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Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4 features a new graphics engine with anti-aliasing, environment mapping, and cars with 3000+ polygons each. Over 30,000 photos were used during production to help ensure realism, and the pit crews have been created with the aid of motion capture photography. The computer car AI has been improved, with driver error and stress taken into account. Global positioning technology helped make the game courses copy the real-life tracks, and the physics engine allows drivers to feel the traction as they round sharp corners.
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- To be sure, Grand Prix 4 is a souped-up version of its predecessors with no major innovations, but this is about as close as you can get to the real thing without being scraped off the pavement. There are the standard quick race, quick laps, and practice options, each just a couple of clicks away.
While most racing games are forgettable, others are revolutionary, and some -- such as Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix line -- push the realism envelope so hard they can be downright alienating. To be sure, Grand Prix 4 is a souped-up version of its predecessors with no major innovations, but this is about as close as you can get to the real thing without being scraped off the pavement.
There are the standard quick race, quick laps, and practice options, each just a couple of clicks away. Depending on how many of driver aids you've enabled (auto-brakes, auto-gear, indestructible, etc.), this will come pretty close to an arcade-like racing experience, with the major distinctions being that you'll most likely spend a good chunk of time spinning out in the gravel pits, playing with the many impressive camera angles, wishing you could catch up with the competition. Even the most casual modes will require some work on your part before you reap the real rewards.
There are, however, many rewards of which to speak. Rookies should spend a chunk of time watching each of the tutorials in the 'GPaedia,' which details the step-by-step basics of tweaking vehicles, familiarizing oneself with the dynamics of each track, and so forth. It may all seem a bit daunting at first, but once you've learned the importance of shifting your wing tips, switching the springs in your car, altering the front and rear anti-roll bars, and so on, you'll find yourself spending less time in the gravel pits and more time competing with other cars on the track.
As the dynamics involved become increasingly familiar, gradually disabling the driver's aids and upping the ante on car realism is the best way to proceed towards that pure adrenaline rush. Seasoned pros may opt for maximum realism settings from the get-go, but until you've really learned the ins and outs of this game, it's best to ease into it, lest you find yourself in a Jason Priestley-esque wreck moments after leaving the pits.
Once you're good enough to go head-to-head with the pros, you're treated to a superior racing experience. Graphically, this is the best PC racer around. The level of photorealism (with the exception of the pixelated crowds and other minor details) is literally jaw-dropping. Droplets of water hit the camera lens during rainy races, convincingly refracting the images in motion. Heat waves rise from overheated engines. Every object in sight, from individual members of the pit crew to the surrounding architecture, competing cars, and flag-waving masses, will realistically reflect in both side-view mirrors during a race. When you shift camera angles, you'll find that everything is realistically reflected (in distorted chromatic form) on every portion of your vehicle and helmet. I was so initially distracted by the overall clarity of these effects that I almost failed to notice the subtle reflection of the cars on the wet track itself. Even the tires look great, with accurate designs and crystal-clear logos that blur when you step on the gas.
The sounds are great too, which is truly rare in a racing game. Lifecam vx-1000 driver windows 10. I usually find the sound of revved-up engines exceedingly annoying in simulated form, but there's something about the samples used in GP4 that genuinely add to the excitement of tearing up the track.
Eye and ear candy aside, what really makes Grand Prix 4 leave the competition in the dust are its staggering physics and computer AI. Racing around the twisted and claustrophobic Monaco circuit, I decided to cut off a CPU opponent and floor the brakes at a pretty tight spot, just to see what would happen. I watched the opposing car swerve to safety in my side-view mirror, and was astonished to see several other cars respond, zigzagging accordingly, each quickly regaining its composure and momentum. Within moments, I was struggling to catch up to the lot. This might not seem amazing, but the way each car responded was just so eerily real, I had to catch my breath as I floored the accelerator.
With the realism settings on high, it generally takes me between 15 to 30 seconds to lose a wheel, axle, and all. This may be strongly attributed to my sadistic tendency to try to run other cars off the road, a strategy best left behind in a game like this (unless you've got the 'indestructible' feature toggled on for your car). Still, what makes it really interesting here is that until the car is completely inoperable, it's possible to keep driving. In one case, I lost the right-front wheel, kept driving, got rear ended, lost the back-left wheel, kept driving, and teeter-tottered my way all the way to the pit stop, where I expected the crew to wag their fingers at me in shame.
More cautious drivers will still take some damage from time to time, whether it's wear-and-tear on the tires, a freak spinout in the rain, an overheated engine, or some other unforeseen mishap. The pit crew generally operates pretty quickly, but you've got to strategize your pit stops well, or you'll be left behind at the finish line.
