> > I was wondering if there are any racing games out there that have
> > active railroad crossings out there that pose an actual in game
> > hazard? The closest Ive seen was
> > Burnout Revenge- I remenber seing an active train running along side
> > a street that you could run in to. Ditto for the Kindiack Park level
> > of NFS:HS
> > Need for speed Underground- A train crosses the street in one of the
> > drag races but it finishes before any of the cars reach it. It was in
> > the demo but was removed and replaced with a static train in the
> > retail version!
> > Right now, those are the only racing games that have something like
> > this I can think of. Any others?
> If somebody ever does a version of the San Jose Grand Prix, there's a
> spot where the Champ Cars bounce over the light-rail lines downtown.
> Or did they change that this year? I was there last year watching
> right at that spot, and it was quite amazing how much the cars bounced
> going over that.
I think they fixed and smoothed out the crossing because of this very
issue. The cars were getting damaged, not to mention jarring the snot
out of the drivers. There was a video on Youtube I recall that had
"before and after" videos of that crossing.