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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!!!!!!!

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.

Pretty, but sadly not Gran Tourismo

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well we had very high hopes when this arrived, and it does indeed look fine. Very fine in fact. But...

Thing is, looks aren't everything, and when it comes to driving feel it all goes South very quickly.

Slam on the brakes when you're in the middle of a tight turn and you'll loose control and spin the car, right? Wrong. You'll just merrily slow down and keep turning. You can't cause the backend to come loose and slide sideways at all. Ever. No matter what you do (yes, I tried everything).

Side off a corner into gravel and you'll lose control, right? Wrong. You'll just keep on turning round that corner; maybe a bit less tight, and a few miles and hour slower, but that's the worst that will happen to you. All the non-road edge surfaces work like tarmac, just slow you down a bit.

If you're looking for driving realism this game is not the one for you. Not at all. You should definitely check out "Ferrari 355". Now that's *really* like driving! You should even go back to Gran Tourismo on the PSX. Don't come here.

If you're after very pretty, very fast arcade style racing then this is a fine choice and I'm sure you'll enjoy it plenty.

-matt

pretty images, poor realism

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The graphics in the game are nice. I think the visual models of the cars are not bad, although some of them reflect poorly and look like they are made out of clay rather then coated in high-gloss paint. My real beef with this game is the handling of the cars. When I first started racing the game, the 600cc car I drove felt like a marshmello, and I was excited, thinking that as I worked my way up through the cars, I'd get better and better handling. But, after playing several cars, and racing ones that I'm familiar with in real life, I found that they were ALL modeled after a marshmello. The handling is just awful, both with the hand controller or a steering wheel. Sure, it is challenging to herd the cars around the detailed tracks, but I was hoping to actually feel like I was driving. It is impossible to spin a car, even a 500hp car in 1st gear in sand! Every aspect of driving is missing refinement and realism.. The only reasonably modeled driving games I've seen yet for Dreamcast are Monaco GP and Revolt. This game was fun for a couple hours, but now it goes into the stack of rarely used games along with other dissapointments like F1 GP.. Had I known about the poor simulation, I would have waited and picked up a used copy rather then pay full price.

Good, but not good enough!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: September 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I dont know if my expectations for this game were too lofty, I was expecting a game at least as good as Gran Turismo, but it is not. The graphics going along with most all Dreamcast games are very good, as a matter of fact the best graphics to date for a racing game. But the problem with this game seems to be the same problem that has plagued other dreamcast titles. The problem is that the game seems to have been hastily produced and the game seriously suffers for that. There are only around 100 cars in the game. That might be enough for some, but Gran Turismo 2 has many, many more cars, and the Dreamcast is supposed to be a superior system so therefore it should produce a game that is just as good or better than Gran Turismo. Secondly the tracks are not very interesting and many times hard to navigate. Another poor point to the game is the sound. The sound effects are LOUSY. The cars do not sound like real cars. For example the turbo cars in Gran Turismo have a noticeable turbo whine which distinguished them from the non turbo cars, that sound is not there in Sega Gt (I dont think that is too nitpicky, I drive a car with a turbo, and you can definitly hear it when it spools up). I think that example just shows how Sega Gt is nowhere near as thorough as Gran Turismo. Some people may not think its fair to compare the two games, but if you have played Sega Gt you can see that it is basically a rip off of Gran Turismo, pretty much everything is straight out of it, from the liscensing to the way that you tune your car, except that Gran Turismo has a much better interface. There are no features that are new different or for that matter better than what Gran Turismo offers. The ONLY thing that Sega Gt has that is better than Gran Turismo and Gran Turismo 2 is its graphics, and with the Playstation 2 coming out soon and Gran Turismo 2000 there will soon be nothing better about this game compared to the competition. Overall I gave this game 2 stars because the Dreamcast is more powerful than the Playstation has better sound than the Playstaion and supposedly better gameplay, but what I have found is that this game can only compete with on the level of Graphics, Gran Turismo 1&2 are much better games, and more fun to play. With all that is better about the Dreamcast this game does not compare with a game from an inferior system (there is no excuse for that!) If this is the kind of game that you can expect from the Dreamcast this system will soon be joining the Saturn.

I'm telling the truth - there are better racers... (sorry)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the guys who bought this game the first day - I was that excited. There are 3 things wrong with it, and they are wrong enough that there are better games to buy. First, it takes forever to build up to a good car. Truthfully, unless you want to spend hundreds of hours, be content with the little boxes. But mainly, the controls are too touchy. The cars have serious difficulty being controlled, and the only people who will argue with me, are children and people without a life - so they don't mind a game that is sort of like a relationship. This game abuses you from time to time. 3rdly, the interface is so tedious, that you go from menu to menu. Again, the only people that will love this are those who feel satisfaction for figuring out how to run it. Forget it - get "Test Drive LeMans" = it's much better, or "Test Drive V-Rally" or "Sega Rally 2". In my opinion - they all offer a better gaming time.

Not Grand Turismo

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If U are like me you enjoyed Grand Turismo & G.T.2 for the way the cars drove! very realistic as video games go, but the graphic's could have been better, and no damage modeling? Now I bought a Dreamcast and this game hoping to get at least the better graphics, Well thebackground's are sweet! but the car's leave alot to desired. The game also left me cold with the way it drove,none to realistic. If U like your games heavy on the arcade side this game will please U, but if U have a drivers license and want to live out your racer's fantasies this game will disapoint! To bad, So much more power with the Dreamcast and except for Ferrari F-355 there does not seem to be a decent driving sim out there.

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).

Gran Turismo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: December 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its about time that the dreamcast had a decent driving game, and its more or less a rip of of Gran Turismo, and i dont mean that in a bad way. The graphics are good the game play is excellant, i havent been able to stop playing it since i purchased it. You have to get licences the same as in Gran Turismo so if you have played it you will be familiar with the concept of the game. This is the closest the dreamcat will ever get to a Gran Turismo and i think its a job well done

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