Comments on: GTS World Racing: Arcade style racing comes to the iPhone http://osxreality.com/2008/08/09/gts-world-racing-arcade-style-racing-comes-to-the-iphone/ iPhone and iPod touch Games Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: New racer available for the iPhone, Raging Thunder | OS X Reality http://osxreality.com/2008/08/09/gts-world-racing-arcade-style-racing-comes-to-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-245 New racer available for the iPhone, Raging Thunder | OS X Reality Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:02:18 +0000 http://osxreality.com/?p=386#comment-245 [...] it comes to racing games on the iPhone, when looking at Raging Thunder, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing and GTS World Racing come to mind, it’ll be interesting to see how Raging Thunder stacks up against those two [...] [...] it comes to racing games on the iPhone, when looking at Raging Thunder, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing and GTS World Racing come to mind, it’ll be interesting to see how Raging Thunder stacks up against those two [...]

]]> By: Constable Odo http://osxreality.com/2008/08/09/gts-world-racing-arcade-style-racing-comes-to-the-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Constable Odo Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:14 +0000 http://osxreality.com/?p=386#comment-108 Plain to see this person who shot the video didn't know the course very well. Although the controls are OK, I'd still prefer on-screen controls. I don't think I'd care much for tilting the device back and forth and side to side. I'm really too used to hand controllers after hundreds of hours of Gran Turismo on the PS2 and about a hundred or so of Need For Speed on the PSP. I don't expect the iPhone to compare to dedicated game machines, but I think using accelerometers to control cars is rather tiring. I'd be willing to bet developers could figure a way to have an analog control spot on the screen (similar to the little sliding button the PSP uses) that is controlled by either the left or right thumb. I find all that tilting rather disorienting since I've always been used to racing on a display that doesn't move. Still I'd like to give the developer of this game a big hand for bringing some nice looking racing vehicles to the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. Plain to see this person who shot the video didn’t know the course very well.

Although the controls are OK, I’d still prefer on-screen controls. I don’t think I’d care much for tilting the device back and forth and side to side. I’m really too used to hand controllers after hundreds of hours of Gran Turismo on the PS2 and about a hundred or so of Need For Speed on the PSP.

I don’t expect the iPhone to compare to dedicated game machines, but I think using accelerometers to control cars is rather tiring. I’d be willing to bet developers could figure a way to have an analog control spot on the screen (similar to the little sliding button the PSP uses) that is controlled by either the left or right thumb. I find all that tilting rather disorienting since I’ve always been used to racing on a display that doesn’t move.

Still I’d like to give the developer of this game a big hand for bringing some nice looking racing vehicles to the iPhone and iPod Touch platform.

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