Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends
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MagpieRacer
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The nerve of them to even talk about pCars in that review. Enrages me.
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- fatkrakr
Why is that?
MagpieRacer
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- Seagull_Racer
The way they compare TD:FRL to it and then say they hope pCars turns out better. It isn't even in the same league. It shares a few bodies on the dev team. They haven't done any hands on of pCars at all and yet still bring it up when reviewing arcade racers.
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Is this thing out for PC yet? Can't find a damn thing about a PC release date. 
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- Rastus_The_Cat
Is this still being released tomorrow for PC? (12th September)
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- dar-kos
- Yes, i do own X
Game is simple.
You've got Campaign races. Each race have to be finished in order to move forward. If you can't win then you'll stuck <- Game over.
After you win all the races in all three campaign; Gold, Silver, Modern. You should have unlocked all cars and all race tracks.
Only thing to do right now is either find someone to play with in on-line or focus on Leader boards and try to match those lap records on each track or just on one favorite race track. After Campaign is beat there is nothing to do really. Either you race with your ghost and your lap time or with some one in on line if you find. On ps3 is hard to find anyone in on-line.
Even leader board is simple, there is no tunning cars. You wont spend hours searching for ideal setup or right tire pressure, all that time you will spend in race track. Every one had the same background. If WR on SPA is 1:57.xxx in F2007 so that means you would have to try to beat it with either F1 248, F1 2007 or F1 2008. Mostly it's F1 2007. Only skill matters.
It's simple fun game, not for long period of time but if you wind it enjoyable like me than it could turn out great. Especially when you walk up in the morning, start the game and find that while you were sleeping someone beat your lap.
Maybe on PC you will find more gamers who like Shift 1 game engine, because this is how this game feels in driving. It's Shift 1 with ferrari cars.
You've got Campaign races. Each race have to be finished in order to move forward. If you can't win then you'll stuck <- Game over.
After you win all the races in all three campaign; Gold, Silver, Modern. You should have unlocked all cars and all race tracks.
Only thing to do right now is either find someone to play with in on-line or focus on Leader boards and try to match those lap records on each track or just on one favorite race track. After Campaign is beat there is nothing to do really. Either you race with your ghost and your lap time or with some one in on line if you find. On ps3 is hard to find anyone in on-line.
Even leader board is simple, there is no tunning cars. You wont spend hours searching for ideal setup or right tire pressure, all that time you will spend in race track. Every one had the same background. If WR on SPA is 1:57.xxx in F2007 so that means you would have to try to beat it with either F1 248, F1 2007 or F1 2008. Mostly it's F1 2007. Only skill matters.
It's simple fun game, not for long period of time but if you wind it enjoyable like me than it could turn out great. Especially when you walk up in the morning, start the game and find that while you were sleeping someone beat your lap.
Maybe on PC you will find more gamers who like Shift 1 game engine, because this is how this game feels in driving. It's Shift 1 with ferrari cars.
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- Croatia
I play this game for more than 3 weeks now (PS3). I am playing it only with the wheel, didn't even tried the controller.
I started on Hard difficulty from the very beginning and I am playing in way to finish both Standard and Bonus challenges for every scenario (career mode is based on different "scenarios" rather then usual races) before moving to the next one (you can forward to next scenario if you beat Standard challenge only, but I decided to play for the Bonus every time). And I am having a Time Of My Life™.
In the same time ISR published their review I was playing the initial part of the game (beating first 12 challenges and reaching around 3-4% of completion) and I noticed how AI is actually speeding up their pace and becomes more and more aggressive with every new challenge. And than I took a better look at ISR review and notice how they never showed any footage of cars/tracks that are unlocked after the initial few challenges. And than everything fell into place.
I can only presume that both ISR and other reviewers never actually bothered to play the game longer than first few challenges. Which is the greatest mistake, because true beauty of this game begins to unfold around 10% of completion when AI picks up the pace and actual challenges (on Hard difficulty) are becoming fairly - challenging.
