Sega Rally demo (360 & PS3)

[Salsa Party Animal]

Played Demo for about 10 minutes and it is nice,

but I will pick it up after New Year due to limited budget (Due to car repairs, season ticket and paying for computer) and 1 game month limit (Halo 3, PES 2008, Call of Duty 4 and possibly Assasin's Creed for Dec). But I will wait to see how what the feedback are like first.

[dvdmike]

no rumble in the pad on ps3 could be an issue ?

OT sorry but DS3 is ment to be at TGS this week so PS3 could be set for end of year. I agree the rumble helps you find the racing line off road, I get on ok with Dirt and have the feeling that SR and Dirt have it built in already to rumble on PS3.
Im getting it on PS3 as its the lead sku it was made for PS3 and ported to 360

[megatron]

I think it would. The rumble is in heavy use and adds to the atmosphere.


I would get my hope ups with the classic tracks.

Sticking the original Sega Rally Arcade game in there would be a nice bonus.

[HHarm]

no rumble in the pad on ps3 could be an issue ?

I think it would. The rumble is in heavy use and adds to the atmosphere.


I would get my hope ups with the classic tracks.

[merf]

no rumble in the pad on ps3 could be an issue ?

[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%

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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

[dvdmike]

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

[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.