Look what I made ...

screen shots from a video game or did you make it? Is that a manaro?

I thought it was pretty self explanatory.

I made it.

NFSCarbon has a feature where you can take screenshots of your cars and they automatically upload to the internet, along with what performance mods you have on the car at the time you take the picture.

It's a Vauxhall Monaro VXR. I tried to make it look as much like a GP as I could.

The game has endless customization. You can fiddle with the aftermarket stuff, tweak everything; how deep the recesses are in the body parts, how big the grill is, how far everything sticks out, how big, tall, wide the parts are, etc etc so on and so forth forever.

So that took me awhile. Lots of tweaking.

nice.

I played the snot out of that game. I was never impressed with the performance of the Monaro on there Maybe I just couldn't tune it but I could never win a race with it.

Sweet, its sad but when I was sick last week I beat the game..lol...my car of choice was the Z06 its a killer in that game.

thats pretty sweet

Nice job Arc!

pretty cool screenshot...an awful lot of these driving games look pretty cool but everytime I play on my son's system I screw up big time cuz I cant drive with my thumbs!...doesnt anyone make a decent steering wheel for this stuff?...I've looked at a load of them and havent been impressed with one yet.

There is one for the 360, but I haven't tried it yet .. I think it's pretty new. So far all the other Xbox accesories seem like quality stuff, it's worth a try.

If your son just has the original Xbox, I don't know what to tell you. I never had one of those, so I don't really know much about the accessory market for them.

At least it's not the Steel Battalion setup.
http://www.retroblast.com/odin_images/sb.jpg

Haha!

that looks a lot like that rig they offered for Mech Assault a year or so ago...but hey, if it was a bad-azz set up with a gearshift and some steering feel I might be tempted.

Here's some third-party setups -

http://cgi.ebay.com/Joytech-Nitro-Racing...tem140074743845

http://cgi.ebay.com/Logitech-DriveFX-Ste...tem110080279952

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mad-Catz-Xbox-360-MC...tem190072589033

And one of the many the official 360 versions listed on eBay -

http://cgi.ebay.com/BRAND-NEW-XBOX-360-W...tem250074246991

this is more like what I had in mind

http://www.myhomesimulator.com/index.htm

...this one is pretty cool as well

http://www.virtualgt.com/

My brother has 360 and the sterring whell he has for some games is great it comes with a clutch and everything, but it also was like 300 so its pretty pricey

I had a steering wheel for my N64 back in the day. I found it harder to control the car than with the controller. Hopefully they've perfected it in the last 10 years.

I had a wheel and pedal set up from Microsoft that I used for an online racing game it kicked but. From my experience if it's a genuine Xbox controller it should be good.

Trust me, technology has come a long way since N64. :p

People give Microsoft alot of flak sometimes, but they don't kid around with their gaming stuff. If it breaks, it's more often because of user error or ignorance.

Was that online racing game Motor City Online? If it was, that game was awesome and very addicting too.

It sure was. My wife and I were both addicted to that game. We went through withdrawls for about a month when they pulled the plug on that game.

I made alot of game cash building and selling 12 second mustangs. But if you knew how to launch and shift they could hit 10s.

I used my cousins account so I played for free. That game was a lot of fun. By the time they pulled the plug on the game I remember it was hard for a new member to make money because everyone else had really good cars. What was with them adding a eclipse and supra to the game?

I think they were trying to draw in more people but I think they were grasping at straws at that point. They never did get those cars right. I had a supra and dropped a 427 in it