Date played: September 29th
Platform: Xbox One
Session fun rating: 8/10
I played 3 showcase events last night. The first was in the Race Driver Experience category where I got to drive a Lotus F1 car around Yas Marina at night. Those cars are absolutely incredible... Of course, they go really fucking fast and shifting through 8 gears manually is always a challenge, but the best part is the unbelievable braking and cornering. It's completely different from anything else in the game and it's quite exciting.
Next up was a Factory Spec event in the Formula Ford. Now, these LOOK like high end race cars, but they don't drive like them. The Formula Ford isn't all that fast and is actually quite drifty in corners, losing friction rather easily. They still handle pretty well, but it's jarring to drive a car that looks like that, then see it lose it's tail like John Bobbitt at every sharp corner.
Finally, I raced the beautiful but wild 2013 Caterham Superlight R500 in another Factory Spec race. Now that's a car that is fun to drive! It's very drifty, like the Formula Ford, but it's a lot more fun to wrangle back to stability. I had many moments where I put the car back on track with a giant puff of smoke behind me, cones flying in the air and tires screeching wildly.
Platform: Xbox One
Session fun rating: 8/10
I played 3 showcase events last night. The first was in the Race Driver Experience category where I got to drive a Lotus F1 car around Yas Marina at night. Those cars are absolutely incredible... Of course, they go really fucking fast and shifting through 8 gears manually is always a challenge, but the best part is the unbelievable braking and cornering. It's completely different from anything else in the game and it's quite exciting.
Next up was a Factory Spec event in the Formula Ford. Now, these LOOK like high end race cars, but they don't drive like them. The Formula Ford isn't all that fast and is actually quite drifty in corners, losing friction rather easily. They still handle pretty well, but it's jarring to drive a car that looks like that, then see it lose it's tail like John Bobbitt at every sharp corner.
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| The Caterham Superlight R500 |
