[OLD] Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec review - ColourShed
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Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec review
Platform: PlayStation 2
Release Year: 2001
Developer: Polyphony Digital
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Balancing simulation and fun perfectly with its solid driving mechanics and deep simulation mode, this entry into the Gran Turismo series is perfect example of what the PlayStation 2 could do early in its life cycle...
Fun fact: at 5:19 when explaining that the Sony Computer Entertainment headquarters were on Tokyo R246, I deliberately illustrated it on lap 93 because SCE was founded in 1993, just a fun Easter Egg you might not have noticed. Thanks for the 100K views ladies and gentlemen...
Love your videos. Your the best youtuber. I dont care what anyone else saids your amazing
Hey fun fact: in arcade mode hover over the hard difficulty setting an prees l2 and r2 to unlock the professional mode.
The meme is underrated
Ohh yeah, nice one there. Unfortunately the PAL version is less polished. As you were going through the race menus, there were mistakes right? Well the western version has those problems fixed.
However I don’t like how the western version is only Imperial and not Metric. I live in Canada so that’s what I’m most familiar with. When it comes to miles as in speed, I understand it pretty well, but miles as in distance feels like trying to teach a chimp how to use a cell phone. Kilometres in distance is what I know better.
I remember the first License Test. Just...uuuuuugh. C’moooooonnn, GOOOOOOO!!! Then you had to do it AGAIN with a Dodge Viper. I little faster, so not as bad, but still...I get that a very basic test is a forgiving start for beginner players, but at least give us a bigger time limit for Gold. With the Volkswagon Beetle, I can barely get Bronze. With the Dodge Viper I can barely get Silver.
He's got a brand new car
Looks like a Jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player
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I wish they'd bring that song back for Gran Turismo 7.
and Seven Days In The Sun
@TheSyrinx63 yes! How could I forget that classic!
It's amazing that this is a PS2 game from 2001 and still looks so good today.
@Milestonecomics Can I say it now? Man, that makes me feel old lol!
Anything from the late 90s to early 2000s will have a bomb ass soundtrack
Yeah I love Hong Kong 97
Agree
@@freewhitexxx riders on the storm
True. I have Dark Cloud, ratchet and clank and rayman 1, those games have really good soundtrack that somehow fits the level/world it's played in. I have gt 3 too but i don't really listen the music because:
1. Sound effects are louder
2. I like to play racing games with no music, just to listen the car's engine or because music doesn't sound like it's on the car's radio and idk but i don't feel like it's normal.
@@emmanueljaramillo5838 ah man
Man, even today, being much older, I still get the same sense of awe and amazement I got when I was little playing this. It' like I forget everything I've learned or figured out since then, and I'm teleported back to playing that game, imagining it was real, feeling as if I was in the game world, even in the menus, and being so young that I thought I actually was. There are other games that make me feel this ways well, but GT3 was my first video game, and over the years had turned into an experience like no other. That's why it truly is my favorite video game of all time.
I can easily relate to that. GT3 is a masterpiece that still continues to stand the test of time
I feel the same... im in my thirties now and I pretty much go back to my late teens lack of worry mode every time I play this... and I play it almost everyday!!!
Little 8 year old me, on a Viper coming out of the second tunnel on Mountain Trials for the first time.
What a sight to behold, what a time to be alive.
I have the North American NTSC version of this game! It is one of my all-time favorite racing video games in the Gran Turismo series!
Me as well, pal. 😁 Over the PAL version, the NTSC version is superior. The Championship menus aren’t labelled incorrectly, for example. Lol
for the guys that have the pal version, you had the better intro, even if i think lenny kravitz was just as good
@@joaquingonzalez834 Yeah, that Intro kicked serious ass. Just wished we were able to play the game at 60fps instead of 50.
The color pallet is so good. These graphics are still unbelievable.
Absolutely
I was ~14 when GT3 came out and the amazing graphics are what caught my interest, and then just playing the game got me started into cars.
This game is technically the best racing game ever:
9.4/10 - Gamespot
9.8/10 - IGN
95% - Metacritic
Don’t think any other racing game has rated higher 😊
Those numbers speak for themselves and prove that sometimes, only sometimes, critics get it right lol
honestly, even in 2020, few games have come close to gt3 lol
forza horizon, gt sport and dirt are all fantastic but gt3 did way too many things perfectly
Gt4 still better
Gt1 has a higher rating on metacritic but yeah
@@sup-wy8gh do you really think gt1 in any way shape or form is better than gt3 or even gt4 though?
