rec.autos.simulators

Does anyone actually like this game?

I bought it because Lankhor also did Vroom back in the old Amiga days (
which i played for months then, it was before Geoff Crammond popped up
F1GP).

I've had a few hours of fun so far. Nothin' like a simulator, but fun
though. Graphics are o.k. and the 'feel' is much better than F1RS.

Anyone tried it yet? I've not seen a single post about it so far.

Later,
Arthur.

Graphics are pretty good though...

I don't know...maybe I'm not giving it enough of a try?  Convince me.

In the meantime, I've gone back to MGPRS2.  But I'm having some problems
there too.  (See separate post).

Just to give an idea, the game is far from laptime reality, i did 1m22.982
at the
Australian GP, beating the AI with an advance of almost 8sec over them at
Expert level. But the game is still fun to play with. Internet play through
Kali was pretty good
with my friend (since we both have ASDL connection). The only set back is
for a
2 persons race, you're stuck with one AI car !!!

Some area of the game is better then MGPRS2, but the overall winner is
still MGPRS2
by a big margin. But OF1R is quite an improvement from the previous version
Power F1. They still have to improve it to be able to compete with MGPRS2
and the future
RS3 apparently coming out this fall.

OF1R could give a good challenge, if you're not to good with setting up
your car, since
it's not to hard to set it up in this one.
Bye Coco

P.S. I know MGPRS2 and GPL physics are quite better, but this is why, OF1R
isn't in
        the same category, but it's own (fun arcade)!!!

Hmmmmm, wait 3 months, it will be in the bargin category.

I was very suspicious after playing eidos's last F1 disaster (cant even
remember the name of it but it was real bad).

I thought the demo was excellent, the***pit views were great, the driving
sensation was the best I've felt since GP2 and the sounds were also very
realistic.  The enigine tone reminded me of when they switch to riding with
a driver during a GP telecast.

Best of all, it ran smoothly with good graphics on my p233 notebook.
Something that none of the other new sims have really been able to do.

I'll probably buy it.

regds
adrian

Andre

        I'm not sure how it compares with Official F1, but it was
awful as a simulator and as an arcade game.

Martin
Nigel Mansell RIP!

-Larry

Randy

I've removed my FF wheel, and I'm going back to a standard wheel.

The fad is over for me, at least for now.  FF wheels are, overall,
sluggish.  At least to me.  I find heavy-handed corrections (like in
MTM2 and certain Nascar 'incidents') to be quite stiff with FF wheels.

-Larry

Marc.

But when the thing worked I just didn't notice anything other than a
standard centering force.

Randy

If it was even 20% more realistic, I think it would be a decent title to
have some fun with--equivalent to a TOCA2 or CMR, e.g.  Now I am going to go
see your review!!!

Marc.