World Rally Championship: another arcade rally?

Found this "budget" title in Fry's Electronics for $12.95. Comes in a big box, but no documentation except on CD. How DOES this measure against the current titles, like CMR2, RM, or M1RC? -- --address below zigzaged to foil [email hidden] harvesters-- K C A G E C T DOT O | Kasey Chang / PC Renaissance Man S H N AT X I E C M | Gamer / Trekker / IT Developer If it looks too obvious, it probably is. -- anonymous

Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!) <[email hidden]> wrote on 04 Aug 2001: > Found this "budget" title in Fry's Electronics for $12.95. Comes in a > big box, but no documentation except on CD. How DOES this measure > against the current titles, like CMR2, RM, or M1RC? Never heard of it - does it have any other titles? Neither amazon.com or amazon.co.uk have it, and nor do the EB sites. -- David. (GPLRank handicap -6.57; Monsters of GPL +271.79) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh. Earn (not very much) money writing reviews at http://uk.ciao.com

"David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!) <[email hidden]> wrote on04 > Aug 2001: > > > Found this "budget" title in Fry's Electronics for $12.95. Comes ina > > big box, but no documentation except on CD. How DOES this measure > > against the current titles, like CMR2, RM, or M1RC? > > Never heard of it - does it have any other titles? Neither amazon.com > or amazon.co.uk have it, and nor do the EB sites. Published by Interplay and THQ... I just realized I munged the title. It's INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Not World. I apologize for the mistake. :-P --KC

It sounds as though it's a bit gamey. http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/gdreview/depart/jul01/rallyfeature_budget.html Bobby "Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!)" wrote:

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> > "David Buttery" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!) <[email hidden]> wrote on > 04 > > Aug 2001: > > > > > Found this "budget" title in Fry's Electronics for $12.95. Comes in > a > > > big box, but no documentation except on CD. How DOES this measure > > > against the current titles, like CMR2, RM, or M1RC? > > > > Never heard of it - does it have any other titles? Neither amazon.com > > or amazon.co.uk have it, and nor do the EB sites. > > Published by Interplay and THQ... I just realized I munged the title. > It's > > INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP > > Not World. I apologize for the mistake. :-P > > --KC

Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!) <[email hidden]> wrote on 05 Aug 2001: > Published by Interplay and THQ... I just realized I munged the > title. It's > > INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP > > Not World. I apologize for the mistake. :-P Aha - I've got that one. Yes, it is arcadey. It's the one in between Network Q RAC Rally Championship and RC2000, and it's easily the worst of the series. Totally made-up tracks, dodgy graphics on some grfx cards and no feeling of immersion at all. Not completely awful, but probably not worth more than $5. -- David. (GPLRank handicap -6.57; Monsters of GPL +271.79) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh. Earn (not very much) money writing reviews at http://uk.ciao.com

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> > INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP > Aha - I've got that one. Yes, it is arcadey. It's the one in between > Network Q RAC Rally Championship and RC2000, and it's easily the worst > of the series. Totally made-up tracks, dodgy graphics on some grfx > cards and no feeling of immersion at all. Not completely awful, but > probably not worth more than $5.

I paid $12.95 US dollars... And you're absolutely right... It's MUCH worse than RC2K. The tracks have quite a bit of variety, but the handling is horrendous, and crash sequences are your basic tumble only... The driving model is a joke, and the different cars don't feel any different at all. I tried to enable the rear view mirror and half the screen went black diagonally! (And I was using a VERY normal NVIDIA TNT!) Graphics looks so grainy I wonder if I had enabled 320x200 by mistake (but no, I was using 800x600 "full" mode). The cars look blocky, the textures look lousy... The terrain has some good spots but the tracks quickly gets repetitious, esp. when quite a few are "circuit" tracks. :-P I think I'll go back to Rally Masters or RC2K... I'm not even going to bother with the track editor... Maybe I can use this as a Christmas gift. :-) Here's a GENERAL complaint about rally games though... WHERE are the setup options explained? What effects will they have on your car? When should you set what where? You get a generic definition and that's about it. :-P --KC

INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP is totally terrible. "Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:mU3b7.2748$[email hidden]...

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> > Published by Interplay and THQ... I just realized I munged the title. > It's > > INTERNATIONAL RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP > > Not World. I apologize for the mistake. :-P > > --KC > > >

Kasey Chang (use EXCITE.COM instead!) <[email hidden]> wrote on 06 Aug 2001: <snip> >I tried to enable the rear view mirror and half > the screen went black diagonally! (And I was using a VERY normal >NVIDIA TNT!)<snip> Exactly what happens to me with a V3-2000. (Also happened with my original ancient Cirrus 5436). <snip> > Here's a GENERAL complaint about rally games though... WHERE > are the setup options explained? What effects will they have on > your car? When should you set what where? You get a generic > definition and that's about it. :-P Yep - what we need is a Steve Smith of rallying... -- David. (GPLRank handicap -6.57; Monsters of GPL +271.79) "After all, a mere thousand yards - such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh. Earn (not very much) money writing reviews at http://uk.ciao.com