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New 500cc Grand Prix race game is good!

Destro

New 500cc Grand Prix race game is good!

by Destro » Tue, 05 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Wow. I just got this thing its damn impressive and good handling for
once. I only played for 5 min or so so far but wanted to let everyone
know about it. I'll post more soon.

Its 20mb.

Go get it(gp500.zip) at:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

or www.3dfiles.com has it too

ymenar

New 500cc Grand Prix race game is good!

by ymenar » Tue, 05 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Destroy wrote

Yes it's pretty good. I was surprised.

The only bad point is the controller issue. You can't remap any functions.
If Ascaron doesn't think that many of us have pedals on Joystick 2 I won't
buy it.

How can companies like Microsoft, Codemaster and now them do that, it's out
of my mind.

-= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
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-= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-= May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

rdra..

New 500cc Grand Prix race game is good!

by rdra.. » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00


> Destroy wrote
> >Wow. I just got this thing its damn impressive and good handling for
> >once. I only played for 5 min or so so far but wanted to let everyone
> >know about it. I'll post more soon.

> Yes it's pretty good. I was surprised.

> The only bad point is the controller issue. You can't remap any functions.
> If Ascaron doesn't think that many of us have pedals on Joystick 2 I won't
> buy it.

> How can companies like Microsoft, Codemaster and now them do that, it's out
> of my mind.

> -= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
> -= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
> -= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
> -= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
> -= May the Downforce be with you...

> "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
> how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

what game is this ?? is it a new gp motorcycle game and if it is where
did u get it is there a demo ??

rdracer

enzo

New 500cc Grand Prix race game is good!

by enzo » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00

I was impressed and disappointed at the same time. On one hand, it isn't
extremely arcadey like most motorcycle games are, but on the other
hand, the physics modeling is so forgiving you'd think it was fly-by-wire.

After all, you wouldn't take an F1 sim very seriously if there were no
consequences for flooring the gas too early coming out of a turn or slamming
on the brakes going into one, right? Likewise, I can't take this game
seriously either. One of the most important skills a real-world racer has
(both in an F1 car and on a GP bike) is throttle modulation, and unless
there's an option I'm missing somewhere, you can be just as reckless
throwing the joystick around to the stops in GP500 as in Psygnosis F198
(maybe more!) without any consequence more serious than understeer.

What I wouldn't give to see Papyrus do a WSB sim with the Nascar3/GPL
engine adapted to two wheels... <sigh>

Neil M.

(If I sound like a certain infamous physics modeling critiquer from another
newsgroup, my apologies - I just want to see a real motorbike SIM : )


>Wow. I just got this thing its damn impressive and good handling for
>once. I only played for 5 min or so so far but wanted to let everyone
>know about it. I'll post more soon.

>Its 20mb.

>Go get it(gp500.zip) at:

>http://www.ascaron.com/german/products/gp500/startgp.htm

>or www.3dfiles.com has it too

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