazz. It's almost as if they consciously decided to channel all their skill and industry into trivialities like physics, track modelling and AI. It's almost as if the studio considered such things unimportant. Hell, you don't even get to negotiate your own sponsorship deals (sorry Anusol) or floor your arch-nemesis/cyborg half-brother in a pit lane punch-up. No nitrous bottles or touge battles, no skill stats or slo-mo crashes. Look at this one: no quad bikes, no supertrucks, no dune buggies, no karts. They really don't have a clue when it comes to making race sims.
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