CPR:WHY THE BAD RAP?

I heard about the Glide dll file and saw that CPR is $20 till the end of the year. [$20 mail in rebate] So I figured if it's got a glide "patch" and its only $20 I'll give it try.I don't think it thats bad.Not like it was made out in this NG.Okay it's no GP2 or NFS2 SE but i like it.The graphics could have used the Glide API alot better but they are pretty good and it runs very nice on my p200mmx 64 EDO voodoo 1.As far as the game play and interface I feel it lives up to what it advertises.Its Cart racing,nothing more nothing less.If you know what cart racing is than some oval tracks shouldn't have come to a surprise to anyone.The camera views are decent and the options are more than adequate.I've had a lot worse crappy "sims" in my time.And believe me,I'm not a member of the microsoft fan club.Anyway TRI did the sim not microsoft.They only removed a little dll file from it the scumbags,but so is the ways of big time business.The AI in CPR need some street smarts but they're not that thick.I think CPR got a bad rap.

The above is exactly why the bad rap. It's "more than adequate" and "not as crappy as some other sims" - not quite what was advertised on the box is it? Cheers! John

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> I heard about the Glide dll file and saw that CPR is $20 till the end of the > year. > [$20 mail in rebate] So I figured if it's got a glide "patch" and its only $20 > I'll give > it try.I don't think it thats bad.Not like it was made out in this NG.Okay it's > no > GP2 or NFS2 SE but i like it.The graphics could have used the Glide API alot > better but they are pretty good and it runs very nice on my p200mmx 64 EDO > voodoo 1.As far as the game play and interface I feel it lives up to what it > advertises.Its Cart racing,nothing more nothing less.If you know what cart > racing > is than some oval tracks shouldn't have come to a surprise to anyone.The camera > views are decent and the options are more than adequate.I've had a lot worse > crappy "sims" in my time.And believe me,I'm not a member of the microsoft fan > club.Anyway TRI did the sim not microsoft.They only removed a little dll file > from > it the scumbags,but so is the ways of big time business.The AI in CPR need > some street smarts but they're not that thick.I think CPR got a bad rap.

Ok, let me see :)) I'll go out on a limb here with a prediction. When GPL hits the shelves, get it, and then tell us what you think of CPR! Btw, what are you trying to say as reguards ovals. Do you think some people don't like ovals???????? Go play on the ovals for a while and you will discover that your car has a top speed beyond which it cannot go no matter what the setup. Also you will find the AI so pitiful on ovals that all things considered the game may as well been shipped without ovals. CPR is a thing that does not even qualify as a game let alone a sim and it deserves all the flack it gets! I'll go out on another limb now :) As far as the MS/TRI thing goes, we can see by the glide ommision who was controling the quality of this product and also who deliberately released it prematurely for Xmas. We can also see that TRI could not get away from MS quick enough. All blame lies with MS for an absolute certainty. I'd say if TRI had total control, the game might not have been released even now and may have been a completely different story altogether. CPR has unfinished masterpiece written all over it! But unfortunately an unfinished masterpiece = a pile of junk!