Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed

A little OT, BUT! I'd love to see a ''racing sim simulator'' where you control a player who is playing a sim What would the difference really be like?

Here is a glmpse at cockpit mode.

VVV Magictap wrote:you ever been in a race prepared car? I'm just guessing from your response it's a no. In race prepared cars, the gearbox is very aggressive plus has no sound proofing like you road car will.

No, I've never driven a racecar before, but I know how to drive stick and I don't recall ever seeing gearshifts like that in any onboard footage from actual racing. Yes the shifts are loud, but it doesn't sound like something is broken. Plus, a 3 year old could get a street car H pattern gear box through its gears smoother and more quickly than the jerky shifts in Shift 2, which presumably are with sequential boxes.

From recent memory, the GT cars at Sebring appeared to smoothly accelerate out of 16 down the straight. They didn't lose a noticeable amount of momentum going through the gears.

Just my thoughts, I don't expect them to have instantaneous shifts like F1 cars, but I think its a little too far in the opposite extreme.

maybe dude. I think they did actually recordings though. But I'm not sure on that one.

Go take a car out and hit the clutch and shift like you do in a game at the same time while never lifting off the throttle. See how loud your gearbox is then.

Real drivers also heel toe and blip the throttle to set the rpms. Dont need to do that in a video game

At sebring all cars had paddle shifter's narboza so smooth gear transitions are all you would have seen.

AudiSport Louis wrote:At sebring all cars had paddle shifter's narboza so smooth gear transitions are all you would have seen.

You sure someone didn't have a 3 speed on the column??

VVV worm wrote:Go take a car out and hit the clutch and shift like you do in a game at the same time while never lifting off the throttle. See how loud your gearbox is then.

Real drivers also heel toe and blip the throttle to set the rpms. Dont need to do that in a video game

A road car wouldn't have the same racing spec straight cut dogtooth gears, so yes, slamming through the gears like that in a Mini Cooper will blow out the transmission pretty quickly.

I'm not sure how heel toe applies here as they are accelerating, not breaking.

AudiSport Louis wrote:At sebring all cars had paddle shifter's narboza so smooth gear transitions are all you would have seen.

Here's a video of a Corvette at Sebring in 2010. Yes there's a jolt with every shift, but the car does not noticeably stop accelerating.