I would have expected a Ferrari fan like yourself to know that
Saw both examples at the local Italian autoshow yesterday:
By the way, what do you think of the game? I never bought it but I'm considering it.
The game's been getting mixed reviews; some liking it, some loving it, and some hating it. So far I've played through the "Golden" era and I'm about halfway through the "Silver" era and I have to say...it's pretty damn good. At first it was just OK when playing with the old cars because they were pretty slow and handled like shit (just like in real life
). You can start in any era (Golden, Silver, or Modern) you want, but I think the natural thing to do is start with Golden and make your way up because you can really see and feel the advancements of the cars over the years; first they start out slow and not handling very well, but as you go through the years you really notice the speed and handling improvements (with both road and race cars). For instance, the 250 GTO looks awesome, but it's handling isn't very good which makes it hard to drive...and less fun. The 288 GTO shows huge improvements with speed and handling and the F40 is just a pure dream to drive.
Honestly, I think you have to be a Ferrari fan to like this game so I dunno if a Lambo fan like yourself would like it, but as a game it is pretty good. The physics aren't GT5 or Forza, obviously, but I find the driving to be adequate and the cars are fun to drive (keep in mind I'm playing with a wheel which is way better than a controller). I'm playing it on the PS3 and the graphics are pretty good (would look amazing on a high-end PC, especially the cars). Between races you get little snippets of a storyline where you play a racing driver moving up the ranks; it's not great but I'm not complaining...it's a nice little addition to the game.
The events can get a little repetitive (understandable since there are so many), but sometimes you get cool ones which you've never seen before like one I did recently where to see how far F1 cars have advanced, the AI was in an F1 car from the 70's and you were put in a "current" (80's) F1 car. The older car had a 15 second head start and the goal is you have 1 lap to catch and overtake him. That one in particular was pretty cool.
Overall, I'm enjoying the game and I would recommend it to racing game fans (even if you're not a Ferrari fan).
Edit: Remembering all those comments on how it's so hard it's impossible sometimes...I'm playing on medium level (gonna save hard for later) and I've never encountered an "impossible" event. Some are ridiculously easy, some are pretty challenging and frustrating (time trials are the hardest), but not that hard overall (I guess those people complaining were playing on easy so they were pretty useless anyway
).
