Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec (PS2)

...‘meat’ of the game – Gran Turismo Mode. Arcade mode is, as it suggests, the place to go for a quick blast of fun. Choose your difficulty level and your car, and that’s it – away you go! You can choose from a number of different race modes, including a timed race, a single, one-off race or even a two-player race. For me, though, ‘Gran Turismo’ mode is where the real fun is at. This is rather like a ‘story’ ...
...and must purchase a car (and obtain a racing license) in order to compete, earn more money, hone your car’s performance and progress towards the more challenging races. Sounds easy, right? Well, believe me, this mode of play alone is worth around 80 hours, by my reckoning. Yes, you read that right – EIGHTY hours! In ‘Gran Turismo’ mode, there are several categories of race – Beginner, Amateur, Professional, Endurance ...

ndf9876 09.03.2004 · Read full review
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The original Gran Turismo, released back in 1998 on the PSOne, was a remarkable piece of software. Not only dwarfing Namco’s brilliant Ridge Racer franchise, it dragged the racing genre back to the very forefront of console gaming. With its now-trademark glossy visuals, incredible depth and design, it became an instant classic. Gran Turismo 2 continued the good work when it hit our shores in early 2000, but by this point people were immediately ...
...would discover the answer in Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (GT3). GT3 was originally to be named Gran Turismo 2000, though this title had to be dropped when its release date fell into 2001. To me, this raised the question as to whether developers’ Polyphony Digital saw the series first PS2 outing as a true sequel or merely a tweaked version of the previous titles. Certainly the statistics are a little concerning at first; the 600 cars that were at your ...

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...believable. This game was called Gran Turismo and was available on the original Playstation console, there was one more Gran Turismo game released for the PSX before 2001 saw the release of Gran Turismo 3 A-spec for the fairly new Playstation 2. I remember actually seeing a feature on the six o’clock news regarding this game, such was its originality and sheer groundbreaking look it was literally the first game of its like the world had seen. The ...
...or take part in the Gran Turismo competition. Single racing is pretty much as the name suggests while the time trial is a good way to hone skills before challenging the big boys in the Gran Turismo mode with the majority of the cars available save for those really special ones. The real fun of the game though shines through when the Gran Turismo mode is selected. The player is given 18,000 credits to buy a car to race at various competitions for ...

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As I can hardly contain my excitement (no really i can't I've had to install a piss bag! Sorry!) waiting for GT4 I thought I'd write a review for the best driving game ever (NB: change at Xmas for GT4). And at the end of this month my beloved GT3 will be 3 years old. So Yey! Anyway for those that don't know GT3 is the outstanding driving simulation game from Polyphony, which follows on from GT and GT2 originally on Playstation original. It was released ...
...biggest selling driving game ever, and definately one of the biggest selling games of all time. The game is split into two modes Arcade and Career/simulation. The first mode is your standard racing game you start with a small selection of cars to choose from split into several classes so that you will be driving against a similar performance vehicle, you compete against 5 other cars btw, unless wet when its 3 and rally which is 1. And a choice of ...

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...some reason my appitite for Gran Turismo never wanes. Admittedly GT3 is technically just an update, but to paraphrase Carly Simon, “Nobody does it better.” Countless man hours are lost, relationships are stretched to breaking, all for this, this bubble of sensory deprivation formed around the GT player at the wheel of this quite majestic game. There are bad points. In my opinion the way it sucks away your free time and makes you blissfully unaware ...
...Shock pad ever again. Gran Turismo 3 is an essential game. You really cannot even begin to comprehend what I am saying until you play it for yourself. You will lose days to this game without even realising it, or once you do, even caring. This game has a lifespan that puts any other PS2 game to shame. Easily the best game on the PS2 so far. 9.3 out of 10 ...

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Gran Turismo 3 A-spec is THE most legendary racing game of the century. This turbo charged, mind blowing experience will get you from nought to happy in no time flat- buckle up, because your in for the ride of your life! Gran Turismo 3 has it all- Rally, Nascar, F1, you name it. And what’s more, the cars actually handle exactly as they would in real life! The object of the game is to win more and more money, buy and win more and more cars for your ...
...**The Graphics** Phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. The settings are based on real racetracks, and Boy oh boy are they detailed! And the cars- they look exactly like the real thing. But the replays are what really give this game justice. It’s hard to believe that you’re actually looking at an animation, because watching the replays are just like watching it on the telly! The only times when I felt detail was lacking is when you see the cars from ...

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When the original Gran Turismo hit the Playstation a few years back it set new standards for console racing game. It featured tons of licensed cars and limitless customization options usually only found in PC games. It went on to become one of the PS's best selling titles of all time. Then came Gran Turismo 2 which added more cars and tracks as well as rally racing. Many bashed it though for being too similar to the first game. It also didn't help ...
...Now Sony has finally released Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2. How does it match up to the previous 2 titles? Lets see. First off GT3 was actually going to be a translation of part 2. Sony later decided to go with a full sequel rather then a graphically enhanced GT2. This resulted in many delays in the game over the past year. So what's changed? Well not much really. First off the number of cars has been drastically cut down to around 185 cars. This is ...

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The daddy of racing sims jumped onto the PS2 in style with this fantastically detailed gorgeously good looking and hugely impressive game in 2001. The first 2 games of the series lay the ground work for this to improve to such a standard that at the time I personally thought the game couldn't be bettered as a racing simulation, though the future proved it could with the immensely impressive GT4 that was released in 2005. For those of you unsure ...
...fans what other games have yet to fully replicate. The games major single player mode is myriad of races and competitions, in which winning a competition unlocks a car and grants you with money in which to buy more cars or upgrade one of your current vehicles. You go from the easy Sunday league level competitions of 2 or 3 laps, in some lowly hunk of junk that you won't use much beyond your first hour or to of the game, to unlocking monster cars, ...

