Step 1: head over to www.liveforspeed.net
Step 2: download the game
Step 3: unzip to hard drive
Step 4: play game and be spoiled for other racing sims

If you like Gran Tourismo for the realism, then you'll love this game. Best when you have a force feedback wheel. It got a 92% from PCGamer. The download is a demo that also includes the full game which you can purchase an unlock code for - for cheap. It's quite awesome...

Thanks! I'll have to check this out over the weekend.

By putting "PC" in the subject header, you've doomed this thread to an early death.

So what's the best price for a good force feedback wheel?

Jeremy

Wow, this is a good game. I just wish I had a better controller to play it with. May have to look into a steering wheel.

Yeah, I debated about that with myself... I think I put PC there to avoid the PC vs. Console arguments - and putting PC there keeps out the riff raff.

Man, I thought this was a Gran Prix Legends thread.

I love Grand Prix Legends. A company called West Racing is working on a game called Racing Legends which looks like it will be in the same vein, but with really high end graphics. Info is at www.west-racing.com. I'm a bit skeptical about it ever seeing the light of day though. The Wests were previously working on a sports car racing game, but that ended up going nowhere.

Anyway... I tried this demo a while back actually, but the old wheel I had wasn't working very well, and I don't like playing driving games with a joystick, so I didn't play it that much. Maybe it's time I get a new wheel and try it again (and reinstall Grand Prix Legends!! )

The thing I found cool about this game was that the keyboard was almost analog in terms of steering - I hadn't seen that before. You could also steer with the mouse if you had to. There's some great gamepads out there these days - this is probably a good reason for me to pick one of those up. I don't really have the room for a wheel.