An arcade racer isn't supposed to provide a sensaion of speed?
Total junk.
Joe McGinn
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Too late, I got rid of it - maybe if the game has included a manual or
even keyboard chart that contained this information it would have
helped.
It is an essential requirement in an ARCADE racer. Without it little
else matters.
Not if you like driving a pinball machine ball. I was hoping for CARS
myself.
A high frame-rate is meaningless if it doesn't translate into a
feeling of speed or at least good control over the cars.
A BIT garish? That's an understatement. That's another thing that
bothered me about POD - after reading about how great it looked I
couldn't believe how downright UGLY it was.
Joe McGinn
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Author of Inside LotusScript, available August 1997
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
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With a 3dfx: Moto Racer
Without a 3dfx: none
Moto Racer: Bombastic
P.O.D.: Shit
F1:It was on Playstation shit, it is on PC shit. Even on a 3dfx.
>:You gotta be bullshitting me ... POD car physics are COMPLETELY
>:unrealistic, plus it has no sensation of speed (despite the high frame
>Oh, forgot to ask: in what way are the POD car physics
>_completely_ unrealistic? Judging by how the environment affects
>your car (the way you drop from an edge if you don't quite make
>it, the way you drive with two tires after partly hitting
>a slope etc.), it appears to behave rather realistically.
>In fact, reminds me of the Carmageddon demo, which has gotten
>lots of praise due to its "realistic physics".
I'd prefer NFS II or Motor racing GP or even RAC Rally for "realistic"
just my 2 cents.
Elie.
just to stop Spammers ;-)
Hell someone should go over to the 3dfx newsgroup and suggest it:)
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> > And one thing that bothers me a bit about POD is the sound. Up at the
> > starting line, the car sounds like it has a 427 Hemi under the hood
> > (GREAT!) But when you take off, the engine sounds degrade to that of a
> > Hyunday Excell (YUK!!)
> > Rolando.
> R:
> That had to be the first thing I noticed with the demo. If only it could keep
> that great hemi rev.
> As in moto-racer with the dirt bike, when ideling at certain points it actual
> sounds like a dirt bike. To bad it can't sustain that. It must be down right
> impossible to get a true car sound for a game. Maybe we need to put a few
> million in technology to get this problemed resolved.
> Q.B.M.
>>Yes it has both TCP/IP and IPX protocols,
>That's a start but does it actually WORK on the Internet? Has anyone
>tried it? (I'm buying it anyway but I'd really like multiplay and I
>don't have access to a LAN).
>Joe
Thomas
Hi.
Where i can get a demo copy to download ?
cu
Uwe
>>Which one is a better game ?
>>Which one worth buying ?
>MotoRacer is INCREDIBLE if you have a good 3d card, especially 3dfx.
>BETTER and faster graphics than any arcade motorcycle game I've
>played.
POD rocks! If it wasn't for the stupid looking cars (why no normal
cars like in nfs2?) it would be my favorite racing game.
You kidding? NFS2 is my #1 racing game. Voodoo support would be nice,
but i still like it better than all voodoo games together. I play it
on a p6-200, with all settings set to maximum, and as far as i can
tell fps never drop below 30.
The only thing that annoys me in nfs2 is the 'intelligence' of the
other drivers in tournament mode: they would rather run into you and
crash themselves than letting you pass them by. Oh well...
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Joe
>Thomas
John Burrowes.
Another opinion - MotoRacer is _really_ good fun, with physics which pay
homage to the real thing while maintaining arcade playability, and
fantastic multi-player performance. The only problem is that the margin for
error becomes tiny - in our race everyone is racing virtually perfect, with
laptimes of around 38s on Speed Bay. Essentially that means that one
mistake dumps you out of the race, which is a bit of a bummer just trying
not to make a mistake. There's no high-risk possibility to gain time or
catch-up mode which arcade racing usually needs.
POD is far and away and without a shadow of a doubt the worst racing game I
have ever played. A serious lack of impression of speed, dull tracks,
uninvolving physics, pinball like car properties, I even deleted the free
demo. That's playing it with a 3dFX card. I personally would avoid this at
all costs.
Second only to POD, NFS2 seems to be one huge FMV nightmare. Driving
involvement falls far short of NFS1, and new cars and clothes do not make
up for it.
Of the current crop of arcade racers, Moto Race is most fun, with "F1"
second. That's my opinion, primarily based upon how much fun they are to
drive.
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John (SRN-Europe)
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> >Maybe you should try to "cockpit view". If that doesn't have enough
> >"sense of speed", I don't know what does.
> Too late, I got rid of it - maybe if the game has included a manual or
> even keyboard chart that contained this information it would have
> helped.
I also would have preferred less futuristic looking racing cars.
Maybe one problem was the game was designed for a joystick or gamepad,
and I was using a driving wheel. For a racing game you'd think they'd
test a wheel.
Joe McGinn
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Author of Inside LotusScript, available August 1997
http://www.browsebooks.com/McGinn/
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OK: Please don't buy my book. It is only intended for people with IQs
above 80 or so, so I don't think you'd enjoy it.
Joe McGinn
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Author of Inside LotusScript, available August 1997
http://www.browsebooks.com/McGinn/
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