Populous 2 - I got right to the end and in a match with Zeus i clocked up 11 hours - I remember cos i started it after lunch and finished it when i went to bed. It would have been 6 if he hadnt sneaked another settlement further awway on the map that i hadnt noticed...
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Populous was so addictive. I used to play that all the time. Such a shame their ruined it in the later 3D games. Why do they have to alter a formula that works? Why not keep the flat isometric style of the original games but in full 3D, making it look much more realistic. It would make it much easier to control and actually work out what was happening than trying to navigate by rotating a whole globe with people stuck to it!
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Microprose F1GP !!!!!!!!
7 or 8 hours racing with Ferrari.
I that days i raced the world champion in full race lenght (full laps)

I did the same in Indycar racing, the 500 miles of Indianapolis !!!!

I also did +/- 7 hours of "Rainbow six" and "Rouge spear"
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I used to race full length races in Gran Turismo. Added a lot more to the game with tires wearing out and grip reducing. Can't wait for the next two GT games to come out on PSP and PS3.

I've also raced full length races in GP4.
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Microprose F1GP was fantastic - it was one of those games i spent more time configuring car and driver specs (mostly coming up with stupid names) than i did racing. Manchester United football was another one like that - many an hour clocked up!
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That is very true. I got hold of the F1GP editor for Microprose F1GP at the time and used to spend ages making everything look like the current F1 series. Definitely spent more time doing that than actually racing around the track.
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For me has to be DUNE, Amiga version. I have finished over and over and over and....ermm.... you get my drift. Just something about the game, it was made perfect.
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Have you seen the trailers for GT5? I know it's not in-game footage but the quality blew me away.

http://www.gran-turismo.com/jp/data/...miere_2007.wmv

(2 minutes, 89MB - would recommended "Save Target As..." rather than play in browser)

The screenshot of the in-game looks pretty good as well:


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Once GT5 is released the PS3 will become an essential purchase for me, that is for sure. It definitely looks amazing.

And if they are achieving this level of quality with the first generation of PS3 games, what the hell are we going to see in a couple of years time? Especially when you consider the quality leap that occurred between the first and last releases on both the PSX and PS2.
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The direct link to that video didn't work. Try this one instead:

http://www.gtplanet.net/gallery/albu...miere_2007.wmv
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