Imho this is pretty nice, especially coming from ISI/simbin/whoever. And it is free. Finally it is possible in ISI sims to steer with gas pedal although the body roll and weight shifting is a bit odd at times, espcially when coming off from the brakes. The braking is a bit iffy too - it is a bit hard to tell when you are braking at the limit but braking hard is one those things that come with time, even in LFS and especially in GPL
. Lifting throttle causes the car to rotate quite abruptly but it is very controllable with smooth inputs and with more practise it might feel even good. But the main fun factor is that the car handles the way you know what to expect. No more icy spins!
One thing that bothers me is that the car still understeers a bit too much on some occasions although with smooth inputs this can be avoided too and it is not even nearly as annoying as it is in the earlier ISI sims...Other thing is that you don't need to lift when upshifting. Flatshifting like in LFS = me not like
. Maybe it's a M3 electronics or not... I was told to check the .plr file so I might be able to turn that off. Maybe there are even more driving aids still on as watching the hotlap my brake lights flicker sometimes when I'm accelerating hard...
Looking around, the car is graphically quite nice too but at playable levels the game doesn't really look all that nice. Maybe it's my system* but I've kinda got used to low graphics in ISI sims to get the feel better (=more fps). The GUI is very nice imho and clean but could defenately use some touches on many places. Like the chat which is only available properly on its own place. It is a good thing that the game doesn't throw me around any more in the menus (like it does in Race 07) when the game changes to the next sequence (quali, practise, race). The sounds are a bit metallic, not what I would expect from a M3 but nothing bad really. The engine is quite quiet below 5k too.
And it has crashed few times already although I can reproduce the bug so I'll prolly send a mail to them...
And I beat RmachucA on fair fight. Chased him down and passed! When he was chasing me I did a new pb too. The grin on my face was at least 2 metres wide
*AMD64 3500+, Geforece 7800GT, 2gig ram
1280*1024*32 res, shaders on AUTO and level 1 AA