Its mainly because the NG is very GPL orientated. not a bad thing, GPL is
very good but the tendancy is to compare *every* new sim to it. There is
also the mentality of the odd few that GPL is so good becuase it is "hard",
not because it has superior physics, graphics or whatever. Harder = Better
sim? I don't think so.
I love this rally game, I find it very entertaining and realistic, It beats
GPL in many way:
1.The graphics and lighting effects beat GPL hands down. GPL is good but
just that little bit more cartonn-ish than RC2000.
2. The idea of having a moving driver figure in the***pit viewis much
better.
In GPL, the guy has hands that g on for miles (..so it seems anyway) with no
elbow and almost no change in size or shape from the wrist...
RC2000 is modelled very well, looks good and is very smooth.
3. Weather, this is the king sim of weather(so far) with so many, as well as
different types of roads and night day, dsk, dawn, you name it.
4. Of course my main complaint with GPL is how shocking the feeling of speed
is, I love the game other than that. At high speeds the cars awkward
handling maks up for this but it very hard to tell weather your going 20 or
60 at some times, slow speeds especially are hard to judge. RC2000 is
unbeliavable in this category, on a long sretch of road its often pssible to
actually force yourself off the throttle in risk of a crash, it really does
happen when your looking into a blind section of road!
5. How the car reacts to a movement is superb. The hand brake just spins it
sideays but it skids out, you can brake too late, and go half a mile down
the road before you find out you should have made a turn at some
points....hehe:-)
The only con with this game comes with number 5. The car responds well to
movements. The problem s however that when you get a GPL car sideways
(especially with FF on full blast) you have to correct it, the car fish
tails and YOU must corect the skid.
RC2000 has the tendancy to make it just that ittle bit easier, you can't
really "loose" the car too easily, you can usually keep a sonsistent turn in
on a skid where it mgith require a little opposite lock in real life (or
GPL).
This is the only flaw, although the phsyics look real enough, you don't have
as hard a job to hold it as with GPL somtimes.
Ok, but to stop comparing them:
GPL means '60's F1 cars
RC2000 means modern day rally cars,
Both driving sims but nothing alike. Its a prefrence on hich to buy but I do
lke RC2000 very much.
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GraDee
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