GTR 2 Demo

Although arcade racing games are fun as well, authentic simulators provide you with a more satisfying sense of victory whenever you manage to place on a decent position. Moreover, simulators also take into consideration things like car damage and weather conditions, which make the matters even more difficult and realistic.

GTR 2 is the sequel to the highly-acclaimed first title, which revolutionized the genre with unseen levels of realism and a very accurate physics engine. Thus, the cars fared as close to reality as possible on the track, which also made them extremely hard to handle, especially at high speeds and on wet surfaces.

In this second installment, the same elements have been heavily improved and refined, while more tracks and vehicles have been added to the overall line-up. Moreover, the weather engine has been facilitated as well and you can now set it up to change randomly during the course of the race. Hence, it can start raining at any time, which means an obligatory pit stop for everyone, due to the fact that regular tires do not fare well at all on wet tarmac.

Since the cars are in fact the main attraction of the game, they have received additional care when it comes to the level of detail and the geometry, which makes them accurate from a visual point of view as well. Their cockpits have been closely modeled as well, not to mention the mechanical characteristics that dictate how the cars behave on the track and how well they respond in certain conditions.

The racing simulation has remained the game's greatest feat, especially since you are allowed to personalize how real you want the experience to be. Hence, there are a number of options that allow you to enable the steering aid, the automatic clutch and gear box, as well as activate the auto-pilot. The opponents can also provide you with quite the challenge and you can modify their behavior, in case you want them to be more or less violent during the race.

In the end, GTR 2 truly does provide you with one of the most realistic driving experience out there, which, although might prove to be very difficult to accustom to, becomes highly intuitive after a few hours of gameplay. Naturally, a steering wheel is highly recommended in order to play the game, since it is rather hard to employ the manual gearbox method on a keyboard.