Grand Prix Legends (PC)

Challenging is the operative word - this game is SERIOUSLY hard! And to be anywhere near good you have to take it pretty seriously... I've been playing this game for a year now and I'm still not winning races, but amazingly that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it! The difficulty of this game means any kind of decent result will give HUGE satisfaction, and also the type of cars in it means a dice with any old back-marker in this game is more fun than any scrap in any other racing game I've played. The graphics may no longer be state-of-the-art, but they're good enough, and the handling of the cars feels super-realistic. The game's designers have chosen ...  Read the complete review

Update at the bottom! ===================== Now here's something unusual: a game company that actually takes some notice of its customers. Not the publisher - Sierra - whose attitude seems to be that they might possibly think about doing something else when they've finished NASCAR 27, but the developers - Papyrus - who have most certainly gone above and beyond the call of duty in supporting this superb game, despite its highly disappointing sales (40,000 is the only figure I've seen; I have no idea how accurate that might be). An example: back in May, it became apparent that there was a bug in the low-level routines, meaning that, when ...  Read the complete review

'Grand Prix Legends' is an extremely difficult, yet deeply rewarding game. It offers a simulation of the 1967 Formula One season that is highly realistic both graphically and physically. The tracks are faithfully recreated in painstaking detail, right down to trackside objects and spectators, advertising hoardings and surface changes. Monaco is vibrant and colourful yet its' every sharp twist replicates the old configuration track perfectly. Every nightmarish bend on the 170+ corner original Nurburgring is present too, and mastering this most difficult of circuits presents what has to be one of the most supreme challenges in computer gaming. All the tracks appear ...  Read the complete review

After playing Grand Prix Legends for just a few minutes, it becomes clear that this driving simulator is very different from all the rest. Forget about driving round the track with your foot to the floor (or thumb to the button!) then turning the wheel and driving round the corner. GPL is the first driving game I have played where you actually have to concentrate 100% of the time just to keep the car on the road. Lift off the accelerator whilst rounding a corner and you are likely to end up spinning off the track in to a nearby hedge!! Drive over a hump on the track too fast and the car will become airborne. The realism is increased with the knowledge ...  Read the complete review

Grand Prix Legends is an accurate simulation of the 1967 Formula one season. It includes a range of cars from the era including Lotus, Brabham, BRM, Ferrari, Eagle, Cooper (called Coventry in the game) and Honda (called Murusama in the game). The game also features a large range of tracks including Spa, Monaco, Monza, Silverstone, Kyalami and Watkins Glen to name but a few. The physics simulation in this game is the best yet seen, giving an excellent feeling of driving a real car at speed, and also allows you to alter the cars setup, giving a realistic change in the cars perfomance. If you're into arcade racers look elsewhere, if however ...  Read the complete review