i have always wondered, myself, why Ubisoft called this game Monaco Grand Prix, having been familiar with the Sega games of the (almost) same name. just as i've always wondered why it was all fictional except for the tracks of the F1 season - i mean, i understand it's not licensed (even though getting a FIA license didn't look too hard to get if the amount of licensed F1 games in the 90s is any indication), but being unable to customize anything but name is kind of a waste.
Isn't that just the DC port of racing simulation 2? Back in the day I used textures of the 97 season for the cars and renamed the teams and drivers. Btw. - if anyone is in search of a decent f1 game for pc and can handle some older graphics, check out f1 challenge 99-02. With season mods it's still pretty fun and it has a lot of options to finetune the car ... needs some tinkering for windows 7+ systems (specially x64) though.
Yep it's the DC port of Monaco GP Racing Simulation 2 on the PC. It's actually not a bad port. Not as nice as the PC game, naturally, but it's still fairly solid overall. A game that's "good" but not "great".
They got it confused between the two countries it seems. Should be Red Bull Ring (then A1-Ring), but the track itself was there, but wrong map in the menus.
F1 World Grand Prix was very good on Dreamcast, some little frame issues. Dreamcast was great for racers..., Fighters... Arcade Games, shmups, and online games. Oh and wacky games :) Metropolis Street racer was good too a game Mark Didn't mention and looney tunes. But, overall racers never age good unless they are arcade and more fun and less sim. Cuz the new sim racers are always better.
Peace X Love No problem, and I can see why you, and others would think there is no music in the game, but Mark disables music in games almost anytime he can to avoid stupid copyright strikes.
i hope your referring to the arcade version of monaco gp if ur talking about the genesis version i couldnt disagree with u more! super monaco gp on the genesis is great!
racerxgundam Since I haven't played the Arcade version, then I'm of course talking about the Genesis version... Maybe "Sucks" is a strong word, but the game is pretty boring compared to Sega's 'other' racing games... You know the ones...
Man, I would love to see a racing game with Pre-1950s race cars with today's "next gen" graphics. This one and Spirit of Speed 1937 were the only ones to my knowledge, but Spirit was rather lackluster and both look dated today.
Dreamcast games cost a lot more than five bucks now, hah. Prices have been rising steadily the past few years. That said, you should be able to score a copy of this title for 10-15 bucks.
Lord Karnage, when you find six friends, could you please make a 7 Player review of Death Tank Zwei? It's on Duke Nukem 3D, when you have an Exhumed save file on your Saturn. Best local multiplayer game ever :-D.
That comment about old realistic racing games versus the new makes me think if he would like something like Grand Prix Legends. That game had a community LONG after it was released. Maybe even today it has some?
The controls in this game sucks. And it has the typical issue for DC games of having little to no visual effect. Speed Devils is a racing game I personally really liked on DC.
I don't think Mark has ever played Formula1 '99 on the Playstation, because that game looks incredible considering the hardware its running on. My only gripe is that the commentary, which was so good in earlier titles, fell completely flat.
i always felt that the dream cast was for douche bags. for a few reasons but dc just had this thing about it. maybe bc i knew a total douche bag that owned one, idk? you're vid is great tho Mark!
if you love him u should go to patreon he needs more money for great videos like this, he is already making $8,000 plus a month but he needs more money to pay to hv he's youtube account.
hydro thunder, speed devils, pen pen triicelon, san francisco rush 2049, star wars episode 1 racer, looney tunes space race, tokyo extreme racer 1 and 2, wd magical racing tour, 4 wheel thunder, metropolis street racer, test drive le mans, sega gt, sega rally 2, daytona usa, f1 world grand prix, re volt, suzuki alstare, 4x4 evo, test drive 6, tnn motorsports, zusar vasar.
I played the original 1979 Monaco GP arcade machine (sadly wasn't ported on any consoles I'm familiar with) and it was pretty sweet for the time. This game looks great, but like the others said, there's no music! That's what's missing character-wise.
