just played 4x4 evolution demo

The game is fairly much an arcade game , unfortunately for me. I am still looking for a off-road sim, but the game is pretty good otherwise. Nice straightforward menus. Very nice terrain graphics and graphics in general. The demo did not crash, thats always a plus. Looks like it will be a very nice offroad arcader.

> The game is fairly much an arcade game , unfortunately for me. > I am still looking for a off-road sim, but the game is pretty goodotherwise. > Nice straightforward menus. Very nice terrain graphics and graphics ingeneral. > The demo did not crash, thats always a plus. Looks like it will be a verynice > offroad arcader.Maybe old SODA off road racing ?

On 08 Sep 2000 10:12:36 GMT, [email hidden] (Loosay2) wrote: >The game is fairly much an arcade game , unfortunately for me. >I am still looking for a off-road sim, but the game is pretty good otherwise. >Nice straightforward menus. Very nice terrain graphics and graphics in general. >The demo did not crash, thats always a plus. Looks like it will be a very nice >offroad arcader. I played it for about 10 minutes and all I can say is that is seems like a near carbon copy of Monster Truck Madness 2 with normal vehicles. ~daxe

It's a completely new game from top to bottom. It's hard for it not to resemble MTM2 because they are both off road racing games. David G Fisher "daxe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On 08 Sep 2000 10:12:36 GMT, [email hidden] (Loosay2) wrote: > > >The game is fairly much an arcade game , unfortunately for me. > >I am still looking for a off-road sim, but the game is pretty goodotherwise. > >Nice straightforward menus. Very nice terrain graphics and graphics ingeneral. > >The demo did not crash, thats always a plus. Looks like it will be a verynice

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> >offroad arcader. > > I played it for about 10 minutes and all I can say is that is seems > like a near carbon copy of Monster Truck Madness 2 with normal > vehicles. > > ~daxe

From a previous thread: The demo you tried is a public beta demo. A regular demo with the final code is supposed to be released later on. No, it's not a pure sim, but it's not pure arcade either. There will be about 70 real SUV's and trucks whose physics are designed by the manufacturer's specs. You can also customize them in career mode with dozens of performance parts which turn them into full blown race vehicles. The only thing not realistic is the setting for center of gravity. This will be able to be changed though to whatever setting you like by PC and Mac users. The gravity is set lower by default for gameplay purposes because SUV' s with big tires and high suspensions are easy to roll and could frustrate a lot of gamers. If you set the center of gravity to a realistic setting, then it's a sim IMO. John O' Keefe (VROC) is the producer and the multiplayer is excellent. Graphics are awesome, tracks are great, and the beta testers will also design some tracks to be released when the game goes on sale. It's supposed to ship with the editor too. David G Fisher "Loosay2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > The game is fairly much an arcade game , unfortunately for me. > I am still looking for a off-road sim, but the game is pretty goodotherwise. > Nice straightforward menus. Very nice terrain graphics and graphics ingeneral. > The demo did not crash, thats always a plus. Looks like it will be a verynice > offroad arcader.

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 02:03:32 GMT, "David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> wrote: >It's a completely new game from top to bottom. > >It's hard for it not to resemble MTM2 because they are both off road racing >games. Funny, it doesn't look anything like Testdrive Offroad, so I guess the similarity is not rooted in it being an offroad game, then. Everything about the game, from the driving model to the scenery and the way it looks and even some of the sounds appear to come straight from MTM2. The similarity is remarkable. It may very well be new from the ground up, but they could have saved themselves a whole lot of coding because it drives and plays exactly like MTM2 with slightly different vehicles. At least the demo does, anyway. ~daxe

"daxe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 02:03:32 GMT, "David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >It's a completely new game from top to bottom. > > > >It's hard for it not to resemble MTM2 because they are both off roadracing

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> >games. > > Funny, it doesn't look anything like Testdrive Offroad, so I guess the > similarity is not rooted in it being an offroad game, then. > > Everything about the game, from the driving model to the scenery and > the way it looks and even some of the sounds appear to come straight > from MTM2. The similarity is remarkable. > > It may very well be new from the ground up, but they could have saved > themselves a whole lot of coding because it drives and plays exactly > like MTM2 with slightly different vehicles. At least the demo does, > anyway. > > ~daxe

The Papy sims all have a similiar look. The Ubi Soft sims have a similiar look. The NFS series all look similiar. It's not unusual for games from the same developer to look similiar. David G Fisher

daxe <[email hidden]> wrote: >I played it for about 10 minutes and all I can say is that is seems >like a near carbon copy of Monster Truck Madness 2 with normal >vehicles. MTM2 is much better in my opinion. Better driving model, force feedback, more interesting tracks, and overall more lively environments. Joe McGinn _____________________ Radical Entertainment

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 04:21:30 GMT, "David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> wrote: >It's not unusual for games from the same developer to look similiar. Is it also not unusual to have different sims from the same developer feel exactly the same when they are supposedly completely new? It's the same game as far as I can tell. ~daxe

On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 04:27:31 GMT, [email hidden] (Joe62) wrote:

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>daxe <[email hidden]> wrote: > >>I played it for about 10 minutes and all I can say is that is seems >>like a near carbon copy of Monster Truck Madness 2 with normal >>vehicles. > >MTM2 is much better in my opinion. Better driving model, force >feedback, more interesting tracks, and overall more lively >environments.

I like MTM2 a lot. The similarity was immediately striking to me, though. ~daxe