Post by Dan @ 09:48am 19/09/09 | 29 Comments
The Spa and London River tracks are at your disposal along with five cars, including the Dodge Viper, Lotus Elise, BMW M3, Nissan GTR, and finally the Pagani Zonda, which must be unlocked.Download it right here from AusGamers files. (1.2GB)
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Posted 10:01am 19/9/09
Posted 10:18am 19/9/09
The game is ok, not as good as Grid though.
Posted 10:41am 19/9/09
Posted 11:07am 19/9/09
Posted 11:11am 19/9/09
Posted 01:55pm 19/9/09
Seems like I'm not the only one..
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=374023&page=11
last edited by Skitza at 13:55:29 19/Sep/09
Posted 04:11pm 19/9/09
Can't wait for dirt 2.
Posted 05:33pm 19/9/09
Yep same here Skitza goes to spash screen then fails miserably.
Posted 06:58pm 19/9/09
Posted 10:23pm 19/9/09
While car performances are inconsistent and certainly not do not match their real world counter-parts, the actual driving physics and mechanics are surprisingly realistic. With a wheel and some customisation of the control settings, you can get a really authentic drive - just don't try and relate the feel of performance to the car you're supposed to be driving.
If you love driving for the sake of driving, it s**** over Grid. I've spent hours just setting up a car and doing dozens of laps around a track by myself striving for that perfect lap time, soaking up every twitch and thud as the car slips out from beneath itself and then slaps into gear over chicanes, trying to find the ideal apex. And it gets even better with a field of drivers online.
If however you need some sort of career story, more interesting interaction with the game off of the track or any one of the things that I don't care about in a racing game, Codemasters titles have and will continue to cater quite nicely. But don't expect them to create anything remotely close to a realistic driving system anytime soon. To be honest, I'm scared s***less that the F1 game they're producing is going to be another one of their throw-away arcade racers.
Posted 10:31pm 19/9/09
Posted 10:33pm 19/9/09
I did an endurance race with some 15 cars for 30 laps on a demolition style figure 8 track and had no panels left to speak of yet the car still handled just fine - Must have been just a Muscle Car thing tho :P
ACtually got spun around and watched another car get T-Boned as it was going through the intersection and it was literally sky rocketed out of sight almost vertically. Cracked us all up on watching replay many times. While I give it the thumbs up I think Grid's debilitating damage model worked better (and yes I have full damage set on).
That said, just once I'd like to see in a race game the ability to record or at least save your replays (Can't get fraps to work in Vista 64).
Posted 10:46pm 19/9/09
I actually found my wheel too slow for the drift sections in underground, I preferred the keyboard. The only time I used my wheel was for the actual races.
Posted 10:50pm 19/9/09
Posted 11:49pm 19/9/09
Posted 09:04am 20/9/09
From what I'm hearing around the interwebs, a wheel is almost required for this game. It seems wheel-racers love it to bits, and controller-racers are a bit miffed as to what all the excitement is about.
Posted 09:35am 20/9/09
I am about to take off to the shops to buy a xbox360 windows controller connector. I’m hoping this will make it a lot easier to handle the cars.
So far I love the graphics. The game looks great and the racing physics feels and sounds awesome.
drifting is FUBAR. The physics are a lot better than Pro Street but still far from how a real car would react. I have noticed cars still speed up for a sort second after you release the accelerator mid drift?
Then there is the menu which personally I found to be quite hard to navigate. And watching the starting intro for every race gets a little tiring.
Still you can tell this game would be a dream to play with a steering wheel and I still feel the urge to level up my driving skill to 50.
Posted 12:52pm 20/9/09
this is an absolute steaming turd.
huge ram hog
unskippable, long, s***, irrelevent movies of lame crashes?
inaccessable menus? i am not even given the opportunity to try and fix the F***ED controls, i just have to deal with it for at least 2 races?!
no option to QUIT from a race?! oh nevermind it just crashed out for me.
im enraged at how unbeleivably s*** EA have made this potentially good sim
at least it'll keep all the retards out of rfactor
Posted 08:29pm 20/9/09
Posted 09:29pm 20/9/09
Posted 09:29am 21/9/09
I set-up my controls before starting the first race (makes sense?). You can quit from all races except for your very first time trial.
Oh, and it's not a sim.
Posted 11:41am 22/9/09
Posted 01:59am 23/9/09
I have not played the demo, but have the full game, works awesome, no crashes, controls are not only very customizable but they are also fine on default (keyboard) and I clipped a wall at 200ish and was unable to to keep the thing straight because of the damage, although I can't actually wreck a car. As for the thing being a hog, my system (E8400, GTX275, 4GB, Win7, no O.C) is running it silky smooth at all times on max settings in 1080p @ 8AA. Sounds like an issue at your end, or the demo is from an alpha build, I'm not going to DL it to check.
Oh and I can skip cut scenes/movies just fine and the menus are great. Great game, well worth the $50.
Posted 09:22am 23/9/09
wtf hoW?
Posted 09:25am 23/9/09
Highly reccomend both
Posted 10:39am 23/9/09
I've now moved back to Live for Speed after around 40 hours with this, but I had a lot of fun with it.
For those that are complaining about the "permenant oversteer", move the oversteer/understeer slider all the way to the far end of oversteer (yes, oversteer). Strangely enough, this helps. Bug? Or lousy tuning design? ;)
Posted 09:30pm 23/9/09
And what sort of GFX card you got rec?
Posted 09:59pm 23/9/09
Sounds like need for speed undercover, I whacked it in my 360 and it just started me in the first mission to evade the cops, no indication of what the hell the controls even were or an option to enter any menus. I thought I was seeing things, EA are like the opposite of goldfinger, where he could touch dogs*** and turn it to gold, ea can touch gold and turn it to dog s***.
Posted 10:07pm 23/9/09