TOCA2 KICKS ASS - INITIAL THOUGHTS

This is a great game. Frame rate very smooth and one heck of a step up from the earlier version. Serious competition to GPL, N1999, MGPRS2 and Superbike. The racing is undoutedly the best out there and there is even the facility to import bitmaps of different car liveries. I only bought it today so I guess there'll be some wrinkles in there somewhere. However this is far more of a sim than its predecessor while not losing the arcade fun side of things. A brilliant game Chris Wright

Sounds good, Chris, thanks for the info.... Just wondering if you could expand upon how you believe it is better than earlier versions.... Does the car feel different? If so, how? What are the tracks like? Better? You mention the racing (i assume AI). How is that better? All in all, how would you rate some of its points in regards to N99 or GPL?? Cheers! --Dave

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> This is a great game. Frame rate very smooth and one heck of a step up from > the earlier version. > Serious competition to GPL, N1999, MGPRS2 and Superbike. The racing is > undoutedly the best out there and there is even the facility to import > bitmaps of different car liveries. > I only bought it today so I guess there'll be some wrinkles in there > somewhere. However this is far more of a sim than its predecessor while not > losing the arcade fun side of things. A brilliant game > Chris Wright

-- Dave Schwabe The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

I have bought Toca 2 about 8 hoursa ago and have played it non-stop. It is an improvement on the original mainly because the cars don't handle like they are on ice anymore so you can get consistent lap times. The only criticism I have is that you cannot set the difficulty to hard straight away - it makes you do the whole championship in easy mode (you end up at least 4 seconds a lap faster than the rest in this mode) so you end up getting very lonely throughout the whole championship. They have improved Thruxton quite dramatically as the original was completely wrong through the complex (I have had a few goes around the real circuit!) All in all I love the sequal, it is drivable, fun, more realistic than before and is everything I needed. Now all i want is F1GP3 and I'll be truly happy.....

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>Sounds good, Chris, thanks for the info.... Just wondering if you could >expand upon how you believe it is better than earlier versions.... >Does the car feel different? If so, how? >What are the tracks like? Better? >You mention the racing (i assume AI). How is that better? >All in all, how would you rate some of its points in regards to N99 or >GPL?? >Cheers! >--Dave >> This is a great game. Frame rate very smooth and one heck of a step up

from >> the earlier version. >> Serious competition to GPL, N1999, MGPRS2 and Superbike. The racing is >> undoutedly the best out there and there is even the facility to import >> bitmaps of different car liveries. >> I only bought it today so I guess there'll be some wrinkles in there >> somewhere. However this is far more of a sim than its predecessor while not

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>> losing the arcade fun side of things. A brilliant game >> Chris Wright >-- >Dave Schwabe >The Aussie Toad -- Grand Prix Legends & Brabham site >http://users.wi.net/~schwabe

Can anyone tell me where I can purchase TOCA2 in the USA? Thanks, Sal V.

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>This is a great game. Frame rate very smooth and one heck of a step up from >the earlier version. >Serious competition to GPL, N1999, MGPRS2 and Superbike. The racing is >undoutedly the best out there and there is even the facility to import >bitmaps of different car liveries. >I only bought it today so I guess there'll be some wrinkles in there >somewhere. However this is far more of a sim than its predecessor while not >losing the arcade fun side of things. A brilliant game >Chris Wright

Toca2 will not be available in the US for a while. Remember how long it took for the first Toca to come to the US?