rec.autos.simulators

>I own the game and i feel that it is much better than the first.

>> Hi..

>> I've heard reviews from various sources stating that NFS2 is not as good as
>> the first and only received lukewarn scores ??

>> Why ?

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>>       FORMULA ONE RACING '97

> >Finaly got to rent the game, and this is total ***the cars don't stick
> >to the track right, the contral to totaly ***ed up, in the manual they
> >say you can go off the track but so far I have only found one short cut
> >and that did no good any way.
> >The secret cars helped to keep the game fun and so did fliping ***
> >sports cars.

> Just as a point of interest (and not to necessarily agree or disagree
> with him) one of PSExtreme's reviewers gave this game a score of 92
> out of 100.  

> I've played the game on the PS quite a bit, and personally I like it
> fine in most respects.  But then I've never driven a high performance
> auto in my life so I can't speak to the degree of realism.

> One thing I dislike considerably is that the steering wheel has *very*
> few frames of animation.  It jerks suddenly from centered to far right
> ot far left.  Very distracting.  But I get away from it by only playing
> with an out-of-car camera angle.

> Another thing I don't like is that ordinary traffic isn't realistically
> destructable.  But most players probably won't care about that unless
> they have the same malign impulses as myself.

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> The false one is to foil bulk-mailing cretins.

> >>I hope you weren't referring to the PlayStation version of Need For Speed
> >>II when you were giving it all those bad grades. I have it for the
> >>PlayStation, and it's perfect - literally. And I LOVE it!

> How does it compare to the origional NFS on the PSX. If it doesn't have
> rally mode that sucks. Does it have link up? How about dirt tracks of any
> kind. Or the supper car? I also have NFS on the 3DO. The 3DO varsion
> has more detailed graphics and the stearing is quicker on the 3DO. But
> the PSX varsion wins hands down with it dirt tracks and two player
> modes.

> Andy.

>> >>I hope you weren't referring to the PlayStation version of Need For Speed
>> >>II when you were giving it all those bad grades. I have it for the
>> >>PlayStation, and it's perfect - literally. And I LOVE it!

>> How does it compare to the origional NFS on the PSX. If it doesn't have
>> rally mode that sucks. Does it have link up? How about dirt tracks of any
>> kind. Or the supper car? I also have NFS on the 3DO. The 3DO varsion
>> has more detailed graphics and the stearing is quicker on the 3DO. But
>> the PSX varsion wins hands down with it dirt tracks and two player
>> modes.

>> Andy.

> I liked Need for Speed also and for a time I too thought that the sequel
> sucked.... BUT....    This was before I heard about the secret code that allow
> you to use ANY of the cars in the game.  You want fun on the PSX put these
> codes in.

> POWRUP - Pioneer engines

> SEMIME  -       Semi truck            BUGME   -       VW Bug
> BMRME   -       BMW                    YJME      -       Jeep YJ
> TREXME  -       T-rex                   BUSME     -     School Bus
> MAZME   -       Madza Miata             BNZME   -   Mercedes Benz

> I liked Need for Speed also and for a time I too thought that the sequel
> sucked.... BUT....    This was before I heard about the secret code that allow
> you to use ANY of the cars in the game.  You want fun on the PSX put these
> codes in.

> POWRUP - Pioneer engines

> SEMIME  -       Semi truck            BUGME   -       VW Bug
> BMRME   -       BMW                    YJME      -       Jeep YJ
> TREXME  -       T-rex                   BUSME     -     School Bus
> MAZME   -       Madza Miata             BNZME   -   Mercedes Benz

> replace the "ME" for "U" to allow the 2nd player to use these codes.

> There are more but these are some of my favs.  For real fun put in the powerup
> code and semime.  It gives you a semmi that'll do 200+ m.p.h.  You no