The Swamp Buggy sim...

C'mon, one of you guys must have sprung for it. I was tempted when I saw it just because the damn things are so weird. Someone post a review! Tim

Thanks,ymenard -- I actually bought the game to help encourage Wizard Works to continue publishing more driving games/sims. DTR was a great little sim, especially for a first-time sim effort from Wizard Works and Ratbag, and I'd like to see Wizard Works publish more quality titles like that, so I was willing to shell out the money for a decent- looking game that I really didn't have all that much interest in just to encourage them to produce MORE driving games. So, now that I've bought Swamp Buggy Racing, I think my faithfulness to Wizard Works should now be rewarded with a truly worthy successor to DTR! ;-) -- JB In article <uYWQ4.2160$[email hidden]>, "ymenard" <[email hidden]> wrote: > <[email hidden]> wrote > > Okay, I confess -- there's a copy of the game on my hard drive, andthe > > box is sitting next to my computer. I bought it in support ofWizard > > Works and Brian Ewoldt, who was the executive producer for Wizard > > Works' Dirt Track Racing title. To sum it up: PC Gamer gave it a"6", > > which pretty much says it all. > > Good summary JB. I rated it C-- but forgot to consider that it was 19$. I

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> kept waiting for more and more, and it never showed up :( > > -- > -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> > -- May the Downforce be with you... > -- http://www.WeRace.net > -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't

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>C'mon, one of you guys must have sprung for it. >I was tempted when I saw it just because the damn things are so weird. >Someone post a review! > >Tim I absolutely love this game! The varied cars and tracks and the huge amount of setup options make this game a steal! I especially love the fact that the alligators try to eat your car. lol

Okay, I confess -- there's a copy of the game on my hard drive, and the box is sitting next to my computer. I bought it in support of Wizard Works and Brian Ewoldt, who was the executive producer for Wizard Works' Dirt Track Racing title. To sum it up: PC Gamer gave it a "6", which pretty much says it all. Keeping in mind that it is strictly an arcade racer, game play is really fairly decent, the vehicles all handle differently, and the in- game graphics have some nice touches. Nothing really new or innovative, but I'd say it's all "okay," from strictly an arcade perspective. What makes PC Gamer's "6" rating seem fair to me is the fact that for $19 (suggested retail -- and what I paid at CompUSA), you get two (2) tracks and four (4) vehicles. That's it. No mirrored tracks, no running them in reverse, nothing. All in all, other than being a completely different topic with vehicles and a track surfaces that you've never seen in any other game, I really felt like this game doesn't offer as much in terms of outright fun and playability (and, even more important, REplayability) as the Dirt Track Racing demo did, for example. That's not an impression I want to come away with after spending $19, though. Swamp Buggy Racing isn't entirely bad, but it does feel like they should have gone just a *little* further and provided at least 5 or 6 tracks for some added diversity and value. As it is, it feels too much like a demo. That said, it would be a great game if you have younger racers in the family who wanted to have a fast, simple, and graphically-flashy driving game to play around with. I still hold out hope that Brian and Wizard Works try harder to reproduce their successes with Dirt Track Racing in order to deliver us more high-quality racing titles along those lines in the future -- Swamp Buggy Racing might not be the worst game ever, but it's definitely not a worthy follow-up to DTR in my opinion. Just my $0.02. -- JB In article <[email hidden]>, Tim O. <[email hidden]> wrote:

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> > C'mon, one of you guys must have sprung for it. > I was tempted when I saw it just because the damn things are so weird. > Someone post a review! > > Tim > >

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"Tim O." <[email hidden]> wrote > C'mon, one of you guys must have sprung for it. > I was tempted when I saw it just because the damn things are so weird. > Someone post a review! It received poor reviews by almost all major game reviewers. Others decided to simply NOT waste time reviewing this POS. Because yes, if we talk about racing simulator it's very, very, very poor. -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

<[email hidden]> wrote > Okay, I confess -- there's a copy of the game on my hard drive, and the > box is sitting next to my computer. I bought it in support of Wizard > Works and Brian Ewoldt, who was the executive producer for Wizard > Works' Dirt Track Racing title. To sum it up: PC Gamer gave it a "6", > which pretty much says it all. Good summary JB. I rated it C-- but forgot to consider that it was 19$. I kept waiting for more and more, and it never showed up :( -- -- Fran�ois M�nard <ymenard> -- May the Downforce be with you... -- http://www.WeRace.net -- People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.