I have to make the following clear: FRR is not an AAA game, thus you shouldn't expect polish and perfection of some AAA title. But once you take all the expected "downs" and start enjoying "ups", FRR becomes a great experience.
It is basically a hardest-core simcade and it does that perfectly.
For those that ever played and loved PS3 Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli - with all of its downs and problems - this will be a known territory. Take a car, pick a track, remove the HUD (it can be done on-the-fly which is wonderful) and try to do 10 laps race with Hard AI on Donington with losing only 2 positions until the end. I dare you. Great experience.
FRR is not a perfect game by no mean, but what it does it does perfectly.
In short, Ferrari Racing Legends is currently my favourite *underground* racer of this generation of consoles and I still haven't finished even Golden era of the game. I love everything this game have and delivers and I do not care about what it does not have.
In my book this is game I will talk about even 10 years from now.
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- neema_t
I quite enjoyed Shift 1, didn't really like Ferrari Challenge that much (but can't remember why, I might have to revisit it) and generally trust Amar's opinion, so... I'll probably pick it up on PC. Problem is where and for how much?
ItsHim
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If that's true I'll get it after all.
I loved Shift 1 for what it was and what it did well, and as I have the Xbox version the Ferrari DLC was truly a great addition. Shift 2 just let me down big time in comparison so I'm a bit a burnt child now when it comes to SMS titles.
On the other hand it's going to lack 3D and I'm totally hooked on that at the moment.
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Amar Do the AI pile up on the first corner?
Serious question.
Serious question.
Mr Latte
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As yet my order still shows no download link.
The customer service and handling of this title is attrocish by the companies involved via Atari.
Mentioned some of this earlier.......
I ordered on July 2nd and the website gave no indication of release for PC not being available. As yet I've had no opology or further contact from the companies involved to inform of any release date/delays or indication of discount/compensation since having paid for this on the order date.
Diddly squat!
Appreciate the comments from AMAR and I too found the ISR attitude with this title has been pretty lacklustre. Mr Ganji commented they won't even be bothering with the Pc version, mmmmmmm, was it really that bad or was the review too quick to give up on the title?
Simcades do not have to be perfect, enjoyable is the main factor IMHO and any Ferrari fan could still be interested and forgive imperfections and faults if the game still has enough good things going for it, even if it is a short lived experience.
Even with all this I'm looking forward to play the game on PC via triple screen.
One reason I got a PC again was to enjoy multiplatform titles in the best way over the console versions and with none of the steering wheel restrictions. These factors alone could help improve the review or experience that ISR do not even seem interested to take into account. Well I guess the attitude is why bother spending time with such a low key title when you can promote your sponsers, (cough) i-racing further, eh.
Fingers crossed eventually it WILL be available to download.
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Sometimes they do, sometimes they do not.
AI is really something unique in this game. They do not follow usual AI procedures as in the other games. When you play the career and restart the same event many times you will notice how AI reacts to each other and how they're very fond of making mistakes and such.
I think it is deliberate decision by SMS to make AI that way. When set on Hard, they become a bit homicidal - every race practically becomes something like a hard-core privateer touring car race - where some cars are reckless, some are damn fast, some are tailgating you.
Greatest blast of this game is Racing to Race. You set a car, set a track, put 15 laps, put full field (15 opponents), grab a wheel and take a deep breath. No way you will finish first, especially if you set "same class" vehicles instead of the "same models", but trust me - you will have one of the best racing experiences of this generation.
Friend of mine dropped by in Saturday to try the game. I gave him F430 on Mugello and let him practice few laps, and than thrown him in the race. He didn't leave the game for 2 hours after that.
I am not sure will this game support triple-screen because in-game options does not have left/right view in the game - which is my greatest point of critique. But other than that, if PC version ever comes out, I will be buying it day one after I buy PC just for sake of playing in 60 fps.
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Ok thanks Amar.
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- STEVE182rs
Got the game yesterday, took 7 days to come from coolshop. I think GAME will have it from the 28th of this month UK. My first impressions are its a little easy but good fun:tup:
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