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�3 at my local Game. has the blurb that it is "PC Zone Award for excellence" so is it any good? I know its not a sim and the cars are not real, but from what I can read it is quite amusing. While I wait I shall go back to my GPL, which has become my favourite game again with my new graphics card... :-)

"Freddie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:anc56h$lri$[email hidden]... > While I wait I shall go back to my GPL, which has become my favourite game > again with my new graphics card... :-) Definitely! Malc. PS sorry never heard of that other game but �3 is a pretty safe risk imo.

"Freddie" <[email hidden]> writes: > �3 at my local Game. has the blurb that it is "PC Zone Award for excellence" > so is it any good? no. -- Gunnar #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 FJ�SE!

ok - but how is it bad - it must have had something going for it to be a game of excellence. It seems that Freddie isn't looking for a sim (correct me if otherwise) just a driving game thats a bit of fun. "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "Freddie" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > �3 at my local Game. has the blurb that it is "PC Zone Award forexcellence"

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> > so is it any good? > > no. > > > -- > Gunnar > #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 > FJ�SE!

"rick" <[email hidden]> writes: > ok - but how is it bad it drives like a five year old coin-op. think Crazy Taxi. > - it must have had something going for it to be a > game of excellence. beats me. GP4 scored 50% better than F12002 in some mag I saw. > It seems that Freddie isn't looking for a sim (correct > me if otherwise) just a driving game thats a bit of fun. Freddie should get a PS2, then. :) -- Gunnar #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"

Hang on - let me explain - I have two young kids, one 8, the other 10. They cannot get to grips with GPL just yet, although they do enjoy TOCA2. I'm looking for any games which may be a bit of fun that we can all have a blast with behind the steering wheel. Crazy Taxi was the biggest load of crap I ever installed, and I took it back to get a refund. How a mag could even give it a score in the 80's was beyond me. NFS got the response that 'the cars floating' and GP2/3/4 was just too difficult - for now... I don't want a PS2, even if they do. I have decent PC, a wheel, good sound, and I'm not lashing out for one of those. There must be a driving game out there which is fine for all the family to have a go? Fred. "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "rick" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > ok - but how is it bad > > it drives like a five year old coin-op. think Crazy Taxi. > > > > - it must have had something going for it to be a > > game of excellence. > > beats me. GP4 scored 50% better than F12002 in some mag I saw. > > > > It seems that Freddie isn't looking for a sim (correct > > me if otherwise) just a driving game thats a bit of fun. > > Freddie should get a PS2, then. :) > > -- > Gunnar > #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 > "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy"

"Freddie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:anci2k$1ts$[email hidden]... > Hang on - let me explain - I have two young kids, one 8, the other 10.They > cannot get to grips with GPL just yet, although they do enjoy TOCA2. I'm > looking for any games which may be a bit of fun that we can all have ablast > with behind the steering wheel. > Crazy Taxi was the biggest load of crap I ever installed, and I took itback > to get a refund. How a mag could even give it a score in the 80's wasbeyond > me. NFS got the response that 'the cars floating' and GP2/3/4 was just too > difficult - for now... > I don't want a PS2, even if they do. I have decent PC, a wheel, goodsound, > and I'm not lashing out for one of those. > There must be a driving game out there which is fine for all the family to > have a go? Just buy the �3 game. Even if the kids only play it for a week it's still good value, and after that you can recoup your costs a little bit & use it as a coaster ;-) As far as games for all the family go, CMR2 is pretty good fun, easy to learn, but hard to master. Malc.

"Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ihkm9.1922$Fv2.177490@wards: > As far as games for all the family go, CMR2 is pretty good fun, easy > to learn, but hard to master. > > Malc. > I agree- Colin Mcrae 2 should be a budget release by now, and is great fun, with a joypad or a wheel & pedals. cheers John

Monster Truck Madness 2 is one of the favorites for my kids and I enjoy racing them on our NET. They also enjoy Midtown Madness 1 and 2. "Freddie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:anci2k$1ts$[email hidden]... > Hang on - let me explain - I have two young kids, one 8, the other 10.They > cannot get to grips with GPL just yet, although they do enjoy TOCA2. I'm > looking for any games which may be a bit of fun that we can all have ablast > with behind the steering wheel. > Crazy Taxi was the biggest load of crap I ever installed, and I took itback > to get a refund. How a mag could even give it a score in the 80's wasbeyond > me. NFS got the response that 'the cars floating' and GP2/3/4 was just too > difficult - for now... > I don't want a PS2, even if they do. I have decent PC, a wheel, goodsound,

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> and I'm not lashing out for one of those. > There must be a driving game out there which is fine for all the family to > have a go? > > Fred. > > "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > "rick" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > > > ok - but how is it bad > > > > it drives like a five year old coin-op. think Crazy Taxi. > > > > > > > - it must have had something going for it to be a > > > game of excellence. > > > > beats me. GP4 scored 50% better than F12002 in some mag I saw. > > > > > > > It seems that Freddie isn't looking for a sim (correct > > > me if otherwise) just a driving game thats a bit of fun. > > > > Freddie should get a PS2, then. :) > > > > -- > > Gunnar > > #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�:

2 > > "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" > >

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> Hang on - let me explain - I have two young kids, one 8, the other 10. They > cannot get to grips with GPL just yet, although they do enjoy TOCA2. I'm > looking for any games which may be a bit of fun that we can all have a blast > with behind the steering wheel. > Crazy Taxi was the biggest load of crap I ever installed, and I took it back > to get a refund. How a mag could even give it a score in the 80's was beyond > me. NFS got the response that 'the cars floating' and GP2/3/4 was just too > difficult - for now... > I don't want a PS2, even if they do. I have decent PC, a wheel, good sound, > and I'm not lashing out for one of those. > There must be a driving game out there which is fine for all the family to > have a go?

don't think so. not any recent ones anyway. Eracer will probably work fine for a ten-year old, but I feel pretty confident when I say that no GPLer on the face of the planet would stand it. for good-clean-family-driving-fun-on-a-PC I'd go for Driver, CMR2 or Porsche Unleashed myself, but like someone said; at three pounds... -- Gunnar #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 "a poster is a human being or the software equivalent"

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> "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ihkm9.1922$Fv2.177490@wards: > > > As far as games for all the family go, CMR2 is pretty good fun, easy > > to learn, but hard to master. > > > > Malc. > > > > I agree- Colin Mcrae 2 should be a budget release by now, and is great fun, > with a joypad or a wheel & pedals.

Indeed, it's a 2nd generation budget release - budget at �10 being the 1st. Now on Sold Out for a fiver or less. -- AG Remove removes from address to remove anti-spam measures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Gauton E-Mail agauton @ postmaster.co.uk Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour! (Damon Hill - 16th June 1999)

In article <ancs0v$cjrkq$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > Monster Truck Madness 2 is one of the favorites for my kids and I enjoy > racing them on our NET. They also enjoy Midtown Madness 1 and 2. Midtown Madness is now out on budget as well - a tenner, but claims it doesn't work on XP. -- AG Remove removes from address to remove anti-spam measures. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Gauton E-Mail agauton @ postmaster.co.uk Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour! (Damon Hill - 16th June 1999)

Acccording to my local store it is the original CM which is one the sold out fiver range. They have CM2 listed for release for a tenner on the release of CM3. "Alan Gauton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> In article <[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] says... > > "Malc" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ihkm9.1922$Fv2.177490@wards: > > > > > As far as games for all the family go, CMR2 is pretty good fun, easy > > > to learn, but hard to master. > > > > > > Malc. > > > > > > > I agree- Colin Mcrae 2 should be a budget release by now, and is great

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> > with a joypad or a wheel & pedals. > > Indeed, it's a 2nd generation budget release - budget at �10 being the > 1st. Now on Sold Out for a fiver or less. > > -- > AG > > Remove removes from address to remove anti-spam measures. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Alan Gauton E-Mail agauton @ postmaster.co.uk > > Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour! > (Damon Hill - 16th June 1999)