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The Gran Turismo 3: A-spec Apocalypse Zone

Home of "The Worst Car Wins!"

First

they made a car racing game, designed to blow the others out of the calm waters of software land.

Then

they created a second one, claiming to be a more superior product in every way. It smelled of pit-stops and sounded like you'd been trapped in a piston chamber. It provided more cars than twelve copies of Micro-Machines V3 and more tracks than Fatboy Slim.

Then (After The Last Then, But Not The Last Then)

I made the GT2 Apocalypse Zone, which endeavoured to cover every aspect of the game. It included the now-missing GT2 Complete Car list, with in-depth information on every car in the game. I was thorough, but I was unemployed. The site was designed to help gamers steer through the chicane of... something or other. I forget. Look, if it's that important, visit that site instead.

Then Then (After That Then, But Not The Next Then)

someone came up with the PlayStation 2, a squillion times better than any of it's predecessors (although Dreamcast owners would no doubt go potty at this statement). It had loads of the stuff that makes chip designers go moist at the pant level. You know, stuff like "flops", "bits", "polygons" and "anti-aliasing". They know what they're on about, but the rest of us haven't got the foggiest.

Then Then Then (After The Last Then, And Possibly The Last Then, But I Wouldn't Stake My House On It)

someone else thought "Hey! Wouldn't it be great if we did a PS2 version of Gran Turismo?"

So Then (See? And A New Word Too. How Adventurous)

GT3: A-spec came out. The cars were prettier than ever (although there were fewer of them). And the glowing brake discs! And the new smoke/dust effect! And the shiny sun! And the vomit inducing Reflex paintjob on the Tuscan!

And Now

comes the GT3: A-spec Apocalypse Zone - attempting to do for GT3 what I did so well for GT and (incompletely) GT2.

Well, that's the end of that extended, and not very funny, joke.

Anyway, come on in and view the authoritative European PAL version GT3 review/guide/whole general sort of mish-mash.

So why is this particular site so good? Why should you trust me?

First off, unlike the magazines and other guides, I'm not after your money. All of my figures and observations have come directly into, and out of, my head for my own use. I'm just sharing them with a larger populous.

Secondly, unlike the magazines and other guides, I'm actually using the European PAL version. All the guides which mention the Lamborghini Diablo or a selection of six F1 cars (named Fnnn/x e.g F090/S) are not using our version. They're inaccurate for us Euros and lead to many confused people asking "Where do I buy the Vitz?", "What's a Mira?" and, inevitably "How do I get the Diablo GT". Not only that, but they (with incredible stupidity) believe the PS unit of power used by the Japanese is exactly the same as the universal hp unit (true PS means pferdensterke or "horsepower", but that's as close as you get). This gives inaccurate figures - 1PS really equals 0.986hp, which isn't much of a difference, until you start tuning your Viper to 1101hp... My numbers are all European version hp and kg (and hp/tonne for power-to-weight ratios). And the only F1 cars you get in Europe are the Polyphony001 and Polyphony002. More on that elsewhere...

Lastly, I'm funnier (despite evidence so far).

Check out the subpages. Go on, then.

Last update: 7^th November 2002

Once more, I must issue a disclaimer that blah blah blah custard wibble wibble boing blah Michael Schumacher blah blah moan whine blah helicoptered in from the Cayman Islands blah blah blah extra-blah with a honeydew melon and a bucket of soapy frogs. Oh, and all the ideas and opinions are mine and so don't represent fact. Actually, they probably do, 'cos I'm quite a clever guy. So sod you.

TVR can send free Speed12s to me at famine01@yahoo.com. The rest of you can go take a flyer.

However, several of the screenshot images contained herein come courtesy of that nice man daan. But since he's driving AGAINST me in the 2^nd 9 boards challenge, screw him...

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