Need for Speed 5 Porsche Unleashedpossesses
one of the worst collision-detection routines ever seen in a racing
game. Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed strays from several conventions
previously established by the popular arcade-style exotic-car racing
series. For one thing, like its name suggests, Porsche Unleashed
features automobiles exclusively from one manufacturer. What’s more, the
game has a more detailed, more realistic driving and physics model than
its predecessors, though the game’s realism is scalable. And while
Porsche Unleashed has a few minor shortcomings, it nevertheless stands
as the most ambitious game in the series since the original. As such,
it’ll more than likely make you love the Porsche on the off chance you
don’t already.
Porsche
Unleashed looks good enough to do justice to its prestigious German
sponsor. The game includes many dozens of different Porsche models from
the manufacturer’s 50-year product line, and each one bears the
unmistakable curvature of a Porsche. The 3D car models are highly
detailed: The cars all have working turn signals, brake lights, and
headlights, and when you look at them in the garage, you can even check
the engine under the hood, pop the trunk, or view the car’s interior.
The cars shine in the sunlight and reflect street lamps at nighttime,
and they can also get noticeably damaged. You can clearly see their
independent suspension at work as they corner, thanks to the game’s
realistic four-point physics model, and you can even see their drivers
turning the wheel and shifting gears. You can drive the cars from a 3D
cockpit view, from which you get a great sense of speed, but the cockpit
view’s limited visibility and slower frame rate – as well as the
muffled engine noise – make the cutaway first-person view preferable,
though you can also select from two external perspectives. The cars in
Porsche Unleashed don’t look totally perfect, as some of the minor
details such as the door handles are part of the texture maps, rather
than part of the polygonal geometry. But such details are only evident
if you spend a lot of time gawking at your cars in the garage, rather
than racing them out on the streets of Europe.
System= Pentium III CPU 733 MHz
RAM= 256 MB
Size= 189 MB
Video Memory= 32 MB
OS= Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
F 16 Aggressor
The real shame of it is there is a fine, fine flight simulator at the
core of Aggressor. Sometimes when I’m cleaning my ears I push the Q-tip
just a little too far in, and it hits something that hurts like hell. It
kind of hums for a while and then settles into a dull ache. The thing
is, I can experience this sensation all I want for about a quarter cent
per tip, whereas Bethesda would have me pay upwards of $40 for
relatively the same sensation. That throbbing in the brain, that jabbing
pain in the head: That’s about what I took away from Bethesda’s first
attempt at a flight simulation, F-16 Aggressor.
F-16 Aggressor has puzzling aspirations. The designers actually set out
to re-create Strike Commander. Remember Strike Commander? It was going
to be Origin’s flight sim version of the Wing Commander format, a
narrative-driven mercenary flight simulation. Unfortunately, it didn’t
turn out quite right. It was incredibly late, pretty buggy, and just not
all that impressive. So of course it makes perfect sense to emulate it.
And then, to really nail the lid down, GSI emulates it badly.
The real shame of it is there is a fine, fine flight simulator at the
core of Aggressor. GSI has modeled the F-16′s flight properties with
commendable detail. The funky handling of the rudders at certain speeds,
tough landings, speed bleeding, and other things related to flight are
all smack on. It’s a flight model worthy of the best F-16 sims, poised
to offer the hard-core crowd everything it could demand… until you get
to the systems modeling. These are more on par with a Novalogic game.
The complex instrument modeling of Falcon 4.0 and other true hard-core
sims is only hinted at in Aggressor. Graphically, while F-16 is quite good, if at times mind-blowing, it’s
true that there are better-looking, better-performing sims out there.
The terrain is a bit patchy, but object modeling is good. Cockpits look
very good and have effective dynamic animations for throttle and stick.
HUD overlays and quick-view keys provide excellent perspectives on the
instruments. In another stunning lapse, however, GSI has failed to
include a padlock view. This makes situational awareness well nigh
impossible and deals another serious blow to the sim.
System= Pentium III CPU 733 MHz
RAM= 128 MB
Size= 67 MB
Video Memory= 32 MB
OS= Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and Also Windows 8
Extreme Racers
is a completely free racing game with fantastic graphics and a large
variety of cars and tracks to play with. You can choose from several
different car skins and the locations are refreshingly different.
Gentlemen. start your engines! Get behind the wheel of a stock car and
push yourself to the limit in this blisteringly fast racecar challenge.
System= Pentium III CPU 733 MHz
RAM= 128 MB
Size= 39 MB
Video Memory= 16 MB
OS= Windows 98, XP, 2000, Vista 7 and Windows 8
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18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the MetalWith
the new expanded business features 18 WOS: Pedal to the Metal expands
on the classic game and keeps all the elements that made it a great game
to start with. You can work your way up from workin’ for “the man” to
being “the man”. This game is simple to learn and can be played by
virtually anyone. This is definitely one of the best in the series. With 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the
Metal, you have only one goal: make it in the world of long-haul
trucking! Accept jobs and move cargo all across North America – Canada,
the United States, and Mexico. It’s a race against the clock because for maximum profit you need to get it there on time and undamaged. 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal is a
very realistic tycoon-type trucking simulation game which mixes the
best of two worlds: business and driving! Once you make a little money, upgrade your
trucks, take on more lucrative jobs, and much more. Live out the
quintessential rags-to-riches story! Start Small and Work Your Way Up! You begin your first game as a low-level
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to fit your preferences. Cool Details Your trucks are visually detailed and
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System= Pentium III CPU 1.o GHz RAM= 256 MB Size= 85 MB Video Memory= 32 MB OS= Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
