Any non-racing sims?

Does anyone know if there are any driving simulatiors that aren't racing and that have good good graphics? Not graphics like ford simulator.

>Does anyone know if there are any driving simulatiors that aren't racing and >that have good good graphics? Not graphics like ford simulator. This may be a dumb question, but why? Why would you just want to drive around? If you need to that bad, just get in your car...

| >Does anyone know if there are any driving simulatiors that aren't racing and | >that have good good graphics? Not graphics like ford simulator. | This may be a dumb question, but why? Why would you just want to | drive around? If you need to that bad, just get in your car... well, for one, it would be cool to have an auto sim to help people learn how to drive. Stoplights, signs, pedestrians, 4-way stops... I've never really thought about it much, but it could be a cool thing, and very profitable if it could somehow be made "official" for "student use", etc. On another token, imagine having a sim where you could go to a sim of the actual town you are visiting, can choose the actual car you'll be renting there, and, say, drive from the airport to the hotel! I think that would be a sell, if only for novelty. I have no idea what sort of detail you could actually fit on a CD- but the sort of detail you see when driving Monaco on Psygnosis' F1 (sorry, still only playststation AFAIK) would be enough, jsut for *all* streets, not just one course. Virtual Karts does a pretty nice job, too. I imagine in the future they'll fit everybody's house in a program, and people will buy it just to be able to drive past "their house" circa xxxx. What a thought!

OR... You could get in a bog-standard car, in any town, I don't care much, and simply put your foot down. You'd be slammin' over kerbs, bouncing over speed bumps, avoiding normal respectable ppl driving about and taking shortcuts down thin muddy tracks. Call me a budding joyrider, but I played some game in the arcade [by Namco I think] where you start off driving on a street before moving to country roads. You have to dodge busses and the like, and it's a damn good laugh. I mean, CAN YOU IMAGINE DRIVING THE WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE-WAY STREET??!!?!??? On the subject of everyone's house being included in a sim, who would have the time to program it? ;) -- Dave Bowers

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> >well, for one, it would be cool to have an auto sim to help people > >learn how to drive. Stoplights, signs, pedestrians, 4-way stops... > >I've never really thought about it much, but it could be a cool thing, > >and very profitable if it could somehow be made "official" for > >"student use", etc. > >On another token, imagine having a sim where you could go to a sim of > >the actual town you are visiting, can choose the actual car you'll be > >renting there, and, say, drive from the airport to the hotel! I think > >that would be a sell, if only for novelty. I have no idea what sort of > >detail you could actually fit on a CD- but the sort of detail you see > >when driving Monaco on Psygnosis' F1 (sorry, still only playststation > >AFAIK) would be enough, jsut for *all* streets, not just one course. > >Virtual Karts does a pretty nice job, too. I imagine in the future > >they'll fit everybody's house in a program, and people will buy it > >just to be able to drive past "their house" circa xxxx. What a > >thought! > OR... > You could get in a bog-standard car, in any town, I don't care much, and > simply put your foot down. You'd be slammin' over kerbs, bouncing over > speed bumps, avoiding normal respectable ppl driving about and taking > shortcuts down thin muddy tracks. Call me a budding joyrider, but I > played some game in the arcade [by Namco I think] where you start off > driving on a street before moving to country roads. You have to dodge > busses and the like, and it's a damn good laugh. I mean, CAN YOU IMAGINE > DRIVING THE WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE-WAY STREET??!!?!??? > On the subject of everyone's house being included in a sim, who would > have the time to program it? ;) > -- > Dave Bowers

"The Need for Speed" dishes up some of what you're talking about. There are cops, normal street cars to weave in between at highly illegal speeds, and plenty of delinquint driving opportunities. You can even get tickets or try to outrun the cops! Race against a friend over modem and relive the Magnum PI Ferrari chasing Ferrari through busy city streets..... A great game it is... M Lewis

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> >well, for one, it would be cool to have an auto sim to help people > >learn how to drive. Stoplights, signs, pedestrians, 4-way stops... > >I've never really thought about it much, but it could be a cool thing, > >and very profitable if it could somehow be made "official" for > >"student use", etc. > Dave Bowers

This is a test, sorry.

Sounds alot like an old game called Vette! which you drove around (San Francisco?) a city. I don't remember if there was a point to the game, but it was cool. I think someone is working on a remake. zippo

You could also download a zx-spectrum emulator and play the game "Turbo Esprit" in which you drive a <guess what> through the streets in search for *** dealers. If you want to, you can wait for traffic lights, overtake, use your windscreen wipers, yes even shoot at pedestrians. It's an English game, so you have to drive on the right side of the road. Good fun!

where is the demo at? Alex "YoungGun"-Hawaii handle