Similarly, you've got to really learn the nuances of each of the 17 tracks before you stand a chance of conquering them. Each track is realistically rendered based on GPS imaging, with the simplest bumps and dips taken into account. As in past Grand Prix titles, championship modes include practice laps, a qualifying race, a warm-up race, and then the ultimate competition. It's essential to spend some time practicing on each track, and customizing your vehicle step-by-step accordingly.
Save options allow you to customize your vehicle differently for each track, as well as exit a competition in progress, and come back to it later. Multiplayer, sadly, is limited to eight players on a LAN, so you won't be racing your buddies online.
By the time you've played through an entire championship season in Grand Prix 4, the feel of winning a race is incomparably triumphant. Few games will force you to put as much thought and effort into earning a trophy. For those with lower-end systems or lower-end patience, the most obvious noteworthy alternative is EA's F1 2002, which is less taxing and considerably more arcade-like, but is also far less impressive and less rewarding in the long run. The learning curve may be too steep for the casual gamer, but no F1 game is quite as impressive and entertaining in the process as Grand Prix 4. Avid petrol-heads should not pass this one up.
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Description of Grand Prix 4 Windows
Read Full ReviewMicroprose's Geoff Crammond knows a thing or two about creating decent racing simulations, a fact showcased by his sterling work from Revs all the way up to Grand Prix 3. At the same time, Microprose's publisher Hasbro knows a thing or two about milking a product for all it's worth, as we saw with the pitiful GP3 2000 Season Update.
GP4 carries the hallmarks of both these traits. Open the box and you'll find a solid racing simulation that has been developed firmly upon the GP3 / GP32K foundation. While the in-game mechanics are virtually unchanged, you'll also find that some of the weaknesses have carried over in the process, and long time fans may feel that there has not been enough of a progression to warrant paying another £30.
The GP4 experience gets off to a good start with the new interface styling, a swirly hi-tech affair that looks miles better than the previous photo-laden backgrounds from GP2 and 3. The menus retain the depth of options we're used to from previous editions, including the standard quick race, non-championship race, full championship etc., plus there's a little novelty in the quick laps option that made its debut in the GP32K add-on. This mode lets up to 22 drivers shoot it out for the fastest qualifying time, feeling like a rally-style competition around a grand prix circuit. The GP series has always catered for multiplayer 'hotseat' racing on a single PC, and this neat little extension is the next best option to split-screen play.
Heading out onto the track for the first time, you'll be hit by a triple-whammy of surprises. First, you're greeted by the sight of fully animated mechanics lowering your car and indicating that it's clear to drive into the pit lane. The second surprise is the quality of the graphics. Unlike the cartoony effect in the EA F1 games, GP4 goes for a clinical pseudo-photorealism and pulls it off with sharply defined objects, smooth textures and panoramic backdrops. Monaco is the perennial showcase of an F1 sim's graphical ability, and GP4 genuinely exceeds itself here - the detailing on everything from the casino to the docked yachts is nothing short of remarkable.
The third is the gorgeous engine note. Apparently sampled from the Arrows F1 Ford Cosworth, it comes across as raspy and seriously powerful. It's also completely different to the screaming samples in F1 2002. It's hard to say which is more realistic, but they both sound fantastic.
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Every F1 game claims to employ GPS data to model the tracks, and every new incarnation seems to get closer and closer to the real thing (at least, as we see it on TV). GP4 is no exception, and the new breed of tracks feature more pronounced dips, crests and road camber changes (bankings) than those in GP3. All 2001 changes like the re-profiling of chicanes at Monza and the lower kerbs at Hungary are also present. F1 2002 is just as accurate but it exaggerates effects like bumps. That aside, the casual fan will notice little difference between the two.
Whilst F1 2002 goes out for maximum frills per cc, GP4 is good at doing the important things well, and in some areas it mops the floor with the opposition. The AI, already impressive in GP3, is simply stunning here. Negotiating starts is a fraught affair, with the cars possessing an uncanny spatial awareness and ability to take your space without crashing into you. The 2001 season traits have been modelled well, and often the Schumacher brothers will take the fight for the lead into the distance. In one race at Monza, Jarno Trulli tried an ill-fated out-braking manoeuvre on Ralf Schumacher's BMW Williams into Turn 1, sending them both into the gravel. Great stuff!
Equally wonderful are the replays, thanks to the replay editor first introduced in the GP32K add-on. Geoff Crammond has a creepy knack of replicating TV camera angles and the placements are simply perfect. To see the cars jostling for position down towards Les Combes at the end of the long Spa straight, or seeing them spear through Eau Rouge from a camera at the bottom of the hill, or to watch the AI battles courtesy of the 'directors cut' mode, is to witness PC racing perfection. F1 2002 doesn't even come close.
