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EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

rrevve

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by rrevve » Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Do you have GP3?

What are you comparing it to?

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rrevve

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by rrevve » Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:00:00


>>>One for the Trashcan ...
>>>don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

>> Do you have GP3?

><mysterious silence>

So you prefer GP3, but don't have GP3?

Man, you haven't got a clue if you think OF1R, F1RS
and MGPRS2 are better (in any way) than F1-2000.

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Alexander Mar

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Alexander Mar » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

One for the Trashcan ...
don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

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Alexander Marx

Alexander Mar

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Alexander Mar » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Spent about 4 hours with the game now - just deleted it, the biggest
complaints are(they really break the game):

- incredibly low framerate even on high-end system (about 10fps on a
celeron450 w/ voodoo3 and 256 megs RAM)
- the track models are totally and utterly wrong - a disaster (i mean it,
just try Spa) (!) Buy Superbike 2000 if you want to know how the nurburgring
does really look.
- physics are sometimes nice, sometimes ridiculous
- AI is stupid as hell
- annoying speech
- the car models are wrong
- the engine sounds are weak and the same for all cars

the goods:

+ partially great sound effects (skidding etc.)
+ nice selection of many different camera views
+ a lot of setup options, though i'm sceptical if they are really useful
+ good damage model if compared to other sims (not nearly as good as GPL
though)
+ it's not as bad as Spirit of Speed 1937

I'm glad that I could test it before buying - It doesn't even play in the
same league as GP3 or GPL...if GP3 is a Ferrari then F12000 is a Prost.
Everyone who got caught by the hype, dl the warez or wait for the demo and
see for yourself.

DjFI

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by DjFI » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

and the bigest question is... what are your complaints which everyone who's
posted thaughts so far hasn't seen?


> >One for the Trashcan ...
> >don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

> Do you have GP3?

> What are you comparing it to?

> --
> * rrev at mindspring dot com
> * unit.26 - s.p.u.t.u.m.
> * http://www.cabal.net

Alexander Mar

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Alexander Mar » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

<mysterious silence>

Difficult question, I would compare it with the Psygnosis games... but it
clearly has better physics. If I had to rate it compared to other modern F1
titles the order would be something like this:

1. GP2
2. F1RS
---
3. MGPRS2
5. OF1R
4. F1-2000
6. F1'99

want to know the reasons? look at my post below

Scott Boha

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Scott Boha » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Something wrong with your PC then, mine runs at at least 20fps I guess on a
400MHz, voodoo2, 64Mb system!

Can't comment on that, haven't seen the real thing!

Haven't done a race yet!

And the drivers are too small!!

Mrv

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Mrv » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

So been playing Gp3 alot?

> Spent about 4 hours with the game now - just deleted it, the biggest
> complaints are(they really break the game):

> - incredibly low framerate even on high-end system (about 10fps on a
> celeron450 w/ voodoo3 and 256 megs RAM)
> - the track models are totally and utterly wrong - a disaster (i mean it,
> just try Spa) (!) Buy Superbike 2000 if you want to know how the nurburgring
> does really look.
> - physics are sometimes nice, sometimes ridiculous
> - AI is stupid as hell
> - annoying speech
> - the car models are wrong
> - the engine sounds are weak and the same for all cars

> the goods:

> + partially great sound effects (skidding etc.)
> + nice selection of many different camera views
> + a lot of setup options, though i'm sceptical if they are really useful
> + good damage model if compared to other sims (not nearly as good as GPL
> though)
> + it's not as bad as Spirit of Speed 1937

> I'm glad that I could test it before buying - It doesn't even play in the
> same league as GP3 or GPL...if GP3 is a Ferrari then F12000 is a Prost.
> Everyone who got caught by the hype, dl the warez or wait for the demo and
> see for yourself.

Tim Wheatle

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Tim Wheatle » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Perhaps if you tried the retail version and not the beta you'd see it as
better Alex? The beta is DX only? Yes fps would be bad in DX.


> One for the Trashcan ...
> don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

> ---
> Alexander Marx


Marc Collin

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Marc Collin » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Well we can ALL agree on the OF1R part of that, at least!!!

Marc



> >>>One for the Trashcan ...
> >>>don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

> >> Do you have GP3?

> ><mysterious silence>

> So you prefer GP3, but don't have GP3?

> >> What are you comparing it to?

> >Difficult question, I would compare it with the Psygnosis games... but it
> >clearly has better physics. If I had to rate it compared to other modern
F1
> >titles the order would be something like this:

> >1. GP2
> >2. F1RS
> >3. MGPRS2
> >5. OF1R
> >4. F1-2000
> >6. F1'99

> Man, you haven't got a clue if you think OF1R, F1RS
> and MGPRS2 are better (in any way) than F1-2000.

> --
> * rrev at mindspring dot com
> * unit.26 - s.p.u.t.u.m.
> * http://www.cabal.net

Bruce Kennewel

EA Sports F1-2000 ... what is everyone excited about ?!?

by Bruce Kennewel » Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Of course, you'd know, having already bought GP3.

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Canberra, Australia.
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> One for the Trashcan ...
> don't even think about comparing this to GP3 - save your money.

> ---
> Alexander Marx



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