SCI was known for Carmaggeddon, so you'd thought they KNOW
something about car sims. The Italian Job, based on the old movie
(NOT the remaking coming out later this year) is a real piece of ****.
Even at $10 this is a waste of my money!
The game is a console port, and a VERY poor one. The menus are
copied as is, NO attempt to use the mouse at all. It's arrow keys,
enter,
and escape. That is so IDIOTIC!
The cities are pretty big, comparable to Midtown Madness (and more
detailed). The cars handle quite differently too. However, what kills
the
game completely is the mission design. Some missions have multi-stage
objectives. You have to finish one before you can get to the other.
However,
if you fail the second, you must do over EVERYTHING again. When the
missions are pretty darn long, this becomes absolutely unbearable.
The collision and AI is either TOO forgiving or not forgiving enough. I
don't mind AI that want to smash me, but giving me no chance at all is
just IDIOTIC, esp. when I had to spend about 5 minutes just making
through the first part of the mission.
For example, in Turin, I was on the Mafia Mania mission. Basically I
had to send Lorna to the airport, and to do that, I had to make sure she
gets on the next flight out. So I do that... Except 2 Mafia boys showed
up when I stopped my car. When I pulled out, they kamikaze me. Their
larger car simply pinned my Mini Cooper to the wall and destroyed me
in about 10 seconds, and I had NO CHANCE at all. I was in a cul-de-sac
and it goes nowhere except THROUGH those guys. I can't ram them, I
can't get past them. It takes 5 minutes of driving just to get to this
point
where I get to TRY get away from these Mafia boys, and it's usually over
in 10 seconds. Once, the two cars ran into each other and I got away,
but I could never replicate that again.
This is one of those games you throw out the window in frustration.
Any one know any cheats and such for this game? I may play it again if
I can just get past this one mission... :-P
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"Kasey Chang say:
> SCI was known for Carmaggeddon, so you'd thought they KNOW
> something about car sims.
Say what??
Carmaggeddon and sim. doesn't even belong in the same sentence (The
exception being ofcourse that; "Caraggeddon is no sim." :o)
Same goes for the Italian Job I believe... (Real shame about that one....
Awesome car and a great movie but what a shitty game.)
Perhaps this belong in alt.ibm.pc.games ?
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So it's an Italian Jobby?
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On Mon, 19 May 2003 06:54:24 GMT, "Kasey Chang \(remove EATSPAM to reply\)"
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>SCI was known for Carmaggeddon, so you'd thought they KNOW
>something about car sims. The Italian Job, based on the old movie
>(NOT the remaking coming out later this year) is a real piece of ****.
>Even at $10 this is a waste of my money!
>Well, I've seen it at $2.00 on eBay... Would you consider *that* still a waste?
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