Total Immersion Racing

[CarZee]

Is this any good? I happened upon it in Game at lunchtime today..

Loads of decent cars in it - Nobles & various GT cars..

[AJLintern]

As far as I know this is the remenants of the West Brother's 'World Sports Cars' taken over by the publisher Empire and developed by a different company. The West brothers are now re-developing the real version into Racing Legends - supposed to be the next big thing in racing games (if they ever finish it )
www.west-racing.com

[smeagol]

From what I've read the PC version is a bit arcadey ie the cars stick to the road like glue beyond physics. There is a forum which has people changing the config files to make it more realistic and the company is writing a patch so it may get better. I think I'm going to buy it as I haven't got a decent GT racing game at all and this looks the best.

The RL simulation by the West brothers I think is vaperware at the moment. I regularly visit the website and there are no real developments mentioned. In fact they announced that they were getting a physics expert in to model the cars which I would have thought would be the first stage of a decent simulation anyway ie get the physics right work out how much space you have for the pretty pictures. The pictures on the site are renders of static models. I would suspect we won't see RL for a good few years yet, if at all.

[nick heppinstall]

What about the PS2 version though ? I really fancy buying it but can't find a review anywhere ..... Bit reluctant to shell out 40 notes without a review.

[shadowninja]

1) Join Game
2) Buy it
3) Play it
4) Return it within 10 days
5) Get full refund

[nick heppinstall]

Yeah. It's just a treck to the local Game at Meadowhall and the traffic is just manic. It's just tooooo much like hard work !!

[Mark Benson]

Generally, if a game comes out before it's reviews, the publishers have something to gain by not sending out review copies before the game hits the shops.
That way, you can grab a load of sales before the magazines etc. slate it.

[smeagol]

Mark Benson said: Generally, if a game comes out before it's reviews, the publishers have something to gain by not sending out review copies before the game hits the shops.
That way, you can grab a load of sales before the magazines etc. slate it.

I agree to certain extent however sometimes its just bad timing for example UT2003 was out before the reviews, cracking game. Also be careful of what the reviewer likes I can remember GPL being slated by reviewers saying it was too hard to play. I think they may have missed the point. One thing I like to do is always try and get a demo or play it on another mnachine. My first experince of GPL was on a large screen with a racing cockpit what fun.

TIR don't seem to have released a demo yet which is annoying.

[PetrolTed]

If anyone has played it, please let us know what you think:

www.pistonheads.com/reviews/reviews.asp?c=8&id=62