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"good" weather in racing sims

3 posts by 2 people · 15 Dec 1999 - 15 Dec 1999

Obiwan 15 Dec 1999#509053
Is there a list somewhere of the racing sims that has good impementations of weather BOTH in graphics and handling impact? Toca 1 wasn't good enough in that sense,and I don't remember if i paid any attention to that feature when trying the TOCA2 demo. -- Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.
Both Monaco Grand Prix Racing Sim 2 and Sports Car GT have weather effects. The MGPRS2 rain is excellent, with a great 'on-coming' rain feel and spray from opponents. SCGT also has rain effects, but no 'on-coming' rain. The spray effects are good, and the handling is slippery, though SCGT has a tendency to be a bit less so than MGPRS2. It depends if you want to race Sports Cars or F1 cars. MGPRS2 takes a lot of practice to get good, but is an excellent sim (the graphics are bright, unlike GPL which tends towards more authentic looking scenery and hillsides, etc. - it's a matter of personal preference - though 1990's F1 is more colourful than 1967 F1). Both of these sims require some serious horsepower, both in CPU and video card. At least a 3DFx card and a PII, with a PIII and Voodoo 2 card being recommended, with a cable modem for multiplayer (though the Ubisoft Game Service has been used with fine results with a P166 and a 33.6 connection for a race of MGPRS2). Hope this helps.
Quoted text (10 lines)> Is there a list somewhere of the racing sims > that has good impementations > of weather BOTH in graphics and handling impact? > Toca 1 wasn't good enough in that sense,and I don't > remember if i paid any attention to that feature > when trying the TOCA2 demo. > -- > Robert S?derberg > If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.
Obiwan 15 Dec 1999#509055
You're right, I had forgotten about SCGT.I'll check up on that one soon. I tried the demo of mgprs2,but I don't know .......I had just tried Indycar 2 right before that one,and tried the GPL demo right afterwards, so it diminished my impression of the sim in general...... I also didn't like it because it seemed to have less visual depth than ICR2 and GPl,which made it difficult to judge distances. Also ,as far as i remember,I don't think there was any weather in the demo of mgprs2 (I'll check that again soon) thanks, -- Robert S?derberg If replying by mail,remove the word INGENSPAM from the adress.

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