Another GP4 forte is the variable weather. This was one of the aces in the pack in GP3, and GP4 enhances it with its improved graphics (we finally get the raindrops-on-the-camera-lens effect for the first time!). Controlling an aquaplaning car in the wet is GP4's ultimate challenge, and it's sometimes worth following the AI until you get the hang of it. The informative force feedback comes into its own here. Grip? No grip? You can feel it in an instant.
GP4 retains the high fidelity telemetry and setup options that have been a hallmark (and a joy to serious simheads) throughout the series, and couples them to the improvements from the GP32K add-on. Every advanced setup option is now linked to an integrated GPaedia (which comes with informative video clips from Arrows Test Team Manager Mark Hemsworth), providing much needed guidance for relative newcomers, whilst seasoned pros have a new toy to tweak with, in the form of the differential.
Unusually for a Microprose sim, GP4 makes some concessions to the casual player by introducing some snazzy eye-candy. The animated pit crew is one such feature, as are the animated track marshals and spectators, and the fully functional car-mounted TV display that lets you track the qualifying session (who needs Sky Digital when you've got this?). For those of you put off by the claustrophobic cockpit view, GP4 features new roll-bar and chase-car camera views that come complete with digital displays and a dinky little Rally Championship-style track map.
Bearing in mind that much of the above is already available in the GP32K add-on, there are a few other problems. The new style menus, for instance, are a pain to navigate, a good case in point being the once-clear all-inclusive car setup screens having been split into several sub-menus. In addition, GP4 uses your game controller to navigate the menus, but it couldn't properly calibrate our MS Force Feedback Wheel and this led to a lot of frantic cursor chasing. The game is also buggy, at least under Windows XP, where it would frequently crash back to the desktop on our test machine.
GP4's main competitor, F1 2002, contains several exciting features like separate car performance characteristics and cockpit designs for each team, smarter driver aids and a training school facility to help get to grips with the car handling, along with the 2002 season data. The car physics feel more realistic too. GP4's cars are stable and predictable, even with the driver aids switched off. The F1 2002 breed is considerably more dynamic and exhilarating, with the superb driver feedback letting you feel for and control the power-induced slides.
Finally, the graphics engine powering GP4 exhibits the same problems as the one in GP2, dating all the way back to 1996, despite supposedly being completely new. Unlike in other games where overloading the processor leads to jerky framerates, GP games attempt to artificially compensate to provide a continually smooth frame. The result, though, is that a game simulating a car at speeds of 150mph in the rain somehow manages to look like it's really simulating 15mph, and adjusting detail levels hasn't helped. EA's title in comparison maintains a super fast speed throughout.
Whilst we gave GP3 the benefit of the doubt two years ago, the competition has advanced leaps and bounds since. GP4 has a limited scope and attempts to do its job well, but is let down by a lack of innovation and a gutless graphics engine. F1 2002 meanwhile very nearly matches the quality of the GP4 core features and also advances the genre further with its technically superior game engine and inventiveness. GP4 is worth a look, offering a rock-solid racing experience against some well-crafted AI, but it doesn't add anything significantly new. As a result, it only fully justifies its price tag for Microprose completists and those with very high spec machines.
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BULLy2020-11-142 points
@GREG Please try to be more supportive of others next time. We are all gamers and can learn from each other.
@MAKO An ISO is an image of a cd or set of files in a similar way as a ZIP compressed folder. You should be able to 'mount' the image in a Virtual CD drive, and run it as if you had the real disc in.
Greg2020-10-28-2 points
for MAKO Comment: GP4 DOESN'T NEED DOSBOX YOUR IDIOT!
nicorock2020-07-270 point
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GP2engine2020-07-012 points
Hey, when I click on 'setup' for the installation it says 'Setup failes to launch installation engine: not registered class'. And when I tried 'Autorun' and clicked on 'Installation' it just do nothing. Any ideas on what should I do?
RubyVolt2020-06-091 point
Thank you for putting the NOCD file. After burning and installing the ISO, just copy the NOCD over the original and race.
supertomcat2020-06-084 points
Also try the no cd at the bottom and then put the patch if that doesn't work. I may do a step by step guide.
supertomcat2020-06-081 point
download the pre-patched rip version instead
RubyVolt2020-06-070 point
I downloaded, burned with Nero, installed. When I try to run, it says, 'put in the CD' when the CD is in there. OH WELL..
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Get an iso mounter and if you have windows it should work. (this is a windows game not dos) If it doesn't work on windows 10 set up a virtual machine running Xp
MAKO2020-06-070 point
So, this is my first time downloading a game. I'm stuck and I'm not being able to play it. How do you run iso? I'm trying with DOSBox but it never works..
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