PC Gamer gives Burnout high reviews

In the latest PC Gamer Mag, they have the demo of burnout and have a review of it aswell.They stat that it is a true Drag racing Sim and give hit a 88% overall score.They said the highs were Efficient interface, sharp graphics, good sound effects, witht he lows only being Needs more classic cars and Mplayer support not up when it shipped, with the bottom line being If you're a speed freak that doesn't mind getting your kicks a few seconds at atime, look no further than Burnout.This review was done on the release version and not will the upcoming patch,wonder what the review would be then.You can take this review two ways either as that the PC Gamer reviewers have no clue of what they are talking about or that burnout is a truily fun Drag sim.I'd like to believe the second myself since these same guys gave Nascar2 96% when it was released and we all remember how buggy it was at first.Burnout also received the PC GAMER EDITORS' CHOICE AWARD. Robert "GT86" Platts BlackHole MotorSports http://www.ivga.com/bhmotorsports Pro Series Racing League http://home.earthlink.net/~garywin

Robert: Subject: Burnout Version 1.20X As a playtester for Bethesda Burnout game if I was to judge the orginal game I would give it a C++ for realism. But the new patch is so massive with over 50 improvements I would gladly pay another $39.95 for the patched version. I can now Grade the new version at A. Thats just how different and improved the new one is! Don Wilshe

Well.... Don the Big Question is : When will we be able to get (i.e. Download) the PATCH ? Tim >Robert: >Subject: Burnout Version 1.20X >As a playtester for Bethesda Burnout game if I was to judge the orginal game I

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>would >give it a C++ for realism. But the new patch is so massive with over 50 >improvements >I would gladly pay another $39.95 for the patched version. I can now >Grade the new version at A. Thats just how different and improved the new >one is! >Don Wilshe

You can get it NOW!!!!! It's out at the Betesda site! http://www.bethsoft.com/burnout/

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>Well.... Don the Big Question is : >When will we be able to get (i.e. Download) the PATCH ? >Tim >>Robert: >>Subject: Burnout Version 1.20X >>As a playtester for Bethesda Burnout game if I was to judge the orginal >game I >>would >>give it a C++ for realism. But the new patch is so massive with over 50 >>improvements >>I would gladly pay another $39.95 for the patched version. I can now >>Grade the new version at A. Thats just how different and improved the

new >>one is! >>Don Wilshe

>Robert: >Subject: Burnout Version 1.20X >As a playtester for Bethesda Burnout game if I was to judge the orginal game I >would >give it a C++ for realism. But the new patch is so massive with over 50 >improvements >I would gladly pay another $39.95 for the patched version. I can now Excuse me for butting in. But would you pay the extra $40 before, or after a couple of beers? Unbelieveable. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes.

Danny, those of us that participated in the testing have been putting in inordinate amounts of time trying to get the realism factor right. Bethesda for their part has listened to what we and other users have asked for. There is still more to come. I have participated in many beta test sessions for numerous software companies in the past and I have to give Bethesda A+ for their response. There are limitations within any game as to what can be done but this piece of software is getting very close to being a true simiulator. I also have no doubt that in the future they will have the definitive drag race similulator! Pete

I was kind of being facetious... I'm still working on getting my setups correct. It's kinda fun trying out a lot of things I don't understand, but sometimes it gets frustrating.... Danny

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> Danny, those of us that participated in the testing have been putting in > inordinate amounts of time trying to get the realism factor right. Bethesda > for > their part has listened to what we and other users have asked for. There is > still > more to come. I have participated in many beta test sessions for numerous > software companies in the past and I have to give Bethesda A+ for their > response. > There are limitations within any game as to what can be done but this > piece of software is getting very close to being a true simiulator. I also > have no > doubt that in the future they will have the definitive drag race > similulator! > Pete > > I went back to 1.0. When I upped to 1.20 I could no longer get into the > > high 5's. 6.24 was about as good as it got. I'll be waiting for you on > > the other end... > > Danny

When are they going to fix the interface? For example, choosing a car is just that, you HAVE to choose the car in order to see it's specs, i.e. weight, cd, f/r balance, etc. Otherwise the car menu blocks all the stuff. How about letting us highlite numbers with the mouse? Hitting backspace 100 times just to tweak one valve size gets pretty tiring. Scroll arrows, maybe? On another note, who made that awful late-model Mustang 3d model? bleah.. Still enjoying the game, nonetheless..