Cheers
Craig I'm only a casual 'player' rather than simmer so it doesn't bother me that the dynamics are a bit off. I like it that you can change the difficulty level drastically to suit your skills... but if I were really serious about racing I'd probably buy something by SimBin or that old Richard Burns game instead or whatever. I agree that TOCA 3 is great fun though!
The variety here is what I like, and Sytse the models of more 'important' cars are generally better - there's great variation. The minor league stuff looks like it was made in a few hours, the 'core' stuff looks cool. But not as cool as their darn 'screenshots from the sim' that were actually photoshopped renders of what they thought would attract people to buy it
The most unforgivable things for me about TOCA 3 are a. the rubbish camera views as I like taking screenshots and b. the ABYSMAL 'virtual cockpits' which are either a smudged pixellated mess that only vaguely resembles a dashboard, or some kind of ovoid black shiny rubber lump with no instruments on it whatsoever. It is this most of all that gives it away that TOCA 3 isn't a serious racing sim, and that they tried to include too much.
Having said that...once again I love it that I can race buggies, trucks, V8s, F1 cars etc...and that each type handles noticeably differently and requires different techniques - it's a challenge, a bit like a puzzle to solve.
About the sky though - it's just a static texture as far as I've noticed - there's no dynamic changing weather, the clouds don't move, nothing like that. Does look nice though!
