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Grand Prix 3
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Moving about
Grand Prix 3 takes a lot of the capacity from your machine because the in car view is very impressing.
For the first time in Grand Prix the steering wheel on the image is moving along with the movements you make either on your steering wheel, joystick or keyboards.
The tyres are also rolling form now on, although we discovered a bug in the right front wheel. From a graphical point of view GP3 is far better then GP2 because it has more accurate short distance views and an incredibly beautiful far distance view which gives a pretty good impression on how the surroundings of each track look like in reality.
Another strong point of GP3 is the AI of the opposition. At several points of several tracks we noticed that they tried to cover an overtaking possibility by moving to the inside or outside of the track, preventing us to dive underneath or to go around the outside. We never saw such a thing in GP2 or any other F simulation.
  
Too easy?
'Grand Prix 2' has always been held for a very realistic game which was hard to drive.
We need to confess that GP3 scores a little bit lower in this respect. GP3 looks to be too easy when you start driving it. Especially the effect of a lost wing or a lost wheel is way too small to be correct.
When you run a car with a lot of frontwing, it is impossible that you almost feel no difference once you've lost that front wing in an unfortunate incident with that damned Ferrari of Schumacher. When you loose a wheel, it becomes even more unrealistic because on three wheels you can gatter almost as much speed on the straights as when you would be driving with all four wheels on the car.
Loosing a wheel in a crash also means you just have to come in for a tyrechange. When you loose a wheel in an incindent like that, the suspension will almost certainly be ripped off and abandoning the race should be your only faith.
Ready to race
A strong point of F1 simulations is that you can always start at any track and with any car you like.
So you don't need any cheatcodes to enjoy the full capacity of the game. The problem with F1 games is that you will have to put a lot of time in adjusting your car to be ready for a fast qualifying lap or a steady and quick race with a pointsresult. The higher you put your standard (GP3 lets you choose between rookie, amateur, professional and ace), the more you need to finetune your car.
Finetuning a car is a very long and hard piece of work, because you have to figure out the best setting for you car for each track and in fact you always will have to start from scratch.
And once you've found a setting that suits you and your car in dry conditions, you can be certain that it will start to rain.
GP3 has a lot of possibilities for adjusting your car and if you choose advanced mode, we guess you will be able to have a chat with Michael Schumacher or Mika Hakkinen about the settings of their cars, because then you would have fully mastered the game of adjusting a F1 car.
  
Singing in the rain
No, we don't mean the song that Gene Kelly sang in the movie with the same name.
We are talking about the fact that GP3 features the possibility of a wet race. Geoff Crammond would not be Geoff Crammond if he hadn't tried to come up with something new.
Starting in dry conditions does no longer mean that the whole race will be run on a dry circuit. Weather conditions may vary from now on, leaving a lot to your clear judgement by choosing the right pit stop strategy.
Grand Prix 3 brings you a weather forecast before every session of a raceweekend and for every half hour you can sea what kind of weather is predicted.
Rain doesn't mean simple rain by the way. It can really rain cats and dogs, it can just drizzle or it can rain only a few drops. It is even possible that it rains hard on one side of the track, while it's almost dry in another place.
Graphics of a wet track are really very nice. You can see the puddles of water when it's really pouring down and when you drive in the spray of another car, you see virtually nothing.
Conclusion
Grand Prix 3, from "Geoff Crammond", developed by 'Microprose' and publisher by 'Hasbro Interactive' is certainly worth is money.
Accurate tracks, a nice gameplay, even when it should have been a bit harder to drive the car, and very nice rain conditions make it worth your while when you buy this game.
The 2000 carsets are already available on specialized GP internetsites, so you won't have to settle for the 1998 cars and the new tracks like Sepang and Indianapolis will also arrive in a short while.
The only real problem with GP3 is that you need a powerful computer to really enjoy the game, so we advice people who still have to race with slower machines to stick with GP2 and keep GP3 for the day they upgrade their system.
Keep Racing!
-Dirk
Ratings
Manual:
86% |
Graphics:
95% |
Music & Sfx:
93% |
GamePlay:
95% |
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This game scores
 
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