I spent a couple hours playing it last night instead of doing my (more important) homework... I have the same FFB issues, and it took a long, long time to get the steering set up half-decently. Brakes are still on/off, and the throttle isn't much better. Physics on Hardcore are rubbish. The car either has loads of grip, or it has loads of under or oversteer. There is no in between.
The whole sticker application system is utterly terrible, too. You can't make a straight line becuase the system adds stickers to your car in perspective, and you can't fine-tune the sticker placement at all; the controls are too sloppy and unresponsive. To top it off, once I had spent the better part of a half hour trying to make two racing stripes (the simplest thing in the world, really) I hit the right button but then it glitched out and sent me back to the screen inside the shop, still with all the sticker placement controls and I had to Alt+Ctrl+Delete to exit the game. The second time I tried to just paint it and after paying my car was still the original colour (yes, I paid and yes it showed me it in the new colour before it loaded up the freedrive again).
Everytime I exit the game my computer restarts. If the game has been running too long my computer restarts. The graphics aren't that good. The license tests are abysmally innane. The 'characters' are as cardboard as the box the game was (probably) shipped in (I downloaded it, thankfully). Overall, this game is ridiculously bad.
...Of course, you have to expect that from Atari, really.
The whole sticker application system is utterly terrible, too. You can't make a straight line becuase the system adds stickers to your car in perspective, and you can't fine-tune the sticker placement at all; the controls are too sloppy and unresponsive. To top it off, once I had spent the better part of a half hour trying to make two racing stripes (the simplest thing in the world, really) I hit the right button but then it glitched out and sent me back to the screen inside the shop, still with all the sticker placement controls and I had to Alt+Ctrl+Delete to exit the game. The second time I tried to just paint it and after paying my car was still the original colour (yes, I paid and yes it showed me it in the new colour before it loaded up the freedrive again).
Everytime I exit the game my computer restarts. If the game has been running too long my computer restarts. The graphics aren't that good. The license tests are abysmally innane. The 'characters' are as cardboard as the box the game was (probably) shipped in (I downloaded it, thankfully). Overall, this game is ridiculously bad.
...Of course, you have to expect that from Atari, really.
