Gran Turismo 3: A -Spec (PS2)

Step up GT3 for the PS2 and all I can say is, absolutely amazing. this is what the hardware was made for. OK, let's not get carried away here, the game does have it's flaws, but nothing is perfect and right now there is nothing to rival this game. The detail is just out of this world every single aspect of racing is here in GT3. Awsome textures and lighting affects the heat haze off the cars and the sun shining off the tarmac is incredible. racing now is fierce and there is no such thing as an easy race anymore, which adds to the excitement.

The best driving sim around from the people that brought you the game that set the standard, a hard act to follow for the competition. Buy this game!


So real you can smell the clutch burn!!   January 18, 2004
 9 out of 9 found this review helpful

First of all only a quick reveiw. Secondly people moan because damage was taken out of this game. Now for many people that have played the gran turismo games then they would relise that there are races that can take up to 2 hours to finish. Now if you were on the last lap of this race in 1st place and you hit a wall at 150mph and wrote your car off then i think you would be well peeved.That is why sony decided to remove the damage psyics of the game to allow for this game to be finished. The graphics are amazing and the sounds are brill, gamplay is kept at a good pace with races for novices and pro racers. Now 99.9% of people that play this game drive a car and they still love this game like i do.


better than the rest   July 19, 2001
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Well, now we have the PS2 I suppose we'll all have to go out and buy the game the console's made for. Thats right GT3. Yeah, the plots the same as GT and GT2, but hey, it's a racing game - there are only so many variations you can have and this has them all. Graphics are fantastic, mist and dust rising off the road, you can almost see the mirror finish of the cars. Okay, it's got less cars than GT2, but, these are all better finished with 10 times the detail. This is the new benchmark for racing games. Graphics are what it's all about and this games has them in abundance. GT3 is the reason why I bought the PS2. The response of the cars are better, especially with the touch sensitive controller, now you can gently brake by touching the control button with light pressure or give it large off the line by mashing the buttons hard. The next step is go and by a Skyline R34 Vspec - and I don't have the cash so this IS the next best thing. Go and buy it you know it makes sense.


Amazing!   September 11, 2004
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is an amazing game. There are hundreds of cars on here and many tournaments. Graphics: The graphics is the best thing about the game. They look amazing on the car and surround area. Everything looks so 3D and realistic. When your racing at night the graphics on the cars lights look good and so do all the other lights. The sparkle on your car wehen your in the sun looks terrific. The graphics are definitly 10/10. Audio: There's not much to say though it just sounds right. The reving of the engine sounds great and so does everthing else aswell. There's music in the background for when your racing. Audio is 10/10. Gameplay: There's lots to do on this game. Loads of tournaments. It is quite boring at first cos' you'll want get all the licenses at first so you can buy all the best cars when you get the money. You start off with 20,000 at first and thats enough to buy a car. After that you will want to get more than 20,000 back so you get a better car but it takes a while. When you get about 50,000 you can get a good enough car to do some of the tournaments. Then you start to get more money and when you've got loads of money now you can buy a decent car. You can after that improve it by being able to buy upgrades for it such as a better engine and turbos to make it faster. You'll be getting loads of money then so you could afford a rally car and do the rally tracks. There are 5 leagues to do. Begginers, intermidiate, endurance, rally and professional. The endurance one is races with 50+ laps which take ages but is worth getting the money. You can take your car to the garage and wash it, change its oil or change it tyres to make it look better. Its a one or two player game and on one of the two player modes you can race in a rally cars and very fast sports ones. If you like games that take forever to complete like me, then this is the one for you. I highly recommend this to you.


A Girls Eye View   October 7, 2001
 23 out of 26 found this review helpful

I'd been struggling with GT2 for 6 months when the bloke went out and bought a PS2 and Gran Turismo 3. I've always been bad at racing games although I drive well - both bikes and cars - and was getting nowhere slowly with GT2. But since I tried GT3 I have to say I'm completely hooked. I'm up there with the 3-o-clock in the morning nerds just trying to win one more race. Emphasis on win, because thanks to the new graphics the girl who would struggle not to be lapped is winning.

The graphics on GT3 are perfect. Now I can see my corners approaching and have a reasonable size map to reference from I am winning races on unknown tracks. Its FANTASTIC!!! Admittedly I'm only winning races in the easy mode but its a start.

SO big thumbs up from me. Buy it, I cant imagine anyone not enjoying this game.