hpluls

June 6, 2012

Looks like HP 2010, but set in a big city. This could make the online Most Wanted and Interceptor modes even more interesting, if they do bring them back. Trucks and SUVs will probably be a nice addition too.

June 4, 2012

Well since Milli posted 2 pics I'll use her other one

If you mean the one with the Daihatsu, I believe that's a real shot she posted to show what a kei car is.

June 3, 2012

^The MLP fanbase in a nutshell.

June 3, 2012

There's only been 2 entrants so far, I'm giving more people a chance to enter.

June 2, 2012

4th time I've postponed the entry deadline... must be a new record. It's a shame PhOTW is starting to go down the crapper.

June 2, 2012

Closing date postponed until next week.

June 2, 2012

I'm looking forward to this, good thing they left it to Criterion this time. I absolutely loved HP 2010, I kept playing it online for way over a year. Hopefully the online Interceptor mode will be making a return.

May 30, 2012

No voting for yourself, including multiple accounts!

This week's theme was: Rims.

Entrants:

1. Ozzmcom

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2. Incognito

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3. Mercedes-Benz

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4. AZ-1

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5. carlos_69

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May 26, 2012

Starter post updated with new theme.

May 25, 2012

Alright... Guess it's time for a new theme.

May 25, 2012

Congrats to Milli for winning! :)

Theme: Japanese Kei Cars

Closing Date: Saturday, June 9th 2012

Rules:

1. Mild editing (brightness, contrast, saturation, resizing, rotating, cropping, adding your name/logo) is allowed outside GT5 Photomode.

2. No voting for yourself come poll day!

3. Must be shot by you.

4. Photos can't be entered twice.

5. Winner chooses next week's theme.

6. If one person wins twice in a row, the runner-up chooses the next week's theme.

7. Entries must be less than 500kb in filesize!

8. If you wish to change your entry, please just edit your original post and replace the old pic with your new one.

May 22, 2012

Congrats to carlos_69 for winning :)

Car Modification Of The Week: Week 52

Rules:

The car must be tuned by you.
No voting for yourself come poll day.
The cars are to come from any game with a tuning feature.
The cars must follow the theme.
Only one car can be submitted per person, but a person can submit up to 3 photos of the same car.
No photoshopping allowed (apart from resizing, cropping, your name/logo, brightness/contrast).
Usual forum image rules apply (no more than 500 KB).
Each car can only be entered once.
The winner chooses the next theme by PM-ing me.
If one person wins twice in a row, the runner-up chooses the next theme.

This week's theme: Rims

Closing Date: Wednesday 30th May 2012

May 20, 2012

Congrats Carlos! ;) Ozzmcom gets to choose the next theme, seeing as this is the second timne Carlos has won in a row.

May 18, 2012

Closing date postponed once again. If it's the theme that's keeping you guys from entering, I'm going to ask Leadfoot for another one, unless we get at least 3 entrants by next Friday.

May 16, 2012

This week's theme was: VW Golf.

No voting for yourself, you'll be disqualified if you do so.

Entrants:

1. Ken

2. PVieira

3. Milli

May 12, 2012

No voting for yourself, including multiple accounts!

This week's theme was: Black cars/Hot hatches/Japanese coupes.

Entrants:

1. Ozzmcom

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2. carlos_69

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3. derp

May 11, 2012

Closing date postponed.

May 8, 2012

Congrats to PVieira for winning! :)

Theme: VW Golf

Closing Date: Wednesday, May 16th 2012

Rules:

1. Mild editing (brightness, contrast, saturation, resizing, rotating, cropping, adding your name/logo) is allowed outside GT5 Photomode.

2. No voting for yourself come poll day!

3. Must be shot by you.

4. Photos can't be entered twice.

5. Winner chooses next week's theme.

6. If one person wins twice in a row, the runner-up chooses the next week's theme.

7. Entries must be less than 500kb in filesize!

8. If you wish to change your entry, please just edit your original post and replace the old pic with your new one.

May 5, 2012

Congrats to Mb, carlos_69 and Incognito for winning :)

Car Modification Of The Week: Week 51

Rules:

The car must be tuned by you.
No voting for yourself come poll day.
The cars are to come from any game with a tuning feature.
The cars must follow the theme.
Only one car can be submitted per person, but a person can submit up to 3 photos of the same car.
No photoshopping allowed (apart from resizing, cropping, your name/logo, brightness/contrast).
Usual forum image rules apply (no more than 500 KB).
Each car can only be entered once.
The winner chooses the next theme by PM-ing me.
If one person wins twice in a row, the runner-up chooses the next theme.

This week's themes: Black cars/Hot hatches/Japanese coupes

Closing Date: Saturday 12th May 2012

May 4, 2012

So the handling is worse than GRID?

Definitely. Not in an uncontrollable/wobbly/unresponsive way, just... how can I put this... flat. It feels like your car is made of styrofoam, there's no weight to it at all.

EDIT: I've tried the online destruction derby mode, it's much better. The simplistic physics kinda work there. It's obvious that it was the derbies, not the racing, that the development team focused on. I'm still not sure whether to get the full version though.

May 4, 2012

The demo has recently come out on all three platforms, so you can see what the game's like.

I've just tried it, and in my humble opinion it's crap. It's really sad to see what once was a great rally game series devolve into a mediocre game for 7-year-olds who like to watch brightly painted clunkers smash into each other. If only the handling and the crashes were well executed, it might have been a decent game, but the driving physics have been simplified to the point where the game presents absolutely no challenge, unless perhaps the only other game you've played is Angry Birds. The damage model is almost nonexistent, and the crashes feel like smashing 2 sponges together. What's the point of making a destruction-oriented game where the crashes don't even feel powerful? I didn't get to try the multiplayer, as you have to "challenge a friend" to be able to access it (stupid forced word-of-mouth marketing), so here's hoping the online gameplay is better.

May 3, 2012

Congrats to all three winners! ;)

May 3, 2012

Congrats to SBCriss for winning! :)

Week 83

Rules:

Photo MUST be taken by you.
No Voting for yourself!
Photos should be within the limits, which means - not bigger than 500 kb.
The winner chooses the next week's theme. If someone wins twice in a row, the runner-up chooses the next theme.
If you post more than one photo, you must tell us which one you'll enter with. If you don't, the first photo that you've posted will be entered.
Photos cannot be entered twice.
Your photo must follow the theme. The person who chose the theme has ultimate control over whether a photo gets entered or not - there will be no arguing over whether a photo is acceptable.
Basic photoshopping is allowed, such as resizing, brightness, contrast, selective coloring, saturation, cropping, hue, B&W, noise reduction, borders, your name/logo etc. No pasting extra objects to the photo, changing backgrounds etc, as that's not what PhOTW is about.