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More info?)
Thanks for the info!
"Mr Bond" <bond@mi6.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:21:30 GMT, "ZeeOhSix"
> <nospammers@hell-on-earth.net> wrote:
>
> >Instead of spending $1000 to upgrade my computer to play NFS underground
1
> >and 2, I'm thinking of buying an Xbox to play them on.
> >
> >My questions are:
> >What is a good wheel to use with the Xbox and NFS:U2?
> >Is the game play different on Xbox? (I play NFS:U on my computer)
> >Any good websites to get discount prices?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Gary
> >
>
> I haven't played NFSU2 on xbox yet, but I've played NFSU on both.
> Gameplay between the two systems was pretty similar, I jumped on xbox
> and was able to rip out 40,000 point drifts on my first go as I would
> expect on my pc (on a good day
.
>
> The two biggest differences were graphics and the controller.
> Obviously the xbox controler is a lot better than the keyboard I had
> been using with my pc.
>
> TV's as I recall use a resolution of 640*480, so my PC at 1024*768
> appeared to have more detail. Compensating this was that the xbox had
> all graphics options turned on, which wasn't the case on my pc.
> Prompted me to turn a few back on in my pc version.
>
> I was of the impression that EA was keeping the different versions of
> both games as identical as they could, so that xboxes could play
> against PC and versus PS2s, etc. Either that or they don't like
> people chopping up their code...
>
> Really rated NFSU, so I was under the impression that EA would balls
> up the second version, but I'm fully impressed/addicted to NFSU2.
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