Aristotelis is translating the review into English over at the SimMods forum.
Just thought you'd want to hear some of this. GTR2002 should be out this
weekend!
http://www.simmods.com/forums/index.php?s=f4dd55808768aa2b030effd81ff3044c&act=S
F&f=27
I always loved the Ferrari 360. Following Doug Arnao's (sir Doug?) instructions
I choose it for my first go on the track. The 3D model is really awesome, even
better than in the screenshots. Going through the various menu screens fast and
I'm inside the cockpit... what a shock! The cockpit is simply amazing, very
highly detailed and it doesn't look a bit like a plastic 3D triangle thing.
Very, very realistic. But my thoughts on the cockpit quality are violently
interrupted from a very strong, violent and metallic sound, which I can't really
find the words to describe it in English! Never before heard a sound like this,
except when I heard the real thing!
"Come on Aris drive it!" I think and engage 1st gear... out of pits and 2nd,
3rd, 4th, 5th gear! What a mix of sounds! Engine, gearbox, wind, wheels,
everything is there and it's simply stunning! Speed sensation is very high too.
I was afraid that a NGT car would feel something like a F2 in GPL... Inside a
sim the sense of speed is usually much lower than in reality, especially in a
touring car. But fortunately this is not the case! You can feel the speed oh
yeah!
Anyway first turn is coming fast at me... so I think it's better to brake soon
for the first time, so I brake and brake and brake... geesh nothing happens!
This thing is not braking at all! I step on it and nothing. Doug Arnao worlds
are coming to my mind. "You have to warm up your brakes first", so this is what
I do and yes after 2 or 3 times the brakes start to grab very, very well and I
have to be careful to not block the wheels. Braking with GT RACING 2002 mod is
really great. You don't have to do strange things like accelerating while
braking (as in GPL) but it's not an easy thing to. Actually I swear I can feel
the tire moving (especially the unloaded rear ones) and giving me that
"instability" impression you have when you brake hard.
It's a top notch experience. The braking is over though and the really
interesting part is coming now... the curve! You can really feel the slow polar
inertia of the F360! It has an amazing turn in capacity and then it settles down
being very neutral with a tad of under steer through out the curve... on exit I
can feel the front end washing out but the right move is to step on the gas and
make the rear-end slip out a bit while pointing you straight ahead! You can
really feel the differential working as the rear wheels try to get the grip and
push the car straight! Excellent stuff! I got a bit over confidence on the way
the F360 handles... so on the next chicane I make a very fast enter and
amazingly the front end reacts perfectly, left, aaaaand right! The front end
tries to change direction for the second time and then is where I realize that I
overdid it. The cars looses grip on all four wheels without rotation and I slip
over without possibility to change the direction. The weight distribution is
such (center) that I just can't make the car change direction of travel... Only
possibility is block the wheels and wait... Amazing!
to be continued...
Wow, I just read the whole thread and now I really can't wait! Brakes
that have to be warmed up, an .hdv mod that forces you to blip the
throttle to match revs properly (although I suppose that was probably in
the F1 game already?), being able to slide the Porsche around with power
oversteer, the sound of the Ferrari's, etc. Still hard to believe this
is a free mod. Maybe EA will buy them up, like Valve did with
Counterstrike? They certainly deserve some reward for all their work.
"Dave Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Aristotelis is translating the review into English over at the SimModsforum.
> Just thought you'd want to hear some of this. GTR2002 should be outthis
> weekend!
>
>http://www.simmods.com/forums/index.php?s=f4dd55808768aa2b030effd81ff304
4c&act=S
> F&f=27
>
> Maybe EA will buy them up, like Valve did with
> Counterstrike? They certainly deserve some reward for all their work.
Reward - that would be anything BUT being bought up by EA
Doug
"Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Wow, I just read the whole thread and now I really can't wait!
I'm tempted to buy F1 2002 now.
I swore I wouldn't buy another F1 sim... GP3, F12K, F1 2001 each was lacking
and I wasn't going to spend another dollar on a F1 sim (especially another
EA one).
Hmmm... now maybe I will. It is, however, a kick in the nuts to buy a game
with the sole intention of never playing it in its original form ;)
Dale.
<SNIP>
>
> Hmmm... now maybe I will. It is, however, a kick in the nuts to buy a game
> with the sole intention of never playing it in its original form ;)
>
> Dale.
> Yer preachin to the choir brother...............
I feel the EXACT same way, but here I sit at 1:30 am d'ling the mod for
a game I don't even have!
BTW Mike Grandys's post was SPOT ON (fast servers for GTR 2002 d'ling)
Started at 1:30AM and had NO WAIT and a STEADY 140kb/sec dl speed,
THANKS MIKE GRANDY
Bob
PS that site for the dl is
http://old.fileplanet.com/dl/dl.asp?sportplanet/gp2/temp/gtr2002.exe
for those who missed it.
"Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>Hmmm... now maybe I will. It is, however, a kick in the nuts to buy a game
>with the sole intention of never playing it in its original form ;)
Ha ha ditto. I found F1 racing sims only slightly less tiresome than
Nascar. But I'm tempted ... the nice thing is it's been out for a
while, so maybe I can find it cheap! ;-)
Joe62
"Joe62" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> "Dale Green" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
> >Hmmm... now maybe I will. It is, however, a kick in the nuts to buy agame
> >with the sole intention of never playing it in its original form ;)
>
> Ha ha ditto. I found F1 racing sims only slightly less tiresome than
> Nascar. But I'm tempted ... the nice thing is it's been out for a
> while, so maybe I can find it cheap! ;-)
It is cheap now and I'm glad I bought it. GTR2002 is great fun.
