An Afeela Out Of Time
Are we surprised the equivalent of an NIST standard electric car would be dead on arrival even if it wasn't of it's own doing?
Are we surprised the equivalent of an NIST standard electric car would be dead on arrival even if it wasn't of it's own doing?
Burnout 3: Takedown was a revolution that redefined the idea of what a racing game could be when it was released in 2004.
Redefining how Formula 1 races to where drivers and fans are comparing it to Mario Kart in the interim is going to work itself out, right?
...two separate IPs full of self-confidence in what they are now being given the chance to compliment each other in ways that previously hadn't been tried in the genre.
Polyphony Digital threw everything they could at Gran Turismo 3 to make it everything they visioned it to be, and the industry stopped and looked on in wonder as an impossible standard to reach was raised ever higher.
But before that, we have a game that quietly accepted it's fate as the end of the line on the Playstation and did so with as much grace as it could.
There is no doubt that the 911 GT3 R is going to get a lot of mileage out of players no mater what, though it remains lost in the quagmire of a class that doesn't really engage and challenge drivers in terms of racecraft.
My mind's eye had Assetto Corsa Evo being a dream game for car and driving enthusiasts, not as a pure sim racing game.
What if rallying in video games, started to mirror the physical realities of rallying a little bit more? What would that look like?
GTR2 is the total package when it comes to realistic racing games on PC.
The Richard Burns Rally exhibition put on by Johann is a milestone run, and the most fitting realistic racing title to be on a GDQ stage as Richard Burns died as a result of a brain tumor four years to the day after he became World Rally Champion.
Toplessgun using Generative Ai in this regard within My Winter Car for music, textures and videos is especially disappointing. Using such technology as a shortcut as to not make art himself takes away so much from what makes his games special.
Rennsport
Rennsport is just here and I don't know what it will take for it to be much more than that...
SEGA
... one of the cabinet racing games I had to find a way to play didn't require flying abroad to give it a test drive.
Announcements
Powerhouse Takahashi says No Games for Genocide.
Project Motor Racing
Unlike Rennsport, this was meant to be Project Motor Racing's moment.
Miscellaneous
..Saturday's main fixture was visiting the inaugural Vancouver Game Expo at the Roundhouse Community Centre..
Formula 1
Landing itself just outside of the top seventy of the list was the 1990 release of Formula 1: Built to Win: and can be seen as a turning point in the evolution of the console racing video game.
BRGoF25
Twenty-plus years on, the foundations that made NASCAR Thunder 2004 great still ring true with NASCAR 25 doing those things the right way in it's wake...
Gran Turismo
So, on maybe a half hour worth of practice for each race, I did five of the six rounds of the championship in their last time slot. I was in it for the credits and to have a little fun, it was a Exhibition Series after all.
Work of Fiction
A seemingly innocent spin would set the course for Alberto Cara, rookie teammate Fu Wen and how Yangwang has operated the entire season.
BRGoF25
..after getting their sea legs under them with their new game engine, it was time to put the hammer down and make the two best racing games the Southam-based developer and publisher has ever made.
Project Motor Racing
If there is one Nazi game developer in the room with ten other people working with them, how many Nazi game developers are there on the team?
BRGoF25
It it a mastery of environmental storytelling never seen in racing games before, or since.