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...now. Long awaited Gran Turismo 3 was finally released in the US in July 10th, and it’s by far the greatest racing game to hit the console. This statement was also made for its predecessors. The original Gran Turismo was called the greatest, but people had their doubts about the graphics on Gran Turismo 2. A major upgrade from the original system’s days, the game has evolved while sticking true to its roots to provide a fun and challenging racing ...
...800HP Dodge Viper in a Gran Turismo All Stars event. You win cars and money as you go up in ranks, and you are also allowed to buy performance parts for your car. If you are a hardcore sim’er, you can fully customize your car with a racing suspension and play around with the stabilizers, shocks, traction control computer, and etc until you have a machine that you are 100% comfortable with. There are also speed-adding tune-ups, such as Turbochargers, ...

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...you ask - well through Gran Turismo 3 on my lovely little Playstation2 of course. Now I’m not one for driving games usually but when I finally got my grubby little hands on the black box of fun, I knew that I needed a game that wasn’t all punch, punch, kill, kill (my other 2 games were Metal Gear Solid and Tekken Tag Tournament, so y’know) so promptly partook of Gran Turismo 3 from the shelves, I’d played both of its predecessors and remembered ...
...has to be said that Gran Turismo 3 is one of the slower loaders, but it has to be said that most gamers will be prepared to put up with a slight niggle like that so long as the game is good - and thankfully its one of the best games I’ve played in a long time and is easily the best racing game there ever was by a mile (pun intended). But you’re into the game finally and what choices do you have? - well there's 3 choices although being brutally honest ...

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...For those who have experienced gran turismo before, you are probably aware that getting you’re A licence isn’t easy at all, and sorry folks, but it isn’t on GT 3 either, it is harder but it needs to be, because it gives you the experience before you enter the races, because they are not easy at all. There are 6 licences in total, A + B domestic A + B normal, special and rally, and I have had the game since Christmas and I still ...
...paid £39.99 for my game, my mate paid £37.99 and another mate paid £44.99 so it pays to shop around a little, but neither of us paid over the odds for it because the game is worth twice that ADDICTIVITY You ever seen the Pringles advert, once you pop, you just cant stop, well this is the same, once you start you just cant stop, it so addictive, and no matter how many times you play you will notice something new about the game every time, there ...

carl_1_uk 08.01.2002 · Read full review
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Gran Turismo has become a household name. It has become the pinnacle in motor racing games. Is it deserved, undoubtedly, and does Gran Turismo 3 carry on the standards set by GT1 and GT2? You bet it does, and goes a bit further in an attempt to create the most realistic and enjoyable racing game on any platform. The first thing I noticed when I first played GT2 was how addictive it was. I couldn’t explain it, but I know I spent many, many hours ...
...deal from previous incarnations of Gran Turismo, so you’ll instantly recognise the courses. There are however a few new ones, most notably the Monte Carlo Grand Prix circuit. The others are good, but in my view not as good as some of the tracks that have been replaced by them. Some of them are now far too tight and twisty, though this is a very good test of driving skills, and requires you to use yours skill rather than just flooring the throttle ...

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...than any other. Gran Turismo 3 has arrived and it’s going to grab you by the hair and very viciously throw you around. That’s if you DON’T like driving games. If you DO like driving games however, then you’re going to go absolutely wild over this. When Gran Turismo (The real driving simulator TM etc) arrived on the Playstation at then end of the 20th century (it’s dramatic but technically correct!), we were blown away ...
...an even better one - Gran Turismo 2. Bigger and better in most ways although graphically there was no real difference. The game was so damned big though that they had to put it on two discs instead of one and they even threw in rally options on top of the normal road racing for good measure. The world loved Gran Turismo all over again. Then things went quiet as the PS2 emerged. Surely there was going to be a Gran Turismo game on the machine? Oh yes. ...

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...life has been spent playing Gran Turisimo 1 and 2, but it’s no exaggeration to say that my expectations of GT3 were very very high. Initial thoughts weren’t so good, however. After finally managing to borrow a Playstation 2 for a fortnight whilst a friend was away, I looked forward to some intensive driving and a good opportunity to put the Playstation 2’s premier game through it’s paces. You get a choice of arcade, which ...
...After diving straight into the Gran Turisimo mode (the purists choice), the first thing to strike me was the lack of second hand cars. In the previous two incarnations, you could pick up a second hand motor for a reasonable amount of cash and upgrade it substantially to take on the big boys. The second hand market has been removed from GT3, although you can pick up a few older models from the showrooms. This was a disappointment, as one of the highlights ...

bphester99 08.11.2001 · Read full review
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Gran Turismo 3 Gran turismo 3 is the latest driving game in the series and is by far the best. The game which is available solely for the playstation 2 boasts some of the most gorgeous graphics ever seen with atmospheric eye candy galore, ranging from light streaking through a forest track to the sun glistening over the monte carlo racecourse. The game however is more than just one of races, though that is possible for a quick fix. In arcade mode ...
...player race against the computer, a race for the best time, split screen racing against a friend or the ghost car option where you race the 'ghost' of your fastest lap so you race yourself to get a quicker time. Then there is Turismo mode. Here you start of with 18,000 credits and no car. From here you will need to purchase one and start entering races to win prize money to upgrade and buy a better car and so on. The are several leagues of races ...

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