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"ymenard" > wrote in message ... > >"Byron Forbes" > wrote >> ICR2 - as you must surely know! I'm sure I saw you all about the ICR2 >> seen >> back then didn't I? > > > Icr2 was released half a year after GP2. While beloved, Icr2 had major > flaws itself, no wheel-spin (!!!), laughable physics on ovals, AI that was > below the one found in Gp2 (which was acceptable at its best). > > I'm not putting Gp2 on a pedestral, but to say that Gp2 was bad, well > people just have short memories. > GP2 also inspired an incredibly involving offline competitive environment. That experience has since been eclipsed by good online racing, but in its day, it was addictive and it was no problem at all to find the motivation to run a full-length offline race just to submit the final result to an offline league. The first time you went up and over after touching the wheel of a competitor, you knew GP2 had something in its bag of tricks which ICR2 didn't. Too bad Crammond just missed 3D acceleration with that release, but the lighting effects he produced in software mode were sweet. Stephen ------------ And now a word from our sponsor ------------------ Do your users want the best web-email gateway? Don't let your customers drift off to free webmail services install your own web gateway! -- See http://netwinsite.com/sponsor/sponsor_webmail.htm ---- |
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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:49:08 GMT, Sidney H Bridge
> wrote: >ICR2. GP2 was out before ICR2, sonny. |
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"Praxiteles Democritus" wrote...
>>ICR2. > > GP2 was out before ICR2, sonny. And was promptly rendered obsolete... Jan.<g> =--- |
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Praxiteles Democritus wrote:
> GP2 was out before ICR2, sonny. ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? |
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jason moyer wrote: > Praxiteles Democritus wrote: > > > GP2 was out before ICR2, sonny. > > ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? In chronological order, what I would consider the best available sim: 1994 - Nascar Racing 1995 - Indycar Racing 2 (which was reissued in 1996 as CART Racing) 1996 - Grand Prix 2 1998 - Grand Prix Legends2001 - Nascar Racing 4 2002 - Nascar Racing 2002 2003 - Nascar Racing 2003 2004 - Richard Burns Rally 2006? - iRacing |
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On 12 Sep 2005 17:23:17 -0700, "jason moyer" > wrote:
>ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003337/ IndyCar Racing 2 Release Date: 12/12/96 http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/g...x2/review.html Grand Prix II Release Date: 06/30/1996 |
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Praxiteles Democritus wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2005 17:23:17 -0700, "jason moyer" > wrote: > > > >>ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? > > > http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003337/ > IndyCar Racing 2 > > Release Date: 12/12/96 > > http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/g...x2/review.html > Grand Prix II > > Release Date: 06/30/1996 The original DOS only version of ICR2 was released in November/December 1995. I know cos I bought it then! From Alison Hine's site: "But oh, those graphics! While the original version of ICR2 was state-of-the-art in late 1995 when it was released, its graphics have since been eclipsed by GP2, which has much better texture mapping and a variety of visual improvements which lend greater realism. When GP2 came out in the summer of 96, this realism was so appealing that I stopped playing ICR2 altogether." |
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Praxiteles Democritus wrote:
> http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003337/ > IndyCar Racing 2 > > Release Date: 12/12/96 That's when the reissue as CART Racing came out. ICR2 was summer of 95. |
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"Tony Rickard" > wrote in message .uk... > Praxiteles Democritus wrote: >> On 12 Sep 2005 17:23:17 -0700, "jason moyer" > wrote: >> >> >> >>>ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? >> >> >> http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003337/ >> IndyCar Racing 2 >> >> Release Date: 12/12/96 >> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/g...x2/review.html >> Grand Prix II >> >> Release Date: 06/30/1996 > > The original DOS only version of ICR2 was released in November/December > 1995. I know cos I bought it then! > > From Alison Hine's site: > > "But oh, those graphics! While the original version of ICR2 was > state-of-the-art in late 1995 when it was released, its graphics have > since been eclipsed by GP2, which has much better texture mapping and a > variety of visual improvements which lend greater realism. When GP2 came > out in the summer of 96, this realism was so appealing that I stopped > playing ICR2 altogether." And even with 6 months extra cpu evolution, at a time when cpu evolution rate was VERY high, GP2 still ran like a pig. GP2 was good for testing sessions and a glimpse of the future unless you liked being a slow mo league king with the keyboard. Just junk really. |
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Praxiteles Democritus wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2005 17:23:17 -0700, "jason moyer" > wrote: > > > >>ICR2 was out in 1995. GP2 came out in 96, no? > > > http://www.gamestats.com/objects/003/003337/ > IndyCar Racing 2 > > Release Date: 12/12/96 Wrong, sonny. |
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