V-Rally 99

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Racing insanity! Over 40 original tracks, 11 official World Rally Championship cars, tracks in 8 worldwide locations, realistic race physics and smooth car handling, diverse terrain such as jungles, canyons, deserts, mountains and more, unstable weather patterns like rain, fog, snow and cloudy. Adjust car performance characteristics to suit varied road conditions. Bonus and hidden cars and tracks to unlock!Amazon.com V-Rally 99 tries to closely simulate the European rally racing experience, providing racers with a nice variety of cars and over 50 circuits located around the world. And while the attention to real-world physics certainly demands concentration, V-Rally 99 may send some drivers' patience into a tailspin. This is not a pedal-to-the-metal racing game. Keeping control of the car is difficult, and drivers will quickly realize that success depends on literally crawling around corners at low speeds, then accelerating madly on the straights to the next set of curves and turns. Both the arcade (less sensitive controls and physics) and championship (heavy on the real-world simulation) modes demand a light touch on the accelerator and brakes to remain upright and on the track. Luckily, controls are quite intuitive and easy to learn. However, the car's reactions to road conditions and bumps, dips, banks, and turns are very often unrealistic. Gravel and dirt tracks are too slippery, more closely resembling an ice-driving experience. Driving over an imperceptible bump may inexplicably send the vehicle into a ridiculously dramatic series of spins. Choosing the less-sensitive arcade mode provides a bit less frustration, though we certainly hope future renditions of V-Rally tone down the physics and shift the fun factor into a higher gear. --Eric TwelkerPros:Over 50 tracks in such exotic locales as Corsica, New Zealand, Indonesia, and KenyaGood selection of carsPlayers can customize car handling and appearance featuresCons:Over-the-top physics model; keeping control of vehicle very difficultAnticipating turns difficult due to close horizonMultiplayer mode not overly exciting Product description Racing insanity! Over 40 original tracks, 11 official World Rally Championship cars, tracks in 8 worldwide locations, realistic race physics and smooth car handling, diverse terrain such as jungles, canyons, deserts, mountains and more, unstable weather patterns like rain, fog, snow and cloudy. Adjust car performance characteristics to suit varied road conditions. Bonus and hidden cars and tracks to unlock! Review While relatively unknown in the States, rally racing is a huge phenomenon in Europe. The concept is simple: Take a bunch of cars that have been slightly modified for racing, stick them on actual roads, and let them have at it. As such, the game has you zooming over African trails, through the center of coastal towns, and past expansive countrysides. But somehow V-Rally Edition '99 fails to capture the exciting elements of rally racing and ends up being mediocre, at best. V-Rally '99 is split into two separate game modes: arcade and championship. In the arcade mode the physics are less realistic, your vehicle is a bit faster, and you race against other cars. Unfortunately, even at the expert setting, the arcade mode is ridiculously easy. Indeed, you can roll your car any number of times and still place first. With any car on any track the secret to the arcade mode is simple: Hold down the A button to win the race. The championship mode boasts more accurate physics, which in turn make the game a bit more difficult. But even at their best the physics are sorely lacking. Sure, rally cars slide around an awful lot, but the cars in this game slide around far too much. You're almost constantly fighting a fishtail. Your normal brakes are almost useless, and the handbrake is unrealistically superior - a quick speed reduction without any rear tow. The track design itself, while loosely based on real courses, is fairly boring and repetitive. Almost all the tracks toss you a barrage of tight corners and then a huge straightaway, keeping you from obtaining any real speed. The cars themselves look very nice, but the backgrounds and pop-up keep you from enjoying the graphics for too long. All the cars look true to their real-life counterparts, and there are some simple lighting and shading effects in there. However, the

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