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[QuantumFusion]

If so, how many?

[Adoug]

Top gear RPM Tuning does not feature licensed cars. I cannot say specifically how many cars are in it due to the stage of develpoment (it is in the double digits), but you can customize them to make them look very distinctive. Thanks for the questions.
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[QuantumFusion]

[Adoug]

Games can still be competitive without licensed cars, plus they are cheaper to make since you dont need to pay royalties to companies for the use of the license, then you can pass the savings onto the consumer. Custom soundtracks would be great as well as online play, but due to the stage of develpoment, it just cant happen. Not a whole lot of games have custom soundtracks, there are some, Burnout 3, for example, but in the overall selection of titles, not a ton of them. What the game does offer are multiple cars to customize, changing the way they look and play (everything from custom stickers to painting every aspect of the outside of the vehicle indivdually), a story line, which not alot of racing games have, multiplayer (although not online), and unlockable cars/parts/tracks/etc. Well worth the price of admission. Your point is taken Quantum, however, and it heard on my end, fyi. Thanks for the input, it is always great to chat with my fellow gamers!
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[trancejeremy]

How different are the cars? For instance, Street Syndicate Racing supposedly had 45 different cars, but in reality, there were only about 13-15 different models, just slight variations. And none of them were worth using once you could afford a Skyline. I hope the cars in this are more balanced. That is, there's not one uber-car.

[Adoug]

The cars in the game range from old school muscle cars, imports, trucks, etc. They are very different from each other in both looks and the way they drive. Some are front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, all wheel drive, etc, and can be made to look very unique. Thanks for the question.
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[QuantumFusion]

Yeah I get your point, most games dont support custom soundtracks because custom soundtracks really only work well in Racing and sports games... most of the high profile racers on Xbox DO have Custom Soundtracks. (Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2, Rallisport Challenge 1 and 2, Sega GT, Burnout 2 and 3, MotoGP 2 etc.) I will check out Top Gear evenually after it comes out, but not after I check out games like Need for speed Underground 2, Forza, Midnight Club 3.

[Adoug]

That's cool if you check it out later, I would have loved to put custom soundtracks in it, but it just didnt work out that way. I mean, anytime you can add extras, thats a good thing!
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[trancejeremy]

Well, if this comes out before Gran Turismo 4 (I also have a PS2), then I'll be getting it.

I haven't had a decent racing game in a long time. SRS was okay, but hardly worth $50. NFS:U2 looks like it was have the same problem as the original - cheap AI that goes exactly as fast as you do (which makes the whole modifying the car thing pointless). Forza keeps getting pushed back. I was looking forward to Juiced but that was pushed back 'til Summer '05.

At this point, I would buy Ford Racing 3, if it got released in the US, just because I'm desperate for a racing game.

[QuantumFusion]

[trancejeremy]

I actually quite liked SRS - it's got a realistic driving model and AI that doesn't cheat. And it's got a nice big city to drive around it. Unfortunately, it only has a handful of cars and is really short (maybe 15-20 hours to finish it).


I don't get the deal with Juiced. A lot of companies wanted to buy it and publish it right away (the game is done). THQ ending up buying it and decided to sit on it for a year. Why pay $10.5 million for a game and not publish it for a year?

Forza was supposed to originally be out in Dec, then Feb. I wouldn't be surprised to see it moved back even further.

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[goldeneye343]

oh man there are some boring games based on the top gear series( top gear dare devel is a very great example of a waste of time ) i hope this isnt one of them and why didnt you guys put custom soundtracks after all you didnt put it on game cube for some reason you should be ashamed of your selfs for that!

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