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Old September 11th 05, 03:37 AM
Steve Simpson
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> I pondered over that one. I still think it was a major release but came
> out just before accelerated graphics cards started to be released. Plus
> it was the first real F1 sim for 4 years. After that we had a string of
> them. Regardless of its shortcomings I think it was a milestone, just a
> shortlived one. The millstone was the fact that the shortcomings carried
> over into the later releases not on my list!


Agreed. I was actually a GP2 fan but it arrived about a year late for
what it was. GP3 & GP4 were disappointing because the physics were
basically the same as GP2 which had been stomped by Papy with GPL.
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