iRacing 1-Month New Subscription Review

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(More customer reviews)At the core, iRacing is exactly what I've been wanting for a long time. I've always wanted the freedom of online pickup races with the structure of a league and that's pretty much exactly what they have at iRacing. You can race anytime that fits your schedule (no more getting up early on Saturday morning!) and you can still compete in a 12-week long season for points and ultimately division/series championship.
The cars are well modeled both aesthetically as well as the physics and there are plenty of options for nearly everyone -- stock cars/trucks/etc for the oval people and several road-racing choice for those who like turning both directions. The tracks are simply amazing; the level of detail, and overall feel driving around these real-world tracks will blow your mind (no fantasy tracks here; nothing but reality!).
The integration of the simulation software with their private-accessed web site has a lot of advantages; new functions can be added to the web site easily without affecting the championships under-way (e.g., calendar feature, new statistics pages, etc.) and using the web as a distribution mechanism brings a lot of benefits to the end-user. We no longer need to go looking for patches, they're literally handed to us on a silver platter. In some ways it's like a web version of Steam. In addition to simplicity, I feel that we get patches and updates quicker -- many of the other sims I've played seem to have many weeks or months of waiting between patches; the iRacing guys roll them out pretty much between each 12-week season (and more frequently if necessary).
Right now iRacing is pretty young with a fairly small number of members -- I don't know the correct number, but seems like it is somewhere between 6,000 to 8,000 spread all across the world. Most of these folks seem to be in other timezones from me (e.g., eastern US, Europe, etc.) so I sometimes have difficulty finding enough folks to race at 10pm pacific time. Given the high quality of the service, I'm confident that this will get better over time as more folks from the west coast join up.

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Restaurant Empire (Jewel Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)I absolutely love this game! I haven't had any of the troubles the other reviewer mentioned. My saved games were always available later.
Restaurant Empire is great because it puts you in the role as the character, a new chef starting out. You arrange your first restaurant as you want it, decorate it, create the menu, etc. and then service your customers. You are also involved in a storyline, which is why I love it. It's not just a tycoon game, but involves strategy & role-playing. There are contests to win, you get to travel to other cities & start more restaurants, & ultimately, you are trying to conquer another restaurant company that has taken over the market. It's full of interesting characters & other chefs that you can hire to help your business along. I highly recommend this game!

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Hotel Giant jc Review

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(More customer reviews)So, first of all, let me just say that I REALLY love this game. It's a great idea and it's a blast to play. It's really fun to totally customize lobbies, hotel rooms, restaurants, health clubs, bars, etc. I like how you can view the floor of a building from the top, from the perspective of a guest, or isometrically. I love the tycoon aspects of being able to create advertising, making up package deals, setting prices, looking at market research, and so much more. This is a FUN game.
That being said... wow. I've never played a game that crashed so much. Some days I play it and it'll only crash once... some days it crashes all the time. YOU MUST SAVE YOUR GAME CONSTANTLY. For 95% of other games, I would toss it aside and play something else due to all the crashing. But I really, really like it and consider it worth having to save my game every 5 seconds.
It's not perfect in every other way, though. There's no "undo" button when you're building things, and I find that incredibly annoying. It's VERY easy to make a huge modification by accident and then have to spend forever getting whatever you deleted back.
I like how you can create one room's layout and then "stamp" that layout any number of times into the building, but I found myself wanting to use a layout I had created EXCEPT with one attribute modified (usually either placement of the door or type of bed in a hotel room), and there's no way to do that without changing every hotel room in the building with that layout. That bothered me.
The soundtrack is also short, repetitive, and rather obnoxious. I keep my sound off while playing.
Overall, this game is a BLAST... if you have the patience of a saint.

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