AI drivers, while usually fair, will aggressively punish you if you start slamming into them.

That said, Shift 2 is very unfriendly to aggressive drivers rear ending other cars is a terrible strategy as it almost always causes the aggressive driver to get locked into the leading car and spin out. It’s a minor touch, but it captures the cacophony of noise and claustrophobia one gets from being strapped into caged race car, wearing a helmet.

The way the point of view subtly looks towards the apexes of turns as you approach is a nice touch, serving as an unobtrusive but helpful guide. The much touted helmet cam plays a big role in capturing this realism, placing the player’s perspective from within the helmet itself. You never feel like you’re watching a bunch of slick polygons gliding across a bump mapped track you get to feel the true brutality of driving a race car. Engines roar, tires wail in agony, brakes whine, transmissions clatter and slam into gear, while rocks and dirt are kicked up from the track on to your windshield. Shift 2’s greatest triumph is its loud, angry and realistic presentation. All the gloriously anal retentive upgrading and tweaking is there for the die-hards, but the real focus has been shifted to the racing itself. Make no mistake about it, Shift 2 definitely leans heavily towards sim racing, but its DNA has been spliced with a big dose of arcade adrenaline.

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