*splooge*

WOO HOO!

yeah, i could also get weak and pick up that Msoft wheel, if this is all it could be.

Guess I'm gonna have to set the alarm clock for earlier than usual. I wonder how big it is going to be? I'm probably gonna have to delete some stuff.

No demo...

Apparently it was PST, not EST.. Time to get out the nachos. Good thing I don't start work until monday.

I downloaded it before work as well. It appears the promised faster downloads are true because it took under 10 minutes to finish. I can't wait to give it a go when I get home.

Where is the setting to do low power downloading? I looked briefly but didn't see an option.

It's in the Console Setting menu, where the Auto Shutdown option is. If you choose to do this, you actually have to turn the Xbox off in order to get it into the low power download mode.

Well, for the record, I find the demo a little disappointing. It seems like they cut out a ton of stuff to keep the download size of the demo down, and as a result the demo doesn't feel like a terribly good representation of what the final game will be.

Now don't get me wrong, this is still on my to-buy list, and it at least gives us a chance to play with a number of cars and see how pretty they are, but the demo itself just feels far too limited.

About the only thing the demo would be useful for imo is making sure the physics feel right.

I've heard from someone on another forum that they don't have the anti-aliasing up that high and there are a good amount of jaggies. Anyone know if the final build is gonna be like this or if it was just for the demo?

So the screenshots look closer to the replay mode than the actual ingame graphics?

60 fps >>>>>> anti-aliasing

I am tired of games raping their framerate in favor of purty effects. On the PC, I can turn things down/off and get a nice, fast, fluid framerate. I absolutely hate not being able to do this on console games.

Nothing looks better than a rock-solid smooth framerate. Nothing. IMNSHO.

Play a game long enough, and you'll stop noticing the prettiness the way you did at first. But you will never, ever, stop noticing and appreciating 60fps.

I played it a bit this morning on an SD TV and loved it. The bits of car that fall off don't seem to have much effect when run back over tho.

Not that I had a lot of small bits falling off... they were huge.

That makes me a sad robot.

Before Forza 1, I never could quite wrap my head around car sims. Something about their take on the formula made it click for me, though, and I've been eagerly anticipating Forza 2 since it was first announced. In the interim, though, I was able to use that new appreciation of the genre to get into PGR3, and my favorite thing about that game was how goddamn right it felt to play it in the cockpit view with the accurately modeled interiors. Given that, if there was one new feature I would have liked to see in Forza 2, that would have been it.

Such is life.

Still, I can't wait to get home from work and give the game a spin. I wonder, does the demo have support for the wheel? It seems like it might be a wise idea to try and pick up the wheel now if you were going to actually buy it and avoid the scarcity that will no doubt develop around the launch of the game, you know?