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I bought this Japanese version
hoping that it would be different from the God awful US and PAL
versions. Guess what. It's the same bloody game with everything in
English and that annoying woman's voice is still there when you watch
the movies for each track. Oh well, at least they changed the title to
Virtual Racing Sega Saturn (^v^).
If you've already read my Race Drivin' page you'll know just what I
think of Time Warner Interactive. I was lucky enough to see an early
beta of Virtua Racing many months before the official Japanese launch of
the Saturn. What I saw then was a diabolical mess. Try to imagine a very
poorly built course moving along at something like 15fps, a bit like a
Jaguar 3D racer really (^v^). Anyway, Time Warner Interactive promised
that the final release of Sega's Virtua Racing would be every bit as
impressive as the arcade plus many new tracks and cars. Well, they sort
of kept their word. The Saturn versions did indeed have many more tracks
and cars but my arse it was as impressive as the arcade. The game still
moves at a very poor 20fps if that. The controls are very unresponsive,
and the pop up is pretty bad too. After seeing Time Warner's Race
Driving which was released before Virtua Racing I sort of suspected that
Virtua Racing would turn out to be a massive pile of steaming poo. The
thing that gets me is why did Sega hand over such a great license to
such a shitty company? I urge everyone to play the far superior Sega
made 32X version or even the Mega Drive version over this crap. Oh one
more thing, Virtua Racing it's region free.
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