The graphics is this game’s Achilles heel. Maybe my arcade roots are starting to show, but I found this a little too time consuming for me and I’d rather just go out and race. The reason it is so time consuming is that instead of immediately getting see how the changes will affect your car’s stats, you instead have to go out and race and then compare how it was running before the change. The game offers almost complete control over just about every aspect of fine-tuning your car and I’m sure some car buffs will be in heaven, spending countless hours trying to tweak ever last thing they can. From there you have to win races to get more dough and further improve your car or ditch it and buy a new one. In the full season mode you start off with just enough money to buy a car and maybe make an upgrade. The game also isn’t real friendly to first timers when selecting the tracks, because instead of showing an outline of what turns they’ll have to traverse, they instead just show a small part of it so that you can see the surrounding environment. Unfortunately you’re stuck with the stock colors of the cars, which is a shame because it would have been a bit more polished to allow users to change them to whatever color strikes their fancy. Although the selection isn’t as varied, they did license some winners, like the BMW M3, Porsche 911-GT1, Panoz GTR-1, Panoz Esperante, Callaway C12, Lister Storm, Mosler Raptor and Saleen SR. Although the selection of cars is nothing to sneer at, it still doesn’t have the smorgasbord of choices that Gran Turismo offers and it’s a little hard not to compare the two and feel that Sports Car GT comes up short. The game features 45 licensed cars and seven tracks that include two fantasy courses.
On the flip side however, I often got better track times using the normal game pad, which is set up decently. I enjoyed using the Dual Shock control a lot more than the normal gamepad because it made me feel more into the game with the pad vibrating when I hit another car or the wall, and melded in nicely with the sound effects that occurred. The game has a better than average physics engine and decent realism, with cars slipping in the sand and on grass, or sometimes losing control when banging into an opponent.
To me, this is by far the most important aspect of a game and Sports Car GT doesn’t disappoint.
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