looks ace, i hope they flesh out career a bit more, i got bored to hell with shift after tier 3

Im not a fan of racing games, but Im very impressed with what was shown. I might consider getting this. Looks pretty cool.

looks cute. If i wanted realistic racing, ill get GT5. If I want over the top racing, I'm getting Motorstorm Apocalypse. This game has no place for me.

And what makes you think GT5 is more realistic than Shift 2?

Because the devs said they weren't really going for realism.

Like someone else said, I'm more excited for Grid 2. This looks awesome too

They're allowing you to play the game as a full sim. Check at 3:30 in the video.

It seems like they're trying to portray what the drivers "feel" rather than what's actually happening. I get what you're saying though.

I'm not a fan of sims though so..

Yeah, there's a big focus on immersion and trying to make you feel as if you're actually driving this car in this race, which is what I really like it for. And good thing there is a more arcade version too, you don't have to crank it up on the sim difficulty level.

is shift a racing sim then and not an arcade racer

Shift was amazing because of the immersion level. While GT5 is very realistic when it comes to the actual cars, it fails to capture the intensity and overall fierceness of racing and driving stupidly fast beasts. I can't help but notice that if you're not using the cockpit view, the game feels horribly calm because of the lack of additional camera/sound effects.

Hopefully the ps3 version will be a little more equal to the 360 version this time around. I didn't buy the first because GT5 was on it's way but definitely buying this one!