Official RACE 07 Demo - Review it here please

Bram Hengeveld · Sep 7, 2007

The RACE 07 - Official Demo is released!

Please review the demo here in this thread! Have fun testing guys!

http://www.gamespot.com/event/download/race07/

Christopher Aponte · Sep 8, 2007

me neither...no problems with textures...

ok ff review......

by the looks of the demo it does seems they have tweaked the sim a little bit more.....sure with all driving aids on it does feel like arcade.....but with them off...it's another ball game......
if you touch the grass, it used to be that you can try to save your car when spinning, this time....no change in hell....if you spin....you will spin lol.......i've tried so many times saving my car...but with no results....only a couple of times i was lucky....
rain....that's another ball game.......slipping & sliding like mad......& if you loose control...you will loose control lol.....

like somebody said...trying to push you car will make the margin for error much much smaller.....i have countless times make my car crash in the barrier & fly away

bugs........as my bug buster companion told me...(hehehe

)...i still need to test this one.....but there is a bug.......it looks like you can already start & pull away when the times hits 0......
2night i will test this

Mikkel · Sep 8, 2007

Great review Jamie !!

m0rk · Sep 8, 2007

hmmmmm

After a day playing this I've yet to have a serious 'off' nor have I struggled to do well in any of the races.

10 laps of Brands Hatch would normally see me hit the armco at least twice, causing me to limp back & quit early. Not on 2007 it seems.

Can't get my laptimes the same though, they're about 4s slower than 2006 (sitting at 1.36's now in 2007)

FOG-Racecarmike · Sep 8, 2007

Maybe there is a setting I missed out. Race 06 is fine.

I'll have another look.

Cheers guys,

Mikey.

James Johnson · Sep 8, 2007

bugs........as my bug buster companion told me...(hehehe )...i still need to test this one.....but there is a bug.......it looks like you can already start & pull away when the times hits 0......
2night i will test this

yes it was normal till start lights went out and i went with few others and rest was still standing?

alexjdavies · Sep 8, 2007

Anyone got the skins working yet?

Michael Sharpe · Sep 8, 2007

all the people who say that the game is too easy and arcadeish... are you sure that you turned off driving aids first? (they are defaulted to on)
It's still damn hard from where I sit (even FWD is harder than in RACE06 for me).

Mtommi Tam · Sep 9, 2007

THX,BRO,I JOIN RACEO7 DEMO,NOW,GOOD FEEL

Kyril · Sep 9, 2007

alexjdavies said:
Anyone got the skins working yet?

Skins don't work....yet. Simbin has stated that they will work in the demo with an update sometime next week.

m0rk · Sep 9, 2007

Michael Sharpe said:
all the people who say that the game is too easy and arcadeish... are you sure that you turned off driving aids first? (they are defaulted to on)
It's still damn hard from where I sit (even FWD is harder than in RACE06 for me).

yeah, it's the 1st thing I've had to check on as it keeps defaulting to 'on'

if getting a wheel on the grass & hitting the brakes & turning in doesn't get you to spin, nothing will

Martin Christensen · Sep 9, 2007

Jap jap jap jap

I can see on this that some people had TO HIGH expectations...

Look at it with an expert eyes and a really experienced simracer and a real life racer like myself, i would say its getting better and more realistic

Its Aaaaaallright

Ben Buitendijk · Sep 9, 2007

Spinnig is less hard, but it's much harder to keep the perfect line.

In real races, how many times do you see cars spin? And how many times just a little mistake that causes them to miss the perfect line?

Ingemar Petersson · Sep 9, 2007

Ben Buitendijk said:
Spinnig is less hard, but it's much harder to keep the perfect line.

In real races, how many times do you see cars spin? And how many times just a little mistake that causes them to miss the perfect line?

A lot of times , in these high speeds that they are in a small mistake gets them of the perfect line.

Robert Wiesenmüller · Sep 9, 2007

Is there any way to keep driving aids turned off for online racing?

It's annoying to turn it off every time again.

Darran Ball · Sep 9, 2007

Overall impressions are very good - I wont go into detail as alot of people before me have covered it v.well but i will say the lack of a 'dead zone' is annoying and i cant drive the f3000 in a straight line because of it - hope this is fixed for the full game. Action cam is a good compromise between hood and cockipit views, and it is a lot less forgiving than 06 when a wheel is put on the grass

Richard Trange · Sep 9, 2007

I GOT A REELESE DATE FORE EUROPE.. SEPTEMPER 20!!!!

Bram Hengeveld · Sep 9, 2007

Richard[RC];76811 said:
I GOT A REELESE DATE FORE EUROPE.. SEPTEMPER 20!!!!

Where did you found that release date? Link would be nice :thumb:

Richard Trange · Sep 9, 2007

Bram Hengeveld said:
Where did you found that release date? Link would be nice :thumb:

Contacts you know. cant tell who. sorry guys.

Maurice Hurkmans · Sep 9, 2007

Richard[RC];76816 said:
Contacts you know. cant tell who. sorry guys.

Aaah, so your telling confidential information now

20 september or 20 november, I'll wait and don't go away

!!!!

Christopher Aponte · Sep 9, 2007

Maurice Hurkmans said:
Aaah, so your telling confidential information now

20 september or 20 november, I'll wait and don't go away !!!!

lol
"a friend of a friend of a friend of mine":lol:

either way...if it is sept 20....i better safe some $$....because IB-G is just 4 days after that to give me some of my monthly $$