The Intro music, still the best one out of the series
I definitely agree that this is the best Gran Turismo game. After GT3 they became too obsessed with graphics and detail, forgetting fun and simple gameplay. I also like how vibrant and colourful this game looks, GT4 looks drab in comparison.
Each Gran Turismo game sort of defines an era of racing, motorsport has become more glamourous so it kind of makes sense that the series is where it is now...
TheJoebus666 GT4 blows GT3 without any doubt
Nathan Ruart
Technically speaking I agree with you - there are more cars, more tracks and more realistic graphics in GT4. Despite that, I always found GT3 to be a more fun game.
Because it is. Altough GT4 has more content, GT3's content feels more fleshed out and more exciting. There's also the fact that GT3's ammount of races (taking out endurances) is miles higher than GT4's
Logoncal Because they repeated the same tournaments for beginner pro and expert, it's easy to add content when you repeat it...
October 2016 and I still play this game. Truly awesome.
Just played it today. Brilliant game with brilliant detail for its time.
+Ryan Galata i know, right?
May 5th 2154, I'm still playing this game.
filipiino96793 Me too!! #granturismoforever ;)
I still play it too, only on pcsx2
5:11 Ryosuke is going to lose to Takumi again
The reason why there is 180 cars is because of development times
I just don't understand why so many game developers think that deadlines are a good idea.
EL GRANDE MEMELORD Because time costs money. Furthermore, being a launch title is a huuuuge boost to sales, especially before the mass migration to PC that is happening now. GT3 was sort of the flashy prototype to GT4, but note that GT4 didn't come out until 2005 (in the US at least) and PS3 launched in 2006. Had Sony/Poloyphony waited and only released GT4 (calling it GT3, naturally), they would've missed out on a ton of sales over the life of the system, not to mention being a Sony company meant they wanted the game to sell systems early on as well. I'm glad we got GT3 and GT4, while GT4 is more comprehensive and has better force feedback wheel support (first to support 900 degree rotation), GT3 is somehow better looking and plays much better with a controller in my opinion. In fact, it might be the best Gran Turismo to play with a standard controller.
I agree with you. I think is the most arcade game of the gt series, the most fun.
Bro the nostalgia of my childhood jus watching you scroll through the menu seeing those short clips brought me straight back to ‘03 cheers for you doing this man 🔥
Ever tried going for gold on the license tests? If you haven't, save your sanity. B license is easy. After that, only tears.
I got gold on every test.
Bro S license tests were the hardest for me
@@Lucrativecris. Yeah, S-8 is a nightmare.
The NTSC and PAL versions most licences have harder times for gold on Pal version
B License Gold is hard
your review style is really good, you definitely deserve more subs. and GT3 is amazing
Oh my lord those sound affects.
They got me too. The memories!
2:05 those menu sounds take me back
This was genesis for me. I'm sure I had some exposure to GT2 not long after I was born, but this is the game I remember sitting down and playing through with my dad shortly after it came out. It also introduced me to the car that started my love for cars, the Viper GTS-R Team Oreca. This game and that car will always hold a special place in my heart.
"All by my seeeelf" -still sing to that song to this day.
Nice review! I do agree about the arcade mode in this one being the most casual friendly. However, the most casual friendly simulation mode would have to go to GT2, since its very easy to acquire large amounts of money and cars quickly.
Yes, I also prefer GT2!
GT2 had about 650 cars, while GT3 had only 180…
Also there are cars and tracks from GT2 that unfortunately never came back again in the other GT games…
By far one of the best GT games + the intro! I love it!
Especially the european version with ''My Favorite Game (Faithless Remix)''
I think it fits so well to the intro! The way it flows along the intro…
;)
Pure Nostalgia…
The US version has the original ''My Favorite Game'' song, which is still good,
and the japanese version has the ''Moon Over The Castle'' song, also really good!
...but I still prefer the european version, it's the best one! ;)
I still got the game and the PS1, which still works fine after all the years!
Played GT2 yesterday haha ;)
I disagree. It is easier to gain money and I agree with that, but the rubberbanding is ridiculous sometimes. 3 and 4 dont have rubberbanding at all, they allow you to blast through with powerful cars or with weaker cars (especially on 4 with the A-Spec points. They only serve as a template for how difficult or easy a race will be, being 1 point a easy race and 200 a difficult one. Although it doesnt have any function, people still try to make gameplays and speedruns with max A-Spec points), the difficulty is very adjustable. Newer titles reintroduced rubberbanding, but not as awful as PS1 titles.
@@lordeilluminati I've never dealt with rubberbanding in Gran Turismo 2. Was that something that only happened in the PAL and Japanese versions of the game?
