NFS Creative Director Rod Chong during an extensive Q&A session at speedhunters blog revealed the supported steering wheels for EA’s ambitious racing simulator Shift 2: Unleashed. Among other details on the subject are the animations inside the helmet cam when you steer and how the game manages a whole 900 degrees of steering. Below is all he had to say about NFS Shift 2: Unleashed Supported Steering Wheels and the complete list of steering wheels you can use. When asked about the steering wheel in game animations he said:
Yes the steering wheel in game animations are matched up to the steering wheel angle settings. Personally I like racing sim games with low steering angles, but if you want 900 degrees of rotation, you can do it.
Will the game support full 900-degree steering on Logitech Wheels? he replied:
Absolutely yes and it works beautifully. The in-cockpit animations are perfectly sync’d to what the player is doing, so when using 900 degrees you’ll see the animated hands properly shifting position on the wheel to turn it beyond the standard angles.
There are also different wheel tuning options for drifting so you can get a different set up working for sliding.
NFS Shift 2: Unleashed Supported Steering Wheels
Here is the list of supported steering wheels for Shift 2: Unleashed across all platforms.
Playstation 3
- Nascar Racing Wheel
- Logitech Driving Force
- Logitech Driving Force EX
- Logitech Driving Force Pro
- Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
- Logitech G27 Racing Wheel – full support for all buttons
- Logitech Driving Force GT
- Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S (and similar models)
- Thurstmaster F430 FFB
- Thurstmaster RGT FFB Clutch
Xbox 360
- Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo
- Microsoft Force Feedback Wheels
PC
- Logitech G27 Racing Wheel – full support for all buttons
- Logitech G25 Racing Wheel
- Logitech Driving Force GT
- Logitech Formula Force EX
- Logitech Driving Force
- Logitech Driving Force EX
- Logitech Driving Force RX
- Logitech Driving Force Pro
- Logitech MOMO Force
- Logitech MOMO Racing
- Thrustmaster RGT FFB Pro Clutch
- Thrustmaster Ferrari GT Experience
- Thrustmaster Ferrari 430
- Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S (and similar models)
If you don’t have any of these and plan to buy Shift 2, you should probably buy one because you can’t enjoy a racing simulator with gamepads.
