Short-short demo of a rally track with lotsa dirt. Physics are way realisticified, tries to do something different but falls in the same pit as... that other realistic rally game.. Peter something. I guess it's a little easier to handle the car than in the über realistic Peter game, but still, it sucks. You have to go reaal slow, ease on the gas on every little nuck of a corner, brake if it's more than a "3" (see RSC2), and in good time too. Just doesn't appeal to the arcade rally gamers out there, more of a "Oh, that Peter game looked good, but this is easier!" kinda crowd. There's also damage now, and in all fairness I think the damage model coupled with the more realistic physics do really well. It's not like in RSC2 where you roll 12^24 times and just reset the car, or like in that Peter game where you roll once and the co-driver Screams for his life and you loose 543 seconds, but a good mix of them both. Lost a tire once, and realistic looking sparks came flying. Rolled once (well, not a full roll), ended upp on the side after half a roll and a couple of realistic crash noises sorta impressed me.
Gfx: The scenery is _bland_. Think Peter game, exclude anything interesting and sharp looking, just generic car game looking, kinda like CMR3. The car look suprisingly good though! I'd say almost as good as the RSC2 cars. More realistic damage occur when you drive so the car quickly gets dirty and such, looks rough.
The "explosions" in the exhaust pipes look suprisingly good too. The RSC2 explosions, well, you sorta didn't notice them, they just melted in with the scenery. These explosions made me go "WTF was that! Something boomed and I got surpriced!", just a good side note.
Sense of speed: 0.5, 0 being GT3/4 and 1 being a standard rally game. You just. have. to. drive. so. slow. that you never even get up to any considerable speeds.
Also there's a new filter that makes everything super-blurry, that's (for some reason) used when the camera pans around the car before the race, making you think wtf they thought they'd accomplish making the game so blurry and comes into play when you crash rather severely.. again for some reason. Maybe it's supposed to make you think You're dizzy! Bah.
No buy, discuss.
Gfx: The scenery is _bland_. Think Peter game, exclude anything interesting and sharp looking, just generic car game looking, kinda like CMR3. The car look suprisingly good though! I'd say almost as good as the RSC2 cars. More realistic damage occur when you drive so the car quickly gets dirty and such, looks rough.
The "explosions" in the exhaust pipes look suprisingly good too. The RSC2 explosions, well, you sorta didn't notice them, they just melted in with the scenery. These explosions made me go "WTF was that! Something boomed and I got surpriced!", just a good side note.Sense of speed: 0.5, 0 being GT3/4 and 1 being a standard rally game. You just. have. to. drive. so. slow. that you never even get up to any considerable speeds.
Also there's a new filter that makes everything super-blurry, that's (for some reason) used when the camera pans around the car before the race, making you think wtf they thought they'd accomplish making the game so blurry and comes into play when you crash rather severely.. again for some reason. Maybe it's supposed to make you think You're dizzy! Bah.
No buy, discuss.