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We have one hot game this summer!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 24
Date: May 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This summer be prepared for the Ride of Your Life! It's a ride you'll never forget! Smooth graphics, along with some of the best GBA sound effects make this a MUST HAVE! With close to 40 different Eastern cars to choose from (including hotties from Honda, Mazda, and Toyota), you'll be racin' through streets and country side in no time! Then grab some of your gaming buddies and shape up for 4 player action via the Gameboy ADVANCE link cable. Electronic gaming sites are full of praise for "The best racing game ever to hit a hand-held." Buy a car, customize it, and then head for the track. Enter circuit play and win cash to upgrade and buy new cars. The gaming options are endless all you have to do is get it! -The Kayaker-

Don't even bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: May 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't even worth your time, sure it looks decent but it actually is a pain and tedious to play. It has a simple setup of: the car is centered in the screen, the track simply curves left and right. Sure you can upgrade your cars and build your own tracks, but even that is severely limited and restricted, (for example, you can only add turns on a small graph, and can't even change the background or music, etc.) Avoid this game at all costs!

WOA!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is like breath taking!!! I mean, look at the sweet graphics. I say this is the most graphic i seen in a portable system. Lets see Playstation beat this. (in portable systems im saying)

GT Adv./Adv. GTA - Whatever it's called, it's a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 24
Date: May 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

GranTurismo on a handheld. That's the analogy everyone uses, and Advance GTA lives up to that comparison.

The game is spectacular. It features plenty of sporty cars and a bunch of those quirky Japanese cars, like the Daihatsu Cube. However, the gameplay is where the game shines. I was skeptical about how well the game would work with the limited number of buttons on the Game Boy Advance, but the game compensates wonderfully and each button is used very well. This game definately is one with a more difficult learning curve than most Game Boy Advance games, and once you get into Middle Class (which may be renamed for the US version, GT Advance), difficulty increases a lot. That's not a bash of the game, because the Middle Class tracks are very do-able after a few tries, but expect a jolt from the difficulty level of Beginner Class tracks.

I only have two criticisms of Advance GTA. One - The sounds are tedious and more often than not, I just turn off the speaker. The engine roaring just isn't realistic, and since most of the time in the game you're in a tight turn, the squealing tires are just irritating. Two - the sprites of the cars, while they are vey realistic looking, have a tendency to pixelate and break in the middle of turns. It's difficult to describe, although those who have played the game have probably noticed it. When you turn your car, the entire sprite breaks into pieces. It's very annoying, but hopefully this problem will also be resolved in the US version.

However, these are just annoyances. The game is awesome. It's extraordinarily addictive. If you're a fan of realistic racers like GranTurismo and you have or are getting a GBA, you can't pass this game up!

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.

GT Advanced Championship Racing is an awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

GT Advanced Championship Racing is a must have! GTAdvaced is an excellent racing sim feauturing Daihusta, Honda, Mazada, and Toyota.With 32 off-road on-raod tracks to take on,Gt Avanced will get any gearhaed revved up. One of the first things that you will notice is the impreesive grahpics. Each of the 48 cars are finly detailed and are availble in a variety of colors.You'll also like the backgrounds,that are filled with interesting scenrey such as snow-capped mountains and glitery city lights.Racing fans will have a blast with the smooth graphics of GT advanced. The only downside is that if you turn your car too fast it will spinn out, so you'll have to use your brakes to stay on the road.Another tiny problem is that everybody needs their own game pak to play mulitplayer but the multiplayer is very fun.

Droooooool!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics on this cartridge will make your jaw drop and it's just a first generation advance title the graphics are so well done it even has NIGHT TRACKS!!!! The controls are simple to master and follow the Gran Tourismo theme of building up cars and skills. An overload of tracks and cars also add to the game. Buy it play it and don't overlook it at the stores because you will be the one missing out-I already have my copy.

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. ...

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.

A Great Racer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: June 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like racing games, this one is for you. The graphics are nothing short of spectacular. The game has licenses for some of Japan's most well known companies (ie Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi). The cars looks great and the control is outstanding. The only drawback this game has is the fact that it was changed from the origianl Japanese game in the saving department. It has a password save system instead of battery back up, but otherwise it's a great game. It definitely displays the greatness of 32 bit racing. This is the GBA version of Grand Tourismo. With an outstanding total of 48 upgradeable cars...this is a must for racing fans.

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