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GAME MODES
You can divide RS3 into two main categories: Single player and Multiplayer. I'll talk about Multiplayer in the next chapter.
Single player offers various modes:
- Single race - Race right away with your own preferences like weather, race length etc,etc.
- Full race - Same as Single race, except with a qualification session before the race.
- Championship - Race a whole race season gathering points
- Time attack - Try to set a best laptime under ideal circumstances
- Private trials - Create your own testing session under race conditions
- Scenario mode - This mode is new! You have to achieve certain goals, missions so to speak. For example: 5 laps before the finish line your position is 5th, but your gearbox is suddenly giving you problems. Goal is to achieve 6th place. Or another example: A few laps before the end of the race you have to refuel, but because of some misunderstanding your teammate has to refuel to in the same lap. Goal is to step onto the podium.
In all modes except Time Attack and scenario mode, you can choose your favourite weather, from sunny, to the real 2000 season conditions.
MULTIPLAYER
We tried several multiplayer sessions, through the use of direct IP (internet) and a couple of races using a LAN at race-simulator's private testcenter. From what we experienced here, we can easily assume that Ubisoft didn't change anything in the online code. We had the same experience like we did racing online with F1RC. Ofcourse we couldn't test it with that many players as not that many people have the review version. We tested it with 5 players max. Pings were fairly good (from 35 to 177) but we got a bit of ghosting now and then nonetheless. Looking at our experiences with F1RC in combination with Relay, we think that RS3 offers a good platform for a next online championship.
PROBLEM AREAS
Anyone having played F1RC a lot, will definetly have suffered from game bugs a lot. The main bug for most guys, the AI undoubtedly, has turned into something competely different, improved in many ways, but still far from what it should have been. In F1RC laptimes were much faster than F1 laptimes in reality. Because the cars accelerate slower than in F1RC, laptimes are far more realistic than in F1RC. Pitbugs were very common in F1RC. Especially those guys who race through LAN or participate in Relay's championship have had their share of pitbugs. It looks as if the pitbug where you got 120 litres instead of the planned amount has vanished. But the pit speed limit bug seems to be more present then ever! Using the fully automated pit guidance and entering the pitlane slowly, we still got a lot of pit speed limit penalties. It also seems that this bug shows up on various tracks. While the Malaysian track was bugfree, we got penalties more then enough on the Spanish track.
CONCLUSION
We all waited a long long time for RS3 to be released. Does it meet with our expectations? Some parts of RS3 have improved, like driving physics, graphics, a new scenario mode, the new Indy track. Other parts are more like a step backwards instead of forward. Many of these negative things, like carshapes, names and photos of drivers, will be updated pretty soon. But things like the missing of Monaco track and the presence of most known F1RC bugs are simply bad.
RS3 is one of the most beautiful racing games to look at and will be even more beautiful when updated to this season's standards (with complete stands). Racing with RS3 ofers you a good sensation of speed, is exciting when played against human competitors.
Though we think that RS3 is a good platform to update and has lots of possibilities, it still needs a lot of tweaking. At a suggested retail price of � 29,95 the choice is yours.
Credits for this review go to: Casper "CasH" Hueting, Harrie "de Kreute" Gilissen, Peter " The Sherrif" Romer, Bo " The Bandit" Hansen, Craig "Pedantic" Dixon and Mark "Mrk" Janssen.
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13-11-2002 |
| Where is Monaco ?????????????? |
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18-11-2002 |
| There sounds a lot of dissapointment in your comment....I think that gp 4 is the standard for formula 1. It can not even stand in his shadow.. Back to work gentlemen!!!!!!!!!! |
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19-11-2002 |
| no reason to buy that one? old engine - no license - no outstanding improvements. if they patches RS3�s AI and netcode, it could be worth a try. Remembering the catastrophe with F1 Racing Championship this is not gonna happen very soon. I agree with "Monaco": BACK TO WORK! |
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19-11-2002 |
| F1RC has always been my favorite (more than GP4 and F12002!), so this one will surely be my favorite again! |
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20-11-2002 |
| I�m afraid RS3 can�t compete with GP4 and F12002. To xmas seller: You intended to agree with rieks, didnt ya? Cause I do to: BACK TO WORK! |
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02-12-2002 |
| This "game" is just a game. It does not represent the quality which "simulation" game should be. It is just disappoint all us who were believe in this simulation.You still got much to work then you can sell this game.I wish you more racing spirit. |
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05-12-2002 |
| RS3 is not about Racing Simulation, it's about wasting peoples time. This game is absolut in the low grade of true simulation. |
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05-12-2002 |
| hehehe |
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07-12-2002 |
| Rc 3 sucks |
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07-12-2002 |
| I've just tried RS3 - and I must say it is a great game. Old engine - but improved - why build it over if it works. RS3 is not like F1-2002 where you can drive the car as if it was a rally car. In RS3 you get penalties for making rally-moves - like cheating over the grass and so. Try Rs3 and let's hope that lot's of creative persons out there will build great patches and great websites. Btw check out: https://www.jgb.dk/hybris/forum |
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19-02-2004 |
| A very good review. However, you can simulate the season 2004 with drivers, cars, tracks and sounds. Drivers & car names: Update the names with the RS3 CustomTool (installed with the game) Tracks: Update their names in the two GLOBAL.TXT files (Compare the track in Telemetry graph with the real tracks, to find out the correspondence). Real Car, Helm, Pit crew textures and sounds: Go to the download section for RS3 at https://f1rc.racingmag.de/ |
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27-03-2005 |
| I actually like this game quite a lot, i run an offline championship for it, but i have two problems: I cant find a way to extract the liveries so that i can edit them with paint shop pro or something. Also, i cant find a way to run the game with equal AI; Galileo and Evolution usually run away with the race. Can someone PLEASE help me?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? |
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31-07-2007 |
| I usually don't like non-licensed games like this... And without Monaco things got even worse... I'll only try this game if they have a Real Carskin pack... |
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24-09-2007 |
| I have played F1RC before I started playing this game, and it looks like RS3 has the F1RC track tarmac and steering wheels. |
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