I just bought TD4 today ...played with for a few hours, & on my system
(P166mmx, R3D, 48 megs) no comparison to NFS2SE.
TD4 runs very choppy making it near impossible to control, graphics
draw ahead are so noticeable that what looks like a straight road
turns into a 90 barely in time to react. It has a dash view but no
gauges work and my red cars dash is bright blue. Night driving is
maddening sorta like driving with a desk lamp over your car... you
can't see the traffic until you wack'm ... the cars have no lights.
Your car has brake lights but I didn't notice that traffic or
opponents did. Another thing I find annoying is the sparks that fly
when you hit something are very distinctive rather large orange
triangles.
But even if my CPU could handle the graphics, the game has a very
cumbersome menu system, doesn't remember setups.. you have to select
your controller every time you start the game. The Drag Race game
gives you one run, then the results, then loads you back to the main
screen. It takes 11 sec for the race and about a minute of menu
hopping to race again. My mouse doesn't work on the menus (?) so I
have to use the arrow keys to move between selections.
Anyway... my experience is the game sucks big time unless I'm doing
something drastically wrong. While both games are for sure arcade
racers, NFS2SE runs rings around TD4.. if it only had the dash view
(with working gauges).
If anyone can provide tips to make this thing run on my system it
might save me a trip back to the store Monday.
RAH
>> I see that EB has both of these titles now.
>> I've played the demos for each and they seem rather "arcadish".
>> Can anyone give any feedback on the full product of either title.
>> I like the idea of the muscle cars in TD4 and I DON'T like the idea of no
>>***pit in 3Dfx NFS2SE. NFS seems to offer on one new track while charging me
>> another $40 for a 3Dfx patch that I should be able to download for FREE.
>> TD4 looks like it may be promising. Any comparisons of PC and PSX versions
>> would be welcome too.
