poorly-spelled email to him does a disservice to this newsgroup.
Hardly "worthy reading".
>I sent the prat an e-mail about the WHOLE damned thing...it's down below
>here...it makes worthy reading. I hope he never writes again.
>"...Your review of Official F1 racing was truely appauling.
>One comment in particular was bought up in rec.autos.simulators.
>I came to see what was meant, and found the whole review to be full of
>mistakes, errors, and lazy journalism. About as amateur as it can get.
>I'll start at the beginning.
>"In the race the player is primary locked in a chase view, at least in the
>previewable copy that I was playing"....
>In the demo version you can use the End, Home, Pg Up, Pg Down, Ins, and Del
>keys to move through a LOT of views in a race.
>"While the***pit view seems to be missing, that seems to be only a small
>complaint in a game that still has a few other minor issues"
>There are infact, three different***pit views, eachone putting you
>slightly lower, and eachone making the nose & front wheel take up more of
>the view. They are very good. However, the mirrors don't work, and you must
>resort to using the big piece of cack at the top of the screen.
>"What is missing is the replay mode..."
>I enjoyed watchin many replays in the demo-version. Very nice it was to.
>What were you doing instead.
>"This game just seems way too sensitive for my tastes, even with the
>computer assists on"
>Played GPL have you. Clearly not. Formula One IS sensitive. That's the whole
>point. Is the cars were slower to move they'd be CRAP. I was using a $50
>steering wheel, and found the demo easy to drive, and became quite at-one
>with the car as time went on. You must get used to a control feel for some
>time, before actually slagging it off. A sign of complete incompetance on
>your belhalf.
>"they would know that most drivers don't use the brake, they downshift to
>slow up. "
>BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT. You keep refering to the writers of the game
>watching too much racing as opposed to writing about it, but YOU, infact,
>have clearly watched no Formula One at ALL. The brakes are used EVERY LAP of
>EVERY CIRCUIT. Take the demo-track...Suzuka. a REAL formula One driver uses
>the brakes going into turns..1 & 2, the second Degner Curver, the Hairpin,
>Spoon Curve, and the *** Chicane. At Hockenheim, for instance, how is a
>driver to go from 340+ kph to less than 120kph THREE TIMES A LAP without
>using his brakes. And if the drivers didn't use their brakes, WHIY DO THEY
>BOTHER TO MAKE THEM, and why are some tracks considered harder on brakes
>than others. This point alone makes you clearly a highly incompetant
>critique for racing games / simulators.
>"and no one who wants to be playing with automatic transmission should even
>think of sitting behind any F1 game but here it almost makes sense."
>Automatic transmition is a must for the beginning driver. Before fully
>utilizing the controls of the car, one must get used to driving it. And at
>first, I did this in Offical F1, but I later changed to manual, and enjoyed
>it also. So again, complete CRAP.
>I don't think Official F1 lives up to the hype it was given. I'd consider
>it a good game, if it was available on a budget price, but not full price.
>If your review of 6.1.99 was worth writing at all, it was worth writing to
>discover an e-journalist who's efforts were simply not worth imposing on the
>general public. I wouldn't be supprised if you recieved HUNDREDS of email
>from people who both like the game and don't, reminding you that your review
>was CRAP. What's the point of writin a review so long before the real game,
>or the demo comes out. Even the cheapest Computer Magazines remaind reserved
>about commenting, and at least they know SOMETHING about what they are
>talking.
>That's all I have to say..and I hope you either think before writing, or
>don't write again.
>Douglas Ellison
>"
>>>most drivers don't use the brake, they downshift to
>>>slow up.
>>oh_my_gawd...now I've heard it all...
>>fool
>>-don
