Entries Tagged as 'Racing'

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

A Few Words About Forza Motorsport 2

Forza2 is a very good game. It’s well above average and a very polished release. It is, for better or worse, the best realistic racing game available on the 360, maybe the only one, and it does a lot of things right. However, there are many elements of the game that keep […]

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Need for Speed

A couple interesting recent quotes from our lovely governor here in PA (yeah, he’s one of the guys that was booing Santa Claus):

 ”I’ve told my troopers (a reference to Rendell’s police escorts) that I don’t want them exceeding 80 unless they need to pass or unless there’s some real exigent circumstance”
“We do the appropriate speed.  Sometimes we […]

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Racing games lead to risky driving?

CNN reports on an article to be published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, which supposedly presents evidence that playing driving games increases risk-taking behavior in subsequent driving. But from what’s reported in the CNN article, there’s little evidence supporting the headline’s claim that “racing games may spur risky driving”.
From the […]