I'll probably pick this up some point, but sorry Playground Games, you're a very distant object in the rear view mirror compared to Criterion doing what on the face of it looks like Burnout:Paradise Deux.
Recent footage has made me a bit more interested in this, but I'd imagine NFS is much more likely to sell at launch. It's certainly easy enough for me to wait for this to drop in price.
I'm still amazed that the two of them are getting released a week apart. You'd think MS and EA would have a better grasp of the precarious state of the racing genre.
You seemed to be suggesting that other games were porn for cars, and given the context, it's reasonable to assume you meant previous Forzas. Perhaps I'm the only one who bought them for the racing aspect.
I did mean the other Forza's re car porn element, but I wasn't trying to say that was the only thing they had going for them. Forza 3 and 4 have the most delicious handling in any racer I've played.
They've got the car models and MS needed another exclusive this Christmas, they certainly couldn't have released Forza 5 so soon. There's an argument that MS should have done more to keep PGR alive, but Bizarre Creations had incredibly bad commercial instincts at times.