Well, if PC Gamer gives Grand Prix Lgends higher score, then...
I dunno. But I still don't trust people who gives Outpost an 88%
Grimfarrow
Mix the NGs and I have a free look into what is really hot and what is
not.
BTW...GPL gives me that same buzz as the original NASCAR. Ther are not
perfect (better then any other IMHO), but they are simply the right
mix between sim and game.
Shame that they neglected a paintkit though, is Sierra so short of
money that they have to do this in order to sell us updates etc?
Will Nascar '99 have a paint kit?
(any plans for a more freindly paint method in GPL, a la Papyrus
originals?)
Ruy Horta
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>> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five
>>stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision
>>Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these
>>people smoking ?
Yes, online you can get the ***faster and cheaper :-) I still like CGW.
I hope you don't expect any review to be unbiased.
I don't take someone not being as impressed by something not of my handiwork
as personally (well, I try not to).
writes:
Maybe it's not cost effective?
I would guess that only about 10% of the people who buy the games are even
TALENTED enough to repaint the cars. Sadly, I'm not IN that group.
Eldred
I have my own paint jobs for the Cooper and Honda. The Cooper
is nothing special, but I spent quite a bit of time on the Honda.
I took an existing Honda paint scheme for the #7 car and changed
the numbers to 4, removed the red sun from the top of the cowling
(carefully, to keep all the rivets and ducts in the paint scheme
in white/gray), and instead made a bigger red sun on the nose
(again, making sure to keep the rivets and seams intact, just in
shades of red instead of shades of gray), and put the numeral 4
inside it in white. It's quite nice, if perhaps just the tiniest
bit too modern of a design idea.
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>>> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five
>>>stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision
>>>Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these
>>>people smoking ?
>Will reserve judgement till I get my issue (today?). Note that CPR was
>reviewed by someone other than their usual auto sim reviewer (Goble). Don't
>know who did NFS3. Was it reviewed as a sim, or as an action game? I'd guess
>the latter. I doubt they would compare it to GPL, CPR, etc.
I liked Goble's review of the game. It seemed to be pretty fair.
-Rich
>I liked Goble's review of the game. It seemed to be pretty fair.
I hope this clearup makes you less "less receptive" :-)
Your point is interesting. Seems the major mags tap into two or three flight
sim reviewers who are true afficionados and also sometimes have real
seat-time. Auto sims haven't seemed to garner that dedication yet. But we
seem to be in a racing sim glut right now (well, mostly arcadish games with a
few *** sims). Maybe we'll see them get a little more special attention?
CGW did do a preview of them in the Dec issue, but I'd say it was
particularly, and for them unusually, poorly researched and rushed.
Chris Amon drove the Ferrari all year in 1967. Were you thinking of
Chris Irwin or Piers Courage perhaps?
Dave Ewing
er, whoops. Irwin, I meant!
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