Anyone who knows if there is any plans of releasing a GPL2. There is
three years that would be perfect.
1: 1958 that was the last season dominated by the front-engine cars.
2: 1974 was very even with many cars winning races.
3. 1981 the last year of wing-cars and also a season with many winning
cars.
why not:
'49: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, ERA, Maserati, Cisitalia with Nuvolari, if
you like & many other cars
'55: the coming of Mercedes, Fangio
'65: the last 1500s
Franz
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Quos Jupiter vult perdere,dementat prius.
And good riddance to them! I believe everybody was happy to have 3 litre
cars at the time, with a surfeit of power of grip once again.
I'd like to see:
'37-'38: The Silver Arrows or
'74-'76: The last years of the "real" tracks
- Michael
Small point ... but 82 was infact the last year of the "wing cars". They
went to flat bottom in 1983.
74 or 76 would make probably the best year for GPL2 IMO, with cars that
still moved around a lot and of course the nordshleife!
82 or 81 were also very interesting years with the mix of cosworth and turbo
cars.
My father races in the Thoroughbred GP championship for pre 84 non turbo F1
cars. (he has an 82 Arrows A4 and an 83 March-RAM) So I frequently get to
see cars from these eras racing hard. The are certainly awesome to watch ...
huge opposite lock slides, very fast and noisy :) Best of all they produce
some incredible racing as they did in their day. From what my father tells
me the cars are the most entertaining to drive of anything he has driven
(including some more modern F1 cars).
Papyrus would do very well to set a GPL sequel in any of these seasons since
the cars are still fun to drive and slide around. Probably more importantly
it would undoubtedly be a bigger hit than the original GPL since the cars
are instantly recognisable as F1 cars and of course so many of the target
audience would have been alive to watch these cars and their heroes when
they raced originally.
I only hope and pray that papyrus were not put off by GPLs poor sales
figures and do intend to make a sequel. There are so many sim racers out
here who love GPL with a passion and are no longer prepared to even touch
any inferior game. Perhaps a GPL2 based in the early 80s may be exactly what
is needed since a picture of Gilles Villeneuve opposite locking his Ferrari
would certainly stir many 10s of thousand into dipping into their pockets to
buy it.
praying for a sequel
Marc Mercer
89 or 90. The years when they finally got the cars to work correctly. And
before they decided that was no good.
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Mark Jeangerard
www.soundchaserweb.com
New Mexico USA
76 for me, cos the Ferrari was a pretty good car then :), i.e if Lauda
hadn't crashed at the Ring, he probs would have won the WC, no disrepect to
James Hunt. (Guess what I drive in GPL)
Hmm. 82 I reckon.
Wooooooowwwww !!!! :).
I've watched the TGPs at Brands for the last two years now. They are damn
cool.
I don't think it was the era that did, it was lack of patience from the
general *** (arcade) public.
> I only hope and pray that papyrus were not put off by GPLs poor sales
> figures and do intend to make a sequel. There are so many sim racers out
> here who love GPL with a passion and are no longer prepared to even touch
> any inferior game. Perhaps a GPL2 based in the early 80s may be exactly what
> is needed since a picture of Gilles Villeneuve opposite locking his Ferrari
> would certainly stir many 10s of thousand into dipping into their pockets to
> buy it.
> praying for a sequel
> Marc Mercer
I would like to see a 'true sequel' to GPL, i.e historic with accurate as
you can get physics, however, I would also like to see a GPL based CART game
as well. I think that would be cool. Of course, GPL type engine for modern
F1 would be cool as well, but Papy don't seem to do that. Lets hope GP3 is
up to scratch (and from what I've seen and read, it looks pretty in 'some'
shots, but the physics doesn't seem to be much more than GP2.
Gavin
www.sharknose.freeserve.co.uk