He's playing on the CRT, but also sending the gameplay threw the Frameiester so he can record in HD at the same time, and that way it's a cleaner signal.
The PC version is my most played F1 racing game. I run it with dgvoodoo and can achieve 4k resolution. The gameplay is unbelievably good for such an old game.
Even when this game came out, it didn't make much of an impression. I remember reading in game magazines about it, back then. Except for the high-end PC graphics (for the time), it didn't have personality enough to stand from the crowd. And I was so disappointed when I played Formula 1 World Grand Prix 2, from Video System (the same company that did F1 GP on N64, a masterpiece), for the game was far less enjoyable than the older installment. It had severe frame rate issues, and it suffered from the same blandeness of this one. Oh, and I like Suzuki Alstare Racing. It reminds me of Manx TT Superbike for the Saturn.
Thanks for the review Mark. I could never quite put my finger on why I don't like racing sims , or any simulation game for that matter, but I do now. They don't leave much room for creativity. I like the sem-realistic ones like Daytona USA and SEGA Rally because of the colourful graphics and an amazingly catchy soundtrack, whilst I love F-zero for its overall creative design and ridiculous speeds. For some people the lack of realism might be what kills these games, but I lob=ve racing games as over the top as I can get them.
The graphics look pretty good for the time. And the retro mode looks cool. If you liked Hydro Thunder then you'll probably like 4 Wheel Thunder which is pretty much the same game except it's using 4 wheel drive trucks instead of boats. You also should try Gran Turismo 2 using the Bleem disk(if you can find one). GT2 looks amazing on the Dreamcast.
I can't believe you got the whole way through reviewing this game without mentioning the unfathomably cheesy 'song' that accompanies the German track in arcade mode (assuming you have the music on).
On the demo of Monaco GP for the Playstation it had some decent arcade music for the time. No idea is it made it into the full version or the Dreamcast.
I believe it was meant to blow systems like the PS1 out of the water, then the PS2 was announced and it effectively blew the Dreamcast out of the water.
it was released a year before the ps2. It was a direct competitor they just released it to early and people held off for the ps2. Lack of dual analog controls was a a downer also.
***** Not only that, after the previews hardware fiascos the company had (Genesis failed peripherals, Saturn abruptly taken off the market, people and other companies stopped trusting the company. Sega entered the 128bit era with companies like EA refusing to releasing their games for the DC, and of course after so many failures people were right to wait to see what Nintendo and Sony had to offer. Plus the stupid controller (no 2nd analog? only 6 buttons?).
***** It wasn't all that bad to be fair. You'd join a back marker team and you'd have to work your way up to a better team. But graphically I think it was better than this game.
Are you confusing with F1 World Grand PrIx, developed by Video System? That was not onlly the best F1 game on the N64, but the best overall for quite some time around the end of the 90s.
This game isn't glitchy enough for a Ubisoft game!
but it sure is bland like a Ubisoft game.
Well done, fellas---unlike an Ubisoft game.
These comments are Ubisoft glitch approved.
1:49 LOL thats Melbourne in Austria xDDD
Ha!
17 year old game still looks better than a 3ds game
I like what I am seeing. Even more for being the underdog.
nostalgia
i have always wondered, myself, why Ubisoft called this game Monaco Grand Prix, having been familiar with the Sega games of the (almost) same name. just as i've always wondered why it was all fictional except for the tracks of the F1 season - i mean, i understand it's not licensed (even though getting a FIA license didn't look too hard to get if the amount of licensed F1 games in the 90s is any indication), but being unable to customize anything but name is kind of a waste.
Was this on the demo disc. with just one track? I played that allot.
Isn't that just the DC port of racing simulation 2? Back in the day I used textures of the 97 season for the cars and renamed the teams and drivers.
Btw. - if anyone is in search of a decent f1 game for pc and can handle some older graphics, check out f1 challenge 99-02. With season mods it's still pretty fun and it has a lot of options to finetune the car ... needs some tinkering for windows 7+ systems (specially x64) though.
