Gran Turismo Vs. Gran Turismo 2

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Gran Turismo was one of the best driving games on the Playstation, but now the guys at Polyphony Digital have come out with a sequel to Gran Turismo - it is Gran Turismo 2

In this review I will be comparing Gran Turismo with Gran Turismo 2.

To start I will be talking about the differences in the layout and the courses.

 In Gran Turismo the layout is very bad, with all of the car manufacturers on the main screen. In Gran Turismo 2, the layout is much much better, with the manufacturers being built into different parts of a town (North, East, South). The city is separated like this to place the better manufacturers away from the bad ones (not saying that Nissan and Toyota are bad manufacturers, but they don't have better cars than BMW or Audi!)

In Gran Turismo, there are only 11 courses but they are laid out better than Gran Turismo 2. In the second game you have the Sunday Cup where you have three races one after the other, whereas in Gran Turismo 2 you can do the hardest race first, which is good, but at the end you cannot win a championship bonus. Gran Turismo 2 has got more courses (28 in total), but to do all these you need to get new driving licenses.

The new licenses are international. In Gran Turismo you just had 3 licenses, but now on Gran Turismo 2 you have 5. They are B and A licenses and A, B and C International - they are very hard! (In the two days that I have had this game, I have got A, B licenses, international C licenses and I'm half way to getting international B licenses)

There are 10 manufacturers in Gran Turismo: Nissan, Aston Marton, Chrysler, TVR, Mazda, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Subaru, Chevrolet. That is a good line up of cars - but there are over 600, and 33 of the world's top manufacturers in Gran Turismo 2!

One of the biggest differences between the two games is that Gran Turismo comes on one CD and Gran Turismo 2 comes on 2 (one for the Arcade mode and one for the GT mode)

In the end Gran Turismo 2 has turned out to be the best out of the two  - with a better layout, more tracks, and more cars to choose from.

So if you liked GT, then you should go out and get Gran Turismo 2

--hAz