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Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Whether it’s the delicacy and precision of a Lotus or the raw power of a Dodge Charger, Gran Turismo 2 puts you behind the wheel of the world’s finest automobiles. Feel the awesome force of an old American muscle car in a quarter mile drag race, or relish the tight control and acceleration of a European supercar through the winding streets of Switzerland.

Gran Turismo 2 features over 20 incredibly detailed tracks to race and over 40 track combinations. Whether it’s the twisting dirt course of Pike’s Peak or the narrow streets of Rome, Gran Turismo 2 brings it all home with incredibly realistic detail.

Hell, I had to force myself to stop playing long enough to write this review, not to mention the number of nights that I found myself racing “just one more race” until in the morning. Everyone knows that the original GT was big and offered a huge number of licensed vehicles. So what does GT 2 do to one up the original? Why, bring on more options, more racing, more licensed vehicles, and more tracks, of course. To start with, there are now over cars in the game. Think about that for a second.

They have added in roughly 20 track combinations and a new rally racing mode. There are too many different racing events to list and total car customization is back and it all adds up to the best PSX game ever. I almost forgot to mention that this game is so big the developers had to make separate CDs for the arcade racing and the simulation. One of the downsides to being in this industry is that it is difficult to keep playing a game for a long period. Usually once a review is written, there are six more games waiting in line.

Because of this, I have not played the original GT in quite a long time. I remember how much fun it was but I had lost a lot of the little ins and outs of what made it so fun.

All it really took was the sound of the timer counting down before the flag dropped and I was hooked again. Before I knew it, I was buying new cars and trying to build the most powerful beast around. The game is not without flaws though which I will identify but in no way will these flaws inhibit your ability to have a great time with this game. Okay, where to start? I might as well begin with the licenses because that is where you start the game. Just like the original, you will have to earn a license to participate in races.

There are five different licenses that you can earn, each of them allowing you to race in a different class of races.

In the original, licenses were very difficult to obtain. I remember spending hours on just one section of one license and missing the cut by a fraction of a second. I think enough people complained about the difficulty I know I did because now the licenses are much easier to obtain. You still get ranked by your performance in the tests so if you want to fully complete the game you will need to score gold on every test which is damn near impossible but doable, just like the old license system but it is not required to continue on in the game.

I think this was done to help out the more casual gamer and is a great idea. If you do manage to pull off the gold, you will be rewarded nicely with a shiny new car. Now that you have your license, you will head off to buy a car. The first thing you will find is that the number of car dealerships is huge. There is almost every car manufacturer you can think of and some that you have probably never heard of. Your options are pretty limited so I ended up picking up a Mazda RX7.

Not a bad first car. Now that you have your license and your car, it is time to head out to the raceway. This is where you will find one of the biggest changes in this game over its predecessor.

Almost all of the races are now restricted by horsepower. There are some free races that allow you to race any type of car but the majority of races have a maximum horsepower rating and if you are over that rating, you can’t race. Since my RX7 had HP right out of the parking lot, I was already unable to compete in a handful of races because I was overpowered.

This system did a great job of keeping the races challenging. In the original GT , I would race my beefed up badass car on some of the easier races just to make a quick buck. You can no longer do this. This also adds a new dimension to car customization.

I found that I was constantly tweaking my vehicles performance not only up but down as well. It was really fun trying to equip my car with the right accessories to get as close to the maximum HP without going over and it brought a totally new dimension to the game. So now you are ready to race, right? How does it feel? Just like the original, which is the biggest compliment I can give. The attention to detail on the handling was not skimped in the slightest bit.

Like I mentioned above, racing games have come and gone but none match the true feelings of this game and that is what really matters.

Everything else in this review would be for naught if the gameplay was not solid. Trust me when I say the racing engine in this game is incredible and you will have a blast tweaking your car and feeling the changes during your race. I could go on for hours about it so rest assured the racing plays great. As if all of this was not enough, they went and added a whole new rally-racing mode.

The game would have been complete without it but it is a huge bonus. It plays better than most rally racing games and it is just a bonus in this game. Imagine playing a rally racing game using the GT 2 driving engine and there you have it. You can build yourself a kick-ass rally-racing machine just the same as a street racer.

There were a few things in the game that did annoy me some. First and foremost, I really did not like the depreciation system of the cars. When I first started playing, I wanted to try the rally racing so I had to earn enough money to buy a car that I thought would be a good rally car.

I finally built up about 15k and bought a Subaru Impreza a common rally type car. So I am out 15 grand. I go race in the rally race and get killed. It became very obvious that this is not a good rally car so I decide to sell it. Guess how much it is worth? What the hell? My 28 grand is now worth two grand. I understand depreciation but that is ridiculous.

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Gran Turismo 2 is one of the most amazing racing games of the PlayStation era. This game features a ton of realistic looking cars, lots of well-detailed. Gran Turismo 2 (Europe) PSX ISO Download. Game ID: SCES, SCES Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. For Sony Playstation.