Glorified iPhone game

Lots of complaints….

Controls are just bad. It uses auto-accelerate, so you’re either flat out or braking. They offer four control options: controller (don’t have one), trackpad (OK, found myself using this the most, but not easy to aim the car into a turn), WASD (choppy turning, can’t adjust angle), or iPhone (just didn’t work).

Other cars don’t know how to race. I found myself getting hit a lot by the other cars. If I was passing on an inside line with the right of way, I’d always get hit by the car I was passing. They don’t know how to brake or take a turn either, so when you’re following them they brake too early and you ram right into them. The frustrating bit about this is that the other cars always seem to recover faster from these crashes.

My other complaint is that you qualify for every race in last place, which means in a field of 16 cars you have to pass 15 to win. This wouldn’t be such a huge problem, except the races are relatively short and the other cars are terrible at racing, so it’s so much of a challenge just to pass them.

If you’re looking for a decent racing sim, don’t waste your money. This is on par with a 2 dollar iPhone app.

Carlos Dangerfield about Real Racing 2