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Star Wars Ep. 1 Racer.

Marc wrote:

Star Wars Ep. 1 Racer.

Dude, whatever, that was an awesome game.
Somebody should port that to OS X.

elpato84 wrote:

Didn't Aspyr port some Nascar game a while back? It's got real good physics, I hear.

http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/sierra2002/

http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/sierra2003/

Yes, they do. Papyrus was the best racing sim developer ever. They're gone now.

I'll be damned.

Jammin' Racer isn't exactly childish -- it's a kart racing game, basically. Very, very well done, too -- runs great and supports gamepads, as well as two-player split-screen play on the same computer. Loads of fun, if a bit small.

F1 Championship Season is very long in the tooth now, but it's still fun if you want to do some open wheel racing. As an alternative you can check out Virtual Grand Prix 2 from Virtual Programming Ltd. Ford Racing 2 is a straight up port of the console game. Total Immersion Racing is fun because the computer-controlled drivers remember you from race to race and hold grudges if you do things like run them off the road or push them into walls. (F1, TIR and FR2 are all from Feral Interactive.

There's also the very wonky Racer, a free race car simulator, and Redline, coming one of these days from Ambrosia Software.

Last edited by flargh (2005-12-02 6:41 am)

ford racing had good graphics.  other than that it sucked.  lousy gamplay.  don't get it.

I thought that I would add my input (that I thought many would agree with) to save people time, but please, don't listen to me.

You know, I may be thinking of Virtual Gran Prix in place of F1 championship, I'm not entirely sure.

-9mm (ouT)

Perhaps it would be best to compliment the work done on making the Mac port of Ford Racing play just like all the other versions. Just omit the fact that all the other version of the game are total garbage. The PS2 version is marked down to $5.99 CANADIAN at Wal-Mart, and it STILL doesn't sell. I think that says a lot right there.

Yes, I would agree that Ford Racing 2 isn't the best racing game, and its sales reflect that.  My experience is that, when companies that don't make games try to get their name slathered onto a game, it doesn't do as well as its competitors.  Hopefully it'll do decently on the Mac, though.

I don't have any suggestions, but just wanna share an experience.  A few years back (which seems like half a lifetime to me) my sister for some reason, as she doesn't use her computer for gaming, bought Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit for 15 bucks and installed it on her CompUSA PC.  Whenever she left for various SAT preps and whatnot I always got on her computer and played NFS III.  Man, I absolutely LOVED those sessions.  Goodness..

IcarusFountain wrote:

Hey dcalfine, calm down man.  You're talking to Edwin S., a big wig from Feral (the company that ported the game you're bashing).  If you didn't enjoy it, that's fine, but please try to not get snippy with one of their guys.

Just as Ed said, everyone's entitled to an opinion, and to help people educate people on which games are right for them, Feral is kind enough to offer demos of their games.  If you play it and don't like it, at least it saved you some money by getting the demo first.

Not to say that your personal review doesn't have its merits; I always look at gamer reaction to a game before investing in it myself.  I'm just saying to try to keep cool around the pros.  If you didn't like the gameplay, you could always offer reasons why you didn't like it, or even ways you think it could've been better.  Constructive criticism always goes over better than "what you put a lot of work into really sucks", you know what I mean?

my bust.  I thought I was bashing Ford (as in the big, American company that makes unreliable cars), not an actual person.  I apologize sincerely. 

Ed, think of what I have to say as constructive criticism.
As I've stated, the graphics are great and, if the game was released today, it could pass the graphics test.  The gameplay didn't "suck" as I stated earlier, but it wasn't thrilling.  It seemed too simplistic.  I wish there had been more to the game than just 'be the first person to reach the finish line in this highly-realistic environment."  The different cars looked cool and all and there was definitely a definitive difference between the low-end cars and the beefy ones, but I wish there was like an auto shop, where you could buy new parts.  Also, I wish there was like powerups along the way that could give you boosts.  And why does this game have to be in a closed course?  Why not have maps/tracks that are on real city streets, so people can, say, spot their building in LA or New York while playing the game.  Then you should have other cars on the road, some civilians (who you lose points if you run them over) and most of all, cops.  All good racing games need cops.  There.  I hope that compensates for what I said.

btw ics, how did you know what he did for a living?  How much do you know about me?  What am I doing right now?