Yep it's the DC port of Monaco GP Racing Simulation 2 on the PC. It's actually not a bad port. Not as nice as the PC game, naturally, but it's still fairly solid overall. A game that's "good" but not "great".
1:42 Australia and Austria look weirdly similar.
They got it confused between the two countries it seems. Should be Red Bull Ring (then A1-Ring), but the track itself was there, but wrong map in the menus.
F1 World Grand Prix was very good on Dreamcast, some little frame issues. Dreamcast was great for racers..., Fighters... Arcade Games, shmups, and online games. Oh and wacky games :) Metropolis Street racer was good too a game Mark Didn't mention and looney tunes. But, overall racers never age good unless they are arcade and more fun and less sim. Cuz the new sim racers are always better.
those physics tho!
Some of the sounds are sub-par, but besides that, it looks like fun
please review Yakuza 5
Yeah, I wish this could be found for $5 or less. Good luck on that, dude.
One thing that it's obviously missing is music.
He disabled it for Copyright reasons, and I don't blame him considering it's a Ubisoft game. The music is not that great anyways.
+Commodorefan64 Oh. My bad, Chad. I seriously thought the developers didn't create music for it. Thanks, haha.
Peace X Love No problem, and I can see why you, and others would think there is no music in the game, but Mark disables music in games almost anytime he can to avoid stupid copyright strikes.
Frameeemeister! now with extra KFc :V
CHECKPOINT
Super Monaco GP is best Monaco GP.
MONACO GRAND PRIX 2 looks loads better (played the N64 version)
Mark's dog attacked the cameraman because he wanted a higher pay raise in his knock wurst salary and didn't being filmed during naptime.
Cx
Looks allright... But is it as good as SUPER Monaco GP?
Pffff~ HA! Just kidding, Super Monaco GP sucks >w>
i hope your referring to the arcade version of monaco gp
if ur talking about the genesis version i couldnt disagree with u more!
super monaco gp on the genesis is great!
racerxgundam Since I haven't played the Arcade version, then I'm of course talking about the Genesis version...
Maybe "Sucks" is a strong word, but the game is pretty boring compared to Sega's 'other' racing games... You know the ones...
Remember when Classic Game Room reviewed games? Pepperidge Farm remembers
The F1 World GP games on Dreamcast have better graphics.
How can you talk about Dreamcast racers and not mention _MSR_?!
This is the CGR quality content that I've been watching for years. I salute you Mark for your efforts and I love you bro.
Man, I would love to see a racing game with Pre-1950s race cars with today's "next gen" graphics.
This one and Spirit of Speed 1937 were the only ones to my knowledge, but Spirit was rather lackluster and both look dated today.
project cARS
Wrong.
The oldest car in Project Cars is the Lotus 25 from 1962.
me too. Spirit of speed didn't look like a very fun game in its execution, but I really liked the concept.
The TOCA game on the ps2 might have what you're looking for
Tripcore
he saisd todays graphics moron
Dreamcast games cost a lot more than five bucks now, hah. Prices have been rising steadily the past few years. That said, you should be able to score a copy of this title for 10-15 bucks.
Lord Karnage, when you find six friends, could you please make a 7 Player review of Death Tank Zwei? It's on Duke Nukem 3D, when you have an Exhumed save file on your Saturn.
Best local multiplayer game ever :-D.
That comment about old realistic racing games versus the new makes me think if he would like something like Grand Prix Legends. That game had a community LONG after it was released. Maybe even today it has some?
The controls in this game sucks. And it has the typical issue for DC games of having little to no visual effect. Speed Devils is a racing game I personally really liked on DC.
I don't think Mark has ever played Formula1 '99 on the Playstation, because that game looks incredible considering the hardware its running on. My only gripe is that the commentary, which was so good in earlier titles, fell completely flat.
At 1:48 they screwed up naming one of the tracks. The one track says Austria but its supposed to be AUSTRALIA haha the Albert Park Street Circuit!
