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Wuss. Free food should never be passed up.

So yeah, I'm not mad keen on it.

I'd already played the earlier PC beta which wasn't very good, but I did expect to see some progress. I went in with low expectations anyway, and tbh just fancied playing something arcadey for a couple of hours on a Friday night that I knew would be limited in scope. What I got was something that I would never pay a single penny for. Let me list the things I didn't like about the game: The 370Z was as twitchy as an Elise on mixed tyres The Mustang handled like an Elise from the factory i.e. understeer city The Camaro handled like a boat. Not a metaphorical boat, but like an actual boat. The first two cars are not mid-engined. They should not handle like one. The graphics are poorly lit, poorly shadowed, and poorly coloured. The streets are nigh-on empty of anything. You may see the odd person or a bin. Traffic density is retarded. NOS is useless, as you use it and all it does is spin the wheels up and leave you banging off the limiter. You go slower if you use it. Hit a car square-on and you get a replay Burnout-style. The game then resets itself like you never had a crash and you're left with zero momentum, and as the screen goes back during this you lose your positioning. All this time, the car you're chasing to takedown (and there's a few of these) is getting away. One crash and you'll NEVER catch them up, as no matter what car you have or they have, they're always MASSIVELY faster. Tinniest engine sounds in a long time. They make GT sound lifelike. Upgrading your car does nothing. Seriously, my 2011 'Stang went from lvl10 to lvl63, and it felt like the exact same car. Pop up, pop up, pop up. You get to drive a 4x4 Baha buggy-like Cayman. Sounds great, but it's uncontrollable as the steering feel is zip. Oh yeah, and you're supposed to takedown another vehicle whilst leaping over dunes in your uncontrollable car that will randomly spin as you land, meaning you'll never catch the guy up as per the above. Detroit felt like Dagenham. Now, I've never been to Detroit, but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't make me think of Dagenham. I could go on. I even tried making a Crew but either the system isn't on or it's broken to hell, and the matchmaking just timed out. This is honest to god the worst game I've played for many years. If this was demoed in this state to any other publisher, they'd tell you to get lost and stop wasting their time. Do not pre-order. Do not be tempted to pick this up thinking it will be better by release. It won't. It's so horrendously broken, nothing short of starting again will save this.

Knowing Grundy, his safe word would be "GIVE IT TO ME HARDER!".

Do not ever play The Crew. Ever. It's truly awful. I don't care if this is only a beta, it should never ever have gotten this far. Possibly the worst game I've played in the last 10 years, it has literally zero redeeming features.

I've never even cared. As long as it's got five wheels and an engine, I'm in

They're grown men, they shouldn't be forced! Plenty of other series to go racing in. Caterham and Marussia have been nothing but an embarrassment to the sport.

Sneakytimes are coming, sneakytimes are coming...

That's actually the one car I'd be happiest to crash. At least the only person I'm troubling then is myself, if I crash someone else's then I'm depriving them.

I have a certain amount of sympathy with him, really. All the teams signed up, and if they weren't happy then they shouldn't have signed their contracts. Ultimately, they have only themselves to blame for their failure.

Bernie wants more double points. What Bernie wants, Bernie normally gets.

And little Johnny wouldn't get hit at all if he didn't wander in the f*cking road without looking

This is the equivalent of your boss buying lunch. You may not want to go, but ultimately you know you have to just to keep the peace.

Or my brother's, in my case.

List of cars you don't want to crash, in order: 5. Your wife's. 4. Your girlfriend's. 3. Your wife's when picking the girlfriend up. 2. Your Dad's. 1. Your boss's.

No, they stay with the mortgage lender until paid off. You can get photocopies if you want though.

Fixed. Bloody hate people that wear backpacks in close spaces like that. Really heats my urine.

Nooooo more chances/excuses for Nico to punt Lewis off

There's being sanctimonious, and then there's simply telling people when they're being silly. For example, I have very little problem with people driving at a fair lick on a well-sighted B-road in good conditions. However, doing 85 on the motorway or exceeding a 30 at any point seems utterly daft as that's exactly where you're most likely to be caught. If you do so, and then get the letter through the post, as long as you're not moaning about it (and in fairness, I don't feel the OP actually is) then you'll have no issue with me. The more people that speed in places where it's bloody obvious that there's a chance of being caught (main routes, 30/40/50 limits, anywhere it would be very easy to park a camera van), the more likely they are to keep adding cameras. The country won't always be skint, and at some point they'll start funding these again with a vengeance as it's easy money. If everyone stopped speeding in silly places, then overnight this would become a huge loss maker for the authorities and they would stop funding them. Simple as that. Every time someone gets caught, they make it worse for the rest of us.

Whilst I can appreciate where you're coming from on this, to me that sounds exactly like a comment from BRAKE. It was far more likely that the fact the guy was on his phone was the problem, not the actual speeding. I'm guessing of course, as he may have been doing 100mph in a 30mph whilst just moving his phone to a holder, do you know exactly what happened? What did the guy get (I assume he was prosecuted)?

Most hotels are booked up for 2016+ as well... Mental.

Damn straight! I love doing that in truck, it don't half surprise some people when I give it the beans

SO MUCH WANT

I get a perverse pleasure out of waiting right until I'm dead level with the speed limit sign, then nailing the snot out of the car. Makes me feel like I'm playing Daytona USA with a rolling start

Anytime