Enthusia, Professional Racing

[NikB]

Just picked this game up at lunchtime today, not had a chance to play it yet, but the lads on driftworks have been talking about it and it looks pretty good:


www.driftworks.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5180




>> Edited by NikB on Friday 6th May 14:51

[chrisjl]

Any progress reports?
From screenshots and the (heavily compressed) trailer I've seen, it's graphically in the same ball park as GT4, and the physics looks pretty convincing. So how's the sound and the AI?

[BCA]

Need more info - comps too crap for GTR, im too annoyed to continue GT4.

this is sounding promising...

[NikB]

Not had much time to play this as I've been away this weekend. Initial thoughts are the menu system seems to be very complex, but then maybe that's because I am so used to GT4. The cars seem to be a lot more controllable than GT4, I bought this game to play around with the drifting and the cars are quite easy to power slide. There is a good indicator that shows where the weight is shifting to and which wheel(s) are spinning.

I'll try and have another play and report back.

[Fidgits]

From what i've heard is it is a full-on 'simulator'..

could be interesting though... but I'm going to wait to see what people think..

[lockstock2sb]

I too would like to hear what this is like !!

[mr_yogi]

from skimming a few of the reviews on the web, it seems like the physics have been dumbed down quite a bit for the final game

One review I read (IGN I think) only gave it 75ish%!

[forever_driving]

mr_yogi said:

from skimming a few of the reviews on the web, it seems like the physics have been dumbed down quite a bit for the final game One review I read (IGN I think) only gave it 75ish%!

Indeed it has.

I played this at the Tokyo Game Show last September, it was quite possibly one of the most realistic driving games I had ever played. (by the way, I won the fastest lap competition twice! )

Anyway, Enthusia was released during March in Japan and I immediately snapped it up, but sadly the physics engine had been tweaked to make it easier to control (many people at the Tokyo Game Show were struggling to keep the car on track) and this has total destroyed this game's unique selling point

[rico]

I've just bought this. Will post a decent review after a few hours playing

[BCA]

Any updates??? Bought it - but not had the chance to play it yet?

[BCA]

Played it... was fun for about 30mins, then got bored of messing about on an airfield.

Have been spoilt by GT4 graphics/realism. After a month away from Gt4 - thats not seeming so bad - but when I get bored I'll give enthusia a shot again.

[NikB]

I've played this a fair bit now. I am enjoying it, the scoring system means that playing is quite addictive - you get points for each race based on the odds of you winning. You rank is then calculated from your last 12 races, so if you screw one up that result stays with you for a while!

I am finding it really hard to drive the RWD cars so have stuck to 4WD, which are a lot of fun to drive as you can drift them through the corners quite well.

I think that I am now a bit stuck as I need to get into the top 300 drivers to unlock the next level of races, but there doesn't seem to be enough points available to do that. I think the solution is to use a slower car, hence more points, but when you change cars you automatically get 0 points for the next race.

Probably going to give up on it now.