No, it had on all versions and even Kaz said how he had to use rubberbanding at the time to save processing power. The difference is that it is not extreme as Mario Kart or Need for Speed games.
On GT1 and 2, even if you tuned the cars to the max potential, all competitors would do the same, in contrast to GT 3 and 4 which allow the player to choose difficulty, making the races harder (stock) or easier (tuning). GT4 evolves this with A Spec points which you have a direct notion how difficult a race can be and even if these points dont serve any purpose, many people like to try to gain max A Spec points.
The menu sounds were one of my favourite things about GT2 & GT3. So nostalgic.
i remember the demo video that was on loop on our local electronics store monitors and it was absolutely shocking how real it looked, the cars looked so real that todays RTX or whatever tech demos doesn't give 1/10th of the feel in sense of realism.
"I'm surprised those kind of licene test haven't produced any internet meme yet" XD
This video was solid.The Mr Burns part was unexpectedly funny. Nicely done.
Having watched a few of your vids, i've subscribed! Great content.
My favourite GranTurismo! I loved the fact they kept some of the American muscle, the game still holds up against 4, 5 and 6 I think. It's more fun!
Edit; Complex string was AWESOME. My favourite track along with Trial Mountain being a close second.
Was Gran Turismo 3 the best in the series? The sales number speak for themselves.
Found this in my recommend and was shocked to see only 5k subs. You clearly put a ton of work in to this. You've at least earned 1 subscriber from me
Excellent Review, I love this game so much, I research in the game files for any hidden contents.
Feeder - Just a Day. The intro of the game is amazing.
I keep forgetting how gorgeous this game looks...
Great review, i started playing this again recently, I still have the same copy i got when it first came out on PS2, I must say, i agree with you, it needs more cars, definitely, but that's it.
first gran turismo I got sucked in. Still my favorite to this day by a long shot. The memories on this game are real. The feelings I have when thinking about the emotions and literaly dreams that this game gave me when I was just 6 is not comprehensible.
Most underrated RUclipsr ever? Here You go.
I think your reveiw is on point. it was rushed to be able to bundle with the ps2. I still own 3 but play 4 ... I pre ordered 4 but waited forever for it. they were always trying to put forth their most polished product as you alluded to. still though many reasons to play 3.
In GT2, if you remember, 2 mx-5 could have been won in particular: A-spec and B-spec; the description indicated these as "street tuned" and "track tuned", maybe that's what ... In fact in GT3 they have seen fit to remove the racing modifications ... In addition to used cars and many other cars ...
the first car game i ever played
I want to play this so much!
But I don't have a ps2, i had one, but its broken :/
I remember those rally tracks, where I was racing with my dad. Those moments were awesome! I drove into a wall with my car, and my dad overtook me... I dropped a ps controller and started crying :D Then he stoppet and allowed me to be first at the finish line.
I wish I could race with him one more time...
But now he's gone ;(
Kinda sad.
Hope you find a way to play this game again.
Play the game on an emulator, you don't need a super pc
damn,, hit me right in the fell, why won't you?
my dad is an ass, and pretty much hates me because of my sexuality.
In a twisted way, other than Sport or a few specific tracks or time of day in 4,5, and 6, 3 looks graphically the most pretty with every car and every track shockingly, complete across the board beauty which sometimes doesn't apply to Gran Turismo, as he cited with all the absurd attention to detail, even more realistic overall at certain points, though the finer small details and some lighting improved drastically with future releases. Plus, I liked 3's quality over quantity-come on, do we really want all those junker and clone cars? There's a tiny bit too many in 3 already! Would you actually voluntarily drive more than 200 cars in your lifetime in the garage of your save data in the other Gran Turismo games? Granted, a few one-off normal, concept, or race cars from 1, 4, 5, 6 I'd miss and want, especially from 2, but at most, with all those back, 3's lineup would be increased to about 400 strong at most, which is much more realistic for how many cars we'd actually want to buy and drive.
After watching this review I realized, this game kind of holds up today. It looks better than some independently made racers out there, minus the lack of a damage model, and I loved your license test meme.
I still own a copy, it was the first game I got for my PlayStation 2 when I was in eighth grade and I may be dusting that off later.
GT3 was a huge chunk of my childhood.
So many good memories.
One of my first PS2 games, my first racing game and also my first Gran Tourismo ever!
This game was an absolute miracle when it came out.
And it had no business looking as good as it did.
All the most recent preview builds we had seen up til then didn't look nearly as good.
Imagine such a pleasant surprise in this day and age?
