10-03-2006, 01:04 PM
Have any of you tried this game? From what little I understand, the engine is the same that drives GTR1/2, but this is direct from the developer. It also has a larger comunity of people making tracks (take a look at tracks at: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.rfactorcentral.com/">http://www.rfactorcentral.com/</a><!-- m -->).
I brought home the work laptop over the weekend (its somewhat more up to date 2gig mobile proc blows away my desktop :? ), installed GT2 demo and rFactor. It might just be that the rFactor demo had a much more playable car, while GTR2 dumps me into a race prepped Ferarri, but I enjoyed rFactor quite a bit more. You can tell they're similar, and I can't fairly judge two completely different cars, but the sound and feel of rFactor was better IMHO. Graphics were similar for both games (and spectacular). There's still a jumpy/fake/disconnected feel when I turn in in GTR, maybe it can be dialed out, but I wasn't able to make it much better. From what I read, rFactor's online component is much better than GTR2. In both games, the AI kicks my ass. :lol:
Has anyone else tried it? I was considering buying one or the other, and rFactor is $40 instead of $20, but from what I can tell, it looks like a lot more tracks (that we've seen and driven) are available. Am I wrong? Are there just as many tracks for GTR2?
I don't really have any well thought out questions or analysis, I just wanted to hear feedback from anyone else that's played the full version.
I brought home the work laptop over the weekend (its somewhat more up to date 2gig mobile proc blows away my desktop :? ), installed GT2 demo and rFactor. It might just be that the rFactor demo had a much more playable car, while GTR2 dumps me into a race prepped Ferarri, but I enjoyed rFactor quite a bit more. You can tell they're similar, and I can't fairly judge two completely different cars, but the sound and feel of rFactor was better IMHO. Graphics were similar for both games (and spectacular). There's still a jumpy/fake/disconnected feel when I turn in in GTR, maybe it can be dialed out, but I wasn't able to make it much better. From what I read, rFactor's online component is much better than GTR2. In both games, the AI kicks my ass. :lol:
Has anyone else tried it? I was considering buying one or the other, and rFactor is $40 instead of $20, but from what I can tell, it looks like a lot more tracks (that we've seen and driven) are available. Am I wrong? Are there just as many tracks for GTR2?
I don't really have any well thought out questions or analysis, I just wanted to hear feedback from anyone else that's played the full version.
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