The “Need For Speed” series also graced my screen and being able to not only steer with a wheel but to have that wonderful force feedback to stimulate the senses seriously helped scratch that itch to drive well beyond not only the speed limits but also my driving-ability limits. It got me through the entire series of “Colin McRae Rally” and pretty much every other rally racing game released in the 90’s. I haven’t had a new wheel combo to play with since I bought the Logitech MOMO setup for my PC a few years back. Just how good is this wheel is what we are about to find out. Force feedback just finishes off the package and enables us, even if for only a short time, to feel like we are blasting down the straight for that last minute braking pass. With its 900 degrees of rotation to its paddle shifters there is no function left in the dark. In steps the Driving Force GT to scratch that itch. With the advent of HD gaming and the HDTV, it was only natural for us armchair road warriors to graduate from the PC to the console. It was a basic unit, but it transformed my world within the first few minutes of using it. PC gaming then took a hold of me and I got my first wheel/pedal setup, the Wingman Formula. I have had an un-natural desire to race in my living room for as long as I can remember. I for one am a major video racing junkie. Since their birth nearly 30 years ago, Logitech has been feeding the world some really good peripherals. While there are people out there who can do quite well with the included controller, many of us were left searching for a solution that would enable us to compete. Unfortunately for me, like many others, Prologue decided to show us all just how tough it was going to be to play the game well. I had long overcome the tough-to-master controls with the handheld Playstation controllers and assumed it would be no different. I’ve been a faithful follower of the entire series since the original and I sure wasn’t going to miss out on the latest and greatest. When I first learned of Sony’s upcoming release of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on it.
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