By visiting any page of the best video games of all the times I've seen mentioned this game and I have become to mind old times.
It is eight years old that came out of that game (thanks to the repayment right away the Play) and I was immediately hooked to their realism and playability.
Gran Turismo of the Japanese company Poliphony Digital marked a before and an after the car games, and immediately noticed his influences in all the current car games.
Come to the memory the graphics with reflections of light, unique sounds for each car, the sensation of speed, the screech of tires when taking curves, and above all how changing the manoeuvrability of the car as soon as you play any of the parameters such as height, suspension hardness and angle wheels, etc.
Gran Turismo of the Japanese company Poliphony Digital marked a before and an after the car games, and immediately noticed his influences in all the current car games.
Come to the memory the graphics with reflections of light, unique sounds for each car, the sensation of speed, the screech of tires when taking curves, and above all how changing the manoeuvrability of the car as soon as you play any of the parameters such as height, suspension hardness and angle wheels, etc.
Any set of cars he had felt such realism until Gran Turismo saw the light. It was (and is) extremely fun, with lots of options and cars to enjoy.
But not everyone could get to the top. To enjoy all the cars and tracks had to start at the bottom, with a car second hand and demonstrate your skill getting silver and gold medals in certain circuits. The possibility to accumulate credits, buy and sell cars and improvements, he added you an environment in which you sumergias days. I was the first in the village to get all medals (not all gold, everything must be said) and my memory card was everywhere.
It was one of the first games that added the possibility of "tuning", I remember that my first car of 150 horses reached the 1000 CV after upgrade you better; It was exciting to try race after race "feeling" improvements made...Also the manual was very complete, lots of pages about the game and the driving techniques that you prepared to give the best of yourself and aprobechar every inch of road on the curves...
I got to test Gran Turismo 2, but the breadth of the circuit was not the same (longer but shallower) that he added the possibility of Rally on roads without asphalt, but for me it only added circuits and cars, without adding anything new. GT3 and GT4 guess they surpass it by far in terms of quality graphics and more realism, but the gameplay, which is important It is hardly overcome.
I've played enough cars of the Xbox games and there is one very similar to the GT of great difficulty and high realism (car dents with shock) and physical effects called Forza MotorSport. I encourage you to try it. It represents the State - of-the-art in terms of car games.
