If I could just make a statement. I hope to not be one of the people who
races GPL just to come here and complain. Although I think I have an
understanding of what is going on. GPL certainly is not perfect. There are
things in it that could be a lot better, but there really should be no doubt
that it is the best. The features it has are better than most other games on
the market. It seems to have a good overall package if you know what I mean.
GP2 when came out was revolutionary. It did things that other sim makers
could only dream of doing. I think many GPL racers were GP2 drivers. They
switched to GPL because it was a more up to date sim. Now GP3 is released
and the hype from Crammond and Hasbro is that it is the next step in the
evolution of racing games. In reality it is not. It is more like GP2.5. The
game is not revolutionary in any means with the exception of the rain which
was done quite well. Many of the ex GP2 drivers that now race GPL are highly
disappointed. They have drove GPL for two years and a new sim that is better
made them e***d. Unfortunately it is not better. Actually the game is not
bad, but it is not really the game that everyone thought Hasbro would
release. The graphics are out of date (with exception of the rain), the
physics should be better, it should have multiplayer (although we knew ahead
of time that it would not), and the cpu requirements for what you get are
too high. Obviously the high cpu requirements must be related to poor
coding. This game is another example of what is going on in the ***
market today. Game developers are not allowed to come out with the kind of
game they want to because of budgets and time restraints. I personally feel
the technology that is present in this game is such that it could have come
out over a year ago but due to the poor coding no one would have been able
to play it with a decent frame rate. Yes we (gpl racers) are beating up on
it alot but it is only because we WANTED to like it. --
Brian Bowles