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I can't believe we didn't have a thread on this.

http://www.wmdportal.com/projects/cars/

For those that haven't heard about the game, it's a racing sim being developed by the studio behind Need for Speed: Shift. I never played the Shift series, but after seeing in game footage of CARS, I'm hooked. Since a lot of the content is community sourced, I'm curious how that's going to play with licensing. I see Renault has partnered with the dev studio, so I'm guessing final approval of included launch vehicles will hinge on licensing rights, but given how I've seen legal arms of big companies go after community mods that include trade dress, I get the feeling that anything created post-launch will have to be knockoffs.

But I'll stop typing and just let the trailers do the talking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e89TRSaGe9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6X2Q6xFSF4

Watch them in 1080p.


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Wow. Very impressive. That engine noise is almost pornographic. Spent the last hour reading up about it. Some in-car gameplay footage...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuVYKHeSwJI

Very excited about this game, especially since it's just developers. No publisher control. I hope this is a trend that continues with all genres of video games. Instead of the same lazy, regurgitated stuff we've been getting from the likes of Activision, or the unfinished, quasi-beta garbage EA pushes, some genuinely innovative IP's may come about.

They've been experimenting with the Oculus Rift as well. It's 2014. I believe VR technology should have been much more developed by now. Hopefully it's going to get a boost if this game can pull it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E85EMxXVZPA

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I saw the Oculus logo and part of my cold, black heart gained life again. I think I'll be building a simulator stand for this game and slap an Oculus Rift headset in it now.

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All the awesome stuff in that video aside...I about went crazy watching it. SO MUCH TIME NOT IN THE THROTTLE!!!!

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:D definitely needed more time on the throttle.


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