Hopefully, I’ll be picking up the game sometime soon and I hope my decent GT skills transfer over to Forza.

But Forza 2, through my first hour and a half, its pretty good. Like most racing games, the first few hours are…boring? Im not sure how to describe it, but its all about getting some wins, some credits, and last but not least, cars. You start off slow, but man, when you upgrade to that new car with plenty of horse power, oh man is it a blast.

Sadly, it seems the racing wheel would make the experience even better, but just can’t afford it right now, which is probably best seeing as how i don’t have any room for it either. Can’t wait to get into the paint shop, looks like a lot of fun

Do canadians spell “horse” that way, or is that just a typo? Not poking fun, just curious.

I saw many comments of people returning 1 or 2 wheels before actually getting one that’s calibrated properly. That’s not something I’m going to do. I’ve got it packed up and I’ll be returning it tomorrow for a refund. I’ll likely pick up the HD-DVD add-on instead.

@rapture: Really, eh? You like Shadowrun that much? I wasn’t impressed at all when I played it at X’06 last November, but I ended up with a copy today so I tried it out. Way too much involved for my liking. I can see people really getting into it. But having to buy and manage magic and weapons before every game is just not something I enjoy doing. Pretty insane learning curve too. Seems like one of those games that you can’t stop playing or you’ll have to re-learn everything when you revisit it.

I’ve been playing Shadowrun which came out the same day as Forza 2. I’ve been playing the Shadowrun FPS in one form or another since the beta started in January. Despite some of the unfortunate reviews it is getting, I think it’s the best shooter on the XBOX 360 platform.

It was designed by HALO’s lead designer. That definitely shows in the game. If you are interested in a deep shooter with ancient magic and modern technology, I recommend giving it a shot.

The demo is set to come out later this week. After the HALO 3 beta ends, Bungie is going to display an in-game ad suggesting people play Shadowrun. I hope gamers give it a try because it is so much fun.

If I wasn’t in the Shadowrun beta, I would probably have looked at the 7.0/10 reviews and not bought the game.

I would have bought Forza 2 and the kick butt XBOX 360 steering wheel accessories.

@Andrew: Oh, didn’t know you’ve been playing with it on your lap lately. Figured it wouldn’t be great for long periods to play like that, but I guess it’s alright, eh?

@Paul: I was the same way before the first Forza. I liked racing games like the NFS series, but wasn’t huge into them by any means. Then Forza came out and that all changed. Now I love racing games.

I really need to look into how people are doing that sort of art. I didn’t see any option to import images or anything, so are people creating those images from scratch using shapes?

@Paul Stamatiou: Dude, take the plunge! It’s nice in here.

@trovster: Yeah, I’m not touching the PS3 with a ten-foot-pole. Good that you’re holding out to buy it until there’s a game you want, though. Makes me shake my head every time I hear of someone buying a PS3 in hopes that it will be worth the money some day. Because it sure isn’t at this point.

I played the first couple GT games on the original PS, but never got into them.

@Anthony: No sir, haven’t really bothered with the paint/decals much. I’m not a fan of cars all covered in shit and I find those editors to be crazy tedious.

Have you thrown any nice paint on to your cars yet Matt? That element interests me nearly as much as the tight racing.