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Great for F1 fans but frustrating for others

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic for Formula One fans.

F1 (esp. in the USA) is fairly "ignored" and therefore, it's small fans base is generally even MORE fanatic.

Bring to these fans an F1 simulator that is well rounded in history and in difficulty and they will rejoyce in it's near "unplayable" state! We love F1 and we know how difficult it is (and especially, WAS) to drive a car that only a few drivers in the world could drive the way it was meant to be driven. F1 is not meant for weekend warriors driving as fast as possible around a wide track. It's much more than that . . . and proves it in Grand Prix Legends.

If you don't know who Jim Clark, Chris Amon or Jochen Rindt is . . . this game will probably be frustrating.

PS: When you play for the first time, you will spin and crash. This will lead to an obsession that could last a lifetime.

hours.. no days,... no, YEARS of fun... :-)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Got this in Feb 2001, and I still regularly spend time on the track with this one... what more can I say?... :-). Actively participate in 3 online leagues which race every week.

And, yes of course my wife hates it... do you even need to ask? ... ;-)

The original and the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the grand daddy of all online racing games. Modelled on the 1967 Grand Prix racing season it gives you a fantastic total racing experience of a time when drivers were racers first and foremost.

There is a thriving online community with many racing leagues comprising drivers from all over the world. Although it's great out of the box you'll want to update to give better car sounds, graphics and some of the literally hundreds of tracks available for free on the internet.

Two warnings:
1. It's realistic and therefore intially hard to drive even one lap.
2. It's totally addictive and may suck you in to a world of brake bias, 4 wheel drifts and seeing whether it really is possible to take the Masta kink at Spa without lifting off the throttle.

Just fabulous

The king of simulation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Update the game with patches, mods, and tracks and you will update your game to 2004 graphical standard....
It is not a game, it is a virtual racing. Superb realistic car physics. I got it for only UK$7 from UK including delivery to Australia.

Four wheel drifting, driving like rally cars. The game community is still hot even now. 7 years since release, can you believe this? To keep the people hot for 7 years!!!

Not for the faint of heart

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a REAL racing sim, there is no other. If you are looking for a driving game look elsewhere. This game is older then dirt, but no one has touched it for realism and accuracy yet. Frustrating, tiring, hard, and with a very steep learning curve GPL is truly in a class by itself. But with a huge online community, several HUNDERED add on tracks, two very good mods, lots of online races, and fierce competition those seeking a real racing experience would do well to pick up a copy, download the all-in-one patch, the new graphics and carsets, GEM+ and Igor, and go racing.

Updateable to current standards in 2005

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although the out of box product may appear somewhat dated, please note that the Papyrus design team have released a "GPL 2004 demo" as freeware, and this is in effect a complete upgrade to this product, produced with the co-operation of many modders/designers. There are new car graphics, sounds and force-feedback effects. Combine this product with the freeware "demo" and you have a state of the art historic F1 simulation which is still a bear to drive. The out of pocket expense is ridiculously low, given the price of new sims, and I would recommend this (with the upgrade--find it yourself) without reservation. But be warned: this is an uncompromising simulation, and hardly suitable for a casual gamer.

Classic is best..!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Thank you..!

Which is precisely why I prefer an old classic road car such as my humble 1500cc, 1971 VW Beetle, as opposed to a modern day all bells ringing, singing and dancing, clinical, spiritless non-DIY friendly modern day high performance vehicle.

Creature comforts aside, you don't have to break the speed limit nor the bank to experience the physical limitations of such cars.

Need I say anymore?

Case rested. For those who don't know now. You'll never know. Your loss is my gain.

Of course if you're of adequate means the above isn't an issue. Simply pay your fee and enjoy your track day etc. :)

Well done Sierra for enlightening the previously unfamiliar..!

Sonicpixy

This simulation is not 6 years old .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think there is unanimity about the quality of this simulation . I just want to highlight the fact that, as soon as you install it as a 1998 graphically obsolete software, you have just put the foot in the door. In the next hour(s), through free downloads from the web, you will polish it into what I think is still the best road circuit simulation in 2004 : photo quality graphics, hundreds of circuits sometimes better than the originals ( you'll find the old Monza with the oval, Ile of Man TT, Limerock Park, Oulton Park, Le Mans, Laguna Seca ....) . Someone provides force feedback, someone else a Nurburgring tutorial ... it never stops. There are online leagues everywhere from Brazil to Sweden and you get all that stuff, legally, for less than $10 . Come on in !

A classic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fond memories of this one. This game was way ahead of its time. I think it came out around 1997, and plenty of people still play it as of late 2003 from what I hear. It had/has very good graphics, outstanding engine sounds, and an excellent physics model. These '60's Gran Prix F1 cars are very difficult to keep on the track. And rightly so, because like their real world counterparts, they have very skinny tires and no wings for downforce. A must have for racing enthusiasts.

Grand Prix Legends

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game must be experienced to understand, very simply it is the best.

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