Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360)

Pros: Customization upgrade

Cons: Missing in car view (Project Gotham Like)

Summary: Has what I remember liking on the original Grand Tourismo... performance tuning and upgrades that really work. Sounds are great and realistic, changing the engine and exhaust changes the sound as well. Lots of cars, too may game play options and car customization options to list. Cars handle well and it is almost too easy to drive fast. You can make it super easy to drive by turning all the assists on, nice addition if you are a casual gamer. Cars can be damaged which is cool. The damage effects performance also. Finally, there is telemetry... This makes tuning the car a lot easier and it lets us engineers "play" with the knobs. From what I can tell...the how the vehicles respond to changes in the tuning works pretty good and the telemetry data can actually be used to do this tuning...very nice indeed. Also has online play but I didn't try it.

I only wish it had a few more American tracks, in game soundtrack controls (skip track for example), and it is missing the in car view that PGR has.