PC game closest to Playstation2 Gran Turismo

[NickC]

Anyone have suggestions? I haven't tried Gran Turismo 4, but I did try version 3 and it's awesome.

[liam858]

Hmm, i love 3 on the PS2, and 4 is good too, it just looked a lot different on the main menu and the choice of races sort of threw me a bit.

Closest PC game IMO would be something in the NFS series, they're not really as much about the cars and more about a certain theme, like in the newest "Most Wanted" which is based around the film 2 Fast 2 Furious.

I wish GT4 was brought to PC.....i'm can't wait for number 5, i've heard excellent things and saw a few video clips, looks good, they've paid close attention to the details and enhanced everything, coming to a PS3 console near you around my birthday.

EDIT: Here's the press conference/trailer for numero 5, entitled: "Vision Gran Turismo" : http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=1675

Liam

[NickC]

Closest PC game IMO would be something in the NFS series, they're not really as much about the cars and more about a certain theme, like in the newest "Most Wanted" which is based around the film 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Liam

I bought a 4 game pack of the Need For Speed. Two of the NFS games say they're only for 95/98, but I haven't tried them for XP. So far I've only installed the Hot Pursuit 2 game, which IS pretty cool. Thanks for the recommendation! These games are older (which also makes them cheap! ) but still quite nice.

[NickC]

Yes, exactly - I was looking for more of a pure racing games rather than a theme based game. What I liked about GT3 was the variety - you could do street racing as well as rally racing. And the post-race replay was awesome!

[liam858]

What I liked about GT3 was the variety - you could do street racing as well as rally racing. And the post-race replay was awesome!

I know, and when you pressed a button and the view/effect changed, i hope they bring some of those features to Vision.....

I thought of a couple more decent games, but i'm not sure if they are on PC, Driver 3 (Driv3r) and the Burnout series, although they're not like GT3 that much, they're quite fun.


Liam

[liam858]

You're Welcome, i had it a while ago, and i used a PS2 to usb controller converter and used my PS2 pad to play it, but i lost the disc and formatted since, i might buy it again though it is quite fun......"Underground" is good too, i've played that on Xbox.


Liam

[Araym]

Hey, Happy new year!

If you like those type of games, you guys should try TOCA Race Driver 3 and GTR on PC. If u like Rally, the game TOCA was made by Codemaster, the same guys who worked on Colin McRae Rally. So u have a really nice rally game incorporate in it.

theres some links:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/c...x.html?q=colin
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/t...ex.html?q=toca
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/gtr/index.html?q=GTR
Nice games..

(Hey and if u guys want a really good usb racing wheel, try the Logitech MOMO, i think its the best PC wheel out there)

[NickC]

I will try those games as well - thanks. Yes, I really enjoyed the rally courses on GT3!

Liam, I bought a Saitek USB controller which looks a lot like a PS2 controller. It has force feedback as well. It took a little effort to get it to work with NFS Hot Pursuit 2, but I did get it to work. I still have some issues - like the controller settings are not being saved. The game finds both this controller and my Logitech joystick, but it claims these controllers are not "specifically recognized."

[liam858]

The first Google link i came across was this: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=270 which may be of use to you for the problem of remembering the button config.


Liam

[NickC]

Liam, that site was perfect - thanks!

I was able to add my Saitek controller. The only thing I need to figure out is the definitions.ini file shows some different terminology. The first time when I just added the info to the files, the game was able to recognize the controller (i.e., I didn't get that message at the start). However, I still had to manually define the controls. But Button 1 on the Saitek is called Button A by the game, etc. I have to now go back and read the mapping and put in the defaults the way I want.

[liam858]

No problemo, it looks a bit messy, good luck with sorting the buttons out.


Liam