Playstation racing games-no audi

[Tom Van Ness <tom@reece.com>]

so I picked up Ridge Racer 4 (R4) yesterday.

I have played Gran Turismo for about a year. I love Gran Turismo.
I've spent literally weeks playing it and building cars, etc.

I had read a review of R4, saying it was as good, if not better than GT.
I've been jonesing for a new racing game, so I just went ahead and bought
it.


The result?


It sucks.

Sucks bad.


Let's just say I won the Grand Prix trophy in about 35 minutes.

It took me about 4 weeks to do that in GT.


There is no realism to the driving. The graphics are very nice, but it
plays like a bad Sega racing game from 1987.

The worst part?

They list about 40 kinds of cars. But the stupid thing is that they aren't
real manufacturers, it's made-up crap, like Assoluto and Lizard. Just plain
stupid.

And to cap it all off, there's a story involved. Your racing team manager
yells at you and you eventually find out some magical secret.


Stupid.