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PC Gamer Review of GP2

Greg Cis

PC Gamer Review of GP2

by Greg Cis » Sun, 29 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Has anyone read this (OCT 96) review yet? Unbelievable is how I would describe
it. I doubt if the reviewer even played the game. He claims that a P5-100
is sufficent to get a "comfortable framerate" with the detail maxed in
SVGA. Nowhere did I read about cars flipping or engines blowing up.
Or how the framerate gets fudged at processor ocupancies over 100%.
He did mention smoke in the mirrors though. Wow... The only negative thing
was the the game was hard. Oh please give me a break. If he spent any time
to learn to drive the game he would know better. I don't get the best times
that are posted here. But I can always meet or break the track record for
qualifing. And I am not that good at all. I just spent some time playing
the game. I think that reviewer must not have played too many auto simulators.

I quit reading PC Gamer some time ago because I thought their reviews were
(shall we say) lacking. Nothing has changed as far as I can tell. I got this
issue because of the review with the head of Origin.


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