GPL 4 stars CGW

> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five > stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision > Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these > people smoking ? We should protest! The new issue of CGW is terrible...it's nearly unreadable. Too bad it's *still* the best magazine, despite this ineptitude. Well, if PC Gamer gives Grand Prix Lgends higher score, then... I dunno. But I still don't trust people who gives Outpost an 88% Grimfarrow

FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these people smoking ?

Something that makes bad seem good and good seem bad.

> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five >stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision >Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these >people smoking ? That's why I stopped buying CGW or any other magazine... Can get the same biased ***from many free online *** pages. Mix the NGs and I have a free look into what is really hot and what is not. BTW...GPL gives me that same buzz as the original NASCAR. Ther are not perfect (better then any other IMHO), but they are simply the right mix between sim and game. Shame that they neglected a paintkit though, is Sierra so short of money that they have to do this in order to sell us updates etc? Will Nascar '99 have a paint kit? (any plans for a more freindly paint method in GPL, a la Papyrus originals?) Ruy Horta 12 O'Clock High! Luftwaffe and JG53 webpage [link lost in import: /~rhorta] "How good bad reasons and bad music sound when we march against an enemy." (Due to the ever increasing activity of SPAMMERS, I've been forced to include an anti-SPAM, sorry. If you want to e-mail me, just remove NOSPAM.)

>> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five >>stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision >>Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these >>people smoking ? Will reserve judgement till I get my issue (today?). Note that CPR was reviewed by someone other than their usual auto sim reviewer (Goble). Don't know who did NFS3. Was it reviewed as a sim, or as an action game? I'd guess the latter. I doubt they would compare it to GPL, CPR, etc. Yes, online you can get the ***faster and cheaper :-) I still like CGW. I hope you don't expect any review to be unbiased. I don't take someone not being as impressed by something not of my handiwork as personally (well, I try not to).

writes: Maybe it's not cost effective? I would guess that only about 10% of the people who buy the games are even TALENTED enough to repaint the cars. Sadly, I'm not IN that group. Eldred

>Shame that they neglected a paintkit though, is Sierra so short of >money that they have to do this in order to sell us updates etc? >(any plans for a more freindly paint method in GPL, a la Papyrus >originals?) With the .dat extractor and .mip-to-.bmp converter, you can use your favorite paint program to make cars in GPL. gpl.gamestats.com has some nice paintjobs available -- correct paint jobs for the Honda and the Coopers (including Siffert's blue one), as well as applications to add drivers who did more competing in 1967 but who simply weren't licensed for the sim (e.g., Jackie Stewart), as well as change references to Coventry and Murasama to real-life cars Cooper and Honda. The result of all the addons is one more BRM and one less Eagle, but that just means more drivers I might be competitive with soon! I'm still hoping there'll be a Chris Amon paint job available soon; apparently his independent BRM had a different paint job than the others. I have my own paint jobs for the Cooper and Honda. The Cooper is nothing special, but I spent quite a bit of time on the Honda. I took an existing Honda paint scheme for the #7 car and changed the numbers to 4, removed the red sun from the top of the cowling (carefully, to keep all the rivets and ducts in the paint scheme in white/gray), and instead made a bigger red sun on the nose (again, making sure to keep the rivets and seams intact, just in shades of red instead of shades of gray), and put the numeral 4 inside it in white. It's quite nice, if perhaps just the tiniest bit too modern of a design idea. -- http://www2.cruzio.com/~keeper/toons.html - Animaniacs, P&TB, F!, etc. files http://www.armory.com/~keeper/midi.html - My own MIDI files - Updated 3 Oct.

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>>> FYI Jan 1999 Computer *** World gave GPL 4 out of five >>>stars. This from the same people who gave Microsoft Cart Precision >>>Racing 5 stars and gave Need for Speed 3 5 Stars also. What are these >>>people smoking ? >Will reserve judgement till I get my issue (today?). Note that CPR was >reviewed by someone other than their usual auto sim reviewer (Goble). Don't >know who did NFS3. Was it reviewed as a sim, or as an action game? I'd guess >the latter. I doubt they would compare it to GPL, CPR, etc.

Goble did the review of GPL, also. Guess the boys at CGW don't have the in-house talent to review true racing Sims. That certainly makes me less receptive to their magazine. I liked Goble's review of the game. It seemed to be pretty fair. -Rich

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>> Note that CPR was >>reviewed by someone other than their usual auto sim reviewer (Goble). >Goble did the review of GPL, also. Guess the boys at CGW don't have >the in-house talent to review true racing Sims. That certainly makes >me less receptive to their magazine. >I liked Goble's review of the game. It seemed to be pretty fair.

I was unclear, Goble is their auto sim reviewer. CPR was reviewed by the "other than", Scott May. I hope this clearup makes you less "less receptive" :-) Your point is interesting. Seems the major mags tap into two or three flight sim reviewers who are true afficionados and also sometimes have real seat-time. Auto sims haven't seemed to garner that dedication yet. But we seem to be in a racing sim glut right now (well, mostly arcadish games with a few *** sims). Maybe we'll see them get a little more special attention? CGW did do a preview of them in the Dec issue, but I'd say it was particularly, and for them unusually, poorly researched and rushed.

> The result of all the addons is one more > BRM and one less Eagle, but that just means more drivers I might > be competitive with soon! Does it take out Richie Ginther (who drives an Eagle in GPL)? This would make sense since he only entered one race all year (Monaco) and failed to qualify. Chris Amon drove the Ferrari all year in 1967. Were you thinking of Chris Irwin or Piers Courage perhaps? Dave Ewing

>Does it take out Richie Ginther (who drives an Eagle in GPL)? This >would make sense since he only entered one race all year (Monaco) and >failed to qualify. Yes, and replaces some other drivers who had less seat time that year than others. These addons come with driver photos for the team info screen, and car photos for the Cooper and Honda (but not logos, yet). Do back up your existing gpl.exe first, though. When I put in a bunch of addons all at once, for some reason the game wouldn't load anymore. Added a few at a time, trying to find the problem, I ended up with all the ones (all the ones I wanted, anyway) without problem. er, whoops. Irwin, I meant! -- http://www2.cruzio.com/~keeper/toons.html - Animaniacs, P&TB, F!, etc. files http://www.armory.com/~keeper/midi.html - My own MIDI files - Updated 3 Oct.