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Has anyone bought this? I got the demo and it said release dat 6/15.

What are your impressions of it. I am not a huge F1 fan but I liked the
game, I cannot judge the realism of the tracks or cat characteristics.
I was also curios about the setup options it advertises alot how are
they ?

Thanks

Mick

I saw it today at CompUSA in San Francisco.  I'm waiting for the R.A.S.
faithful to give us the driving impressions.  Graphics on the box looked
nice.

The graphics are nice,...the game itself is an insult to all serious simfans it's an arcade,
further more the setups can't be saved and the tracks are really bad.
But it's great fun as a sim,...better than Formula 1 '97,Alain Prost GP and Johnny Herbert GP.
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simfans it's an arcade,

You cannot save setups? It this a joke?

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Johnny Herbert GP.

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 05:40:16 GMT,

Get the demo at any games site. Try www.avault.com
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Its got the 1998 official FIA licence, thats all its got really, f you want
a sim I'd say get MGPRS2, it hasn't got  a licence but you can download
everything you need to make it the 1999 season.

This games graphics are not good at all compared to MGPRS2.

The funny thing about Official F1 Racnig is that there is a simulation and
arcade mode in it but after playing the simulation mode I couldn't imagine
how much of an arcade game the actual arcade mode would be.

On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 09:10:55 -0500,

Yep, and you can't save them individually in SCGT either.
Its the current rage...  :)

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Shows you how much I do setups in SCGT. I've been tooo busy
with falcon :-)

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I hope you do not get a lot of "the game is crap" messages--clearly you
rather like it, so good for you.

Eidos F1 hasn't enjoyed a very positive reception here at RAS.  It seems the
main opinion in the newsgroup is that the game isn't quite up to 1999
standards with regards to handling/physics, graphics, etc.  It doesn't quite
make it as a sim, and indeed some have argued that even as an arcade game,
it's rather disappointing.  General praise for its replay feature.

Most have argued that Ubisoft's Monaco Grand Prix Racing Simulation 2 is a
bit closer to the mark for a modern F1 sim (although that's a hot topic
around here in and of itself--many find MGPRS2's physics to be wildly
awkward).  In any case, you'll find many more setup options, upgrades, etc.
for MGPRS2 than you will for the Eidos offering (for example, at
http://www.mgprs2.com/ ).

hope this helps,
DK

Yes that is true.  The game is not that good and the setup of cars is very
simple.  No saving of setups which is a joke.  F1RS has way better options than
this.

This is misleading information.   According to the manual, when you
save your player profile it saves many of your preferences, including
the current settings for 16 circuits, qualifying and race, dry and wet
weather.  So it always remembers your last setup for the current
situation.  While diehards want named saved setups, it's still nice
that at least it remembers multiple setups automatically and
auto-switches between them.  So, let's say you finally get a handle on
wet-weather qualifying in Australia, you never have to re-load a setup
for that.  

It's a good way to deal with it for the non-***, and saves having
to encode with file naming conventions which are qualifying, which are
race, which are wet and which are dry setups.

Randy

Randy Magruder
http://www.racesimcentral.net/