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My Favorite Racing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Porsche Unleashed is still a great experience long after it's release. The graphics are superior, the car models are excellent, the racing modes are fun and reasonably varied, and the tracks are well designed.

The only downside to the game may be that there's only a handful of tracks included, but the ones that are there are large and fun to race around in.

The game covers the Porsche legacy from the beginning and has you "level-up" as you win races, going from the classic Boxster to today's monster racing machines.

Factory driver mode is challenging and different, and the online feature works well.

If you like European racing tracks with lots of turns, shortcuts and wide open spaces, this one is for you. Being a Porsche fan isn't a requirement, the game is still a ton of fun, highly recmmended.

Go Kaiser Ferdinand!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Porsche has always been a simbol of the sports car. Founded by Ferdinand Porsche, the designer of the perhaps world's most famous car - VW Beetle.
Dr. Porsche was a great inventor and still the cars bearing his name are sign of efficiency and perfection. And this game doesn't throw a single shadow on his perfect reputation.
The cars are well modeled, with lot of details. The change in speed, handling and braking abilities is very realistic (you certainly won't beat a 911 Turbo with lovely designed 356). There are also a lot of missions, but Test driver is certainly most interesting.
This happens to be a great game, either for racing fan, who will annihilate lap records all the time through someone, who wants to relax by driving some matches (you won't take just one) over to anyone who is interested in Porsche history. It will tell you a lot about those wonderful cars. That's what I liked most - something besides an excellent driving game.

An Otherwise 5-Star Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I personally feel that the game deserves 5 stars and that it is a great successor to Need For Speed 3 and 4.

HOWEVER, there is one design flaw that won't allow gamers to enjoy the game to its full extent. Most of the cars and tracks are locked and the only way to access them is to go through a very challenging Evolution mode. So, if you think you'll buy this game and take a 911 Turbo for a spin, you are in for a sad surprise.

I'll never go back to High Stakes...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game uses a whole new engine with a superb driving model and breathtaking graphics. After my first race my knees were shaking from the adrenalin rush. I highly recommend this! Best driving game yet.

A good game - Not a revolution.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Needless to say, NFS - Porche Unleased is a very solid game.It is definitely one of the most desirable driving games for the PC,and redundantly a must-have for a Porche fan/dreamer, provided that the minimum PC requirements are exceeded by 200%plus. Anyone familiar with the console gaming scene, will be quick to recognize its Gran Turismo-esque science, and Ridge Racer's stylish appeal (which is a good thing), with applicable refinements that a power of today's PC could provide. I haven't been a true fan of the series - partly due to its somewhat corny contents and lack of depth - but this new installment has definitely changed my impression. END

Stunning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Although this game doesn't have any other brand of car in it, I don't care. I like Porsches. I also liked the fact that this game allows you to drive some of the older cars because previous NFS titles and most racing games in general are fixated on the brand new, 300-something horsepower rockets that are on the market today.
The tracks are generally well laid out, even devious. The designers stuck hard objects (such as trees, walls, stuatues, etc) in places that skid-outs and fishtailing cars are likely to hit.
The graphics are amazing. The design team, so I have heard, worked with Porsche to get this game right.
Early on, I ran into the control problems. ("Ice racing" is the term I've read most often)
This can be solved through several ways:
Experience- race the car more often so you can predict what it will do.
Upgrades- a lot of the problems with spin-out have to with with the standard parts your car comes with. Upgrading to better ones solves this problem.

Downforce/Weight distrobution/brake distrobution- when set correctly, they allow your car to stick to the road like glue or go flying head long around corners, whichever you prefer.
All in all, this is an excellent racing game. The physics modeling is superb, the graphics will amaze, and the competitor AI will impress.

Jazzman Racing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Good stuff! Lots of fun; a good blend of realism and arcade action. I shut down lots of background applications and get smooth action from a 400 mhz pc. Works on win2000 if you remove 'gimme.dll' from the PU directory. Very challenging for me in Factory Driver mode.

5 year old LOVES this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

While I have not played this game my son has played it for hours. I would definately recommend this game for anyone who loves the racing PC games.

I hunger for SPEED!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Out of all the "Need for Speed" games, I consider Porsche Unleashed the best (ahead of Hot Pursuit 2 and Underground). Instead of racing different cars from different manufacturers, like other racing games, this game is entirely devoted to the Porsche lineup. There are Porsches from the old 1950s to the modern GT series race cars to drive. The trademark quirky handling of the Porsches are so evident in this game. The more modern cars are less likely to "fish tail" around, but the 2.7 RS is an annoying fish-tailer. But once you successfully manage to control that beast, it becomes so fun power-sliding around.

Graphically, this game is stunning, from night-time driving to driving in the Alpine snow, you got everything. The graphic doesn't need a very robust CPU, but try to get the best 3D graphic card you can afford (anything better than a Voodoo 2). I was able to run this game with a 800 Mhz CPU with Voodoo 3 and it was fine. Sound quality is also superb, and I especially like the sound of the older 911 - very raw and throaty.

I would like to address some issues that others have pointed out (either here or in discussion sites). One is that Porsche Unleashed works horribly with XP and Windows 2000. EA-sports technical support doesn't have much to say about this. If you search the web, you should be able to find some answers to fit this problem (with a patch or some figetting around). The second problem is that Porsche Unleashed doesn't seem to like some newer version of DirectX and the Nvidia Denotator Drivers. For example, my mouse would freeze (hard crash) at the start-up screen. I was using DirectX 9.0b with the latest Nvidia drivers. To "fix" this, I eventually had to rollback the DirectX version to 8.0 and use an older version of Detonator (version 30.82 for win98SE) and everything seems to work okay. So hopefully this could help those who have problems. This is a great game and I think it is worth the trouble I listed to play it.

Best showroom racer ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Porsche Unleashed is possibly the best driving simulator ever created, and maybe ever will be. If you rated this game less than five stars, sad for you, you don't know a good game when you play one. The graphics are the best I have seen, I still have yet to play Gran Turismo 2000 for ps2 though. The handling is far more realistic than any other racer. If you can't handle the four- point physics handling than your a wuss, and should stick to nfs 2or3 until your ready to play with the big boys. The graphics are stunning, the play modes will cause an addiction, the selection of cars is overwhelming, and the accurate modeling of cars is so realistic you forget your playing a game.

Must I say more? If your computer can handle it, this game is a must buy title. How could you be dissapointed when your cruising in a 996 at 180 mph? If racing games are not your thing, they will be after playing this game. Did I mention that the graphics are insane?

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