Toca driver 2 , try the cheat codes

I already liked this game to start with, but I wanted to see the whole game with all of the tracks and cars, so I spent the $5 to get the cheat codes from the codemasters site. This game is even more awesome than the demo would lead many to believe. Some cars admittedly feel a bit arcadish or at least not quite right in their physics, but try driving the open wheel indy type car on the oval track, and you may find as I did that I was crashing like I have not done since the first time I played GPL years ago. It is much harder to push to the limits for me with that track and car than it was when I first played Nascar 2003, or any past Indycar sims. Also the track looks so nice,beautiful unsurpassed texturing of the road surface, and runs buttery smooth frame rates on even my old 1.4 GHZ athlon with my ATI 9600 pro. If you are not predisposed to wanting to dislike this game, especially if all you have played is the demo to base your entire opinion on, then by all means get this game , it's cheap at 29.99, and spend the $5 for the cheat codes. This game may try to do too many things at once, but it is full of great little moments waiting for you to experience. It is truely a flawed gem, with awesome potential. At times it outclasses some of the old sim racers of past years, in terms of the graphics and the "feel" of certain cars. Admittedly Codemasters did not dot every i and cross every T, when it comes to some of the finely honed details that you will find in sims like GPL, but the physics model works extremely simlike with certain cars, and less well with others. Perhaps it is more a matter of flawed variables assigned to certain cars, rather than a fatally flawed physics engine, because some cars "feel" nearly spot on to me , while others are substantially lacking. I tried driving a truck ( Ford SVT Lightning I think] on two different ovals, and it simply did not want to stay on the track with the high banked turns even at 80 MPH, it would start to lose traction and oversteer in the extreme. Not very realistic I suspect. However, with a few exceptions, this games cars and tracks are simply exceptionally fun to play with. So, if you are obsessive about authentic details in your "sims", and consider anything short of Papyrus racers to be "arcade" games , not worth your gaze, then you will never like this game. However, for those of you who love GPL , but still can enjoy a fun racer that lacks GPL's fidelity to simulating real racing, i.e. SCGT, you should definitely give this games full version a decent look, and by all means get the cheat codes so that you can really get the full flavor of this game. It is truly exceptional at times. Also, if you have the Xbox version, you really should treat yourself to the greatly superior feel of playing the PC version with a forcefeedback steering wheel and "pro simulation" mode. I could easily point up numerous flaws in this game, but the bottom line for me is that I simply have not enjoyed playing a racing game this much in a very long while, I am still contemplating just one more race even after I finish typing this message at 3 A.M. in the morning. I have not been this jazzed over a racing game for quite awhile.

It's refreshing? to hear that someone likes this game. "greenfield" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:40Bic.65842$[email hidden]... > I already liked this game to start with, but I wanted to see the wholegame

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> with all of the tracks and cars, so I spent the $5 to get the cheat codes > from the codemasters site. This game is even more awesome than the demo > would lead many to believe. > Some cars admittedly feel a bit arcadish or at least not quite right in > their physics, but try driving the open wheel indy type car on the oval > track, and you may find as I did that I was crashing like I have not done > since the first time I played GPL years ago. It is much harder to push to > the limits for me with that track and car than it was when I first played > Nascar 2003, or any past Indycar sims. Also the track looks so > nice,beautiful unsurpassed texturing of the road surface, and runs buttery > smooth frame rates on even my old 1.4 GHZ athlon with my ATI 9600 pro. > If you are not predisposed to wanting to dislike this game, especially if > all you have played is the demo to base your entire opinion on, then by

all > means get this game , it's cheap at 29.99, and spend the $5 for the cheat > codes. This game may try to do too many things at once, but it is full of > great little moments waiting for you to experience. It is truely a flawed > gem, with awesome potential. At times it outclasses some of the old sim > racers of past years, in terms of the graphics and the "feel" of certain > cars. Admittedly Codemasters did not dot every i and cross every T, whenit

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> comes to some of the finely honed details that you will find in sims like > GPL, but the physics model works extremely simlike with certain cars, and > less well with others. Perhaps it is more a matter of flawed variables > assigned to certain cars, rather than a fatally flawed physics engine, > because some cars "feel" nearly spot on to me , while others are > substantially lacking. > I tried driving a truck ( Ford SVT Lightning I think] on two different > ovals, and it simply did not want to stay on the track with the high

banked > turns even at 80 MPH, it would start to lose traction and oversteer in the > extreme. Not very realistic I suspect. However, with a few exceptions, > this games cars and tracks are simply exceptionally fun to play with. So, > if you are obsessive about authentic details in your "sims", and consider > anything short of Papyrus racers to be "arcade" games , not worth yourgaze, > then you will never like this game. However, for those of you who love GPL, > but still can enjoy a fun racer that lacks GPL's fidelity to simulatingreal > racing, i.e. SCGT, you should definitely give this games full version a > decent look, and by all means get the cheat codes so that you can reallyget > the full flavor of this game. It is truly exceptional at times. Also, if > you have the Xbox version, you really should treat yourself to the greatly > superior feel of playing the PC version with a forcefeedback steeringwheel > and "pro simulation" mode. I could easily point up numerous flaws in this > game, but the bottom line for me is that I simply have not enjoyed playinga

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> racing game this much in a very long while, I am still contemplating just > one more race even after I finish typing this message at 3 A.M. in the > morning. > I have not been this jazzed over a racing game for quite awhile. > > > > >

"greenfield" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<40Bic.65842$[email hidden]>... <SNIP>

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> I tried driving a truck ( Ford SVT Lightning I think] on two different > ovals, and it simply did not want to stay on the track with the high banked > turns even at 80 MPH, it would start to lose traction and oversteer in the > extreme. Not very realistic I suspect. However, with a few exceptions, > this games cars and tracks are simply exceptionally fun to play with. So, > if you are obsessive about authentic details in your "sims", and consider > anything short of Papyrus racers to be "arcade" games , not worth your gaze, > then you will never like this game. However, for those of you who love GPL , > but still can enjoy a fun racer that lacks GPL's fidelity to simulating real > racing, i.e. SCGT, you should definitely give this games full version a > decent look, and by all means get the cheat codes so that you can really get > the full flavor of this game. It is truly exceptional at times.

WELL-SAID! I agree wholeheartedly! The Ford SVT Lightning is the WORST, IMO. VERY unrealistic, I'm afraid. Thankfully, there are the Formula Fords to balance things out -- THEY are VERY sweet indeed! <SNIP> > I have not been this jazzed over a racing game for quite awhile. Ditto. To steal a slogan from McDonald's, "I'm lovin' it!" ;-) -- JB