simply pure and perfect physics simulating, but needs a lot of improvement in everyhing else

User Rating: 9.2 | Enthusia Professional Racing PS2
By matagilis | Review Date:
Ok, this is just what I was waiting to see from a racing simulation, real simulation. Forget all you have seen in GT4 when coming to the physics. Until I tried out this game I was totally eclipsed with GT4, but is only when you try this when you see how wrong the driving was.

The way the weight is transferred is perfect, you can clearly feel how all the weight moves to the front when braking in a turn, making the rear wheels loose traction and so starting a drift. Or how if you step on the gas with a rear-wheel traction car in a turn the back looses traction again making a controlable powerdrift.

You cant go mad when driving in this game, you have to drive carefully and have a lot of patience, and when you get it right you feel you are in heaven. Its just like driving a real car.

Of course you have to have a wheel for this. You could make it with a feedback wheel, but unlike Gran Turismo it will be kind of like an adaptive wheel (like the one BMW recently introduced), so turning the same angle the wheel at different speeds will make the wheels turn more or less, I personally hate this. You will have to get a Driving Force pro with the 900º device to properly experience this game, the turning will be just as in the real cars (believe me, it is worth it).

I have nothing to say about the rest of the game, if you read the other reviews you will get an idea of how the menus and driving modes are. Not good at all, except for the Enthusia life mode idea, but it needs a lot of improvement. As for me, I only play free races and against the clock, where you can really concentrate on driving the cars you want where and how you want to.

The car selection is ok, you can get a lot of cool nice cars, like the NSX-R, RUFs, BMWs, TVRs... But please, Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Porsche, Ferrari, Ferrari, more Astons, Bentleys, BMWs...

The tracks are another weak point, whereas the real circuits are probably my favorites (Nürburgring, Montecarlo and Tskuba) the rest are ok to try out, but once again, please, nice real circuits, Montmelo, Laguna Seca...


To sum up, get the driving physics of this game, put them with the contents of GT4 (+Ferraris and so on) and you will get the biggest masterpiece ever made.


PD: Pleease get a second Enthusia

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