'10 Unleashed pits four Need For Speed players against their virtual lap times
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We've often wondered if the countless hours we've spent playing racing games on the xBox and PlayStation have given us any advanced capabilities on an actual track. We're obviously not the only ones. Mustang's "Unleashed" campaigned pitted four life-long gamers head to head in a game of Need for Speed SHIFT, followed by some seat time in the 2010 Ford Mustang at the Fast Lane Driving School, and the results were... predictable.
Four participants each angled for the best time on the virtual track driving a Mustang, followed by two laps around the real life version of the circuit behind the wheel of the original pony car. The goal is to take the best lap from both the virtual and real world, combine them and come up with a winner. As you can guess, the gamers fared quite a bit better with a controller in their hands than a steering wheel, but you can see for yourself if the best racing gamer was also the reality track star by check out the video after the jump.
[Source: YouTube]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
bogi094 7:43PM (11/12/2009)
umm they had a GT500 in the game and a GT in real life... ohh well
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Tom 10:31PM (11/12/2009)
Exactly! They probably would've been a little closer to the times in the game if they had an extra 200~ hp LOL
seanleeforever 2:23AM (11/13/2009)
driving without wheel.... how dare you call that simulation?
as a matter of fact, no xbox360 driving game can be called simulator because MS doesn't allow any 3rd party hardware to be used on their system. your choice is either a controller (which give you NO feedback on the gas/brake) or a crappy MS driving wheel (sort of like Wii driving wheel)
glennc 7:12AM (11/13/2009)
or a fanatec porsche turbo s wheel.
Clavius 7:06PM (11/12/2009)
Ok these guys call themselves gamers? All I seen was continuing crashes and constant cutting corners. Unless it was just the way they edited the show. Well atleast I hope so... please tell me it was for editing >
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Jung 7:13PM (11/12/2009)
Would've been nice to know what a professional driver can manage in the real course.
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samsam5886 10:47AM (11/13/2009)
Here's a video of someone I know who is as fast as or even faster than a professional on the same track. He's driving a turbo Miata and gets a 1:07 laptime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5g8WGW0lQw
ytilanigiroon 12:03PM (11/13/2009)
What the hell does the Miata's lap time have to do with comparing a tamed racing driver's lap time to a mere mortal's in a Mustang GT?
LaserRed38 7:34PM (11/12/2009)
Well, it might be a little hard to match your time in the game (driving a virtual GT500) when driving a (real life) GT....
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Hamud 7:38PM (11/12/2009)
Well noticed...
RWD 7:46PM (11/12/2009)
I was thinking the same thing the first time I heard that obviously supercharged whine! And of course the different trim.
Does that just mean they sucked hard in the game and not as hard in real life?
LaserRed38 8:44PM (11/12/2009)
That, and you can clearly see the steering wheel medallion in the first pic, which is how I noticed. Meh, I would have been more impressed with a GT5 competition.
Blump 7:43PM (11/12/2009)
wow...the best lap time I got on that game was 1:03 with the same car on a Logitec G25 wheel. I wonder how I would of done in real life.
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Hoyun 7:45PM (11/12/2009)
Amazing how they got the 3010 Mustangs 1000 years early.
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sean 7:57PM (11/12/2009)
Interesting. They were slower in reality - no surprise - but the spread went from ~8 secs in the game to ~3 secs in reality.
Oh yeah: luckyluckyluckyluckyluckyb*st*rds
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master_V12 8:00PM (11/12/2009)
They should have used Forza or GT gamers.... NFS is a joke
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adam 9:50PM (11/12/2009)
play the game V12.
basicallyplain 5:01AM (11/13/2009)
Maybe he has.
And maybe you should try both. Because NFS is a joke.
Moth 10:42AM (11/13/2009)
î What he said î
Stuka 8:05PM (11/12/2009)
Need for Speed the best racing game ever?! Thats a joke right?
And if they are "avid" gamers, they seriously need to find another hobby.
But in theory, its a neat thing to do that I would love to try (although in a better game, Forza 3 or GT5).
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