Mito Gaming on a Budget Which (Older) Games Let You Drive a Mito Without Leaving Home?
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MiTo Gaming on a Budget Which (older) games let you drive a MiTo without leaving home? I appreciate not everyone is into gaming. I for one am cer- tainly not, and it’s even been some years since my kids were. But I can certainly make an exception if it involves a MiTo. So this is a short guide for those who might have their kids’ games console in the house or a PC that might work to simply and cheaply have a go at racing or just bimbling around in a MiTo from the comfort of your own home. This is not a definitive gam- ing guide, and the focus is on budget: driving a virtual MiTo for hardly any money. Let’s start with some imme- diate fun: if you have an Apple Forza Motorsport 3 phone or an Android phone you Pic. 4.6. Re-fit new rear springs/pads into place can download GT Racing 2: The Assetto Corsa (which has some Real Car Experience right now cracking Alfa Romeos including for free. You have to complete the new Giulia, the 4c, 155 and a first race then you can get the 33 Stradale). yourself a MiTo. Complete a If you have a PC with a half- few more races and you’ll be decent graphics card (probably able to paint the MiTo and up- not a standard desktop with built grade it. It’s not hugely difficult -in graphics - that won’t be smart or tremendous fun, but it kills a enough to make the lovely bit of time and you can do graphics work) then you can get some screenshots just for fun. Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Assetto Corsa and others. Of course, if you have a later GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience XBOX ONE or PS4 then there are some much more modern racing for a while I can make some rea- in-app purchases for the lazy who games available (such as the sonable progress, but all I want to want to get in a Ferrari quicker. more recent Forza Motorsports) do is take screenshots and modify The advantage for us is that the but they do not have a MiTo in! my MiTo. Honestly the gameplay MiTo is cheap and is available Sometimes, old is good (as I keep is something I may have to do to nice and early without all the telling my wife). get more rewards so I can cus- hard work for the more expensive Truth be told, I’m rubbish at tomise my MiTo. cars. gaming. If I really concentrate However, for the purposes of The gameplay is good with this article, I will give my very several modes for controlling the quick, amateur summary of the car (using finger touch or using (mostly older) games available the built-in gyroscope of modern that feature a MiTo, and there is smartphones which measures the a summary table with them all orientation). There is a great listed for ease later. range of tracks and cars with one- Broadly speaking, if you have off challenges and duels. GT Racing 2: The Real Car an old XBOX 360 knocking The ‘freemium’ aspect does Experience around in your loft, you can get get a little annoying after a while; on eBay or down to your local The beauty of this game is that some adverts between races, the used game shop and buy some- you can download it today on constant demands to buy addi- thing like Forza Motorsport 3 or your iOS or Android phone or tional features and so on. But 4, Test Drive Unlimited 2 or tablet. It is classed as a you can see past that and just Driver San Francisco and imme- ‘freemium’ game, meaning it is mess about with a MiTo in a diately be racing around in a free to play (and you can progress game that features good MiTo. If you have an old PS3 with hours of racing to earn cash graphics, good gameplay and you can get GranTurismo 6 and to upgrade to better cars) but has nicely rendered cars and tracks. Copyright © 2019 Alfa Romeo Owners Club | MiTo Register www.mitoregister.com MiTo Gaming on a Budget Which old games let you drive a MiTo without leaving home? Forza Motorsport 3 / 4 to upgrade your MiTo, Forza has Forza Motorsport is one of the a host of upgrades you can apply classic, really good racing simula- along with stickers and liveries tions out there. It was devel- you can buy. oped by Microsoft to compete Forza takes place over many against Sony’s Gran Turismo, so seasons as you progress your from the outset the aim was to career, so if you want to take it make it more accessible and seriously you can have literally more enjoyable than the compe- hour after hour of genuine MiTo tition. competition. My only slight niggle with For- za is that there are broadly three AI settings of easy, medium and Test Drive Unlimited 2 hard. After a while, you will have mastered medium, but hard is very hard for the amateur. more life-like and the brakes fired from a carwash but magical- The difference between Forza locking up with ABS turned off ly get employed as a chauffeur, 3 and Forza 4 are, basically, two feels more like real-life (though but instead of being paid in cash years development. Forza 4 please don’t do that in real-life). you get entered into the Solar looks even better, using a new (at Forza 3 includes the MiTo, Crown, a race across Ibiza. Forza has literally hundreds of the time) image-based lighting Brera, 8C and a 1965 Giulia, with Okay, fair enough, you have to cars to choose from, so if you model, making every scene ap- Forza 4 adding a Spider, Montre- kill time while the game loads, like racing games (not just with a pear more life-like and, frankly, al, 155 and GTV6. Both games but this is all just a bit rubbish. MiTo) then Forza is a great place wonderful. have an Abarth 131 and 500 Es- Once you’re racing, it does get to start, but only on XBOX 360. The cars in Forza 4 are ren- seesse but only the earlier Forza better, but driving your MiTo on a Not all cars are available at dered even more beautifully and 3 has a Punto Evo. Both have a Mediterranean island does lose the beginning, but try to hunt a lot of effort was made to im- Lancia Delta and a Stratos, with it’s appeal after a while because down Forza Motorsport 3 Ulti- prove the sounds too. And Forza 4 adding an 037, and both there is no real skill involved. mate Collection, which has 500 they’ve used that to incredible have pretty much every Ferrari You control the car like a little cars and tracks enabled from the effect on a much larger range of you can imagine. radio-controlled car rather than outset. over 500 cars from 80 manufac- But Forza Motorsport 5 and feeling anything like you do on Forza has a wide variety of turers. The choice is overwhelm- other later Forza editions (e.g. something like Forza. different settings for each car, so ing. And fun. And still includes Horizon) dropped the MiTo in That said, the scenery is nice complete beginners can switch the MiTo. favour of the Giulietta, so you and you can definitely have some on auto-braking and use a handy have to find the older 3 or 4 ver- fun. You can customise the car re-wind feature if you make an sions to play in your favourite and interact with people on the epic mistake. But if you want to MiTo. island, helping people for cash go pro, you can finally turn off and generally levelling-up in cate- Test Drive Unlimited 2 (TDU2) traction control on the MiTo! gories of Social, Discovery, Collec- The cars in Forza are rendered TDU2 is one of those games tion or Competition. in incredible detail, along with where the concept could have And you can drive to really car damage - so if you plan to been really cool, but in practice random places only to find al- crash your MiTo on Forza expect The car handling on the the it’s just a bit annoying. most nothing there - I’ve lost it to look a mess afterwards. track is improved in Forza 4, so Set on Ibiza and Hawaii (not count of the times I decided to go And for those of you who like grip feels better, cornering is sure why), you start life being and explore only to find… nothing iOS Android XBOX 360 XBOX ONE PS3 PC GT Racing 2: The Real Car Experience Yes Yes Forza Motorsport 3 Yes Forza Motorsport 4 Yes Test Drive Unlimited 2 Yes Yes Yes Driver San Francisco Yes Yes Yes Need For Speed Most Wanted Yes Yes Yes GranTurismo 6 Yes Assetto Corsa Yes Yes Yes Copyright © 2019 Alfa Romeo Owners Club | MiTo Register www.mitoregister.com MiTo Gaming on a Budget Which (older) games let you drive a MiTo without leaving home? whatsoever. Need For Speed: Most Wanted TDU2 is not a bad game. No game with a MiTo in is bad. But it’s one of those games that you just mess about in. It cer- tainly kills time and it can be different every time, but it’s not an exciting game as such.