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Platform: Xbox Genre: Racing Publisher: SEGA Developer: WOW Entertainment ETA: Fall 2003
Related Links: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (Playstation 2)
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SEGA
GT Online
Just
like the sport itself, the racing game portion of the market is
rip-roaringly competitive. With
popular franchises like Ridge Racer, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed,
developers are constantly raising the bar in what to expect from the
genre. Now SEGA is stepping
into the ring to duke it out once again with its SEGA GT series, this
time taking it online.
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Features: - Over 160 cars from over 20 manufacturers available from numerous eras - Earn licenses - Customize cars with new parts and adjusting components’ settings - Compete online: Trade or bet cars online - Uses Xbox Live’s voice chat abilities -
Over a dozen race courses |
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The
game will have all the usual features gamers have come to expect from
racing sims, earning licenses, competing for cash, souping up cars or
buying new ones, and the like. This
time the stable of cars will range from classics of the 50s, 60s, and
70s to the latest prototypes, all of which can be put on the line to be
one or lost in races against other players.
All of these sorts of features have been around in whole or in
part in a number of other racing game series, but it’ll be interesting
to see how they turn out in an online setting. Easily
the biggest concern for the game is how the developers will handle
cheating online. What
happens when someone uses a cheat device that makes his or her car
idiotically fast? What
happens when the person you’re racing chickens out three seconds
before they’re about to lose a race?
Hopefully these issues will be addressed, saving gamers a lot of
grief.
Whatever
the case, it looks like a very full featured racer is about to go
online. Xbox owners can
look forward to SEGA GT Online becoming available in the Fall of 2003. Mr.
Nash (April 12, 2003) |
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