Your favourite driving games
Discussion
Computer games, that is. And your least favourite.
Mine are - Favourite:
-Grand Prix Legends (the 'Combat Flight Simulator' of driving sims. Any game which takes months to learn in Novice mode before you've even tried a race deserves respect).
-London Racer/Europe Racer (any game which awards points for mowing down scameras and pulling 180's in town squares gets full marks from me)
-Lotus Challenge (up yours Ferrari. Well rendered and replicated too. Not as boring as Gran Turismo either)
-Colin McRae Rally series (just brilliant)
Least favourite (I'm going to be controversial):
-London Racer:World Challenge (a complete disappointment after its predecessors. No handbrake, irritating radio, and you can only win anything if you do the entire course on an endless stream of Nitrous Oxide. Without hitting anything)
-Grand Theft Auto (any) (Playing it makes me feel sick. Thanks to this people now cheer on car theives and hit-and-run murderers from Harlem to Moss Side)
-Gran Turismo (Yes, it lets you do just about anything with any car you can think of, but why is it that you spend hours on end piddling about in Micras, and the fastest and most capable cars in the game are bodykitted monstrosities looking like a Laxxer's wet dream. Tiresome IMO)
-Anything which doesn't have a joystick or wheel option. I can't abide games which control cars with keys or joypads - you can never correct steering or control oversteer with keys that don't so much steer as twitch the car manically from side to side until you crash into something.
What are everyone's personal likes and dislikes in the computer-based automotive world?
Mine are - Favourite:
-Grand Prix Legends (the 'Combat Flight Simulator' of driving sims. Any game which takes months to learn in Novice mode before you've even tried a race deserves respect).
-London Racer/Europe Racer (any game which awards points for mowing down scameras and pulling 180's in town squares gets full marks from me)
-Lotus Challenge (up yours Ferrari. Well rendered and replicated too. Not as boring as Gran Turismo either)
-Colin McRae Rally series (just brilliant)
Least favourite (I'm going to be controversial):
-London Racer:World Challenge (a complete disappointment after its predecessors. No handbrake, irritating radio, and you can only win anything if you do the entire course on an endless stream of Nitrous Oxide. Without hitting anything)
-Grand Theft Auto (any) (Playing it makes me feel sick. Thanks to this people now cheer on car theives and hit-and-run murderers from Harlem to Moss Side)
-Gran Turismo (Yes, it lets you do just about anything with any car you can think of, but why is it that you spend hours on end piddling about in Micras, and the fastest and most capable cars in the game are bodykitted monstrosities looking like a Laxxer's wet dream. Tiresome IMO)
-Anything which doesn't have a joystick or wheel option. I can't abide games which control cars with keys or joypads - you can never correct steering or control oversteer with keys that don't so much steer as twitch the car manically from side to side until you crash into something.
What are everyone's personal likes and dislikes in the computer-based automotive world?
I think this has got the potential to be excellent:
[url]www.speedarena.com/news/publish/sportscar/article_4317.shtml[/url]
I played it at a car show, on plasma screen, in a proper seat etc, and have to say it was brilliant, they couldnt get one of the lister drivers out of the seat to let people have a go!
[url]www.speedarena.com/news/publish/sportscar/article_4317.shtml[/url]
I played it at a car show, on plasma screen, in a proper seat etc, and have to say it was brilliant, they couldnt get one of the lister drivers out of the seat to let people have a go!
Simbin GTR info said:
SimBin’s Doug Arnao (a former racer with three US GT season championships to his name) who is responsible for the game physics modeling and driving dynamics
Who was on the Grand Prix Legends team at Papyrus too. GPL physics is not your basic 4 point wheel physics like most sims, the GPL physics includes (and I quote Dave Kaemmer another GPL physics modeller) "the chassis, the fuel mass (which changes), four wheels with independent hops and spins, an engine & flywheel rotor, clutch & transmission input shaft, transfer shaft, and output shaft. Each of these bodies maintains its own linear and angular momentum, you'll see the wheels each continue to travel downwards until the springs stop them. If you jump the car in the air, you can see all the gyroscopic effects that occur when you turn the steering wheel in mid-flight, or stay on the throttle, or jump on the brakes."
Now if they've improved that
GTR will be brilliant.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Tuesday 27th April 17:01
lotusfan said:
sportscar GT, with the real physics mod installed
great game Gran Turismo is good but gets boring when you can own 1200bhp nuttermobiles and win races by god knows how many laps
Colin McRae 04 is good
GPL-Simply awesome, cant play it anymore
GP2 and GP3-Have spent literally weeks playing these two games
I agree that the Gran Turismo series has lost its appeal somewhat due to overcomplication. It's original pull was the stunning graphics of the cars, but that is common nowadays. I'm really enjoying TOCA Race Driver 2 at the moment which is graphically superb from the circuit point of view as well as the cars, and diverse as it has many different types of races.
Can't agree at all about GTA though. To say that it encourages people to steal cars is about as realistic as blaming all violence on television. GTA 3 and Vice City are a lot of fun, and that's what a game is supposed to be. I'm looking forward to the next one (October on PS2).
Can't agree at all about GTA though. To say that it encourages people to steal cars is about as realistic as blaming all violence on television. GTA 3 and Vice City are a lot of fun, and that's what a game is supposed to be. I'm looking forward to the next one (October on PS2).
Well, like I said, it's all a question of personal taste, but something in me gets very annoyed when I see my friend grinning madly as he clubs a woman with a pushchair to death with a golf club for no reason at all, then drags someone out of their car, runs them over and does doughnuts in their blood, then shoots ambulance men when they arrive - and gets points for all this. Just seems to bring out the inner psycho in people, and then when they're not playing in they'll harp on about how cool it is.
I'd prefer it if it was a little more realistic - you can't 'just' take a gun out in a city centre and start shooting - the police would be down on you like a ton of bricks, and someone would sneak up behind and lamp you. For a game about 'organised' crime, it seems very lacking in the necessary sublety.
All IMO of course
I'd prefer it if it was a little more realistic - you can't 'just' take a gun out in a city centre and start shooting - the police would be down on you like a ton of bricks, and someone would sneak up behind and lamp you. For a game about 'organised' crime, it seems very lacking in the necessary sublety.
All IMO of course
FourWheelDrift said:
GPL-Simply awesome, cant play it anymore
Why not? If it's because you are on XP or something there are patches out for everything now.
Lack of steering wheel, lack of graphics card on lap top etc. It runs fine on XP on my laptop, just the graphics are crap and its very slow because I don't have a graphics card
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