You know I'm starting to see this trend more and more, and it worries
me.... Game makers rush their product to market in time for Christmas
or whatever, often full of bugs and/or incomplete, then....
Rather than patching it properly, they re-release the product as "2001"
version!!! So if you want weather effects, or in-car cameras, or
whatever that should have been included in the initial release you have
to buy it again!
Edios is notorious for this with their Tomb Raider and Thief series,
coming out with a "Gold" version a few months to a year later, which
is just the original game with a few extra levels, and/or support for
3D sound, or some new wizbang graphics card. Usually they offer a small
refund if you were a sucker enough to buy the first game when it
initially came out and still have your proof of purchase, so that takes
some of the sting out, but now were seeing EA's F1-2001 and this re-
release of Ford Racing....
Let's hope this doesn't become the rule rather than the exception!
Jay J
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they
> > add some features and tries to sell it in the US, and then sell that
> > again in Europe as a new game...
>
> Hey, it's the American way. Besides, they don't have to count their
> votes as many times as we do, so they've got to suffer in other,little
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I'd guess it's a European release of the U.S. version of the original
game. The U.S. version includes a variety of new views, including in-
car (with cockpit and moving steering wheel) and bumper-cam views. Big
improvement over the original demo.
-- JB
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> Who made it, and whats it look like?
>
>
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[email hidden] (Olav K. Malmin) wrote:
> [email hidden] writes:
>
> > I'd guess it's a European release of the U.S. version of theoriginal
> > game. The U.S. version includes a variety of new views, includingin-
> > car (with cockpit and moving steering wheel) and bumper-cam views.Big
Hey, it's the American way. Besides, they don't have to count their
votes as many times as we do, so they've got to suffer in other, little
ways . . .
;-)
Seriously, though, I think the folks in Europe who bought the original
game deserve a patch or something -- this is something that people
shoudl complain to Empire Interactive about.
-- JB
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> > improvement over the original demo. > > LOL! > > So, they first release Ford Racing in Europe and it is crap. Then they > add some features and tries to sell it in the US, and then sell that > again in Europe as a new game...Following up on the recent Ford Racing discussion, I just noticed that
Ford Racing 2001 has gone gold...
Andre
Who made it, and whats it look like?
[email hidden] writes:
> I'd guess it's a European release of the U.S. version of the original
> game. The U.S. version includes a variety of new views, including in-
> car (with cockpit and moving steering wheel) and bumper-cam views. Big
> improvement over the original demo.
LOL!
So, they first release Ford Racing in Europe and it is crap. Then they
add some features and tries to sell it in the US, and then sell that
again in Europe as a new game...
--
Olav K. Malmin
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