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TiHKAL
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 Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 19:58 Post subject: Xpand Rally Xtreme - Demo Out Today |
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Xpand Rally Xtreme
Xpand Rally Xtreme is the sequel to Xpand Rally, and features GT vehicles, DTR group buggies, off-road 4x4 cars and Monster Trucks group trucks, as well as 40 tracks in typical SS contests, off-road cross-country rides, and racing track races.
By: Techland
Genre: Rally / Offroad Racing
Release Date: TBA (EU) (tech info)
Source:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/xpandrallyxtreme/download.html?page=1&sid=6163646&part=rss&tag=gs_pc&subj=6163646
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 20:15 Post subject: |
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I tried it,
IMO the controls suck, the graphics suck, they are not very detailed, blurry.
The engine sound effects are to bland and boring.
I don't like the way the car handles, the demo even installs starforce drivers
this game is a whole lota fuck, i would rather eat a rotten elephant anus.
Last edited by BlueStar.nf on Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 20:18; edited 1 time in total
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 20:18 Post subject: |
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| BlueStar.nf wrote: | I tried it,
IMO the controls suck, the graphics suck, they are not very detailed, blurry.
the engine sound effects are to bland and boring
i don't like the way the car handles, the demo even installs starforce drivers
this game is a whole lota fuck, i would rather eat a rotten elephant anus. |
I see you have visited screwattack.com 
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 20:21 Post subject: |
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ya haha i love "The Angry Nintendo Nerd" can't wait for more episodes
i lol at all of them
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 22:40 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the info, gonna try it out, first one was quite good.
It's not coming for x360 right, any info?
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 23:23 Post subject: |
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the graphics's look washed out or smt. To much blur effect. I ran it on the max settings and still dint look that good. The car models are quite crapy.
The handling is quite poor in simulation mode: basically it seems to have the same flaws that the first one. The breaks work to fast... never managed to stop a car thats going about 100KM/h and stop it in a mater of seconds on mud.
I have played Richard Burns Rally and its much better than this in simulation mode (feels more realistic) and Colin 4 is still better arcade race game than this one.
dont know if the full will have some more interesting tracks to race on. one thing i only like is that you can use your headlights and drive @ night. Usually in rally games the headlights dont work even when they are turned on and you are driving through dark tunnels and stuff.... like in colin series where the car headlights are 100% useless and you cant c shit in darker areas
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 23:49 Post subject: |
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now that i have tried it,i would say its quite ok, nothing extraordinary, little fun.
handling felt weird in some places, gfx on everything high or very high i liked, not too blurry at all.
i'm sure i would enjoy it more on x360 than on computer, with arrow keys.
all in all a neutral opinion, cmr 2 will stay my favorite, dunno whats the hype about RBR.
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| Posted: Wed, 3rd Jan 2007 23:53 Post subject: |
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You do all know the demo has Starforce, right?
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 00:21 Post subject: |
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I tried the demo, and, it's dissapointing. It's nothing new compared to first Xpand Rally.
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 00:25 Post subject: |
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| fr3aKy wrote: | now that i have tried it,i would say its quite ok, nothing extraordinary, little fun.
handling felt weird in some places, gfx on everything high or very high i liked, not too blurry at all.
i'm sure i would enjoy it more on x360 than on computer, with arrow keys.
all in all a neutral opinion, cmr 2 will stay my favorite, dunno whats the hype about RBR. |
RBR is the best rally simulation that I know. Its shit loads of fun when you have a good wheel and you actually know how to drive a car...
CMR is just for fun game to play with gamepad (with joysticks like logitech rumblepad 2). Liked Colin 2 and 4. |
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 00:59 Post subject: |
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| discworld wrote: | RBR is the best rally simulation that I know. Its shit loads of fun when you have a good wheel and you actually know how to drive a car...
CMR is just for fun game to play with gamepad (with joysticks like logitech rumblepad 2). Liked Colin 2 and 4. |
So they say. I tried it with weel, i do know how to drive a car. Yet it doesn't have the good
feel i'm lookin' for in such games. It tries to be too god imho and fails.
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msnes
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 01:18 Post subject: |
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It looks like the same xpand..........
Same graphics,same interface,same cars (?),no licences,easier controls,good damage model and starforce again
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 08:27 Post subject: |
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| fr3aKy wrote: | | discworld wrote: | RBR is the best rally simulation that I know. Its shit loads of fun when you have a good wheel and you actually know how to drive a car...
