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rFactor V. 1.255

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I got this a few years ago and have been happy with it. This game is really the successor to the F1 Challenge series EA and ISI put out a while ago that is also heavily modded. I have F1 seasons and tracks from 79,88,91,05,06,07,08,09 as well as Champ Car 05-06, Indycar 94-95,08-09, GT cars, Mclaren F1 Challenge, Zonda Challenge,Historic Rally Cars Mod, F430 Challenge, and a lot of single cars for use in the all tracks and cars series.

You can use any track for any car you have, say using Indycars on F1 tracks or GT cars on Ovals. I've got I would say about 100 tracks from the modding sites as well as the series mentioned above for over 20GB's of data, so rFactor is really not about the stuff it comes with but the stuff you can get online that makes it the ONLY racing game you should have. You can get Formula Japan, GP2, and many other series cars and tracks. They are free to download and the details and graphics are amazing in most of them, the best I've seen are the CDTP F1 2006 and IDT Champcar and Indycar series. The GT ALL 3.96 comes with both new and old GT cars in a lot of paint jobs and configurations, including Porches, Mosler, Corvette, Viper, Saleen, Ferrari and any of the other GT1/2/LM/etc. classes you can think of.

There are hundreds of tracks to download and race from every corner of the world as well as fantasy tracks and cars. Like I said you can race any car on any track. Either they have self installers or you just copy and paste into the locations folder to install, the same goes for the cars.

This is really best for open wheel, touring cars, Stock cars and any other asphalt/circuit based racing, it's OK for dirt rally or trucks but those are best in the dedicated games like Collin Mcrae or Richard Burns. This game is fairly easy to adjust the difficulty and other settings once you play around with it. I'm no strict sim player and thankfully you can pretty much adjust it to whatever level you want.

This game also has multiple 3rd party plugins for realistic cameras, textures, data acquisition, wet tracks and almost anything else. You should go to [...], fileplanet or softpedia to get cars, tracks and plugins. So depending on your level of interest this game could replace your collection of separate games for separate racing types and be relevant for a long time to come, every race game fan should get this period.

Great game, wonderful online community. Hundreds of cars, hundreds of tracks. Check out rfactorcentral.com to see all that is available. New cars and tracks released almost daily. Always something new to try. F1 cars racing against huge semis at Bristol or NASCAR at Monaco. Off road trucks & buggies, sprint cars, late models, modifieds, rallycross, F1 from 1955 to present, champs cars, IRL, AMLS, stock cars, touring cars, sports cars and many more.
Can you tell....I'm an rFactor junkie.

I purchased this game for use with my Logitech G25 force feedback wheel. Man, am i happy with it! the cars are completely tuneable in fine incriments from rev-limit to brake bias. almost all the cars are upgradeable too (not the F1 cars). there is a good selection of open wheel racers from low hp trainers to F3000 and F1. there are stock cars and several different closed cockpit vehicles too with FWD, 4WD, and RWD trims. unfortunately the vehicles have that "generic" style too them that somewhat poorly emulates the real vehicle it was styled after. its obvious this title was designed around extremely accurate car physics and not aesthetics, however the cockpit view in each vehicle is very detailed and realistic.

there is a small handful of courses to choose from with a few variations of each. there is a large mixed dirt/tarmac rallye style course that lets you test your off-road capabilities- highly recommend! it winds through mountain s-turns then back down to the valley and through a small town. a skilled player can enjoy drift style technique on the tarmac s-turns; incredibly difficult but challenging and fun on a racing wheel. the oval style racing in either the F1 or stock cars is also really fun. it lets you fine tune your car to find the perfect setup to get a nose out on your competitors.

overall this is an excellent racing simulator. the graphics and sound effects are super realistic. the only room for improvement would be name-brand vehicles and a few more tracks to choose from. definitely one that will stay in my gaming library for years to come. i only recommend this title if you have or will be getting a force feedback wheel with clutch and 6spd gearbox capabilities.

This is the first Racing Sim I have found and have stuck with over the past year or so, Its pretty good however you need to download a majority of the content on your own.

Tracks and Cars are mainly User created and usually are free to download while some specific and more wanted downloads require another game such as GTL because the modders ripped the cars/tracks from the game and require that you actually own the product for you to install.

The menu's for online play are quite confusing and unless you join a league your most likely to never find people that race your favorite cars around your favorite tracks.

Open wheeled cars seem to be the preferred car to race Online.

AI isn't the greatest, either they are too aggressive and spin you out, they are too slow or they just get in your way and cause you to crash. Playing Online can be the same way if you race in public servers, most of the time you'll end up getting a few people that purposely crash but there are quite a few people that actually want to race.

Other than that and a few minor issues.

As far as a racing sim, it certainly has a better physics model than most other racing games. Car types include open-wheel, touring and NASCAR offering something to fans of many a genre. The only negative aspect of the game was the lack of real-world cars, products, drivers that gamers and race fans tend to expect in racing games today. Other than that, it's a blast.

I have only recently begin to play with the racing games,but I just purchased a Logitech G25 Racing Wheel with the pedels and shifter,and rFactor was my first try.I think it is an outstanding racing sim.At one time I raced super stock cars,and this was as close to driving a car as I could imagine.It's a fun game.I have nothing but good things to say about it.It would make a great addition to anyones collection.
BIGEMANN!!

I'm not going to write about all the tech stuff. I've been driving sims for many years. There were some good ones from EA Sports and a couple of NASCAR games.
GTR2 is a great sim and RFactor in my opinion is the best. I play both regularly but RFactor the most.
Buy either one and you can't go wrong.

The racing sim part of rfactor deserves 5 stars, but the single player "game" part of rfactor deserves 1 start. Let me explain.

rfactor really isn't designed for single player mode. It comes with a few fictional cars that can be raced on a few fictional tracks. The user is expected to mod the game adding tracks and cars created by other users. The AI is just plain terrible. I tweaked the config file a bit and improved it a little. The AI will ram your car off the track every chance it gets. It will always try to run the fastest possible line, even if you are in the way. It will not even realize you are there and just try to drive right through you. The AI doesn't use normal physics either. It can stop much faster than the player can and turn much faster. If you buy this game for single player use, you will be disappointed.

The Sim part of the game is amazing. Cars drive how you would expect them to. Graphics are top notch. You get everything you would expect out of a top notch driving sim. Its as good or better than anything out there, iracing, gtr2, gtr evo, or whatever you favorite sim is.

Multi-player works like this. Users design cars and tracks and then host servers. You need to figure out what tracks and cars you need in order to join the server. If you don't have the right car, you won't be able to join. rfactor leaves most of the work up to the users. I looked online to see if I could find a game but there was only a couple games that had players in them and I didn't have the right tracks and cars so I couldn't join. I was too lazy to figure out what I needed so I just jumped on iracing instead and ran some races there.

Rfactor has huge potential, but you need to know what your doing. If you are the type of person who loves racing online, and doesn't mind modding a game yourself, rfactor is for you. If you are lazy or lack the knowledge to mod a game, rfactor might disappoint you. If you don't even own an expensive force feedback racing wheel, what are you doing go play need for speed.

If you're looking for a hard core simulator, this is it. If you want a hard core simulator with a huge amount of community created content (cars, tracks, series, leagues and other add-ons), this is it. If you're looking for fun, this is not for you. This is way too real.

Excellent game,best driving game I have ever used. Tons of MODS and add-ons. Almost every type of car,track,set up and what ever you will ever need (All free) Beats NASCAR RACING hands down, and also That 2003 NASCAR RACING game that has been blown out of sight in price. YOU BETTER GET THIS ONE NOW< also R Factor 2 is coming out.