RACE AGAINST REALITY

摘要

Pulse pounding, you hit the brakes and crank the wheel, but it's too late: The car can't overcome its own momentum, and you slam into the wall at 150. And then? You stand up, go to the kitchen, and grab some more cheese puffs and a soda. No matter how sensational a racing game's look and feel, it's easier to scrape yourself off the couch than the pavement. But Microsoft Game Studios's Forza Motorsport, due out for Xbox on May 3, aims to leave you physically shaken by the experience of a virtual collision—and to eclipse other racing games as the most realistic ever produced. The software giant devoted more than two and a half years and the expertise of 150 employees to build Forza, digitally describing gravity, surface temperatures, friction coefficients and thousands of other factors that mimic the cause and effect of reality.