#TOTAL IMMERSION RACING DRIVERS#
#TOTAL IMMERSION RACING DRIVER#

#TOTAL IMMERSION RACING DRIVER#

If you've worked an Al driver into a state of being fully grudged up', watch out, as they'll be actively looking to get you.

#TOTAL IMMERSION RACING DRIVERS#

In the Career game the Al drivers will carry grudges against you and other Al drivers from one race to the next, which can really affect your performance. The emotional state of the drivers towards you will be shown graphically just above their cars, with green indicating they haven't got anything against you (yet), to red, warning that they're well and truly hacked off. In TIR however, everything changes as you race, so if you're driving round the track like an idiot and cutting other drivers up they're going to get annoyed and probably have a go at you. Normally, any personality a computer-controlled opponent shows is scripted, and therefore it's the same every time you play it. Unlike other racing games, TIR has a totally innovative Emotion Al engine. I've seen Monza in some games where it looks as though it was recently constructed.' Why Are People Grudgeful?Д¬rumbly tracks aside, much of the pre-publicity of the game has revolved around the allegedly revolutionary artificial intelligence. Monza is another track that we're particularly pleased with, as we've captured the crumbly, antique feel of the circuit. This's how it is in real life and not many games have included that camber. For instance, if you drive the Hockenheim circuit you'll notice the very high camber around the Motodrom section. Also we've visited all of these tracks and taken photos and videos so they are very accurately represented. The real tracks are built from CAD data supplied by the track owners.

According to Kev, There's a mix of real and made up tracks in the game. BMW for instance were very particular about its cars and gave us a lot of feedback to help get its cars right - and the cars are much improved for it.'ДЄ host of fancy cars would be no use with nowhere to drive them, but thankfully TIR will be rammed with all manner of high-speed circuits. Some manufacturers have been more involved than others. As Kev says: All of the cars are genuine. Moving on to specifics, the game will feature an array of expensive automobiles, lovingly modelled on the real thing. When we were developing flight sims we had a team of eight people, now we're developing car racing games we've grown in size up to 20 and that doesn't feel like enough. It's all too easy to underestimate what goes into making a car racing game. Nevertheless, it must be an onerous task to attempt to come up with something original within the overtly crowded racing genre. As a result of developing flight sims the team is very strong in real-world physics and advanced Al, so the switch to car racing games felt like a natural step. The game received excellent reviews and won some awards, so it was good to end on a high note. Our last flight sim, Comanche Hokum, took us about as far as we wanted to go. TIR represents something of a shift in focus then, as project manager Kevin Bezant explains.Д«asically we needed a change. We don't mean that they have particularly large penises, or even unwieldy 70s bicycles rather that they forged their reputation by developing helicopter games. Those responsible are Oxford-based outfit Razorworks, better known for their great big choppers. Whatever the case, you're about to be offered another racing game in the shape of Total Immersion Racing, which hopes to do exactly what it says on the tin. What does that tell you? Either that people like pretending to drive fast cars, or that developers have no imagination. Look At Me! I'm driving a car! In a game! Big deal, people have been doing that for decades.

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