I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
real experience with Motor City Online.
Anyone???
As someone who beta tested MCO, I can't connect
"good racing sim" with "Motor City Online." MCO
is an RPG with a problematic economic model tied
to the aging Need for Speed: High Stakes engine.
Toss in some chat rooms and eBay and you've got
MCO.
As a racing sim, Master Rallye is more fun and
Rally Trophy is even more fun. What little fun I
found in MCO was pretty much erased by the need to
be online to play and to pay for every month of
play.
That said, there are those who think MCO is just
the best thing ever.
On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 21:56:37 GMT, "jaszzz"
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>I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
>real experience with Motor City Online.
>Anyone???
>
>
Remove "hi" from address or it will bounce....
One word from someone who has played - BORING previous post is absolutely
correct!
"jaszzz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
> real experience with Motor City Online.
> Anyone???
>
>
>
On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 21:56:37 GMT, "jaszzz" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
>real experience with Motor City Online.
>Anyone???
I beta tested it as well. Had lots of potential -- big letdown. Skip
it.
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"jaszzz" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
>real experience with Motor City Online.
>Anyone???
>
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> I am itching to play a good racing sim and was hoping to find someone with
> real experience with Motor City Online.
> Anyone???
I beta tested it. It just depends on if you like the whole theme of the
game. Basicly the physics engine is the same as NFS:PU. If I felt like
playing a game like that (which is rare, I must say), I would just load up
NFS:PU, and not have to pay a monthly fee.
jlohman <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> I beta tested it. It just depends on if you like the whole theme of the
> game. Basicly the physics engine is the same as NFS:PU. If I felt like
> playing a game like that (which is rare, I must say), I would just load up
> NFS:PU, and not have to pay a monthly fee.
>
I haven't said anything before on this thread, but had to chime in to add to
this one. I beta tested as well.
I *loved* the theme of the game, but it was just done so wrong. It's great
fun...for a few hours. Then you realize...this isn't a massively multiplayer
game like it's being billed to be. The *only* thing even remotely MM are the
auctions.
The racing is limited to 4 extremely warpy cars (maybe it's better now, but
even at the end of the beta, you usually wound up racing yourself anyways,
hoping you were fast enough because you rarely saw the other cars around you
that you were "racing" against). Drag racing by it's nature is limited to 2,
which is fine, no complaints there as i did have fun with that. The problem
is, there is no built in run-off feature to hold big competitions.
Basically, you jump in a room, there's a bunch of drag races listed, you hop
in and race...but only if the goober who formed the race doesn't kick you
out.
Yes, that's another big gripe. Information about your car is *way* too
accessible. If they're really trying to capture that car world feeling, they
need to drop all the info you can get about another car. Last i checked,
when you do any form of street/strip racing, you can't walk up to the guy's
car and look at a dyno and spec sheet on his car to see if you can beat him
or not.
On top of all that, most of your time is spent doing solo runs racing
against the clock to earn money to build your car up to go race one other
guy. This means hours of running the same track over and over. The physics
are fine, it's NFS after all, i was never expecting GPL. The graphics are
good. It can be fun, the racing can be good but overall, the gameplay (the
important part you pay for) just isn't there.
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