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Joe McGinn
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>Well since I haven't seen any reply to this, I guess (and IMHO) that your
>list is totally true and I can't disagree on any point ! I really hope we
>will see such quality titles in the next generation(since 85% or so of the
>racing titles are released during the Christmas period) of racing
>simulations. Rally 99, Driver, Nascar 3, Legends of Nascar, GP500 (?), GP3
>(?), AMA Superbike, etc... There will be losers and winners.
Well since I haven't seen any reply to this, I guess (and IMHO) that your
list is totally true and I can't disagree on any point ! I really hope we
will see such quality titles in the next generation(since 85% or so of the
racing titles are released during the Christmas period) of racing
simulations. Rally 99, Driver, Nascar 3, Legends of Nascar, GP500 (?), GP3
(?), AMA Superbike, etc... There will be losers and winners.
"You got to fight, for the right, to raaaaaaaace!" <Im poor in signing>
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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.racesimcentral.net/
-- May the Downforce be with you...
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
>> http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/editorial/racing1.shtml
>Well since I haven't seen any reply to this, I guess (and IMHO) that your
>list is totally true and I can't disagree on any point ! I really hope we
>will see such quality titles in the next generation(since 85% or so of the
>racing titles are released during the Christmas period) of racing
>simulations. Rally 99, Driver, Nascar 3, Legends of Nascar, GP500 (?), GP3
>(?), AMA Superbike, etc... There will be losers and winners.
>"You got to fight, for the right, to raaaaaaaace!" <Im poor in signing>
I also disagree with the biggest disappointment of the year, for me
it was the cancellation of Trans-Am Racing. To think I could be
running around Riverside right about now in a '68 Chevy Camaro
with a deformed left rear quarter-panel from the wake-up call I got
in the previous corner I nearly break down and cry.
- George
I don't know, I didn't found Powerslide interesting at all, in fact it's one
of the big disappointment for me this year.
SODA : Off-Road is superior in all aspects of the simulations except
graphics. If we exclude the crude graphics (well the non-rendition) of
SODA, it's an incredible and under-estimated title. Great physics, MUCH
better than about any racing sim on the market except GPL. For a title
made about 2+years ago, it's really something. Look at the great modeling
of the 3 different car types, how they really act different and how fun it
is to finally master one of them in SODA. It has a great setup menu, a
pretty good choice of tracks with a track EDITOR who is easy to use and give
plenty of gameplay. The sound is almost better in SODA than Powerslide.
People who think Powerslide has great physics should really look at SODA :
Off-road and drool at the suspension movement all around the track. Because
the track in Powerslide is mostly all flat (Im not talking about elevations
here, but drastic change in elevation). In SODA you have almost
high-frequency bumps, that you can put 1feet wide... and the physics are
great in that aspect.
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-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-- May the Downforce be with you...
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
Well if you include the patch, yes those two other titles are worse. I
didn't said a word about Nascar Road Racing because it's very, very bad, but
somehow it's made on purpose for the old Pentium 100mhz PC's or so.
Even if I see your point about those two titles being worse, I still
consider NREV as the biggest disappointment of the year, and the worst title
for the hype, development and budget it had. Grand Touring was made by a
bunch of guys for fun, little development group who had no publisher until
late in the project. Newman-Haas Racing had about no work being done on
that (just a port from the PSX with some tidbit additions). But NRev had a
big budget, a big marketing push by EA Sports, etc... For me to have all
this waste of programming is much more the point of having this awards.
IMHO, of course :)
--
-- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-- May the Downforce be with you...
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
Joe McGinn
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Staff Writer for the Sports *** Network
http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/
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"We've reached the dog days of summer, and we're nearing another
Holiday season. For those of us who are extremely ***ed to PC
entertainment (not that kind--I'm referring to games), that means a
landslide of new titles will be vying for our attention. Great stuff,
if you ask me, but I think that means I'll be giving annual awards for
racing titles at the end of July, thus getting it done before I'm
buried in new racing sims."
I makes sense to me (as a game reviewer, I'm about to get swamped too,
the Fall season is about to heat up). The WORST time is just before
Christmas, before you've had time to see the xmas games. January -
February would be the one other time to do it.
Joe McGinn
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Staff Writer for the Sports *** Network
http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/
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Mark
Randy
>Well if you include the patch, yes those two other titles are worse. I
>didn't said a word about Nascar Road Racing because it's very, very bad, but
>somehow it's made on purpose for the old Pentium 100mhz PC's or so.
>Even if I see your point about those two titles being worse, I still
>consider NREV as the biggest disappointment of the year, and the worst title
>for the hype, development and budget it had. Grand Touring was made by a
>bunch of guys for fun, little development group who had no publisher until
>late in the project. Newman-Haas Racing had about no work being done on
>that (just a port from the PSX with some tidbit additions). But NRev had a
>big budget, a big marketing push by EA Sports, etc... For me to have all
>this waste of programming is much more the point of having this awards.
>IMHO, of course :)
DjFIL
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/***.com/editorial/racing1.shtml
> Well since I haven't seen any reply to this, I guess (and IMHO) that your
> list is totally true and I can't disagree on any point ! I really hope we
> will see such quality titles in the next generation(since 85% or so of the
> racing titles are released during the Christmas period) of racing
> simulations. Rally 99, Driver, Nascar 3, Legends of Nascar, GP500 (?), GP3
> (?), AMA Superbike, etc... There will be losers and winners.
> "You got to fight, for the right, to raaaaaaaace!" <Im poor in signing>
> --
> -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
> -- NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> -- May the Downforce be with you...
> "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
> how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
What Frank says ;-)
I can't understand the fuss about Powerslide at all. I tried the demo and
whilst a cut above most arcade racers it really didn't feel at all special.
I kept thinking, "SODA with these graphics would be great but there's
nothing of interest here".
Cheers,
Richard
Remco
Mark
