"sim," or what qualities does a game have to possess before it can truly be
considered a "sim":
"Put two or more people who like racing sims together in a newsgroup or a
forum and invariably they will tend to discuss the relative merits of this
driving game or that. Once you get that sort of discussion going, it's only
a matter of time before a full-scale debate breaks out over which game is
the better sim, and why it is superior to other titles. Even people who
agree that certain titles represent the pinnacle of driving sim technology
will bitterly disagree about the fine points of other titles, and woe be to
the person who tries to compare any aspect of a NASCAR sim to an F1 sim."
Check out the full article right at
http://www.racesimcentral.net/
John Bodin is a the Vice-President of Communications for Games-Advertising
and the Publisher of The IRL Insider Magazine. On top of that he is a very
active member of the High Gear F1 Championship Season 2000 forum and the
creator of the "All Chassis Patch" for F1CS2K.
Enjoy!
Kenneth Verburg
Editor-in-chief High Gear
http://www.racesimcentral.net/