Gran Turismo 3

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Item Description

The first time a replay rolled in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, with heat haze shimmering off the tarmac and a low sun flaring across the windshield, plenty of players simply put the controller down and watched. This was the moment the PlayStation 2 showed what it could really do. Polyphony Digital spent more than two years building it, and in 2001 it looked and moved like nothing else on a home console.

Underneath the spectacle is the same obsession with cars that made the series famous. More than 150 vehicles are modeled in meticulous detail, and Simulation Mode turns them into a career: earn your licenses through precise driving tests that teach braking points and racing lines, buy a modest used car, win prize money, and pour it into tuning parts until that humble hatchback can hang with real race machinery. The championships climb through beginner, amateur and professional tiers, alongside ten grueling endurance races and ten rally events, and the long road ends with proper exotica and purpose-built racers. Arcade Mode is there when you just want to drop into a race, and two players can go wheel to wheel in split-screen.

The circuits read like a list of series favorites. Trial Mountain and Deep Forest Raceway return, Laguna Seca represents the real world, Tokyo R246 runs through city streets, and the Côte d'Azur street course squeezes between harbor walls and guardrails in a way that punishes any lapse in concentration. The physics reward smooth inputs over brute force, and finally earning gold on a stubborn license test is a feeling Gran Turismo veterans still talk about.

GT3 sold in enormous numbers, ranking among the best-selling games ever released for the PlayStation 2, and it set the template every later entry built on. Its garage is leaner and more focused than Gran Turismo 2's sprawling roster, trading quantity for cars rebuilt to show off the new hardware. For a racing fan exploring the PS2 library, this is the game that made the console feel like a serious driving machine.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2001
Publisher
Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer
Polyphony Digital
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

More than two years in the making, Gran Turismo 3 A-spec features over 150 detailed cars -- each composed of more than 4,000 polygons -- 60 beginner, amateur and professional championship races, as well as ten endurance races and ten rally races. In addition to all-new special effects, such as sun glare, heat distortion and reflections, Gran Turismo 3 A-spec also offers up a soundtrack of more than 20 licensed tracks, and an even better replay mode with TV-style camera views. Two players can go head-to-head via split-screen and up to six can duke it out by linking multiple systems together via i.LINK. Released worldwide in 2001, Gran Turismo 3 a-Spec was designed by Polyphony Digital.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayGran Turismo 3 on PlayStation 2
Video: Gran Turismo 3

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