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SvennoJ on 03 May 2016
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Second impressions after playing most of the first championship, 6/10.

I got bored before the first championship was done. I was in 2nd place overall yet wasn't really having much fun tbh. I quit in the last Event, Sweden. Driving is decent, controls are a bit laggy (display lag I guess, not the same as colin mcrea on crt back in the day), also a bit sensitive and the car feels quite floaty. Might be because it's a car from the 50's.

Sense of speed is lacking, it feels like your only going half of what the speedometer says, except the car still behaves according to the listed speed. The flat lighting also doesn't help with the lack of depth perception. The stages lack personality, you might as well be driving the procedural generated rally stages from gt5, which handles better too on a controller.

All it has going for it it seems is the difficulty. Yet it's not even consistent. Why spite the user with harsh time penalties for a car reset or not undo damage when you use one of the limited stage restarts, while you can always simply save quit and restart the stage from the previous save. Except that that incurs you an annoying extra loading time. (long loading times ugh)

I guess I was expecting too much after all the praise. Considering the (lack of) competition I should have known better :) It lacks soul, music sounds like it was made in Fract OSC, no replays, it's all very clinical, more like taking a driving test than pushing a car to its limits.

Perhaps it all gets better with later cars, for now I wish the co driver would shut up with his overload on too early information. Damn I'm not a waiter taking an order! I ended up turning into dead ends several times with his confusing laundry lists. Then he finally gave some sensible concise information and it was wrong lol. Turn before the house, yeah except way before the house, don't drive towards it into another dead end haha.

I probably sound overly negative, just disappointed this is not going to do anything either to reverse the decline in racing game interest. Niche game. However the sound design is indeed excellent.

Btw what is enter shakedown. I did it once, it let me drive for a bit, finished, didn't explain anything.