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ruined game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game, I reallly did. But [bad] handles ruins this gorgeous looking racer. I am one of the biggest gearheads in my neighborhood (and I am only 12), and I totally went out and rented this game. A day later I returned it because it was that bad. After playing for about 2 minutes and beating it in a extra hour and 30 minutes that I will never get back in my life, I cried for the rest of the night. I also had nightmares japanese-anime looking Dodge viper GTS concept cars hitting me. Please save yourself and your leisure time from this terrible game.

Auto LodaSh**sa

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Sorry, don't buy this game! The idea of a cell shaded racre is cool, all the hype, the pictures and the new challenger to Gran tourismo are completely false. You have zero control of your car around corners, braking sends your car into some crazy wobble across the track until you slow down enough to go straight (with added SFX of something reminisent of opening the door to your home on a very windy day and not closing it right!)
I was stupid - i bought it full price when it came out and hated it the second i got going. Music sucks, tracks suck, sound sucks - cars look cool but overall - IT SUCKS!

Don't waste $1 let alone $50 on this heap of steaming stuff!!!

auto modellista

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the absolute worst game i have ever played. I also feel that it totally ruins the online experience. Whoever made this game should really consider another line of work. If you want a good game go get SOCOM navy seals. Best game they ever made.

NOT a cartoon gran turismo 3.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

-Auto Modellista is not what I thought it would be. Whenever I asked anyone about it they said "oh! yea that, its like a cartoon gran turismo 3". it's not.

-It's a very short game with awful physics and the most number of laps in a race is like 4 around a short track. I beat this game in 3 days. only playing for 45-75 minutes a day.

-Most of your time though is spent customising your cars which is awsome because of the good variety of cars and the variety of parts. The customazation of cars is the best part of the game. That is why I gave it 2 stars.

-The online mode is fun if you can find someone to play whith but the online racing isn't as fun as midnight club II (niether is the game)

-The multi player is fun if you can find someone at your skill level.

---thats all now go buy Gran Turismo 3 or Mightnight club II---

Are the other reviewers here insane?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love racing games. My first experience with a killer racing game was Rage Racer on PS1. I loved R4, Gran Turismo, and Gran Turismo 2, and Wipout 3 on the PS1. The PS2's pure racers have been more sparse for me. I loved GT3, but short of that, I consider the best car game on the system to be GTA3 and GTAVC. Now, to the subject at hand:

Automodellista breaks the one big rule of racing games. It has horrible physics. Rent it first, please. Watch one of your replays. Yes, you can come to a full stop just turning, and I'm not talking powersliding to a stop, you just stop when you turn. Also, I've hit a wall and watched my car, with it's center of gravity fixed, rotate. The tires aren't the source of propulsion in this game as they are in GTA and GT.

Money...Rage Racer and the Gran Turismo series add fun because you have to buy the cars and buy the upgrades. There is no concept of money in AM. You want a viper, sure, have one. You want another, to paint different, sure, have another. Any car, you got it. I'm talking before you race one race.

However, the graphics are stunning, but who cares.

Rent it so you know... Don't just trust me...

Eh.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: August 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its so hard to handle your car that you lose every race. The graphics may be great, but the way they made this game is poor. I would maybe rent it but dont buy it because I took it to a used game shop to sell after I played it once. Dont get this.

Not The Greatest Racing Game :(

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ya, this game is not the greatest racing game I've played...I mean, even Tokyo Extreme Racer Zero is better than this. The only thing I like about this game is there is a lot of cars to choose from, it doesn't cost to get parts, and you can decorate your garage. Decorating your garage is the coolest thing. You can put any kind of posters you win up, and you can put all the other things you win. To me, thats probably the best part of the game. The racing looks so kiddyish, and the turning is kind of wierd. I havent played online yet so maybe that might be better than the single-player. Im gonna go play Counter-Strike...Im out!

Good Hype...Poor Racing...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is mostly hype. I was hoping for GT3 with cell shading but that's not what this game is. The graphics are different but there are a lot of jaggies and pixelization. Most of the cars upgrades are avaliable for free so why work hard to get your car in shape? The controls are too sensative. Turn alittle to much and the car spins out coming to a complete stop. I can't count the number of races I was leading but spun out and ended up 6th. I also found the special effects from the tires and of the line when driving fast to be very annoying.

depressingly lackluster!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Auto modelista is a huge let down as far as racing sims go with only one saving grace. The thing that matters the most in a videogame is the core gameplay, length, and replay value, and auto modelista falls flat on its face in all three categories.

First of all the core gameplay. The game has very short, unmemorable tracks, which is really a shame because the graphics are excellent. The cars drive terribly, powerslide around every turn. As for the car selection, the game consists mostly of uninspired import cars, and the occasional viper or corvette.

As for the length of this game, it took me roughly 3 hours to beat, which is laughable compared to the 35 hours i have on final fantasy 10, and im still nto even close to done! The longest race is 4 or 5 laps long across a tin race course, really the load times took more than the race time most of the time.

As for the replay value, once you beat the game, your done, might as well use this game for kindling in your fire place. Yes, it does feature online game play, but it is terribly uninspired, and just as boring and brief as the offline expierience.

So what is the one saving grace of this game? The pretty graphics of course! Through all of the flaws the light of graphics does gleam through on this not so shiny gem. Customizing your car is extremely entertaining, and finding all the perfect tones of paint for your car. There is also a wide array of stickers, and a custom sticker maker. The down side of the sticker maker is that it is no where near user friendly, and a tutorial would have been VERY helpful.

In conclusion your money is much better spent elsewhere. This is the kind of title that comes out terrible, then the sequel unexpectedly blows you away, so lets just keep our fingers crossed that if there is an aut modelista 2, they completely overhaul the terrible controls and make the races MUCH longer!

worst game ever!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: May 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is so stupid! please save yourslef the 50 bucks of complete pointlesness! the only reason i didnt give it 1 star is because of the online play. its the only +.

Pros:
Online play

Cons:
everything else

please do not buy this game

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