Comments on: Sega Rally ran into “brick wall” of Halo 3 and FIFA http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/ This is the news Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:29:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: mart http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12795 mart Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:13:32 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12795 "I personally think that Burnout paradise was a sterile, souless experience that was massively over-rated." That's strange, I felt exactly that about Flatout. I also really liked Sega Rally. “I personally think that Burnout paradise was a sterile, souless experience that was massively over-rated.”

That’s strange, I felt exactly that about Flatout.

I also really liked Sega Rally.

]]> By: Axle http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12756 Axle Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:42:34 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12756 Flatout 2 is superb. The adulation that Burnout gets should be placed on Flatout, as I personally think that Burnout paradise was a sterile, souless experience that was massively over-rated. Incidentially, I bought Sega Rally at the same time as Paradise and thought that it was much more 'fun' which, after all is what games should be, so I just can't agree that Sega Rally was "shit". Dead Rising had horrific tearing, and that was running a lot slower than Sega Rally. Flatout 2 is superb. The adulation that Burnout gets should be placed on Flatout, as I personally think that Burnout paradise was a sterile, souless experience that was massively over-rated.

Incidentially, I bought Sega Rally at the same time as Paradise and thought that it was much more ‘fun’ which, after all is what games should be, so I just can’t agree that Sega Rally was “shit”. Dead Rising had horrific tearing, and that was running a lot slower than Sega Rally.

]]> By: patlike http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12750 patlike Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:13:54 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12750 It did OK, according to <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/segarallyrevo?q=sega%20rally" rel="nofollow">Metacritic</a>. EG's score's right up the top there :) I've always liked Flatout. I reviewed the first one they did for a mag I was working on at the time and I gave it a 9, I think. There really wasn't much wrong with it at all. It did OK, according to Metacritic. EG’s score’s right up the top there :)

I’ve always liked Flatout. I reviewed the first one they did for a mag I was working on at the time and I gave it a 9, I think. There really wasn’t much wrong with it at all.

]]> By: TheDifficult3rdAlbum http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12748 TheDifficult3rdAlbum Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:04:13 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12748 "it scored really well" ...with Eurogamer only :-P “it scored really well”

…with Eurogamer only :-P

]]> By: pjmaybe http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12746 pjmaybe Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:01:06 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12746 I never understood why it did score that well. Then again if I had to name a game that WOULD qualify as a brick wall that SR ran headfirst into last year, it'd be Flatout Ultimate Carnage - which was a hell of a lot more fun, had a nicer engine, threw particles and environmental objects around like the clappers, with no tearing, and at a solid framerate in both single and multiplayer AND bunged a whole load of funny minigames and MP content in there, and scored pretty MEH-ly everywhere. I never understood why it did score that well.

Then again if I had to name a game that WOULD qualify as a brick wall that SR ran headfirst into last year, it’d be Flatout Ultimate Carnage - which was a hell of a lot more fun, had a nicer engine, threw particles and environmental objects around like the clappers, with no tearing, and at a solid framerate in both single and multiplayer AND bunged a whole load of funny minigames and MP content in there, and scored pretty MEH-ly everywhere.

]]> By: patlike http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12744 patlike Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:57:00 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12744 Fair enough. I hate racing games, so I never played it, obviously, but it scored really well so I kind of assumed it was, like, good. Fair enough. I hate racing games, so I never played it, obviously, but it scored really well so I kind of assumed it was, like, good.

]]> By: pjmaybe http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12743 pjmaybe Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:53:59 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12743 Yup shit, and pretty much for the exact reasons AMG just quoted. If you're going to revive an old arcade classic on this-gen consoles, you need to put an absolute CREAMLOAD of extra content in there to make the game worth bothering with. Certainly for a "sit down in front of the telly" console at least. Oddly though, the PSP version was ace. And didn't tear. That was probably because Bugbear had a hand in it though. Yup shit, and pretty much for the exact reasons AMG just quoted.

If you’re going to revive an old arcade classic on this-gen consoles, you need to put an absolute CREAMLOAD of extra content in there to make the game worth bothering with. Certainly for a “sit down in front of the telly” console at least.

Oddly though, the PSP version was ace. And didn’t tear.

That was probably because Bugbear had a hand in it though.

]]> By: AMG http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12739 AMG Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:48:27 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12739 If you're going to come with a new driving franchise, you've got to put mega cash behind it and do something a little bit different. You can't rely on memories of the Saturn and Arcade series to sell it. That outRun remake by Sumo was dope but it can't have been so lucrative that it warranted a sequel. If you’re going to come with a new driving franchise, you’ve got to put mega cash behind it and do something a little bit different. You can’t rely on memories of the Saturn and Arcade series to sell it. That outRun remake by Sumo was dope but it can’t have been so lucrative that it warranted a sequel.

]]> By: patlike http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12735 patlike Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:45:01 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12735 "Shit"? Really? “Shit”? Really?

]]> By: Blerk http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12734 Blerk Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:44:48 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12734 I played it a few times and thought it was all right, for a driving game! I certainly had much more fun with it than I had with Forza 2 or DIRT or PGR3. Mainly because I could play this one without crashing into walls every four seconds. I played it a few times and thought it was all right, for a driving game! I certainly had much more fun with it than I had with Forza 2 or DIRT or PGR3. Mainly because I could play this one without crashing into walls every four seconds.

]]> By: pjmaybe http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12729 pjmaybe Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:36:32 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12729 No it wasn't really that. It was that it was actually shit. And had tearing. No it wasn’t really that. It was that it was actually shit.

And had tearing.

]]> By: patlike http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12727 patlike Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:29:50 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12727 :P :P

]]> By: AMG http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12726 AMG Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:29:33 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/06/05/sega-rally-ran-into-brick-wall-of-halo-3-and-fifa/#comment-12726 Yeah, who'd have seen FIFA and Halo 3 coming, eh? Yeah, who’d have seen FIFA and Halo 3 coming, eh?

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