GT series true racing Sim
I take it that you are referring to Grand Turismo, GT4 was very good at its time, however things have moved on. According to reviews, GT5 is GT4 in HD, apart from that there is not much difference as far as game play is concerned. On top of it the most important thing is to provided a true multilayer environment where players from all over the world can participate. LFS and rFactor do that very well. I still play GT4 on my PS2 but to be honest it is no way near that thrill that you get while driving LFS or rFactor. And of course they the multiplayer so you know where you stand in terms of fast laps etc and how good you are. LFS provide their own site where they keep record of each and every race done online and than rank players, you can watch your fastest laps and other people's fastest laps on same tracks, you can exchange setup's and talk to real people. I participate in a generic racing system called CTRA, you can race in that league does not matter who you are. Of course LFS keeps track of my records, but CTRA makes them public.
http://www.raceauthority.com
and here are my stats (Only on CTRA servers)
http://www.raceauthority.com/stats/?licence=jindjaan
I am not the best over there but I am 25th in UK and 214th in World, not bad for part time racer eh
. For LFS records, which of course includes races done on CTRA or any other online server registered with LFS master server, you have to registered LFS user, and get those at
http://www.lfsworld.net, you can login as guest to have look see.
The point of all of the above talk is that online racing has come a long way, when I am racing online against others, I find myself most of the time sweating after a long race because of the hard work
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