Is anyone playing this online or even at all?
I'm off first person shooters and into rally for a bit.
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Is anyone playing this online or even at all?
I'm off first person shooters and into rally for a bit.
How good and how realistic is it? I might just pick it up. But I have seen some of the rally games that just put me off. If it's really good I could be interested.
It's pretty tough, all the cars have noticable differences in characteristics and handling. The game is stunningly pretty, when I started playing I drove off a few cliffs - too busy admiring the scenery. It needs a power machine and top graphics card (I'm running XP 1900+ and GF3 Ti500 512MB RAM and still get bad frame rates and jerkiness on 2 levels. It does the same with a GF4 4400).
There is a demo for the game on fileplanet
<a href="http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?file=64108" target="_blank">Rally Championship Xtreme Demo</a>
I've been playing this loads recently, mostly online, and that's where it's been the most fun. Only trouble is, the very experienced players cheat and take huge shortcuts. So online play involves driving as good as you can and bouncing over the countryside on a shortcut. There are some tracks where cheating is not possible, last night I won races on these tracks against good players. The feeling is as good as being top of the frag list and bottom of the died list. But I stress, I enjoy it when I lose too!