The retro mode really took me by surprise, they should've just made a game based on just that.
It is very much lacking flamethrowers. And that is inexcusable.
i always felt that the dream cast was for douche bags. for a few reasons but dc just had this thing about it. maybe bc i knew a total douche bag that owned one, idk? you're vid is great tho Mark!
I'm sorry, but it ain't a racing game unless you have to purchase 75% of it as DLC.
FRAMEMEISTER
This game was waytohard to control. I know mark hated it but flag to flag was better
I'm upset that the dog doesn't have a CGR shirt yet.
Im a fan of the Suzuki game the turning is smooth and the maps aren’t bad.
This is the CGR quality content that I've been watching for years. I salute you Mark for your efforts and I love you bro.
if you love him u should go to patreon he needs more money for great videos like this, he is already making $8,000 plus a month but he needs more money to pay to hv he's youtube account.
this isn't one I play much, there's much better racing games on Dreamcast
For example?
hydro thunder, speed devils, pen pen triicelon, san francisco rush 2049, star wars episode 1 racer, looney tunes space race, tokyo extreme racer 1 and 2, wd magical racing tour, 4 wheel thunder, metropolis street racer, test drive le mans, sega gt, sega rally 2, daytona usa, f1 world grand prix, re volt, suzuki alstare, 4x4 evo, test drive 6, tnn motorsports, zusar vasar.
+Allan Miller I forgot how many great racers were on the Dreamcast. Thanks!
Buggy Heat is also fun.
Sorry, Buggy Heat was the japanese name for TNN Motorsport. I forgot it.
I played the original 1979 Monaco GP arcade machine (sadly wasn't ported on any consoles I'm familiar with) and it was pretty sweet for the time. This game looks great, but like the others said, there's no music! That's what's missing character-wise.
Can’t wait to try this game online!
nothing beats grand prix 2 from 1995!
Are you using frameiester on the crt? Isn't the frameiester made for HDTV's? And don't you need a Toro scart cable for the dreamcast?
He's playing on the CRT, but also sending the gameplay threw the Frameiester so he can record in HD at the same time, and that way it's a cleaner signal.
mark have you heard of carmageddon ?
They sound like remote control cars.
The sounds in this game are incredibly boring. You can almost hear in "checkpoint!" guy's voice how little he got paid for this
zing Ubisoft!
The PC version is my most played F1 racing game. I run it with dgvoodoo and can achieve 4k resolution. The gameplay is unbelievably good for such an old game.
Speed Devils is "ok"?????
I prefer SEGA Saturn's F1 Challenge over this Dreamcast game.
Even when this game came out, it didn't make much of an impression. I remember reading in game magazines about it, back then. Except for the high-end PC graphics (for the time), it didn't have personality enough to stand from the crowd.
And I was so disappointed when I played Formula 1 World Grand Prix 2, from Video System (the same company that did F1 GP on N64, a masterpiece), for the game was far less enjoyable than the older installment. It had severe frame rate issues, and it suffered from the same blandeness of this one.
Oh, and I like Suzuki Alstare Racing. It reminds me of Manx TT Superbike for the Saturn.
Thanks for the review Mark. I could never quite put my finger on why I don't like racing sims , or any simulation game for that matter, but I do now. They don't leave much room for creativity. I like the sem-realistic ones like Daytona USA and SEGA Rally because of the colourful graphics and an amazingly catchy soundtrack, whilst I love F-zero for its overall creative design and ridiculous speeds. For some people the lack of realism might be what kills these games, but I lob=ve racing games as over the top as I can get them.
The graphics look pretty good for the time. And the retro mode looks cool.
If you liked Hydro Thunder then you'll probably like 4 Wheel Thunder which is pretty much the same game except it's using 4 wheel drive trucks instead of boats. You also should try Gran Turismo 2 using the Bleem disk(if you can find one). GT2 looks amazing on the Dreamcast.
