TOCA Race Driver 2: Ultimate Racing Simulator

GameSpy reports: "With over 30 global championships, players can compete in events on 56 racing circuits from around the world. It's on these world famous circuits that Race Driver 2 will demonstrate its completely new physics model, deformation damage system, graphics engine and AI." So - any insights as to whether it will live up to these claims??? Ryan

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:40:38 +0200, "Ryan Mitchley" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>GameSpy reports: > >"With over 30 global championships, players can compete in events on 56 >racing circuits from around the world. It's on these world famous circuits >that Race Driver 2 will demonstrate its completely new physics model, >deformation damage system, graphics engine and AI." > >So - any insights as to whether it will live up to these claims???

Race Driver 1 (like CMR) was a great gamepad game that I found highly entertaining on the xbox, but there's really nothing sim like about it at all. It was marketed similarly to Race Driver 2 so I'm guessing they haven't changed much. Jason

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> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:40:38 +0200, "Ryan Mitchley" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >GameSpy reports: > > > >"With over 30 global championships, players can compete in events on 56 > >racing circuits from around the world. It's on these world famous circuits > >that Race Driver 2 will demonstrate its completely new physics model, > >deformation damage system, graphics engine and AI." > > > >So - any insights as to whether it will live up to these claims??? > > Race Driver 1 (like CMR) was a great gamepad game that I found highly > entertaining on the xbox, but there's really nothing sim like about it > at all. It was marketed similarly to Race Driver 2 so I'm guessing > they haven't changed much. > > Jason

I've got Race Driver 1 for PC and tested it out for the PS2. Found that even with a gamepad it was VERY difficult to control the steering, which really ruined the whole experience. It's got a lot of cars and tracks and wonderful graphics, but the car control was so impossible that caused me to remove it from my hard drive after about 2 weeks! Anyone know if the car control was better with an Xbox than a PS2 or PC ??? As for Race Driver 2... After getting burned with the first title, i'll wait and see what the folks here, and the critics on the various game-review sites have to say about it.

They (Codemasters) are saying they've listened to all the negative comments about TRD and that TRD 2 will be a properly sorted PC game (still can't bring myself to say TOCA nd Simulation in the same sentence). Check out their forums (http://community.codemasters.com/forum/) but I'm personally waiting to see a demo of both TRD2 and CMR 04 for the PC. I'm hoping no one will preorder either of them to give Codies a bit of a kick for their very poor efforts on CMR3 and TRD for the PC. Andi. -- Remove only one zero to reply. "Jay J" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > [email hidden] (jason moyer) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>... > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:40:38 +0200, "Ryan Mitchley" > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >GameSpy reports: > > > > > >"With over 30 global championships, players can compete in events on 56 > > >racing circuits from around the world. It's on these world famous circuits > > >that Race Driver 2 will demonstrate its completely new physics model, > > >deformation damage system, graphics engine and AI." > > > > > >So - any insights as to whether it will live up to these claims??? > > > > Race Driver 1 (like CMR) was a great gamepad game that I found highly > > entertaining on the xbox, but there's really nothing sim like about it > > at all. It was marketed similarly to Race Driver 2 so I'm guessing > > they haven't changed much. > > > > Jason > > I've got Race Driver 1 for PC and tested it out for the PS2. > Found that even with a gamepad it was VERY difficult to control the > steering, which really ruined the whole experience. > > It's got a lot of cars and tracks and wonderful graphics, but the car > control was so impossible that caused me to remove it from my hard > drive after about 2 weeks! > > Anyone know if the car control was better with an Xbox than a PS2 or > PC ??? > > As for Race Driver 2... After getting burned with the first title, > i'll wait and see what the folks here, and the critics on the various > game-review sites have to say about it.

Don't know about PS2, but it was definitely better on the Xbox than on a PC. Not as easy to control as PGR2, but still not bad, almost as good as PGR1. "Jay J" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > [email hidden] (jason moyer) wrote in messagenews:<[email hidden]>... > > Anyone know if the car control was better with an Xbox than a PS2 or > PC ??? >