I swear that the AI in some games really piss me off. To make a long story short, I'm playing Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 and I'm currently doing Event 30 of the World Racing Championship. The McLarens are very fast cars and this particular event has you doing a 10 lap race on a decently sized track. Now, the track is pretty easy except for a series of nasty curves in a particular section, but there are ways to outgun the competition (I'm getting away from the point now, however).

I'm in first place most of the race, or at least at the end of each lap. There is a shortcut that allows me to get ahead of the AI by like 4-5 seconds, but the bad part is that the cheating AI ALWAYS manages to close the gap to under a second near the starting point. Of course, on the very last lap and on the very last stretch of the race, the 2nd place AI car manages to pass me up somehow and I end up ****ing losing the race. All of the cars are the same and I don't hit anything, but somehow the AI manages to speed past me and win the race.

On a completely different, but related, note, EA needs to cut the crap with the street racing games and make another Need for Speed similar to Hot Pursuit 2. I would very much buy that game in a heartbeat...

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	honestgamer - July 22, 2007 (11:19 AM) I agree completely with everything you just said. You have no idea how fully I agree. We could be clones.
	carcinogen_crush - August 22, 2007 (08:04 PM) I've heard about EA using some kind of "rubber-band" AI in their racers, or something like that. From hearsay, it's supposedly pretty cheap.