Racing Games Too Fast, Furious For U.S.? 28
An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad just posted an interesting article called 2 Fast 2 Furious For The U.S., discussing the Japanese releases of Gran Turismo Concept and World Rally Championship 2 Extreme for PS2. It's pretty interesting, since these are two games that haven't been scheduled for a U.S. release yet, despite having solid predecessors." Seems like we'll never see GT Concept in the States, despite a European release (wonder why?), and if WRC 2 Extreme can make it through the surfeit of rally titles currently clogging U.S. bargain bins, it should be a worthy buy.
Racing games were only cool when EGAs were cool (Score:1)
must not.... gahh
FIRST POST!
My favorite racing games of all time. (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:My favorite racing games of all time. (Score:2)
Genesis: Outrun
Saturn: Daaaaaaaytooooooooona!
Playstation: Gran Turismo, wipeout, CTR
Dreamcast:
Le mans 24 hours (you could actually play it in real time!), San Francisco Rush 2049, Wacky Races (cartoon fun). Some people swear by metropolis street racer or tokyo xtreme racer.
Note: vehicular mayhem games (crazy taxi) and xtreme games (dave mirra) don't count as racing games.
Biggest racing disaster of all time: Spirit of speed 1937 (dreamcast). It seems the cars of 1937 alway
Gran Turismo 3 (Score:1)
It's not like I'm indiscriminately squealing the bastards either. They go yellow after the second gentle turn at 70mph, red by the third, and all the other cars are already long gone at this point. The expensive racing tires, too, from both ends of the spectrum.
What's the deal?
Re:Gran Turismo 3 (Score:1)
Re:Gran Turismo 3 (Score:2)
Re:Gran Turismo 3 (Score:2, Informative)
My main car I drive is a RUF CRT tweaked from here to kingdom-come. The goal in a 5 lap race is to be *just* in the red with your tires when you finish, with the wear evenly distributed. Which tires you use depends on your style, the drive train you're using, you
It's not NASCAR! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not NASCAR! (Score:3, Interesting)
1)NASCAR is wildly dominant in the US compared to open-wheel and rally racing and the emphasis on drafting and metal-bending passes doesn't translate as well into a game.
2) 16-24 year olds in the US are much more likely to own, or at least have access to a reasonably fast car than are their counterparts in Asia and much of Europe. Plus the US offers plenty of opportunities to drive fast
Re:It's not NASCAR! (Score:3, Insightful)
Just to expand on this, this is why I'm not all that fond of racing video games to begin with. Being a USAian, I've been driving enough to know what it really feels like to operate a car under different conditions, and flashy graphics and a subwoofer alone will never be a substitute. Racing video games require you to pay much more attention to v
Re:It's not NASCAR! (Score:3, Informative)
Plain and simple: Under real racing conditions, if you're driving by feel, you're going to crash. Feel does play into it (an F1 driver recently said the two
Oh yeah!? (Score:2)
Oh yeah!? Well, well, I drive my Galant GTZ to work every day... *runs into the corner and cries*
Rally Games (Score:5, Interesting)
Its the only rally game offically licenced by the FIA and the WRC. Sure, games like CMR3 and V-Rally have licenced various cars, WRC2 is the only one with all the drivers and all the cars from the World Rally Championship.
Well, that doesn't really mean much for gameplay, now does it. It will be tough to knock CMR3 off its pedestal.
Licensing issues... (Score:4, Informative)
This may be a ficticious memory or a past rumor, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember the original Japanese Gran Turismo having a ton of cars (Ferrari) that were not in the US version due to similar licensing issues.
Re:Licensing issues... (Score:1)
a nice racing game worth waiting for (Score:1)
It's real fun and addicting (and a quar^H^H^H^H dollar eater) in the arcade and hope it gets translated well to the ps2.
They do require local modifications.. (Score:3, Funny)
This failure has affected my driving in real life.
Re:They do require local modifications.. (Score:2)
I don't see why they do that, either. I mean, all the manga I read are full of left-handed Japanese driving on the correct side of the car and the road...
Maybe (Score:2)
surfeit? (Score:1)
Why not GT Concept? (Score:1, Troll)
Multiple GT Concepts (Score:2, Informative)
I picked my copy up for $35 in Korea and I had to mod my PS2 just to play it. As a GT3 fanatic the game can be finished in a day or two, but its absolutelly worth it if you lust after the GTR35 Concept,
carbon copy blues (Score:1)
I mean, I've played my share of Gran Tourismo and Moto GP on x-box live and all, but as a whole there is almost no innovation in racing games, they are all for the most part the same game albeit with different controls, physics and maybe some differences in implentation of options like career modes, car building and so on. At least with the other "mee too" style of games like FPS or RTS, there is a degree of novelty in each form of it.
How many Moto G
No US release? (Score:1)