We ride on the same wave after u said MGS2 and GT3 😄👌. Yeah for me this is a Masterpiece too. Im 30 now that was the best Gaming years in my life with the PS2. Another Great Video from u. Thanks
Incredible review! This is still my favorite racing game and Im dying to get one for my ps2 again. And this review reminds me how amazing the game still is to this day.
I am never gonna unsubscribing this channel
My 13 year old son has grown up on Xbox 360 and One, I recently made him do a few license tests on this game and now he's hooked
That’s awesome to hear mate. Hope he can one day play the other games in the series
even that 3second menu clip of gt2 brought back a huge wave of nostalgia
Almost 500 subs. Good job man
My buddy and I were able to get a Logitech steering wheel prior to GT4 being released knowing that it would have 900 degree steering that isn’t available in GT3. It was so cool having a year on that wheel before the epic release of GT4 and hyper realistic driving. Gran Turismo was my introduction to Formula 1 as well. Once we got the F1 car in GT4 I started researching F1. This is the case for many Americans, we had shit knowledge of F1.
I love those GT menu sound effects. So iconic
Always loved the sound effects of the menu and car selection.. Bling. Whoooom
I remember having a little go on this at Currys back in 2001. I got a PS2 that year but never got this game. Still looks smooth today.
After playing NASCAR 2005 for a few months, I revisited GT3 to see if tactics such as the bump n' run were viable at Super Speedway. To my surprise, it works well. I even managed to send another car into a spin at turn 3 on two separate occasions, which is something I've never done in all my years of playing this game.
Awesome review. I never played 3, but I still play 4 to this day to race online with friends.
I remember as a kid being born in 01, my parents bought car games for me cause I was obsessed with cars and became the motor head I am today. But because I played this game, I fell in love with the Gran Turismo series. I didn’t get the first 2 but this game even after years of not playing it holds so close to my heart, I remember going up trial mountain with the red viper and scrape the diffuser going up the hill. I will forever love this game. Just so blessed to have played it and I’m glad the PS2 is still working. Time to find and buy that game 😭❤️
Oh Man, The Feels, it's my first PS2 Game Too and one of my favorites all time :'), so many hours playing and enjoying
this was the first and only GT game i owned as a child and i loved it. my mom even bought me one of those steering wheel accessory for the ps2 so that i could play with that (which i was trash at lol), this whole video just brought back a rush of memories!
Fired it up this week again, and was shocked how well it holds up. It’s still really fun to play
I’ll beat yo ass at this game.
I still play my playstation 2 nowadays. I have quite the collection of PS2 games, all of the games have been completed at least twice. Then I found this weird-looking case that said "Gran Turismo 3". I gave it a try and wow was I amazed. The graphics were amazing, and it's from 2001! It's a long game, and definitley my favourite PS2 game in my library.
GT3, such good memories. The handling was more fun in this than 4, in my opinion. And you're right, Arcade Mode is excellent.
I just want to live in a world that has nothing but racers like Gran Turismo 3 and Sega GT 2002... those graphics, soundtracks, and menus were a whole experience that I just don't get anymore with racing games nowadays...
I remember buying that darn PT Cruiser when i played this as a kid, best and worst decision ever made. Im glad I didn't try the endurance races in this, still best GT game to ever come out. Great review and thanks for the pointers on GT Mode
I personally think your argument of ‘they should’ve waited a year and added more cars and tracks’ makes sense however when you take into consideration how many copies they sold by releasing when it did it may never have achieved the same figures. Especially when many peoples first ps2 game was gt3 due to it being in a bundle that wouldn’t have been possible. Regardless great video
I got this game from a shop called entertainment exchange for $1.50. Its so much fun
I remember the day I was 13 years old in 2001 and went to Best Buy to pick up a PS2 with this game. It was mind blowing seeing the graphics like nothing I had seen before. I knew this was going to be the future of gaming from the moment I laid eyes on them.
Dude how long does it take you to do a 10mn long video like that ? the amount of footage you use is immense
The yellow Pennzoil GTR was my go to. Favorite car by far in the game for me.
This game is still one of my all time favorites!
I remeber doing the endurance races, just for the roulette reward at the end.
The key was getting an f1 car and then dominating every race that you could enter said cars in. Those F1 completely destroyed every other car on asphalt.
This is still my favorite 'driving experience' Gran Turismo game. I don't know why they locked the camera to the back of the car so tight in GT4. Would love to see a video from you about the changes in each game in terms of camera position behind the car and how it tracks to each car.
