 "Fun game." | 2009-07-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: APS7IH14C8AZ9 |
| This is the very first gran turismo game made. It is very fun and allot easier than the others. There r so many different cars in this game, not even close to the amount as the newer ones but it has allot for the first game. The graphics r good for the ps1 but i have seen better. The cars slow down every time they hit a wall so that is one thing i hate and most of the tracks r only ment for a couple racers not six or more. That makes the track very hard to race on. In the quick race it lets u get better but it only has about twenty cars and ten tracks but it is fun if u play it on multiplayer. That is the reason that i like this game so much, it has a great multiplayer. It does get boring after awhile but it is a fun game. |
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 "This game changed my life!" | 2009-06-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1DUWRMZVLRKAJ |
When this game came out I was a pimply faced highschool kid. All I wanted was a car heck even a drivers license would do. The closest thing I could get to driving a real car was playing games like well... playing games like.... ummm? well... THERE WERE NO GAMES EVEN CLOSE TO DRIVING A REAL CAR!
Then one day at funcoland I picked up a magazine and read about this new game comming out called Gran Turismo, and how it was the ultimate car game. They used real cars and physics to make the game that much authentic. It was the closest a pimply faced highschool kids dream come true. This wasn't just another mash the gas driving game... this was a revolutionary driving experience.
I slapped my 20 bucks down on a preorder that day. When Gran Turismo was realised... it changed all driving games as you know it. All I remember was this being the first driving game that took cars seriously, and I don't know about you, but the first time I loaded in that Disk, and saw all those car names flashing across the screen I almost wet my pants in exctasy. This was the driving game I had been waiting for my entire life!
Never had there been so much detailed paid to a vehicle in a game. I mean everysingle aspect was there,even a car wash! I have no idea how many hours I spent playing that game, but took up heaps of my time afterschool. The game was an instant legend, and if you didn't own it, didn't play it, or didn't know someone who had or did, you might as well as hung yourself with your Sega Saturn power chord. The game was just that good.
Even to this day I don't think anything has quite impacted or revolutionized racing games...other than the idea of online game play. But, this was the game that gave birth to it all. Sure over the years there have been many platform editions of the game, but there is only one true gran turismo, and that's the original. If your looking for this game today, its because you want to add it to your ps1 collection, and this is a game well worth having if you missed out on it. As for me, I have my memory cards sitting in the garage, just incase someone wants to Challenge my Dodge Viper GTS-R one day. |
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| "The reason I left Nintendo" | 2008-10-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A16Y3V564RMGLA |
First of all I am from Guatelama, back then in 1998, I was saving to get my nintendo 64 system. But one day my older brother, went to a videogame store planning to by the 64 with Mario. I had already sold my SNES, and i was just waiting to begin collecting stars. Then when my bro came by, He was carrying a bag with a Playstation Box and a rare game called Gran Turismo.
I was really mad, until he connected it, and when the Sony logo appeard, I was shocked, sound, graphics etc, from the video of Gran Turismo the presentation, to my first race, that was it, I forgot everything about nintendo, except of Killer Instinct, but thats how it started.
The other Gran Turismos are obviolusly better, but this is the one that made the leap. like, MGS, FFVII, and all those awesome PS1 games that changed how we play right now. Gran Turismo is that kind of game that not everyone loves, specially the arcade ones, but its simply amazing. The best of its kind and time.
By that time a NFS normaly had no more than 15 - 20 cars, and this changed it forever with more than 160 cars. If you want a realistic experience buy a PS3 and Gran Turismo 5, and after that you'll want to have the collection. I have passed the 5 of them, including the prologue, it takes time, but that why i am paying.
Characteristics:
+ 160 cars and customizable, first time in history
11 detailed tracks
real Phisics
Best racing graphics until Gran Turismo 2 and so on.
most realistic control until....GT2 and so on too
The best quaility in menus, and a revolutionary simulation mode, also an arcade mode.
First time ever replays and to save you replay too.
Simply a classic. |
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| "Solid racer" | 2007-09-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A23PRCK9974NFF |
This game does seem a bit lacking after playing the other games in the franchise, but holds up well if you don't mind the graphics.
Buyer beware. Watch out for copies that don't read Greatest hits on. Seems there was a bug that wouldn't allow you to get 100% in the game. These copies alway have been known to wipe out your garage. |
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| "A 6-Star Game" | 2005-06-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3UN6WX5RRO2AG |
| This is one of the best games I have ever played. If there was a 6-star rating on this, I would choose it. This is an 6-Star game and it really is. Just about everything is rated 10 out of 10 for me. The only thing that wasn't a 10 was the car choices, which was 9.7, and the graphics, which was 9.3. Now the car choices to me are a perfect 10. Here are my ratings: Gameplay - 10, Challenge - 10, Car Choices - 10, Course Choices - 10, Graphics - 9.3, Overall: 9.86. I want to thank all the people that made this game for creating it, and myself for rating it an overall 9.86. There's another one out there. I know it. And when I beat this game, I will get Gran Turismo 2. But that's another story. Thanks again! |
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| "Heaven on wheels!" | 2005-02-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: ACSZTM3KHFPBL |
This is, by far, undeniably the racing game to have.
A game with over 20 cars to choose from? UNHEARD OF at the time- this game's got over 150, folks.
A game with true-to-life car physics, sounds, and handling? GET REAL, right? Nope, all here.
A game with so much customization, import tuner companies piss their pants? It's ALL here.
Gran Turismo is the original racing simulator that started it all.
You start off with a measly 10,000 bucks. That all but gets you a clunker of a car, which, after beating a bunch of driver's ed tests, you can use to sneak your way through a few races....winning a bit of cash and some cars you can either sell or save to tune later....until you can finally buy your dream car (which for me was the Acura NSX Type S-Zero the first time I played through it)
Let me just stress how perfect this game is....
Sure, your first time through it, you'll take a hairpin turn at Grand Valley way too fast, spin out of control, scream, yell, and curse at the TV, maybe throw and break your controller as you finish in last place....but over time, you'll feel so much utter control of your car, that any shimmy or shake the car makes while cornering or countersteering or powersliding, you'll know exactly how to correct it. No two cars in the game handle the same. You have your FF, FR, MR, and 4WD drivetrains.
Simply, you have it all here.
The graphics in the game push the Playstation to the limit....this, GT2, and R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 are by far the best-looking racing games on the original Playstation.
There are hordes of races to race, and multiple cars to win, so the replay value is through the roof.
My absolute FAVORITE part about the game is fine-tuning the gear ratios of a fully-tuned, supercharged turbo monster of a car, and trying to get every last ounce of power out of it for a top speed at the Test Track. I've literally spent days at a time fiddling with the gear ratios on a car, knowing that someway, somehow, I'd be able to squeeze another 2 or 3 MPH out of it. Not only that....adjusting the car's ride height affects top speed and acceleration, too....
My personal best was achieving 274 MPH with the Mitsubishi GTO Twin Turbo MR....It took me at least 8 hours to get it from its standard 252 MPH top speed it gets with all of the top performance parts, and no fiddling with gear ratios or anything....
The one, and ONLY downside to the game is that you only get $12,000 for any car you sell that you won from a tournament. Even a car that you KNOW should rake in WAY more than just 12K....like say for instance, the TVR Cerbera LM.
Other than that, this game is absolute perfection, 10 out of 10....
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