Pixellated shite

[Station]

Street Fighter 2:

Rotund fellow destroys a Lexus LS400:

 

 

 

Final Fight:

 

 

 

Accord?

 

 

 

[Station]

The Getaway:

 

Rover 75

 

 

Paris-Marseille Racing:

 

 

Driver:

 

Talbot Horizon

 

 

Dr3ver:

 

Talbot Tagora???

 

[MrRegieRitmo]

Can't see those second ones?!

[Milford Cubicle]

Driv3r has a lot of rubbish in it, a lot of them are composite cars though, featuring styling cues from lots of cars, a lot like GTA.

[warren t claim]

The Getaway 2 has all sorts of Vauxhall chod in it, eg Viva Mk 2/3 Cav's Carltons etc. Also a fair amount of BX/Xantia 406's.

[r.welfare]

You can download some great chod for Microsoft Midtown Madness, I did a post on it a couple of years back - although I can't seem to find it so maybe it got lost in the big Board Purge.A lot of folk say Driv3r is shite, I quite enjoy it. The cars are more recognisable than in GTA. GTA4 has some quite good pastiches of 80's Yank/J-tin.The stuff in The Getaway is the most accurate, shame the way the cars drive is so rubbish.

[Mr Lobster]

If there was a version of the old arcade game 'GTi Club' then I'd probably be quite tempted to nip out and buy the console to play it on.

 

R5 Alpine, Mini Cooper, Autobianchi plus other stuff I can't remember...

 

 

Edit - Blimey, looks like there may be some sort of version for PS3. More investigation required I think!

[warren t claim]

Or how about a sexy Dacia Denem brought to you on the PC friendly WR2?

 

[saabhappy]

Bollocks! My Zimmer frame is out of reach. You'll be old one day!

[barrett]

Heh, I remember GTI club, i played it a couple of times on Brighton Pier. the new ps3 version looks pretty good.

 

my favourite from driv3r was always the Citroen GS/CX thing

[Station]

If there was a version of the old arcade game 'GTi Club' then I'd probably be quite tempted to nip out and buy the console to play it on.

 

R5 Alpine, Mini Cooper, Autobianchi plus other stuff I can't remember...

 

 

Edit - Blimey, looks like there may be some sort of version for PS3. More investigation required I think!

[Pillock]

Lobsta: it's the same game, but they've updated the graphics to "High Def" for the PS3, and you can also download new tracks and - I think - cars for it.

 

It's still pretty poor though

 

[pogweasel]

GTI club was so full of win! What console was it on? I'm sure you could get it on Sega Saturn or some other long-defunct toy. I liked 'getaway', barrelling down oxford street in a jensen interceptor is the stuff dreams are made of.

[Fat_Pirate]

I've been campaigning this Golf GTi for the past few weeks, in Forza 3 on Xbox 360:

 

 

I trust my sponsorship cheque is in the post?

[VWPowered]

awesome

[brammy777]

That GTI looks pretty good well done. I remember spending about 2 hours (fail) making a Buick GNX on Forza 2 look like an STP liveried Nascar. Looked okay...........The Getaway still is one of my favourite games, I still play them on PS3 at times. I have both, they were a couple of quid a few years back.The second one is better for tat, but the first one had a few proper gems, such as SD1s, Range Rover classics, Bedford Astravans etc etc..............Shame the PS3 one got cancelled.

[barrett]

That looks ace. whats forza 3 like? any good? i have 2 but haven't even turned my xbox on for about 8 months....

[Fat_Pirate]

That looks ace. whats forza 3 like? any good? i have 2 but haven't even turned my xbox on for about 8 months....

It's very good, though the emphasis is on modern stuff (but there are some oldies: E-type Jag, original Elan, various classic USA muscle cars, amongst others). It's not Gran Turismo but I liked it enough to buy a steering wheel/pedals. Excellent driving model, though not without quirks (I understeered off a corner at 20MPH in a M5). Online, certain cars totally dominate their class - hence the Golf GTI, which trounces my authentic MX5 for some inexplicable reason. The developers are working on fixing this, apparently.

[Mr Lobster]

Heres my problem. I'd quite like a PS3 / Xbox or whatever just for driving games. But then I think to myself I already am short of time as it is so when I'd actually use it is a bit of a mystery. Baby Lobster #1 is due in March so I'm not about to have more free time. It'd cost me £300 or whatever - Thats £300 or whatever I could spend on actual cars. Domestic disharmony would undoubtedly follow if I spend XX hours per day / week driving on a games console.Probably best not then.

[barrett]

You can have my 360 fer £120 if you come and collect it! GTA4 + Stories from liberty city, Forza 2, VGA cable (so it plugs into a monitor rather then a tv, and you can hook the sound up to your stereo) its got a big harddrive too. all perfect working order

[Station]

Euro Truck Driver:

 

Modern shit:

 

 

 

[Station]

Hot Hatches on Amiga:

 

80's/90's 'hot hatches':

 

[Tayne]

.

[Station]

You're right, it's unbelievably boring.

[Pillock]

I went through a phase at work of playing dull simulators.... Euro Truck Driver was one, along with Bus Driver (which is a little more arcadey, but still a timetable to stick to etc).Truck Driver was made all the duller by the fact you couldn't speed the action up, you just sat there and drove in realtime.

[Pillock]

Oh, but silly me! How could I forget?

 

The game I really used to spend hours playing... the game that got me into trouble with the bosses no end of times.

 

Rigs of Rods!

 

A proper physical simulator, so if you drop a Volvo FH coupled to a logging trailer off a viaduct onto it's nose, it in theory crumples like real life. It does mean it needs a fairly beefy PC to play it on, but it's really quite good fun.

And the shite content?

Bug

Land Rover

Dacia/Renner

 

Plenty of other stuff with little pics - Delica, Renault vans, lots of old American stuff.

 

And loads of trucks etc - it actually started out as trucks only. Great for the way the cranes can pick vehicles up, the recovery truck can actually go out and tow stuff, you can load cars onto the flatbeds by driving them on.....

[barrett]

Am I the only one that thinks 'euro truck driver' sounds like fun?

[Roc 24v]

Don't forget the original arcade Outrun from 1986Beetles and 3 series all over the shop (and obviously the Ferrari).

[Station]

Oh, but silly me! How could I forget?The game I really used to spend hours playing... the game that got me into trouble with the bosses no end of times.Rigs of Rods!

I used to play that a bit, but found it too 'real' to have much fun out of it! It seems to slow down when you hit something hard as well Dragging out a crashed bus with a crane is good though.

[Pillock]

RoR needs a kickass PC to play properly, especially if you're going to do the obvious and load 6 or 7 different vehicles, create a pileup and then low-loader them all away.

It's just a grown up version of driving toy cars around the carpet, getting under your mum's feet. The phyics are pretty good though, it was designed as a realistic physical modelling tool first and it just grew into a 'game'. I like the fact you can load a little van onto a pickup, and then drive the pickup onto a beavertail, then that onto a low-loader, and then carefully drive the whole lot down to the docks to load onto a ferry.

Or put an AE86 into the back of the plane, take off, get up to altitude and open the cargo door scattering OMG DRIFT all over the landscape. Bonus points if you can get in the recovery truck and find the wreckage (to sell on eBay for £4000).

 

Euro Truck Sim is fun, that's why it looks fun! It's not however something you can dip into for ten minutes, you need to have not much on for a few days to play it properly.