Actually you're correct about the high speed ring being under construction. Someone emailed them to address this and they said that there was a landslide that destroyed part of the track, and that that's why there's a bridge in gt4's version.
that intro man. Nostalgia
Not only my favourite game of the series, but my favourite game of all time. Seriously, fantastic, its why I still keep my ps2 and a 13" CRT next to my PC. Also, the PAL version has a great soundtrack fyi
Never going to forget this game! Trying to get gold in the S-License with the Viper Oreca at Laguna Seca took me so long! The hardest test in GT for me, along with mission 34 in GT4 (SLR at the Nurburgring).
Ha! I went from the GT2 video to this video and mentioned that they changed the title song for that in the comments section. Then you mentioned that here! LOL.
I got this with a PS2 for christmas when I was about 12. Let me tell you about those graphics. All it took was to see flags blowing in the wind for me to say it was the best looking game ever. It was like what GT2 looked like when you thought about it in your head. simply nuts
20 years on and it still looks great.
I don't know what GT's career modes are like now but Forza Motorsport's developers only need to look at this, GT4 or their own 3rd or 4th entries to see a great single player in a racing game is as simple as a truck load of events with good variety, not a few races in 1 car then being forced into another one, race suit collecting crap or 'Forzathons'.
Kind of amazing that the 2 biggest racing franchises on consoles both peaked at the exact same time, in their 3rd + 4th entries.
What i really love about GT3 is the soundtrack, gameplay that feels easy to control. But i find the Simulation mode content is poor compared to the predecessor. But besides of that it still the best game on PS2
I agree some of the championships are hard and boring
To sum it all: everybody loved it for how simple it was.
Wow. 6 years later and that simpsons meme still hits 💯💥🔥
What really blew my mind about this game is that it features drafting.
I never knew that the game took real life aerodynamics to heart like that until I noticed I gained significantly higher speed behind other drivers.
There is something about competing in the Test Track Turbo challenges with a car that is equally powerful to the other cars and then use drafting at the perfect time in the final lap to slip past your opponent and cross the finish line in glory!
You can't slip past too early or he'll catch up again by using your own slipstream.
And you can't do it too late otherwise you won't make it past the finish line quickly enough!
The sensation of completing a race with almost pinpoint precision timing with drafting, and knowing that your cars are almost equally powerful is really satisfying in it's own way.
The PAL version soundtrack spawned interest in some of my favourite bands, some of which have stood the test of time, 15 years after I first played. Fantastic soundtrack and an iconic game!
I remember playing this with my father, I won't forget it
This has the best attention to detail for the tracks in all of the GT Series. (Apart from the track surfaces obviously) Same for the replays.
What they squeezed out the 2 early PlayStation's was incredible......
GT3 is my favorite game of all time that holds a special place in heart too. PS2 is my fav console of all time but before that it was the Dreamcast. My first year of owning a Dreamcast was better than the first of ps2 imo, but once I got GT3 a-spec, I knew everything was going to be ok. GT3 blew my 9 year old mind and I was already a car fanatic. The menus, graphics, handling model and choosing graphics (which are still amazing btw) and polish over sheer # of cars seals the deal for me. I love GT4 too and it may be objectively better, but I guess you had to be there when GT3 dropped.
This was the first game I ever owned and played and the menu music gives me flashbacks and I love it so much
The menu music in this game is timeless
Did they actually remove little details like car heat and signs flapping in the wind in future games?
This was literally the 1st game I ever played (I was 4 at the time).
5:27 it had depth of field? Damn. I loved this game. It still looks great now I look at it.
Was my first PS2 game! Even came with a wheel on my birthday. I was so bad at the game but I loved it
Great review man! This was my first Gran Turismo. I was a baby when this first came out. Around when I was like 5, my dad and I use to race each other a lot. This sure is one of the best games on the PS2. I love how the GT series makes you feel like you're controlling a *real* car similar to the Forza series! I will be very honest, GT Sport is great, but it's not even close to being as great as 3. 3 has nothing but nostalgia written all over it.
#GranTurismo3forever
You should rejoice in the 'small number of cars'. So there are not 20 versions of the Honda Civic/Del Sol/CRX or Mazda mx-5/Miata/Roadster, which bloated the first 2 games.This is a problem???
Other than this gripe, your review is great. Subscribed.
Who else loves this guys voice? Best tones!
I was only 1 when this came out but I grew up playing the shit out of this, one of my earliest video game memories
I got to say grand turismo 3 is the hardest Grand turismo of all
I can't be the only one who thought the further on license tests were unforgiving in difficulty.
the graphic of this game back then when it came out was mind blowing.