I’m truly floored. Find the time in your day to run though these if you’re a fan of first person shooters. This game is about to redefine realism in a game and redefine the fps market. Enjoy.
Take the Beach
Blinding the Dragon
The economy sucks because Obama is pile driving our country into submission, worsening the national debt and basically doing everything he said he wouldn’t do with the exception of close gitmo and our country still blindly supports his efforts at leading the nation. For this reason, money is tight for all of us but it is my opinion that fun is something that should rightfully be kept in all of our budgets. To me, one of my releases from college work, job hunting for post grad work, and athletic hardships I endure as a varsity college athlete is through gaming. I have long said that gaming is not for nerds but people who dream. I dream to be a winning race car driver, a top notch soldier defending our freedom, an ace World War II fighter pilot and a pro football player. Because I cannot be all of these things in real life, I have turned to gaming to live a fantasy life from the edge of my couch on a 22 inch HDTV.
International Formula Masters
It’s been a while and I thought I’d post my thoughts on the Race PRO download content.
First let me say I had not really had my attention toward Race PRO these past few months. Since it’s february release, the glitches, lag, and general game issues somewhat dampened my enthusias for the game which waned into boredom in testing by myself and simply running laps to work on set ups with warped into not playing the game at all. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the missions I remember most distinctly from Operation Flashpoint, originally released in 2001, was from a mission fairly early in the campaign where you and your squad are on patrol, come under heavy fire, you all run off into the woods and slowly but surely, all your squad mates and commanding officer are killed or wounded beyond repair. You are then left in the woods of an eastern european looking island with tall deep pine forests and dense undergrowth. Its you and you alone left alive. Enemy patrols are at your rear, your radio is shot to pieces and you have very little ammo. The last call you receive on your dying radio is that of an emergency broadcast telling all UN personnel to regroup at some coordinate to be immediately evacuated from the island. Lets just say, the mission goes from bad to worse at this point. The island is so big, you are probably in a conservative guess, about 15 miles from your evac point. And the terrain in front of you is crawling with foot, air and armor patrols.
Out of curiosity, I have compiled some data on how well Race PRO stands up to real life times set in Formula BMW races.
What I’ve done is compared lap times I have set (with track set ups) against real world lap times from Formula BMW races across the world. If a track is not listed, the F-BMW championship either doesnt run on it, or runs a different variation of the circuit. The times I took are from the Formula BMW official website and were the fastest lap of the weekend from that year.
While I am no professional nor the best game racer out there, I can more then get by so here we go. Pretty impressive…but not really surprising considering what Simbin wanted this game to be. A racing sim.
I have color coded the times below. The faster of the times between my time, and real life is in red. The slower of the two times is in black.
My (current) leaderboard rank out of total racers that have set a time in FBMW on that track is listed next to the track as well.
Guia/Macau Circuit (17/232) Real: 2008 Formula BMW 2:31.199 Me: 2009 Race PRO: 2:31.096 Monza (66/679)
Real: 2009 Formula BMW Test 1:59.080 Me: 2:01.247 Oschersleben (103/3897)
Real: Formula BMW 2007 1:31.091
Me: 1:32.104
Zandvoort (85/479)
Real: Formula BMW 2007 1:43.716
Me: 1:44.910
Brno (184/577)
Real: Formula BMW 2005 2:07.556
Me: 2:07.186
Brands Hatch (64/3551)
Real: Formula BMW 2006 1:29.732
Me: 1:29.904
Road America (36/417)
Real: Formula BMW 2008 2:17.793
Me: 2:18.989
Laguna Seca (31/760)
Real: Formula BMW 2008 1:27.668
Me: 1:26.935
Here are the top five download tracks I want to see released for Race PRO. F1 fan’s wil clearly see some good ones in here. Since Race PRO has failed miserably as a selling game in the US (because most Americans don’t understand turning left AND right) I’m going for longer, more well known european tracks and not tracks like VIR…even Road Atlanta doesn’t sound that interesting. Ranked in order of desire to race from soonest to sometime in the future.
Feel free to add your own suggestions below.
1) Nürburgring Nordshleife (Germany)
