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New game from John Carmack and ID. Released yesterday and is receiving mixed reviews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRVkLzQxco&feature=player_embedded

Played about 2 hours of it last night. A lot of people had issues getting it to launch, or were having some in game graphics issues. After I reinstalled DirextX, mine ran fine last night.

Pros: Gameplay is fun
        Vehicle handling and racing are both awesome
        Graphics as a whole are pretty good, with exceptions (see below)
        Gameplay thus far has 0 bugs and 0 crashes

Cons: Some of the visuals are very dated
         Rendering on this engine is different than most games. The game only renders (in very                high detail) what you are looking at. That means if you whip around 180 degrees real fast, you will see everything is only basically rendered for about 1/8 seconds before rendering in high detail.

Going to continue playing for a few hours today. I'll add to this as I go along.

The reviews out there range from amazing to piss poor, where the ones giving the super low ratings tend to be the ones with graphical issues. Critics reviews are between an 84 and 95.

Graphics examples...

Some things look great (not my pics, someone with unknown video card. Mine looks a little better than theirs...and I know most of you have a better card than myself): http://steamcommunity.com/id/RetroEvolute/screenshot/558669287199895624?filter=app_9200
http://steamcommunity.com/id/RetroEvolute/screenshot/558669287199894698?filter=app_9200

Some things...not so much (maybe a bad example, but I'm lazy and want to go shoot things now): http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540654888690121234/5ECF7B66F1C16F24ECD23AE59EA57FB58999A6F2/

Overall, graphics don't really take away from gameplay/immersion unless you have some kind of OCD.

Cool, thanks for the review. I'm still deciding weather to get this or not.

Finally picked this up @ newegg for $20.