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Not so grand Tourismo

After only three weeks, I’m sick of GT3.

Sounds amazing – you’d think I had over played it, but you’d be wrong, as I haven’t really done that much at all – my stats say I’m only at 17% or something like that. The problem is, I just cant bring myself to coast around lap after lap while the “Artificial Inteligence” cars glide around on their splines providing no challenge whatsoever.

With only six admittedly very nice looking cars to compete with, an endurance race can be a very lonely event indeed. I completed 40 circuits of the Seattle course in my Lotus Elise, almost two laps ahead of the nearest AI car – and the field included three corvettes – I expected much more of a challenge.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve bought essentially the same game three times now and I just feel, aside from the splendid graphics, that I deserved much more this time.

The PS2 with its Emotion Engine delivers an enriched, intelligent gaming experience… well that’s the premise, anyway – the reality is that I’m playing a nicer looking version of a game the PS1 could provide.

For now I’m back to Madden 2001 so I can at least warrant buying Madden 2002 in a months time, and Rumble Racing – which I haven’t quite finished yet.

I just hope GT4 wont take the joke any further.

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Portfolio section just added

It’s taken me ages to get round to doing this and I haven’t managed to include every site I’ve done over the last three years, but a small selection have finally made it onto the obligatory Portfolio section of the site.

Anyone who knows me personally should take a look, if you will, and hark back to the days when the Clyde One site had actually had some design values! Then saunter down memory lane to the infamous site-in-four-days that was the SRH corporate homepage.

Wow – you wouldn’t think I’d worked to ten o’clock four nights in a row to complete that one in record time, would you!?

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0 X Tables

It had to happen – I’ve had a bit of a mission to do a site without frames or tables since the beginning of April and I finally got around to it last night.

So apologies are in order if you’re viewing this on a 28 inch monitor, as the text will be most of the way across your screen!

Anyhow, it does seem to make the page load faster which is what it’s all about at the end of the day. That and standards compliance. Thanks to A List Apart and Glish for some good css resources.

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