Gran Turismo 2 Critique Commentary Part 3
0Greetings one and all to a realm of commentated videos where I essentially critique a wide variety of games that I have enjoyed not just thoroughly, but also enable a high level of creativity in some form to make the experience special for me to talk about!
Finishing up with this little miniature series covering the highly-realistic and most stunningly-beautiful PS1 racing game out there for it's time, we start off yet another replay that, surprise surprise, features the much-charming 3000GT Twin Turbo from Mitsubishi as I drive around it in another new course, the smooth and tranquil Switzerland racing track that is Grindelwald! (Not to be confused with the Harry Potter spin-off series film of a similar title, albeit something to do with crimes as opposed to driving!)
Definitely you can see how this race here was a bit... Scuffed, so to speak, with how one of Gran Turismo 2's biggest flaws is that, on a few specific races, there is either the chance or a guarantee that one of the participating racers here is WELL beyond what should be allowed as as a maximum horsepower for each driver here, that dark-blue sports car and all, which makes some races ranging from exceedingly difficult or frustrating to win all the way to just hilariously outright impossible to ever hope of winning such a race when said car appears on the race in that moment in time!
Moving on from one exotic track to the next, I figured I'll give the mostly-unused Mercedes SLK230 Kompressor a fair chance as I cruise around it in one of the slower-paced races in a place quite far a ways out, over in Tahiti Road here and all, where the roads are a tad more bumpy and less 'set in stone' as it were, given the more wild and rural aspects of this racing circuit here! (A good thing for diversity's sake, seeing how variety is the spice of life and all! Would no doubt be terrifically dull if it were all the same flashy and modern, yet all grey, tracks in the middle of big popular Western cities here!)
After that fun little ride, we finally get back into the big boy shoes once more as the Vector M12 makes it's own return here (arguably my most favourite semi-fast car to drive around tracks in Gran Turismo 2 here, not to say though that it is the FASTEST car in my possession here, far from it!) as we get a tour of Seattle in it's shorter version of the circuit and all, having managed to recover from a most fantastic crash halfway into the race and still making it out in top by the end of it all! (I gotta say though, this REALLY isn't how you're meant to be playing the GT series here, however I simply got too used to rushing and bashing my way around the tracks and working around that to get ever get used to proper professional driving techniques!)
Now for an oddball as this race here, on the most advanced and highly-challenging Laguna Seca Raceway, using just about as plain and as ordinary as you can get for these average joe cars take their wheels on this intimidating track alongside my Alfa 166 here for a most entertaining ride indeed! (A pity then that this slow-paced race didn't show what could've been a cataclysmic crash in that most infamous twisty corner part of the circuit like I was fortunate enough to see happen on a much faster version of it, why I didn't record THAT one though is beyond me, if only so that the M12 didn't take even more glory from the other cars alongside the titular 3000GT that I loved so dearly back then!)
Speaking of which, the 3000GT Twin Turbo VR-4 makes it's debut for the fourth time here, now finely kitted out in a professional racing makeover that's been practically modified heavily to push it as best as it can physically perform, duking it out with a whole bunch of other cars (always the same five others I've noticed, never less and certainly never more!) in another new map here, Trial Mountain, where I manage to show off just how far the 3000GT has came along with it's peak performance being displayed in supreme fashion right here!
...It's just a tad annoying that I had to end it on a tad dull and rather anti-climatic note as, in my haste to get one more good race in, I chose YET another one that featured the nostalgic 3000GT (not even another one that had it in pure professional racing tournament style!) that played on the same track once more, Seattle and all, the only saving grace here is that this one's the FULL track whereas the Rome Circuit unfortunately got the 'short end' of things on both occasions! Kind of wish I had picked that neat night-stage Special Stage Route 5 track instead, but alas I hadn't really planned out which ones I was going to watch here!
Anyhow yes, I reckon that ought to do it for here, showing off Gran Turismo 2 in some of it's finer glory here! No gruelling endurance races or highly-intense top-tier racing to be seen here, but that's just not the kind of racer that I am here!
In any case, I hope you enjoyed the video and any constructive comments or criticism is appreciated!
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