The Nascar2000 Review we've all been waiting for

be sure to read the whole review, it's a good laugh ;-) quoted from: http://www.3dracing.net/reviews/nascar_2000.html <quote> I personally am not a fan of Nascar, CART, or F-1 games because they are all too realistic to me. I personally am the type of guy who would rather jump into a game with real life vehicles and start racing through a city than worrying about tuning my car to a race and racing around a boring oval. However, with the superb physics, causing crashes in a game (or racing in a simulation) has never been as fun! All of that, and I am not even a Nascar fan! If you are a Nascar fan, you will play this game a lot, I'm sure. Even once you have conquered all of the tracks and got bored with the game, you will have the urge to go flip some vehicles off a wall, and you'll fire the game up again. </quote> cheers, Alexander Marx mailo:[email hidden]

Is NASCAR 2000 out in stores yet, or when is it going to be released? Alexander Marx wrote:

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> > be sure to read the whole review, it's a good laugh ;-) > > quoted from: > http://www.3dracing.net/reviews/nascar_2000.html > <quote> > I personally am not a fan of Nascar, CART, or F-1 games because they are all > too realistic to me. I personally am the type of guy who would rather jump > into a game with real life vehicles and start racing through a city than > worrying about tuning my car to a race and racing around a boring oval. > However, with the superb physics, causing crashes in a game (or racing in a > simulation) has never been as fun! > > All of that, and I am not even a Nascar fan! If you are a Nascar fan, you > will play this game a lot, I'm sure. Even once you have conquered all of the > tracks and got bored with the game, you will have the urge to go flip some > vehicles off a wall, and you'll fire the game up again. > </quote> > > cheers, > > Alexander Marx > mailo:[email hidden]

Morgan VW� <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zvxE4.4632$[email hidden]... > Why are idiots like that even hired to write reviews? Sort of reminds meof PC > Gamer's T. Liam McDonald and his brain-dead review of GPL a while back. > > -- I don't have a problem with "brain dead" reviews as long as the reviewer qualifies their opinion with their background and interests. I think it is just as fair to write a review of GPL from a general gamer's perspective so that the casual racer knows what they are getting into, as long as this is stated in the pre-amble to the review. Hardcore sim racers know to pass that review by. But, in fairness to general gamers reading PC Gamer (the world does not revolve around us simmers) I think it is also important for racing sim fanatics who review sims to also state their preferences for accurate simulation above all else. I think it is even more important for a NASCAR game than for GPL, for example. NASCAR titles will draw in a wide variety of people. GPL probably just appealed to a narrow group of "car guys" anyway. Stephen

Alexander Marx <[email hidden]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 8btdss$5hf2e$[email hidden]...

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> be sure to read the whole review, it's a good laugh ;-) > > > quoted from: > http://www.3dracing.net/reviews/nascar_2000.html > <quote> > I personally am not a fan of Nascar, CART, or F-1 games because they are

all > too realistic to me. I personally am the type of guy who would rather jump > into a game with real life vehicles and start racing through a city than > worrying about tuning my car to a race and racing around a boring oval. > However, with the superb physics, causing crashes in a game (or racing ina > simulation) has never been as fun! > > All of that, and I am not even a Nascar fan! If you are a Nascar fan, you > will play this game a lot, I'm sure. Even once you have conquered all ofthe

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> tracks and got bored with the game, you will have the urge to go flip some > vehicles off a wall, and you'll fire the game up again. > </quote> > > > cheers, > > Alexander Marx > mailo:[email hidden] >

I don't think he's so wrong with this point of view! Judging from the demo the best fun in this game was really to blow those Dales Junior and Senior and Jeffs and Bobbys and whoever into the walls ;-) I think this game can be extremely helpful for the guys who have to get rid of their agressions after blowing their engines in NASCAR3 :-) (may the retail version be better!) CU Zolli

Why are idiots like that even hired to write reviews? Sort of reminds me of PC Gamer's T. Liam McDonald and his brain-dead review of GPL a while back. -- ----------------------------------- Morgan Vincent Wooten mailto:[email hidden] http://members.tripod.com/~morganv/ ----------------------------------- Alexander Marx <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:8btdss$5hf2e$[email hidden]... > be sure to read the whole review, it's a good laugh ;-) > > > quoted from: > http://www.3dracing.net/reviews/nascar_2000.html > <quote> > I personally am not a fan of Nascar, CART, or F-1 games because they are all > too realistic to me. I personally am the type of guy who would rather jump > into a game with real life vehicles and start racing through a city than > worrying about tuning my car to a race and racing around a boring oval. > However, with the superb physics, causing crashes in a game (or racing in a > simulation) has never been as fun! > > All of that, and I am not even a Nascar fan! If you are a Nascar fan, you > will play this game a lot, I'm sure. Even once you have conquered all of the > tracks and got bored with the game, you will have the urge to go flip some > vehicles off a wall, and you'll fire the game up again. > </quote> > > > cheers, > > Alexander Marx > mailo:[email hidden] > >

>I don't have a problem with "brain dead" reviews as long as the reviewer >qualifies their opinion with their background and interests. I think it is >just as fair to write a review of GPL from a general gamer's perspective so >that the casual racer knows what they are getting into, as long as this is >stated in the pre-amble to the review. *** sim racers know to pass Interesting argument and VERY well said. I agree that virtually EVERY sim (or game) should be reviewed by reviewers coming from BOTH sides of the fence. Having a GPL *** review Nascar 2000 would be a BAD thing to the casual gamers, but having a casual gamer review GPL would be a BAD thing, too. BUT, if the reviewer states his background and preferences and then at least _attempts_ to objectively review whatever game, both types of gamers can read the review by the person with a background and preference similar to THEIRS. IOW, casual gamers should read reviews of games by casual gamers, and simmers should read reviews by simmers; regardless of the genre of the game reviewed. Unless a VERY objective person could take BOTH reviews and combine them to get a "big picture." Gunner

Stephen Ferguson wrote in message <8buvpk$5ia4f$[email hidden]>... >I don't have a problem with "brain dead" reviews as long as the reviewer >qualifies their opinion with their background and interests. I think it is >just as fair to write a review of GPL from a general gamer's perspective so >that the casual racer knows what they are getting into, as long as this is >stated in the pre-amble to the review. Hardcore sim racers know to pass Interesting argument and VERY well said. I agree that virtually EVERY sim (or game) should be reviewed by reviewers coming from BOTH sides of the fence. Having a GPL addict review Nascar 2000 would be a BAD thing to the casual gamers, but having a casual gamer review GPL would be a BAD thing, too. BUT, if the reviewer states his background and preferences and then at least _attempts_ to objectively review whatever game, both types of gamers can read the review by the person with a background and preference similar to THEIRS. IOW, casual gamers should read reviews of games by casual gamers, and simmers should read reviews by simmers; regardless of the genre of the game reviewed. Unless a VERY objective person could take BOTH reviews and combine them to get a "big picture." Gunner

Don Hancock ("Gunner") <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kYLE4.87$[email hidden]... > to THEIRS. IOW, casual gamers should read reviews of games by casual > gamers, and simmers should read reviews by simmers; regardless of thegenre > of the game reviewed. Unless a VERY objective person could take BOTH > reviews and combine them to get a "big picture." > Randy MacGruder (Digital Sportspage) manages quite often to write reviews with information for both types of reader. Stephen