Editor Shawn Long wonders: Can driving games be used as a tool to teach young drivers?
"Driving is something that many people at some point must do in life, and learning at a young age can help out tremendously. I have witnessed firsthand how a simple wheel/game setup can help a 28-year-old adult, and I imagine someone half my age with a desire for the open road would learn even more than I could imagine."
MyGaming's Derrick Cramer takes a look at the Logitech G27 gaming wheel - it's pricey, but you won't regret buying it for one second
it's a damn good wheel. i had it for about a month before selling it (not a huge racing game fan), but for the time i did have it, it worked perfectly and seemed to give a responsive and realistic driving experience.
i'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite wheel in the Citadel.
I love this wheel, I have had it since GT5P was out and the FFB is great. Now that GT5 fully supports it I can finally use my RA functions on the wheel, comes in handy when the tires wear down. The only complain I have is that I wish you could make the shifter seqential like the G25.
Paul Writes:" Whether you're looking to get into some serious simulated racing online with your PC or just want to get the true feeling of being in the game with one of your PS3 console titles the Logitech G27 Racing Wheel has you covered. There are a lot of wheels on the market these days but when you take a close look at what you are getting for what you're paying for the G27 is above average for its price range hands down."
If you get a chance try the Fanatec GT2 and Thrustmaster T500. The only problem with the T500 is it only works on the PS3 and it doesn't support older games. The GT2 work with practically everything and it has full adjustability on the fly.
if i could afford dis it would prolly make me go back to playing gt5.. the logitech is shhhhh....lets hope the price drops! looks awesome!!
bro the price has been dropped since like last year. I got mine for $200 last april. But just a warning, GT5 doesn't fully support this wheel, at this time.
Don't count on significant price drops on mid and high end racing wheels.
I've admittedly never been monitoring prices closely in the ten years I've gone through three different Logitech wheels (original blue/black Driving Force, DFP, G25), but I can see that the G27 cost around the same, possibly slightly more, than I paid for my G25 back in late 2006.
Edit: Okay, things might be a little different in the US where you lucky guys get most things thrown at you at bargain prices :p.
I did a quick online price search for the G27 here in Denmark, and the cheapest I could find was around 2000 DKK ~ $360. Which was, as I said above, more or less what I recall paying for my G25 in 2006.
It's not a market with a whole lot of competitors - it's pretty much just Logitech and Fanatec for these "high mid range" wheels (plus that new official GT wheel from Thrustmaster), and then you have some *really* pricey non-mainstream brands offering wheels, pedals and shifter units where you can sometimes end up paying thousands of Dollars.
I still have my logitech GT wheel. :D works great, only downside is no clutch or H-shifter.
but for a 3rd the price who could complain.
With the G27/25, the wheel itself - leather bound metal with two force feedback motors - and the sturdy metal pedals with a decent amount of resistance to the brake pedal, give another couple of pretty major reasons to pick this more expensive option over a cheaper wheel.
Don't get me wrong, the DFGT is certainly a great wheel for the price - I loved my Driving Force Pro (the precursor to the GT) in the year or two I had it before upgrading to a G25 - but it's immediately obvious why the G27/25 cost quite a bit more, and clutch pedal and H-shifter definitely aren't the only reasons.
I kinda have one other problem.
For the price of buying that wheel I can buy my stage 2 camshaft for my car and get 15% more power in real life :D
But you'll still be stuck with a vastly inferior and crippled experience every time you try to play a (non-arcade) racing game with a gamepad :p.
Edit: Nevermind. I only just noticed you were the guy with the Logitech GT, in which case I wouldn't necessarily feel inclined to use that money to upgrade to a G27 either :).
In Europe the G27 cost 320 euro's. Is this money well spent? Leather steer and poke and more extra options but is this really worth the 320 euro's?
Or we can all just learn using a car with a manual transmission and join the rest of the world. Just sayin'.
It's harder for some people!
Very interesting