07-26-2014, 03:50 AM
I've been prowling around for new experiences in the driving game genre, and there's a few in development that are showing great promise...
I assume everyone has seen or heard of Next Car Game? I've been having great fun with this, although the latest update has messed up the handling of the smaller cars, making them a little less drivable. In saying that, it's still very early days, and they've yet to implement the multiplayer code, although a few people in the community have come up with their own multiplayer system, which is quite cool.
The BeamNG crew started well, but I haven't seen a lot of progress for a while, and you can only drive off a cliff so many times...
If you ever played a game on the 1st Playstation called Vigilante8, or Interstate76 on the PC, then you might be interested in a game called Gas Guzzlers Extreme. It's arcade-style car physics with big f****ng guns attached, like a cross between Wipeout and Need for Speed. It also has arena-style deathmatch and CTF matches thrown in for good measure. There's nothing quite like hurtling down a highway in Arizona, unloading a minigun into someone's rear windscreen. In all the time I've had this game, I haven't actually taken it online, so I have no idea what the community is like, or the net-code for that matter, but it's perfectly playable in single-player mode, so who cares
On the sim side of things, there's Assetto Corsa of course(a), which although is fun, the net-code is letting it down in a BIG way. There are some nice tracks and cars being made for it by the community, and this is what I keep going back to it for, but it's missing the accessibility that makes LFS great.
One that I haven't played yet, but will be looking at in the near future, is Project Cars. I saw some screenshots of the latest developments in the weather systems and my jaw dropped to the floor. It looks gorgeous! I'm not kidding when I say it even makes AC look like Outrun c.1980s. I can't wait to see if it drives as good as it looks, but I'm so bogged down in other games right now I have to leave something to look forward to...
...speaking of which - the Oculus Rift DK2 is shipping soon. Just got an order confirmation email last week, so it's happening! But then I'll get lost in Alien Isolation, and no-one will ever see me again, let alone hear me scream...
I assume everyone has seen or heard of Next Car Game? I've been having great fun with this, although the latest update has messed up the handling of the smaller cars, making them a little less drivable. In saying that, it's still very early days, and they've yet to implement the multiplayer code, although a few people in the community have come up with their own multiplayer system, which is quite cool.
The BeamNG crew started well, but I haven't seen a lot of progress for a while, and you can only drive off a cliff so many times...
If you ever played a game on the 1st Playstation called Vigilante8, or Interstate76 on the PC, then you might be interested in a game called Gas Guzzlers Extreme. It's arcade-style car physics with big f****ng guns attached, like a cross between Wipeout and Need for Speed. It also has arena-style deathmatch and CTF matches thrown in for good measure. There's nothing quite like hurtling down a highway in Arizona, unloading a minigun into someone's rear windscreen. In all the time I've had this game, I haven't actually taken it online, so I have no idea what the community is like, or the net-code for that matter, but it's perfectly playable in single-player mode, so who cares
On the sim side of things, there's Assetto Corsa of course(a), which although is fun, the net-code is letting it down in a BIG way. There are some nice tracks and cars being made for it by the community, and this is what I keep going back to it for, but it's missing the accessibility that makes LFS great.
One that I haven't played yet, but will be looking at in the near future, is Project Cars. I saw some screenshots of the latest developments in the weather systems and my jaw dropped to the floor. It looks gorgeous! I'm not kidding when I say it even makes AC look like Outrun c.1980s. I can't wait to see if it drives as good as it looks, but I'm so bogged down in other games right now I have to leave something to look forward to...
...speaking of which - the Oculus Rift DK2 is shipping soon. Just got an order confirmation email last week, so it's happening! But then I'll get lost in Alien Isolation, and no-one will ever see me again, let alone hear me scream...
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