Racing games in which the AI doesn't cheat?

[Soopy]

If you're a good enough driver in Forza 3 you can actually force the AI to make mistakes, though most of the time they keep a decent line and consistently high speed. It can be annoyingly difficult, but I wouldn't call it cheating.

I mean c'mon, it's a racing sim, in most races drivers generally keep to the same line and drive within the same few mph/kph consistently, it's up to you to do it slightly better. In a real race, there are no blowouts.

Honestly, I actually don't have a huge issue with it in SIMs, particularly GT2, but what came up with Forza 2 in the review is that the AI drivers don't follow the same physics - the stuff they do is realistically possible, but the way the car does it isn't. It's not a blatant CHEAT, but it still is a little bit of one.

Yeah, the AI cars in Forza weight the same as the moon. If you try to blindside them, you crash, if the ram you, you crash. It's retarded

 

[masticina]

Try it, go race in a need for speed and instead of actually trying to race keep driving 35MPH everywhere.. the AI will be pathetically slow to.

I tried that in Carbon. The difference in lap times between a race you win and a race where you just sit on the starting grid is about 10%.

Carbon is that not one of their slightly more serious games in that line up. Different types of NFS different types of strength of rubber banding.

 

[Maximum Bert]

The only series of racing games where I haven't felt this way is Burnout, I think.

Ha! You obviously haven't played any of the later races in Burnout 3 or Burnout Legends. Seriously, if you crash even once in some of those later races, the AI cars will rocket past you, somehow will be 10-20 seconds ahead of you, and will be impossible to catch up to for the remainder of the race even if you boost constantly and don't crash once. If that isn't a case of cheating AI than I don't know what is.

Holy shit Burnout 3 is absolutely horrendous for cheating I remember the last time I played I got smashed into the wall first lap on an elimination race I managed to stay in by the skin of my teeth with near flawless driving and constant boosting eventually catching up with the A hole who had smashed me into the wall first lap and got a 30 second lead on me instantly. So the last stretch of the last lap I have full boost I use it smash the git into a wall and continue holding boost on a flat piece of road with no obstacles to the finish line which couldnt have been more than 5 seconds away and wouldnt you know that guy I literally just totaled catches up to me in 2 seconds smashes me into the kerb and waltzes to his cheating impossible victory.

I have not raged so hard at a game in many a year if ever it pissed me off so much I never touched the game again it was just ridiculous, the comp is not bound by the same rules as you thats for sure.

 

[Jayemsal]

Every single Need For Speed Game has this. Artificial challenge due to cheating AI. The only series of racing games where I haven't felt this way is Burnout, I think.

To be fair, that's a game series in which you can murder the opposition for attempting to cheat.

(Burnout was the only racing series I ever liked)

 

[tomtom94]

And while Mario Kart Wii may have a couple of flaws, cheating AI isn't really one I've noticed.

So you've not noticed that every time you are in 1st you are constantly bombarded with squids, red and blue shells and other weapons designed to wreak your game? Mario Kart Wii is not a racing game, its an exercise in patience.

That just comes down to the fact that the weapons are balanced so that those behind you have more powerful weapons though.