Fatal Racing sucks!

I have just tried Fatal Racing, I was completely disappointed. I wonder if the Gremlin developers ever tried their own products. The frame rates were low even in VGA mode running on a Pentium 133 with 32 Mb of RAM. The cars are also hard to handle, and behaves illogically. The tracks are stupidly designed. Mark Yeung

Let's hope Screamer is better eh?

In one of the current PC games mags ( I can't remember which one.. ) they had a graph comparing the relative SVGA mode and VGA mode performances of a number of the latest games. Screamer had the best SVGA frames-per-second, The Need For Speed had the best VGA performance. Note that Fatal Racing came _way_ below the others for both VGA and SVGA modes. I tried the demo for Fatal Racing on a P133 and while the VGA appeared smooth, SVGA chugged big time. Don't touch this game - try Screamer or the forthcoming Demolition Derby. Fraser

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>> I have just tried Fatal Racing, I was completely disappointed. >> I wonder if the Gremlin developers ever tried their own products. >> The frame rates were low even in VGA mode running on a Pentium 133 with >> 32 Mb of RAM. >> The cars are also hard to handle, and behaves illogically. The tracks are >> stupidly designed. >> Mark Yeung

I have played the demo, and was VERY unimpressed I have got the Screamer demo, and I to have seen the artical, and as far as I can see, The mag is wrong. My 486 66 (stealth 64) shiffted Screamer very nicely indeed, somewhat faster than need for speed (all in VGA of course). It has to said that Screamer really does fly. The cars handle well, and the graphice execlent. Forget Fatal racing and need for speed was good, but not great - Screamer in the definitive arcade racer for the PC (for the moment). It's due on november 27 for just 20 pounds (in the UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you believe in the light, its because of obscurity If you believe in happiness, its because of unhappiness If you believe in God, its because of the Devil Father X - Exorcist, church of Notre Dame, Paris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Mark, Thanks for the review. Sounds like a pile of crap. Maybe that's why it's called Fatal Racing. Sorta summed up their company's mission in one software title. ::: LabCage :::