I find it (very) fun in short bursts. I "completed it", if you can really call it that on a multi-player shooter, when I was doing my FPS history project. I'm more of a UT99 man I've decided.
Agree Q3 and UT99 are my current quick blast games, they both play so well.
Fancied a change from FPS and yearned for a decent driving sim. Nothing better than Papyrus sims - well, apart from the other big hitter of the day (Geoff Crammond). Sticking with Papyrus as I am saving the GP series for another day.
Installed my copy of Indycar 2, only to realise my CD version is MS DOS! Whilst I can get Indycar running in Dosbox, the controls might need some fettling. So being an impatient type, moved onto Grand Prix Legends.
GPL installed perfectly, 1600 x 1200 (using nGlide) quickly came to the assumption, the game is still as brutal as back in the day, impossible to race without a wheel (using an Xbox 360 wired controller on XP). I'll give it a proper blast once I have a wheel set up. Talking of wheels, it got me reminiscing. Googled the wheel I had back in 1998 - Digital Edge F1 sim:
Back to Papyrus, installed Nascar Legends, Nascar 2, Nascar 3 and Nascar 4. Use nGlide and NL, N2 and N3 happily run at higher resolutions. These games work perfectly with an Xbox pad. Separate throttle/brake and steering. People scoff when racing on ovals. Trying to race AI without causing mayhem is incredibly difficulty and timing overtakes (if running mid pack) is an art. Fall out of the slipstream (on higher realism) and you are essentially lost. In Nascar 4, there is an AI driver which is my nemesis, overtake get re-passed, retake, crash.
I am in the minority but since the first Nascar game (1994) addicted to oval racing and collected the series ever since. If you like driving sims and fancy something different, give it a chance.
