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Not what I thought it would be.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This games is only okay. The time trial and choosing a car were fun but the graphics are terrible. Stay away from the game. It is a waste of money.

Very good - for a hand held. . .

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is indeed one of the best hand-held racing games ever made. Unfortunately, this isn't saying much.

The graphics are excellent, and the track layouts varied. Gameplay is standard for a gamepad-controlled racing game. The controls are somewhat frustrating, but can be gotten used to.

The music is absolutely horrendous. This game's musical tracks make the original gameboy sound good. You'd think that with all this processing power they would be able to get some good sampled tunes in there, but it's all synth blips and bleeps. This is downright disappointing, considering Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Super Mario Advance, among others, have wonderfully enjoyable sampled music.

As bad as the music is, the game's true bane is the password system. Not content to simply let you save your progress to a battery backup like most other games, the designers for some strange reason felt that a terribly lengthy password would serve us better. Need an example? Here's the first password I got after playing for a while: R3g4 0S4K v-f2 2TkV. "So what," you say? Well, you scroll thru all those characters by pressing up and down. In order to input your password when you start the game, you have to scroll through 16 sets of capital letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters. On the average, it takes almost 2 minutes just to get the password in. It doesn't sound long, but trust me, it seems like forever when you just want to play a quick game. Then, if you only have time to race one track, you have two choices: turn it off and lose your progress, or spend another few minutes writing another long password down.

It's quite frustrating.

In all, it's a decent hand-held racing game. Unfortunately, the game's password system and music keep me from wanting to pick it back up. ...

good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is good. The graphics are excellent for a handheld device, and the play is realistic. However, there is no save function, and to get to your level, you must enter a password. This would not be that bad, except for the fact that the password is 16 characters long.

Buy it used from one of us who are going to sell it back

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I work for a Software Company-- so I know how the guys operated when they pushed this game out. They had probably been working on it for quite sometime, making a great game, when the boss said, "Oops, Gameboy Advance is shipping guys... We need to ship too while Gameboy's are still selling like hotcakes." And QA pleaded, "but they will hate this ridiculous password setup, boss!" And the boss had to make a decision... To spend more time making this quality game actually fun to use, or rake in the dough and take complaints later.

That's right they dropped it unfinished in our laps-- instead of making this game savable on the interior they developed an absurd 16 character password system-- consisting of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, funky characters (*&^% etc), and numbers. Now for each milestone or minor-stone in the game-- new lap times, new cars won-- anything... You have to pull out the pen and the pad and write down the whole whopping password.

And some of the characters look the same... So make sure you write down the password correctly the first time or you will have lost all of the racing you did and get an annoying BLEEP noise followed by a screen that says INVALID PASSWORD!! Thanks THQ

The Password might not seem bad. It is a good game- an excellent game if you have no intentions of racing on more then one of the courses (you open those by winning courses and *groan* taking down the password) The graphics and racing are awesome (aside from losing all speed in your car just because a drone car rear ends you).

But for us-- the 80% of the teen to adults buying Gameboys-- we bought them for a quick fix while riding the bus, on our subway commute, when our parents drive us to Church, whatever... We only pull the Gameboy out for small spurts, and who wants to spend 3 minutes of that time typing in a password and then later on the subway, bus whatever pull out our pad and pen and write down the 16 characters for tomorrows commute. No thanks.

Buy it at a yard sale.

lots of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. It has incredible graphics, for a handheld,
and competitive gameplay. Now, if you've read the other reviews you'll see most people dislike the password system, I disagree, typing in a few letters is completly worth it. I feel confident that you will enjoy this game.

Great Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game yesterday, and I have to say that this game is really cool. This game features great graphics, many diffrent kinds of cool cars and tracks, and great gameplay! Next to Tony Hawk this is the best Gameboy advance game, and will be for a long time.

gt

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

terrible it is like racing with no graphics

Big Enough Reason to get the GBA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a 31 yo non-console gaming geek. I have played PC games for many years and I have never owned a Gameboy. I have always wanted one, but never could really justify it. I recieved the game as a BD present and must say I am really impressed. My new GBA came with GT and I am hooked. Like everyone else I am annoyed with the code system. I end up keeping a pen and a piece of paper with my GBA just so I can write down new codes. I feel rewarded everytime I get a new power up or a new car. This game allows me to drive like I want, and can't because I am afraid of tickets in the RL. Smooth graphics as you take corners, and completely different looking vehicles. Good luck.

Rubbish

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is rubbish the graphics are tiny and blotchy the music is very rubbish and it freezes whilst playing it. mario carts advance is a lot better than this . don;t waste your money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great start, but gets tiring after a while

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Visually a great looking game. But the gameplay gets tiresome. Unrealistic racing conditions affect only you as your opponents zoom by. With the absense of any other type of game play, the game snores into the finish line. Get tony hawk instead. Unless you are a true race fan.

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