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Sega GT - RACE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this game is good! I just bought it at my local EB for 8 bucks. I brought it home and played it with my friend, and we played it. The cars steered out of control, and they seemed to have a magnetic attraction to the wall!

Eventually, I got used to it and mastered the game. The scenery is the best I've seen. I constantly find myself staring at the massive buildings, rocky canyons, instead of the road. Very great visuals, very slick.

The prize of this game is Championship mode. It is amazing. You can buy lots of licensed cars, tune them to perfection, then race them. The idea to get licenses in order to unlock new circuits can be good, but when you just underqualify by .20 seconds, boy it's frustrating. The single race mode is very nice, and adds to the replayability. A very cool part is the "carrozerria" (like a pizzeria), where you can build your own car. But you have to have licenses to do that by racing, blah blah, and you have no more than 3 customizations to build your own car.

The CPU doesn't offer that much of a challenge. For example, I was in a Cappucino in an Open race. The Cappucino had only 64 HP and around 600 CC. I raced a Ford Mustang, which has around 400 HP and 5000 HP, and he won by about 10 seconds. And another time I raced someone with the same exact car and I beat them by 5 seconds. Stick to Time Attack for a fun challenge.

All in all, a decent racing game. One of the best I've played since Gran Turismo 3. If you have a tight wallet and you want a good racing game that'll keep you occupied for 10-20 hours, pick this one up.

GARBAGE!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought Sega GT and got it all scrached up from invideo2002. I wish I can tell you how fun that game is, but I can't because of invideo2002 that gave me a full scrached CD. I'll just say how fun it is by looking on the screenshots.

mad as ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i purchased this game twice.the first time the game wouldn't play.the second time i purchased it on december 17th and it hasn't even got here and it's january 3rd.i will never order anything from this site again.

Good, but no Gran Turismo

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My original modern gaming console was a PlayStation, and one of the first games I bought for it was the original Gran Turismo. It was extremely popular, spawning Gran Turismo 2 and (on PlayStation2) Gran Turismo 3 - each far better than the previous game in the series.

Sega GT seems to be the DreamCast response to the ever-popular Gran Turismo series. For a first attempt at this type of ''driving simulation,'' this is an admirable effort... but there is still a long way to go.

On the very positive side, the license tests in Sega GT are VERY generous toward the player; whereas the Gran Turismo series sets very high standards, including keeping at least one wheel on the racing surface at all times and not permitting any contact with walls or barriers or other obstacles, the only requirement in the Sega GT license tests is that the player complete a lap at a given course or segment in the time posted. Another great point of Sega GT is the variety of courses available, from two drag strips to a high-speed course reminiscent of the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the tunnels of the Allegheny Mountains to a wintry course to several desert-based courses between tall rock cliffs. The ability for players to create their own cars (which requires A LOT of money) is a novel addition to a ''driving simulation,'' and there are specific licenses and races for which these Original Cars can only compete. Finally, the use of sponsors is great; for each race/series win, each sponsor pays a given amount of money, which can thus turn low-paying races into nice cash machines if a player can accumulate a lot of sponsors.

On the down side, Sega GT has some nice cars. but there are relatively few of them, especially compared to Gran Turismo 2. The navigation of the Car Shop to buy the cars (new and used cars are available) is a bit awkward. While there are a lot of tuning parts which can be purchased, there is little effect gained or lost in making adjustments. Finally, car control in general is awkward at best, especially with high-horsepower vehicles; many high-horsepower cars are simply impossible to drive at competitive speeds.

For those with young children, Sega GT will be good for the kids as well as the parents - especially since there are numerous pre-owned DreamCasts and associated games available (at least in the States) for fairly low prices. However, those looking for a true ''driving simulation'' would be much better served by acquiring Gran Turismo 2 (for PlayStation/PSOne) and/or Gran Turismo 3 (for PlayStation2).

