Dangerous Driving

High speed, dangerous driving is at the heart of the game and we're continuing the work to ensure the cars drive really well. This week it was the turn of the Sedan and the SUV to get a tune up - the SUV rolls less in the jump and is less twitchy to steer whilst the Sedan can accelerate quicker and we also tuned how it entered drift so its smoother.

Ben, our fantastic handling guy, has also worked a lot on the camera this week. And this is something I know a lot of you are going to love because it is something you keep telling us you want .....

We've placed the camera higher to aid visibility but the thing you'll love is we added right stick camera control. So now you can adjust the camera up and down yourself (and it will stay there) but you can also adjust it left and right to see what's around you (which will autocorrect after a period). There is also a look behind camera, handy for checking no one is sneaking up on you when you're ruling it in 1st place.

It's been a great week on handling but I have to be honest that the REALLY exciting news this week is that we've been playing the game ONLINE!

before we can make the trailer we needed to improve the Takedowns. On the old game we started pretty much every new version asking ourselves how much better the Crashes and Takedowns could be. Therefore one of the reasons we were most excited about returning to this genre was that they could finally use real physics. No canned reactions - purely physical based on the speed, or more specifically the velocity of the vehicles involved, how and where they were hit etc.

There is of course more work to do here (I know we always say that!) but we are starting to see some interesting reactions as you'll see below.