Thought I would blast my opinions of NFS-SE out here.
I have already lit EA's mailserver on fire with some of my mail.
NFS-SE has to be the worst mistake since the Hubble telescope. They
managed to take an excellent game and destroy it in an upgrade. First,
they charged owners of NFS $25 to get two new tracks and some in-game
music (DAMN! explanation later). This is highway robbery.
When I got NFS-SE I learned that EA's product team had fallen into a
life of drug abuse before they released it. The program has about a 50%
chance of success during install the first time for any given system.
If you do get the program to install, expect horrible frame rates.
(This is a standard feature of NFS-SE, new for '96!)
I ran into a problem with their joystick driver and the Ensoniq sound
card that made it impossible to play the in-game music without
incredible skipping. I sent tech support several mails and only
received one response. I spent a lot of time tracing down the problem
and then I got shut down by the high-school drop-outs in their
tech-support department. They asked me if I made a boot disk (DUH).
When I told them yes and gave them a detailed explanation, they got
scared and didn't answer.
I have torched EA in every form imaginable since they screwed me over
and I have never gotten anything from them. EA's own chatboard is full
of hate mail (half of it is not even mine!) about NFS-SE. I guess it
was the consumer's fault in assuming that the ridiculous excuse for a
software firm called EA would have actually tested this game before
release. Silly, silly, game player.....
JR
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* Jonathan A. Robinson *
* National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center *
* Mississippi State, MS *
* http://www.racesimcentral.net/~jon *
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