(For the simulation driving pros, cars and tracks are available right away.) As you make your way up to “speed,” you’re rewarded with custom championships and track variations that you’ll soon be driving. You name it and it’s covered in school (which is way more fun than math class). You learn the ABCs of smooth acceleration, controlled braking, pin-point cornering and driving in adverse weather. Before you start your racing career, you’re ushered into a driving school that takes you through 17 categories of training and 142 challenges. Nope, this is serious racing and one of the most accurate and sensitive games you’ll ever “drive.” (Console games should cower in shame.) But don’t worry, GTR 2 is designed to help you into the driver’s seat. There aren’t any giggling bikini girls, either. Speeding around the track may be what you’re longing for, but this isn’t one of those mash-the-accelerator-and-demolish-anything-that-gets-in-your-way kind of games. Of course, it’s the driving that matters, and that’s where GTR 2‘s particulars shine. You can almost feel the leather stretching across the knuckles of your gloved hands as you grip the wheel and rev the engine. The glint of the sun on the hood in front of you and the grumble of the muscular motor are all captured to a T. As you sit in the tight cockpit of each vehicle, every button and line (inside and out) is exactly as it should be. They’ve reconstructed over 140 exquisite racing machines in minute detail. Which is exactly how the guys at SimBin approached their new “official simulation of the FIA GT championship” GTR 2. And it’s the small things, the details that count. But if you want things to run smoothly with either, it takes time and work. Since the days of the Model T, people have asked, “Why do guys name their cars after women?” The sneering comics among us might answer with something like, “Because a car will last longer than their next relationship,” or “They want a girl they can control.” But as one who appreciates a fine automobile and a lovely wife, I think that the truth is less cynical and more sensible.
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