GPL where?!

Hobbes

Ok is GPL a new game or old game? Is it released? I bopped into EB and they said they never heard of it and they are normally on the ball.

I need something for the CS withdrawal.

panLoaf

Unless I'm mistaken, and there is a GPL game; GPL stands for Gnu Public Licence - a software licence to do with open-source, freely available software (games, applications, etc.)

Maybe there was a game that you saw GPLed?
panLoaf

TheWarden

I think it might also stand for Grand Prix Legends... a vroom vroom game.

PhilipMarlowe

which you can buy in the US here

TwoShedsJackson

It's just over two years old, and is still available on Sierra's budget label.

PhilipMarlowe

Castor, did you buy it after....?

And how would you rate it....?
and rate GP3 while yer at it to

TwoShedsJackson

I rate it as unquestionably the best driving sim ever on the PC, and one of the best games/sims ever full stop.

GP3 pales in comparison imho. Graphics are scarcely better despite being two years later, sound is atrocious compared to GPL - I mean you can't hear other cars as they pass you in gp3 wtf!?!?!?

Gameplay is a matter of taste - modern f1 cars are a lot easier to drive than the monsters of 1967, but you have that 'on rails' feeling that I just can't shake in gp3, in GPL you are fighting the raw forces of nature

Plus no pitstops in GPL, one set of tyres are so hard they last three full races, and you take on 200 gallons of fuel at the start of a Grand Prix race - the equivalent of strapping sixty sticks of dynamite to the car apparently

Mind you GPL is tough to get into - stick with it and you have the most rewarding experience on the PC I think.

[This message has been edited by Castor Troy (edited 10-11-2000).]

OSiriS

But do any of the shops around Dublin stock it? I haven't seen it for a few months

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TwoShedsJackson

It's in Game in Grafton Street for a tenner atm, think there's only one copy there though.

Herb Moore

You can get it here online if you get stuck.
Bit pricey at £16.25,though.... http://www.theslammer.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=search&item=pcgames426&type=store

Herb

Hobbes

Originally posted by Castor Troy:
It's in Game in Grafton Street for a tenner atm, think there's only one copy there though.

yea yea, you know bloody well it's no good to me there.

I got Imperium Galactica II. Not a new game. Kind of Sim City meets Masters of Orion. I haven't even started playing yet (20 minute tutorial and I'm busy) but the game looks seriously impressive. Heck even the menus are impressive.

TwoShedsJackson

Hello Herb Hobbes, I actually got mine from Amazon.co.uk for 14 pounds sterling a few months ago - couldn't find it anywhere here at the time.

OSiriS

Useful information to me though Hobbes (since I was the one who asked to know:P)

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