Re: Nascar2000 Demo - Are You Guys Kidding Me?

It's an arcade game. I doubt it's really meant to be anything else. Most casual NASCAR fans don't want to go to all the trouble learning proper driving like that required for N3 or, hopefully, GPL-engined N4. You can't expect realistic driving physics. I also have a 450 celery and there's no popup what so ever (128MB, 173MHz V3 2000). The graphics are outstanding. I wish after Papy nails GPL-quality physics and AI for N4 that they'd incorporate some visuals like that. Sound sucks, though. Even with my A3D card. I can hear everything though, it just doesn't sound much different from NRev. Must be something wrong with your machine. And it does seem like the cars hover. While driving check your rear-view and see if you can spot what the AI cars are riding on. Nothing! They're floating down the track with no tires! :) -- ----------------------------------- Morgan Vincent Wooten mailto:[email hidden] http://members.tripod.com/~morganv/ ----------------------------------- JackB <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:qheu4.21542$[email hidden]... > I just tried the N2K demo and couldnt believe how bad it was. After The NRev > debacle you would think EA would be extra careful to release a better > product this time around. I think N2K is even worse than NR.. In the demo > there are no sounds except my engine reving (is this me only?). The cars > look like they are hovering over the track. There is tons of "pop-up" on my > Celeron 450. You can still yank the wheel to either right or left with > little impact. You can slam on the brakes and the car stays straight as an > arrow. I really cant think of anything positive to say about this pile of > junk. > >

No pop-up? I set the graphics option to the max (draw ahead) and still could see the buildings in T1 pop up as I was driving down the front straight. One cool thing that could be used is the technology that will be present in Team Fortress 2: mesh drawing or something. Only the level of details is affected. Technically, stuff that is far off is drawn with less details but it doesn't matter cause you're probably not paying as much attention to it. If it works well, could be fun to see it in racing sims Philster "Morgan VW©" wrote:

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> > It's an arcade game. I doubt it's really meant to be anything else. Most casual > NASCAR fans don't want to go to all the trouble learning proper driving like > that required for N3 or, hopefully, GPL-engined N4. You can't expect realistic > driving physics. > > I also have a 450 celery and there's no popup what so ever (128MB, 173MHz V3 > 2000). The graphics are outstanding. I wish after Papy nails GPL-quality > physics and AI for N4 that they'd incorporate some visuals like that. Sound > sucks, though. Even with my A3D card. I can hear everything though, it just > doesn't sound much different from NRev. Must be something wrong with your > machine. And it does seem like the cars hover. While driving check your > rear-view and see if you can spot what the AI cars are riding on. Nothing! > They're floating down the track with no tires! :) > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Morgan Vincent Wooten > mailto:[email hidden] > http://members.tripod.com/~morganv/ > ----------------------------------- > > JackB <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:qheu4.21542$[email hidden]... > > I just tried the N2K demo and couldnt believe how bad it was. After The NRev > > debacle you would think EA would be extra careful to release a better > > product this time around. I think N2K is even worse than NR.. In the demo > > there are no sounds except my engine reving (is this me only?). The cars > > look like they are hovering over the track. There is tons of "pop-up" on my > > Celeron 450. You can still yank the wheel to either right or left with > > little impact. You can slam on the brakes and the car stays straight as an > > arrow. I really cant think of anything positive to say about this pile of > > junk. > > > >

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Yep, it's a dud... JackB wrote:

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> > I just tried the N2K demo and couldnt believe how bad it was. After The NRev > debacle you would think EA would be extra careful to release a better > product this time around. I think N2K is even worse than NR.. In the demo > there are no sounds except my engine reving (is this me only?). The cars > look like they are hovering over the track. There is tons of "pop-up" on my > Celeron 450. You can still yank the wheel to either right or left with > little impact. You can slam on the brakes and the car stays straight as an > arrow. I really cant think of anything positive to say about this pile of > junk.