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- Graphics are greatly improved
- Sand traps slow the car down and make it bump all over the place.
- Hit a ripple-strip and the car gets very upset.
- Spin outs are much more realistic.
- If you're on the grass and you floor it, the wheels spin and you get no
where (very realistic).
- Belgium track still has bugs in it.
- Pit graphics have been updated and there are more config options.
- Better engine and brake noises. You can here when you lock up a wheel.
Unfortunately the sound levels kept changing randomly.
- Based on 1995 season.

Oponents:
- Will let you pass if you have racing line or are lapping them.
- Unfortunately the still block the whole track and won't let you get
past if they have a crash.

The game was running on a P120 and had about 16mb of RAM. It was
very-very slow (but not jerky) around most of the Adelaide circuit, even
though it was in VGA mode. There was no real sense of speed. You will
probably need a p166 to run it at full detail in VGA mode. It looks like
you'll need a p6 to run it in SVGA. Its Australian release date will be
sometime in late April/early May. The Oz distributer is SEGA and they are
the ones who provided the beta for the display at the computer show.

Adrian

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A P120 with 16mb is very-very slow in VGA mode ??????  With an 100%
assembly graphics engine !!!!     I cant believe it  !

Must be an old non-official demo. Last thing SH-MP want to do is to
frustate our expectations. If they force the magazines to state
performances that are pretty good, then, I dont believe they could
authorize the showing of old and slow demos. It is ridiculous at this
time of the championship to show such slow demos.  

On the other hand, may be Geoff C. is having difficult on making GP2
run well on current machines. Yes, ok ... but to run very slow on a
P120 in VGA ... thats too much.
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Chris

:I hope this is an old demo.  I cant imagine that most game magazines
:have been lying about the performance of GP2 (especially PC Gamer and
:Edge magazine).
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I'm afraid they are making it up. I've got two reliable sources that
have both said even the very latest beta is slow - at the NASCAR end
of the performance scale.

There was mention in the Edge of how wonderful the rain was. My
sources tell me rain isn't implemented yet.

Ken

I'd disagree.  If it requires a fast pentium, then Papyrus has them beat
still.  When I can run it in vga with my 486 (even with relatively low frame
rates) then it can compete.  Before someone tells me I should upgrade, I
know this, but can't afford to.

Mike

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How can you drive it for about 6 hours in an international motor show? I am
very interested ot know how did you manage to do that.

Chris

Yes there are far too many *** magazines, but most of them are (in
the UK) published by the same company, which wouldn't necessarily be a
bad thing if they didn't all cost 5 pounds and run the same features,
with very similar cover disks (which are pretty tacky anyway).

Edge always seemed reliable until now, probably because it's not tied to
any particular format and can therefore be selective in the few games it
features.

One redeeming thought though: could Geoff Crammond really make a bad
game if he tried? I have to say, I think GP2 will be fabulous, and all
this talk of hardware specs is being somewhat pessimistic and premature.

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There's too many magazines nowadays, the quality of which is extremely lacking.
Chocker block full of adds (paying adds by providers of demo games). In my
cynical view, its money that writes those articles not journalistic appraisal.

Long gone are the good old days of reliable reviews such as in Zzapp 64!

Bazza