The best racing simulation on Dreamcast

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't say I blame Sega for copying Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo was a hell of a game for Playstation, so Sega decided to take something great and make it better. Though Sega didn't make it better than Gran Turismo, they came close, and the result is the beautiful Sega GT. The graphics are mouth watering, the control is smooth, and the gameplay is tight. The only problem is that there is a very steep learning curve when you want to try the Hard Class cars like the Viper, the control is very very sensitive and if you put too much speed into it and crash, you'll be flipped around backwards. It takes a lot of time to master this game, just like Gran Turismo, but in the end you'll be satisfied with this gem of a Dreamcast game.

a good racing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game you buy cars and monafiy to make them go faster
the tracks are fun and well done

SEGA GRAND TORISMO

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. It is very hard. Unlike many other games where you can go from 6th place to 1st in one minute. It is hard to hold these cars in the road. I was hoping there would be more cars that I had heard of. Many of these must be overseas models. I also would like to have more tracks. This game is worth having and takes a whole lot of time to master.

Swing and a miss...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sega GT was developed as a clone for the Playstation's Gran Turismo series. As a GT diehard, at first, I thought that this was a no-lose proposition: I'd get better graphics, different tracks, and even if the gameplay didn't hold up quite as well..., I would at least have something different to put in my machine.

After repeated plays of Sega GT, it's obvious that the little things within GT2 were what made that game so wonderful to play. The lack of attention to detail (extraordinary graphics aside) and the inability to understand just what makes a good racing game in the first place are what will keep me away from Sega GT.

First things first, the GT series focuses on near-simulation control for the cars. The variety of vehicles and the complexity of the tracks make it an extremely deep game (if you want to go there). BUT, though difficult, the game is FAIR, and thus playable. The mantra repeated to people who initially have trouble getting comfortable with GT is, "The cars control like real cars, you'll get used to it eventually."

My love afair with Sega GT ended the first time I needed to brake into a corner: the car would not under any circumstances turn while braking. The cars apparently act this way because someone on the development staff thought real cars behaved in this manner. However, as the computer competition shows (they CAN brake and turn at the same time), this is not the case. This alone makes Sega GT unplayable, or even worse, teaches you such poor driving habits that you will have a difficult time readjusting to the controls of every other racing game you own from Ferrari F355 Challenge to Mario Kart.

Going on isn't necessary, but I will. The menu system is difficult to navigate: the goals are not clearly defined, race entry guidelines are not listed, and even the cursors tend to be unintuitive to control. The tracks are extremely simple by GT standards (lots of ovals, or slight variations of them) and don't offer nearly the variety of types of driving available in GT2. For example, GT2 has power courses with high top speeds and sharp turns, tight technical courses, and very bumpy courses with a variety of high speed corners that are murder on mid-engine cars. This selection works well for the wide variety of cars available in GT2. Of course, Sega GT has about a fifth of the cars that can be found in GT2, so this wouldn't be much of an issue anyway, I suppose.
Even the great graphics of the game do get in the way at times. Whereas GT2's tracks were (necessarily) well lit or contained bright yellow markers to signify the curves, some of the courses in Sega GT get lost in the haze. It's difficult to make out some of the corners or where the walls begin and end until you're right on top of them.

In short, the more I play Sega GT the more I appreciate GT2. Now that Bleemcast for GT2 is available, there's no reason to even consider buying this abomination. GT2 aside, there are simply too many good driving games available for the Dreamcast for someone, even a driving game nut, to buy Sega GT.

Alternate excellent driving games for the Dreamcast:
1. Test Drive LeMans
2. Ferrari F355 Challenge3. Metropolis Street Racer

Still better, but not highly recommended:
* Daytona USA 2001
* Sega Rally 2
* Vanishing Point
* F1 World Championship* Test Drive V-Rally

worst car control ever!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is so badd i dont even want to talk about it one thing to say is the car control is horrible. whats a racing game with no car control. sega how could you let this one out of the door.AAAAAARRRRRRRHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!!!

So addicting . . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games ive ever played on sega dreamcast. You get to get some nice cars (and some ... ones) and you can ... them out. This means upgrade and ad parts and engine, and even get nicer rims!! There are two cons to this game: 1. you cant make the apearence of the car better besides the rims. 2. you can drive your beast into ne thing and it will stay in showroom condition. I really like the reality of racers where you can damage your car like in Need For Speed for the PC, but other than those two things, this game is exelent.
So buy it!!!!

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