Sega Rally demo (360 & PS3)

[Yoshimax]

The last SEGA Rally was made internally at Sega Japan

[sj33]

The last SEGA Rally was made internally at Sega Japan

And hell, even that came with a version of the original Sega Rally that was arguably inferior to the Saturn game in terms of gameplay!

[Hodge]

Anyone got any idea if they have remade the original Sega Rally tracks for this game? Heard a while back they were supposed to be doing.

[Malc]

"you clearly haven't grasped what the game is all about."

Please do tell us what its all about then. Is it meant to be an updated fun arcade racing game of the past? because this simply isnt.

not of the past, of now, just an Arcade racing game.

[merf]

got this downloading (slowly) now

after the initial positive comments intrigued to see this now.

raises the question are Sega the worst co in the world for letting down their fanbase or are Sega fans the hardest people in the world to please ?

[bignige]

Anyone got any idea if they have remade the original Sega Rally tracks for this game? Heard a while back they were supposed to be doing.

pretty sure I played at least one of them on the psp version.

[dvdmike]

This and Crysis are my Halo 3 hope the PSN demo goes up also dl this now

[ChrisF]

If you want 'proper' rallying get WRC or colin mcrae, this is a SEGA game. Everything is gona' be very lush and beautiful. And non- realistic.

It just didn't feel like a SEGA (rally) game to me at all. I didn't even find it particularly lush or beautiful either, I'm afraid

[Hodge]

pretty sure I played at least one of them on the psp version.

Nice. Hope they make it into the 360/ps3 version aswell.

Just tried out the demo and am really impressed by what I`ve seen. The mud deformation works really well (better than I thought It would) the cars handle well and are fun to throw round corners like an Arcade racer should. Graphics look really nice aswell especially the tropical track.

Overall a definate purchase for me on release day.

[Kotatsu Neko]

The frame rate is a good 30fps, I know you work an artist or something along those lines and you may look at it differently in terms of frame rate,

That's my moan over, now how many enimies have i made.

It's nothing to do with me working in the industry. I just find *as a gamer* that 30fps is totally unacceptable for racing games.

My stance is that there is a minimum acceptable frame rate for each genre. With a slow moving game, say Blue Dragon for example, the distance the geometry moves between each frame is very small, so 30fps is not a problem.

However, in a game where the geometry moves very quickly, say, SEGA Rally Revo for example, a 30fps update looks juddery and completely destroys the illusion of fluid, life like motion. Can you imagine OutRun 2 or Virtua Fighter 5 at 30fps?

Also, I just played the canyon track again and realised how totally overblown the deformation is. I'm sure they want to make absolutely sure everyone sees their hard work, but come on, it's like racing through chocolate ice cream!

[Marmite]

Undecided on this. Cars feel way too light for my liking and handle more like something out of Burnout. Odd.

Second shorter track on the demo is much better than the first, but neither are that exciting. Will give it a few more goes and see how i feel.

Definitely 50/50 with it at the moment though.

[Concept]

In Sega Rally's defence though, it's an overblown game so surely the exaggerated deformation fits the style?

Sometimes I feel people are hating on updates because they don't fit with their nostalgia, (the good and the bad bits). Still... I haven't played the demo yet.

[sj33]

In Sega Rally's defence though, it's an overblown game so surely the exaggerated deformation fits the style?

Sometimes I feel people are hating on updates because they don't fit with their nostalgia, (the good and the bad bits). Still... I haven't played the demo yet.

Well, we can use Outrun 2 as an example of how a classic game should be recreated for the modern generation. In that sense, the new Sega Rally fails.

I do think this is a fun game overall, but I doubt I'll bother buying it, and it sure ain't Sega Rally.

[merf]

on the plus side i'm loving the way you can sling cars around and take bends

can see that it doesn't look that next gen though, looks like an xbox 1.5 game.

pretty good but not sure its a £40 job for me, may keep my powder dry til it goes to half that especially as the early reviews say the 1 player is a bit lacking in length.

[dvdmike]

Perfect imoh just what I wanted, first race was ok but stuck road tyres on in tropical and it clicked.
Put them on in canyon and my music on random, Africa by Toto came on and I had one of those perfect gaming moments getting this on ps3 next week 100%