Racing games are usually the first type to show off a system's power but also the ones that are dated later on.
I can't believe you got the whole way through reviewing this game without mentioning the unfathomably cheesy 'song' that accompanies the German track in arcade mode (assuming you have the music on).
awesome
really? lol
The online version of this game is online is online again, makes it much funner
Lol Hari up!
pretty much a port of "Racing Simulation 2" for the N64.
I like how the track listing has "Europe" as a track like it is just a country among the others.
That's because that would have been the circuit for the European Grand Prix
I love this channel.😎
Nice review dude.👍
I wish there were really good, moto bike racing games,
on the dreamcast though.
no music?
This game has no Music.
This feels just wrong...
Well knowing it's that sort of Formula 1 based game, not really that surprised.
I think a game needs Music!
And in most games u can turn it off so it would be good.
Does this game have no music, or did Mark disable the music for fear of copyright?
Tattle Boad
yes but its a sim/arcade ,music in a racing game only makes sense if its a pure arcade racer,f1 drivers dont have a radio lmao
On the demo of Monaco GP for the Playstation it had some decent arcade music for the time. No idea is it made it into the full version or the Dreamcast.
Retro mode is pretty cool. I'd like to see that in other games.
Speed Devils is way better than this game. it has a lot more character, and it plays great.
Agree 100%. Played that a ton with roommates in college.
exactly, I masturbated like 34 times on February 4th 2008
I'll just stick to arcade racer games thank you very much.
Also how you gonna forget Metropolis Street Racer?
Lmao the tracks are in chronological order of the 97' season.
Looks really good for a 1999 game!
tnx v m
Michunlop tyres, that made my day lol...
Wasn't the DC a PS2 competitor? It was released 5 years after the PS1
I believe it was meant to blow systems like the PS1 out of the water, then the PS2 was announced and it effectively blew the Dreamcast out of the water.
Well it was released in 1999, 1 year before the PS2, so it's competition was still the PS1 and N64.
it was released a year before the ps2. It was a direct competitor they just released it to early and people held off for the ps2. Lack of dual analog controls was a a downer also.
***** Not only that, after the previews hardware fiascos the company had (Genesis failed peripherals, Saturn abruptly taken off the market, people and other companies stopped trusting the company.
Sega entered the 128bit era with companies like EA refusing to releasing their games for the DC, and of course after so many failures people were right to wait to see what Nintendo and Sony had to offer. Plus the stupid controller (no 2nd analog? only 6 buttons?).
This game gave me nightmares as a 6 year old
Wasn't the sister title on the N64? Because that was a good game, it had a career mode, looked better, and the AI was fairly balanced too.
no ,diff company and was licenced too
***** It wasn't licensed. You're thinking of F1 Racing that came out in 1999. The game I'm on about came out in 1998 and was published by Ubisoft.
Michael Burke
must of been fucking shit then if ubisoft made it
***** It wasn't all that bad to be fair. You'd join a back marker team and you'd have to work your way up to a better team. But graphically I think it was better than this game.
Are you confusing with F1 World Grand PrIx, developed by Video System? That was not onlly the best F1 game on the N64, but the best overall for quite some time around the end of the 90s.
not even just the original playstation - most dreamcast games even look better today than most ps2 games do. that system was so far ahead of its time.
Some of the courses really lack in roadside detail
It's actually more than ok though. Those are real race tracks, and it the "roadsides" are pretty much empty in all of them.
lol what a poor f1 game ,dosnt even say the track NAMES ! great britain ? no ,its england and its silverstone
HAAREE YUP!!
Compared to the wonderful Test Drive Le Mans, this looks quite dull.
the suzuki racing game you said is horrible... were u kidding???
I'm with you, man. That was really fun. It reminded me of Manx TT Superbike for the Saturn.
+Juliano Bittencourt yep, with the addition of analog! i still pop it in the dc every so often
Game just screams "meh"...at least it has a ton of content. Great review Mark
make the chicken a duck and you got yourself some merchandise