TOCA2 - opinions

C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review anywhere? Cheers, Paul

I downloaded it late last night and haven't had much time to mess with it yet. It does run very well on my PII 400 with a Pure 3D card. I really like the Formula Ford and the Force Feedback is some of the best I've felt yet. You can feel the front end get light when understeering and there are good collision effects when banging wheels with another competitor. The games feels much like TOCA but looks a whole lot better. I'll be buying it when available here in the US, hopefully through Interact CD as an import. -don

I love it. They took the general fun to play ability of TOCA 1 and fixed some of the problems. Running it on a TNT card at 1280x1024 is awesome. It ran smooth on my Celeron "450". I have yet to test it on my p200. The computer cars no longer make it their sole purpose to bump you off. There is a little car setup but not too much to make it a full time job like GPL. The track in the demo is smoother than TOCA 1 which is nice. I thought some of the tracks in TOCA 1 were very bumpy. I have managed to finish 3rd so far in the demo starting from last. The sound is a little better also. I can hear multiple cars and sounds from the sides around hairpins ect. The replay feature is great! I always wished for this in the first game. The graphics and gameplay adjustments are much better also. It looks like you will be able to tailor it to your ability quite well. Quite an improvement overall. I havent seen anything which seems to detract rather than add to the game. Job well done codemasters. >C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review >anywhere? >Cheers, >Paul

So far, I've not been able to play the damn thing, because I thought I'd dive into it at work, while on hold with some inhumane insurance company, and discovered that it has no support for keyboard control. You can't even start the program unless you have a joystick hooked up! C'mon, guys - I even play GPL on a keyboard at work!! >>C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review >>anywhere? >>Cheers, >>Paul >I downloaded it late last night and haven't had much time to mess with it yet. >It does run very well on my PII 400 with a Pure 3D card. I really like the >Formula Ford and the Force Feedback is some of the best I've felt yet. You can >feel the front end get light when understeering and there are good collision >effects when banging wheels with another competitor. The games feels much like >TOCA but looks a whole lot better. I'll be buying it when available here in the >US, hopefully through Interact CD as an import. >-don

Well Iv'e only driven for about an hour and I never drove toca1 and have been driving GPL for months now so I may be a bit ..uhhh.. biased. It is fun! Quite a change of pace for me. Sound is ok but it's hard to hear your car in a pack. Graphics are ok too, some oddities appeared but are most likely demo related, the overall effect is pretty cool. The physics are decidely arcade like compared to gpl, the car leans in the turns in an odd way and the handling is more like NFS. It took me a while to get the steering configured reasonably well (still not right), you must quite the racethen sort through a lot of menu's to get to the cali/config screen, then go back through all that and reload the race, obviously not a concern once it's right. I'll definitely drive some more and consider it but with SCGT and TramsAm coming out it will be tough to decide. Very good for touring car buffs. Maybe I should get the TPTCC patch for N2 since I haven't driven that for months. JM > C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review > anywhere? > Cheers, > Paul

I have had no problems with keyboard support. just use the cursor arrows

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> So far, I've not been able to play the damn thing, because I thought I'd > dive into it at work, while on hold with some inhumane insurance company, > and discovered that it has no support for keyboard control. You can't even > start the program unless you have a joystick hooked up! > C'mon, guys - I even play GPL on a keyboard at work!! > >>C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review > >>anywhere? > >>Cheers, > >>Paul > >I downloaded it late last night and haven't had much time to mess with it > yet. > >It does run very well on my PII 400 with a Pure 3D card. I really like the > >Formula Ford and the Force Feedback is some of the best I've felt yet. You > can > >feel the front end get light when understeering and there are good > collision > >effects when banging wheels with another competitor. The games feels much > like > >TOCA but looks a whole lot better. I'll be buying it when available here in > the > >US, hopefully through Interact CD as an import. > >-don

Just use the cursor arrows. it works fine

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> So far, I've not been able to play the damn thing, because I thought I'd > dive into it at work, while on hold with some inhumane insurance company, > and discovered that it has no support for keyboard control. You can't even > start the program unless you have a joystick hooked up! > C'mon, guys - I even play GPL on a keyboard at work!! > >>C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review > >>anywhere? > >>Cheers, > >>Paul > >I downloaded it late last night and haven't had much time to mess with it > yet. > >It does run very well on my PII 400 with a Pure 3D card. I really like the > >Formula Ford and the Force Feedback is some of the best I've felt yet. You > can > >feel the front end get light when understeering and there are good > collision > >effects when banging wheels with another competitor. The games feels much > like > >TOCA but looks a whole lot better. I'll be buying it when available here in > the > >US, hopefully through Interact CD as an import. > >-don

Are you sure? I certainly saw a keyboard controller option, though I didn't mess with it since my wheel was hooked up. I did.

Mine gives me no option for keyboard control. It won't go past the setup screen.

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>Just use the cursor arrows. it works fine >> So far, I've not been able to play the damn thing, because I thought I'd >> dive into it at work, while on hold with some inhumane insurance company, >> and discovered that it has no support for keyboard control. You can't

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>> start the program unless you have a joystick hooked up! >> C'mon, guys - I even play GPL on a keyboard at work!! >> >>C'mon people, let's here some views on TOCA2 demo. Is there a review >> >>anywhere? >> >>Cheers, >> >>Paul >> >I downloaded it late last night and haven't had much time to mess with

it >> yet. >> >It does run very well on my PII 400 with a Pure 3D card. I really like the >> >Formula Ford and the Force Feedback is some of the best I've felt yet. You >> can >> >feel the front end get light when understeering and there are good >> collision >> >effects when banging wheels with another competitor. The games feels much >> like >> >TOCA but looks a whole lot better. I'll be buying it when available here in >> the >> >US, hopefully through Interact CD as an import. >> >-don