December 16, 2011 Eric Swain External Sources, Recent Posts Let me play: 7 issues with racing games My weekly post is up at Nightmare Mode and only one day late this time. Here I go on about Gran Turismo 5 and Need for Speed: Shift. Neither game really grabbed me, in fact in the beginning they seem to do all they could to repel me. I understand both games are hardcore driving sims. Though I thought Need for Speed was a bit more arcadey. I just happened to pick up the only sim in the franchise. But as they are hardcore sims and I’ve only started playing racing games a few months ago I didn’t want to flap my mouth off too much. | more