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Need for Speed: Porsche 2000 (AKA porsche unleashed) was released 26 years ago. It did something different from other videogames. You could drive across the beautiful European countryside, and explore this particular car brand and its history.

I haven't found other games that allow you to basically travel through europe's most beautiful landscapes with your car and just take in the scenery like that. It was right before the whole trend started with "tuning" culture, spurred by the fast and the furious franchise. (love or hate it, it changed the whole landscape)

What other games would you say are similar to this experience?

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[–] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I forgot about this game, was pretty neat. A good way to learn about all the cars they made. If you find it in a PS1 game bargain bin somewhere check it out.

[–] eru777@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, although the PS1 version is like a completely different game. Most PS1 versions of games were, due to the limitations.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

The driving physics are sadly horrible on the PS1 version.