I just bought the game, based mainly on how much I liked the demo. While I am
not that fond of ovals, the game still is alot of fun. The graphics are superb,
with very smooth frame rates on a fairly modest P3 600 and an ATI Rage 128 with
128MB, even with everything on at 800x600. The cars handle in a believable
manner, and unlike I have read in many posts, I have yet to flip my car in
either the demo or retail version, so I do not think that it is something that
happens frequently, albeit I suspect that it probably happens more often than
in real life. The AI cars race in a believable manner, and make single player
games a nice diversion. The only really bad thing that I have encountered is
that the game has crashed twice on me without any warning. Neither time was
during an actual race. Both crashes occured while I was using the Replay
function. Once when I was exiting the Replay menu, and the second time was when
I clicked on the INFO button while watching a Replay. Those two crashes concern
me, since I very much like this game, and I would rank it among the 10 best
sims I have ever played.
Agreed upon once again Loosay!!!
"Loosay2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> I just bought the game, based mainly on how much I liked the demo. While Iam
> not that fond of ovals, the game still is alot of fun. The graphics aresuperb,
> with very smooth frame rates on a fairly modest P3 600 and an ATI Rage 128with
> 128MB, even with everything on at 800x600. The cars handle in a believable
> manner, and unlike I have read in many posts, I have yet to flip my car in
> either the demo or retail version, so I do not think that it is somethingthat
> happens frequently, albeit I suspect that it probably happens more oftenthan
> in real life. The AI cars race in a believable manner, and make singleplayer
> games a nice diversion. The only really bad thing that I have encounteredis
> that the game has crashed twice on me without any warning. Neither timewas
> during an actual race. Both crashes occured while I was using the Replay
> function. Once when I was exiting the Replay menu, and the second time waswhen
> I clicked on the INFO button while watching a Replay. Those two crashesconcern
> me, since I very much like this game, and I would rank it among the 10best
> sims I have ever played.
It is indeed the best at present.
On 26 Aug 2000 14:49:47 GMT, [email hidden] (Loosay2) wrote:
>I just bought the game, based mainly on how much I liked the demo. While I am
>not that fond of ovals, the game still is alot of fun. The graphics are superb,<snip>
>me, since I very much like this game, and I would rank it among the 10 best
>sims I have ever played.
Good thing you didn't listen to all those bad reviews :)
Andre
Screw the reviews, I play N3 then NH and NH is better without a doubt
period.
Not saying N4 will not be good , time will tell, but N3 feels lifeless. the
cars
have no sensation of wieght or proper physics movement, they do a silly
looking Irish jig when behind them. The AI is damn unrealistic in thier
behaviour, Nascars about door to door racing , about impossible in
this game. Take your copy back and convince yourself N3 good if
you keep telling yourself that long enough you will believe it. I will
enjoy the great racing action in NH for 6 months or whenever N4 sees the
light of day.
JJ
door to door???
JJ Thomas <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Screw the reviews, I play N3 then NH and NH is better without a doubt
> period.
> Not saying N4 will not be good , time will tell, but N3 feels lifeless.the
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> cars > have no sensation of wieght or proper physics movement, they do a silly > looking Irish jig when behind them. The AI is damn unrealistic in thier > behaviour, Nascars about door to door racing , about impossible in > this game. Take your copy back and convince yourself N3 good if > you keep telling yourself that long enough you will believe it. I will > enjoy the great racing action in NH for 6 months or whenever N4 sees the > light of day. > > JJ > > Make, sure there isn't any residue from the demo
left in the registry. I had to remove and re-install
after manually getting rid of the registry. I have
also seen some people that were having problems
with the game who didn't delete the demo at all but
just installed the full over top of it.
This might be worth looking at!
Pete
"Loosay2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
> I just bought the game, based mainly on how much I liked the demo. While Iam
> not that fond of ovals, the game still is alot of fun. The graphics aresuperb,
> with very smooth frame rates on a fairly modest P3 600 and an ATI Rage 128with
> 128MB, even with everything on at 800x600. The cars handle in a believable
> manner, and unlike I have read in many posts, I have yet to flip my car in
> either the demo or retail version, so I do not think that it is somethingthat
> happens frequently, albeit I suspect that it probably happens more oftenthan
> in real life. The AI cars race in a believable manner, and make singleplayer
> games a nice diversion. The only really bad thing that I have encounteredis
> that the game has crashed twice on me without any warning. Neither timewas
> during an actual race. Both crashes occured while I was using the Replay
> function. Once when I was exiting the Replay menu, and the second time waswhen
> I clicked on the INFO button while watching a Replay. Those two crashesconcern
> me, since I very much like this game, and I would rank it among the 10best
> sims I have ever played.
"JJ Thomas" <[email hidden]> wrote
> Nascars about door to door racing , about impossible in this game.
While the old game engine stock-car simulations by Papyrus clearly lack in
terms of sideway brushing, it's over-exagerated in Nascar Heat. You can
stay door-to-door with somebody else (like somebody else said, creating a
8-wheel car) and still race laps are normal speed, without even damaging the
car. Of course, all of this in *hardcore* mode.
Hopefully, they will make sideway brushing (and mostly the overall contacts
between cars) more dangerous in an upcoming patch.
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