Johnny Herbert GP - any good?

Anyone knows how this sim runs? From makers of castrol honda superbike, which i enjoy very much, high framerates too. Got a P200 MMX with Voodoo RUsh and 96 MB RAM. DOK

>In conclusion, if you want a "real" sim then get GPL. If you want F1 sim then >get F1RS (F1RS2 is out and is an improvement) or GP2. If you want a sim Is F1RS2 the same as Monaco2? Is it available in the US? The web page said Oct 1998 for Europe and Feb 99 for US. Tom

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>Anyone knows how this sim runs? >From makers of castrol honda superbike, which i enjoy very much, high >framerates too. >Got a P200 MMX with Voodoo RUsh and 96 MB RAM. >DOK

I got the full version. The graphics look good.... kind of like a more color-correct version of F1RS though the cars have "refletion mapping" and hence they look mure metalic (sometimes they look like they're made of porcelain though :-). The menus are great, the AI is pretty good as well. The sound is pretty good too. The framerate is priobably in low 20s with everything on on my PII 300 +64Mb Ram + Voodoo1... you can get about 30fps by switching the "reflecion mapping" off and maybe a few other bits. Now the important part... the driving model. Well, let's put it this way, it definaletty is not a sim in a league of F1RS, GP2, ICR2 or Narcar. On the other hand it is more realistic than Andretti-Racing or F1'97. The car handles resonably well when not driving on the limit... anything above that is a joke... totally unrealistic/canned slides and spins. Also, the endine desn't seem to rev out too well. In conclusion, if you want a "real" sim then get GPL. If you want F1 sim then get F1RS (F1RS2 is out and is an improvement) or GP2. If you want a sim with a bit of everything and be sure that it'll run well on your system then get ICR2. If you want something between sim and arcade then this is not a bad game.... personally I'd rather get Viper Raving 'cos you get both arcade as well as sim in one package and it sure looks great with a 3dfx card:-) Regards, hope thgis helps, David mocnay

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> >In conclusion, if you want a "real" sim then get GPL. If you want F1 sim > then > >get F1RS (F1RS2 is out and is an improvement) or GP2. If you want a sim > Is F1RS2 the same as Monaco2? Is it available in the US? The web page said > Oct 1998 for Europe and Feb 99 for US. > Tom

Yep, it's the same thing. And Ubisoft is once again screwing over US gamers by delaying its release here for several months (like they did with F1RS). Do what I did when F1RS came out, buy an import copy from InterAct CD - their prices are very good and their service is excellent!