CMR is just for fun game to play with gamepad (with joysticks like logitech rumblepad 2). Liked Colin 2 and 4. |
So they say. I tried it with weel, i do know how to drive a car. Yet it doesn't have the good
feel i'm lookin' for in such games. It tries to be too god imho and fails. |
its to fucking realistic sometimes...  but its fun when you are into sims and have the thime to mess with the car settings. But still if you want a good old 100% arcade rally game with damage then Colin series is the way to go (I liked Colin 2 and 4, haven't tried the 1 rst. the 5th is the same shit all over again that the 4 was so theres no point in playing that).
The cars in this Xpand rally demo looks quite ugly especially when you look @ the wheels closely  |
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 08:28 Post subject: |
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You mean it's just like XPand1 and GTI Racing? No improvements?
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 09:35 Post subject: |
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This game is ass, looks like it came straight off the N64. The gameplay is bland and setting it to simulation doesn't do jack to make things better. I especially love how there is unreversable oversteer.
Stick with Richard Burns Rally
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 14:26 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 15:07 Post subject: |
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| lnatan25 wrote: | | You do all know the demo has Starforce, right? |
And who cares? Starforce has never done anything at all to my computers, never a single problem.
I hate it as a protection system, no doubt, it even decided that my old ORIGINAL copy of Xpand Rally was broken.. But when it is just in a demo, essentially doing nothing, i couldnt care less.
I liked this demo, nice smooth graphics, just like the prequel, the handling is too easy tough. Shouldnt be able to play a rally game with your keyboard when in simulation mode to be honest..
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 15:35 Post subject: |
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For those whom it's too blurry, turn glow effects off. Now to try with Simulation mode, arcade mode seemed kinda too unresponsive, even if I turned steering rate to high. Easy with keyb is in sim mode sound good, as I liked RBR, but hated that you could only drive it with wheel and that got too hot really soon + you had to consentrate all the time, so it wasn't that fun 
Oh and doubt this is ment to be like a real simulation, more like Toca Race driver series, with simulation and pro simulation, where simulation is arcade and pro sim is still drivable with keys.
EDIT: there's a automatic tracktion control in game options meny, can be turned on and off during race as well. Not easy anymore with keyboard in simulation 
Everyone just forget the arcade mode, it's useless. Put on simulation & traction control off and it's quite fun, as long as you remember to tune the card to suit your driving style. More testing & driving->
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Jan 2007 17:32 Post subject: |
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| Baleur wrote: | | lnatan25 wrote: | | You do all know the demo has Starforce, right? |
And who cares? Starforce has never done anything at all to my computers, never a single problem.
I hate it as a protection system, no doubt, it even decided that my old ORIGINAL copy of Xpand Rally was broken.. But when it is just in a demo, essentially doing nothing, i couldnt care less.
I liked this demo, nice smooth graphics, just like the prequel, the handling is too easy tough. Shouldnt be able to play a rally game with your keyboard when in simulation mode to be honest.. |
Some of us care what shit is installed on our PCs. |
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Jan 2007 01:00 Post subject: |
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What the f*ck is this? It´s another completely different game... Techland does not want to give us a better game with better graphics. Honestly, I give 4/10.
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Jan 2007 10:24 Post subject: |
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| ELIZ wrote: | absolute rubbish crap,feels like steering trolley cart on ice
sometimes i get that feeling that ppl who designing games like this never been in real car even as a passenger   |
Did you try to setup the car? The default setup is wrong on that first track. Take the 4wd car upgrade to all 2nd stuff, make ride hight higher/suspension softer (as it's realy bumpy and kinda hard to steer if tyres are in air) adjust steering speed for you liking, turh gear ratios high, tweak break balance mayby lower, so it doesn't lock the wheels so easily.
I can take gravel corners with 100kph, can't bee that icey. It's gravel, not clean asphalt. But that 30% asphalt on that stage is really weird, I agree you on that. It feels like on ice, despite the fatch that you are on gravel setup with gravel tyres, but so is every regular car as well xD Little gas and it spins out and tail is restless. True that I'm on keyb in simulation mode, but gravel part should be the harder one
But it's not absolute rubbish crap, there are other games for that That second track is easier to setup on being 100% same surface. They propably made it feel like crap on purpose with wrong setup, or else peeps would just race with default setups on all tracks and bitch about how setup is useless and does nothing 
Here's a time to beat for those who liked it a bit, don't know if it's any fast, but first time I didn't crash on that track (2nd level of upgrades & those leveless stuff)
edit: and for the second track also.
 
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jan 2007 17:27 Post subject: |
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All sites from techland are dead????????
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| Posted: Thu, 1st Mar 2007 00:21 Post subject: |
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Are you sure?
But what happens with the size (says 4gb+ and after 630mb.......)
Image works with dtools 3,47?
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