any NFS game has been golden with sound since underground 1 really. most wanted was amazing with the vette and a blower. they know how to do sounds for cars, no one has come close to them yet.
Agreed. You could easily tell a straight 6, 4 cylinder, boxer 4, v8, all that. They even got the Porsche V10s sounding pretty good too, tires screeching, trans shifting, BOVs, its all good. The BOVs in GT4 sounded like shit. It was like a faint hissing sound.
I think sound is very important for these games, almost as much as the detail in that Miura's wheel(btw that pic is sick, theres proably more poly's in that wheel then the entire line up of gt3 for ps1). But I mean, this is a game made in 2010, its supposed to be as realistic as they come. part of sports cars being fun is the sound they make, so they gotta do that right too. Gameplay is important, but none of it will feel right if the sounds take you out of the experience.
It'd be like watching a movie but everyone voices were slightly higher pitched. It's close, but you'd notice it instantly and it'd bother you for the entire movie.