Ralling racing in Gran Tursimo 3

[Max M]

Generally I find GT3 a rather dull game, mainly because I'm no petrol head and just find all the upgrading tedious.

However, today I tried some of the rally races in the Arcade mode and they're insanely fun! I can't believe how good the physics and the sense of speed are; it's almost like they put the realism aside for this bit and just made the handling as enjoyable as possible. I'd love Polyphony Digital to make an entire rally game after GT4 because quite frankly, the few courses available put all the actual PS2 rally games I've played to shame.

[Steev]

You'll be sad to know that rallying feels completely different in GT4, if Prologue is anything to go by in any case

[Max M]

What's it like?

[SonicMarmite]

Its not so much the rallying thats completely different, but the fact that the steering in GT4 is more realistic (in a bummer way imo). Instead of steering across the arc of the analog stick, its been done from the viewpoint of the new wheel, which can do 3 turns or sommat lock to lock like a real car.

Thus if u check out my GT4P vids on MGV (sonic.animebots.co.uk/MGV), and look at the video of the gold license test in the S2000 - the bit where u have the nasty little chicane is SOLID. But its not because its tight: its because you have to steer left, and then actually turn the wheels all the way back, instead of jsut wanging the stick right - it has to actually wind the wheels back across in the other direction. Bit like hard drivin was on spectrum only a thousand times mroe refined so its playable.

Now, the reason I blabbered on about that is that the rallying in particular, which has lots of whacking lock on and off is now initially much harder because of this feature, and the videos that were shown of muppets playing it where they were swerving left and right all the time - thats pretty much what your first lap will be like. Its fairly quick to sink in though and then it rocks and is ok. BUT, if you go back to GT3 after GT4, the handling seems noticably more shallow. So GT4 rocks tbh.

[SonicMarmite]

Actually on top of that, the whole thing is just like totally fluid. Theres not the kind of steer left-brake-gas-opposite lock-gas mechanical technique. Its just all one gigantic slide and the surface sorta "feels" loose. Its really hard to explain. You can just slide like you wouldn`t believe on it. That was only disappointment with GT4P for me - there was nothing with silly power like me beloved R390 that could be made to squirm about.