OK, N4 is damn awesome

Man, I've never had this much fun playing any racing game, including N1-N3, ICR1&2, NFS1-5, NH, and GPL. I usually am way ahead or behind of everyone else, or crashing. (In GPL just crashing). But I was just now racing at Lowe's, 95% opponent strength. Qualify 1st, but lose about 3 or 4 positions early. A few laps later, I take a turn too hard, and Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte team up and slip by under me. I follow for a few more laps, then make a move, and pass em both going into the last turn, making it by Stewart by inches, but then brush the wall, and Stewart slips by me, but I block Labonte. I follow till near the end of the race, and with about 3 laps left the leader comes close to a lapped car, and I start trying to pass Stewart. I get by him once, but again brush the wall, and he comes back under me, but so does Labonte. Ahh! I quickly floor it, and go side by side with Labonte for a whole lap, and bump into him once or twice, but keep the car from spinning. I pass him. White flag! I go after Stewart again, side by side heading for the final turn of the race. I slam the pedal to the floor, and my right side bumps into him, he slides up a few inches, then we both head toward the finish line, bump again, and go spinning! I get turned around, but in FRONT of Stewart, sliding backwards towards the finish with Stewarts nose on my nose. As we slide to the finish, Labonte gets by us, but cross the line before Gordon and Earnhardt can pass us. So I keep my position while Tony and Bobby switched place. Phew. That was really really damn fun.

LOL, Sounds like a race at Bristol :) "drinklime" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dKJj6.1779$[email hidden]... > Man, I've never had this much fun playing any racing game, includingN1-N3, > ICR1&2, NFS1-5, NH, and GPL. I usually am way ahead or behind of everyone > else, or crashing. (In GPL just crashing). But I was just now racing at > Lowe's, 95% opponent strength. Qualify 1st, but lose about 3 or 4positions > early. A few laps later, I take a turn too hard, and Tony Stewart andBobby > Labonte team up and slip by under me. I follow for a few more laps, then > make a move, and pass em both going into the last turn, making it byStewart > by inches, but then brush the wall, and Stewart slips by me, but I block > Labonte. I follow till near the end of the race, and with about 3 lapsleft > the leader comes close to a lapped car, and I start trying to passStewart. > I get by him once, but again brush the wall, and he comes back under me,but

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> so does Labonte. Ahh! I quickly floor it, and go side by side with Labonte > for a whole lap, and bump into him once or twice, but keep the car from > spinning. I pass him. White flag! I go after Stewart again, side by side > heading for the final turn of the race. I slam the pedal to the floor, and > my right side bumps into him, he slides up a few inches, then we both head > toward the finish line, bump again, and go spinning! I get turned around, > but in FRONT of Stewart, sliding backwards towards the finish with

Stewarts > nose on my nose. As we slide to the finish, Labonte gets by us, but cross > the line before Gordon and Earnhardt can pass us. So I keep my position > while Tony and Bobby switched place. Phew. That was really really damnfun. > >

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 06:13:29 GMT, "drinklime" <[email hidden]> wrote: <snip> >the line before Gordon and Earnhardt can pass us. So I keep my position >while Tony and Bobby switched place. Phew. That was really really damn fun. LOL, sounds like a good race :) Couple of days ago I bought a new gfx card, and after spending a couple of days tweaking the card I played N4 yesterday for the first time with a decent fps. And just like in GPL, what a difference a decent fps makes!! GPL fanatic as I am, I chose Sears Point instead of one of those oval tracks (what a shame that Nascar only uses two road tracks :( Driving these cars is completely different than '67 F1 cars, but good fun in their own way. I miss the sensation of speed which I have in GPL, but the racing itself is fantastic! Drafting and bumping with 42 cars.. yummie. I do have a major problem though with the AI. Especially at ovals, it happens so often that I want to pass a car on the inside, and when I'm about to pass them they go low all of a sudden, causing me to spin. Vice versa, it also often happens that I get hit by an AI car on the inside, while the spotter didn't tell me that there was a car on the inside! Well.. maybe it isn't the AI, maybe I have to learn how to drive in Nascar style.. when GPL came out I hardly knew a thing about racing behaviour, and maybe the same now goes for Nascar... Watch out world, Andre goes Nascar.. Andre