Another PS2 game I’ve tried and found pleasant — as long as the sound is way down, otherwise it’s terribly jarring.
I’m not a racing gamer. I’ve tried Mario Cart before and disliked it. The way to play these games, it seems is to race and try to win. I prefer to enjoy the ride. I like the journey more than the destination. So the two things I really like about Grand Turismo are
- different cars drive differently
- the multi-angle replay mode
I haven’t tried all the cars yet, but between the Mini Cooper and the Mercedes Terminator (or Kompoundator, or some dumb name), I way prefer the Mini. It was much more fun to drive. I tried the automatic and the manual — like the manual. It’s like a cheap fun way to test drive cars.
And the replay feature helped me relive the excitement of the test drive from angles I’d not be able to see in a see in a real test drive. I’m sort of surprised there is no porn game equivalent — different models to test drive in first-person mode, with a 3rd-person replay with lots of angles, set to some rockin’ tune. Seems to me it’d sell pretty well in some markets… oh wait, was that what GTA was heralded as by Hillary?
