rec.autos.simulators

Snake.

Let's see one of those guys defend that "spot on" statement here. Then I'll
run one of their cars into the armco at 70mph and see if it survives without
a scratch. <g>

Jan.
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In the Dutch F1-race preview, they put people into a Hyper running F1-2000.
Tom Coronel, with Arrows F1-experience, went in, and commented "this is
just incredibly hard, its soo realistic! What a very very very good game,
incredibly fantastic" etc etc. Point is: they dont have a clue.

<snip>

Take a trip over to RASF1..... just about everyone there does:-)

Jesus I hope MJF2000 never buys an F1 sim : )

Regards Mike

Not I. But just to be clear....are you saying that, according to the
game testers from the Arrows team, that the car in GP3 has a bit more
grip than a real F1 car would have in wet weather?

I remember watching Senna from the in-car cam during a wet practice
session at Monoco, and the man scared the hell out of me. He truely
was a master in the rain.

Because DUH... There are no G forces in PC racing sims. As
such how in the hell can they say that it "feels right". I say "feel
this" :-)

Every F1 game released recently has had real F1 teams doing
similar things giving similar praise.

Did you ever play GP2??? I heard the menu system was identical.

Cheers.

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I thinks it's ***y wonderful really playable the car feels so alive
it's twitchy and you get a real feeling of acceleration

As for the weather truly amazing, I was hotlapping around Silverstone
and it started raining on one side of the track and not the other
amazing ***y amazing. If it was a race I'd be thinking do I stop,
will it dry and is that a barrier I just hit.

It's fully met my expectations

My only gripe is I have a Saitek R4 wheel that has the padals as
buttons 5 and 6 GP3 seems to only recognise 4 hey ho....

Regards Mike

Thanks for all the input regarding the "spot on " comment I made.
Would anyone like to comment on the other points I made in my post ,
positive or negative.
I think F1 2000 is a good attempt but unfortunately its badpoints outweigh
it`s good points in my humble opinion. I was one of the guys who posted that
I liked it when it first came out. My worry is, how are they going to make
it right without redoing a hell of a lot of it . Please, that product ( and
I own it myself and enjoy hotlapping on it, thats all it`s good for) was
nowhere near fit for release. Gp3 works and is value for money IMHO. With
regards to damage I have had a couple of whel losses so far, so there is
some there but without playing for afew fullraces etc.. I cannot futher
comment at the moment. This game must make some money so it will have to
appeal to more than just the ***. I like it super realistic but I also
enjoy playing, if I had a car which was as reliable as some of the F1 cars
in the real world I might only get 2 laps practice and out of the race on
first lap in a pile up maybe.
Hey Jan, maybe we will be able to edit the damage to make it more realistic
ourselves
who knows. Cut down on the caffeine :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Snake.

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Don Burnette
Dburn in N3 and Legends
ICQ# 74084566

And you believe everything you read? Novalogic has real pilots test
their ***flight-sims too and they say their sims are as real as it
gets blah, blah, blah. Anyone with $0.02 of logic knows this is BS.

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Nos

Besides, I can disagree on a LOT of things with certain F1 teams.

-lark-

Except for that one Amitalian who disagrees with everything. Other than
Mickey doing pompity pom on the prancing pony.

-lark-

The problem with real life experts is that the have no comparisation
as to what other games already have achieved and what a PC is
capable of.
It's been the same problem with lots of flight simulations who all
have one or two real life pilots taking a ride and saying "yeah,
that's pretty close" and so on. But as long as that pilot isn't a PC
gamer with some experience himself, such statements are not all
that valuable and relevant.

Blaze

Hehe. Turned out to be total arcade rubbish with steering that pointed the
car in the general direction of the turn.

MS