My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Mon Feb 22, 1999

Great review found at amazon.com

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haavard.fosse@no.pwcglobal.com from Oslo, Norway , December 9, 1998 , 5 out of 5 stars

Even my mother seemed a bit impressed

I bought PlayStation as a gift for my daugther... she was keen on this Spice Girls game. It's a long time to christmas (it was at least at purchase date), so I decided to buy a game for myself to play until the holy day. The choice fell on Gran Turismo and was well worth it. I have played it for "some" hours now, but I still struggle with the A-licence... a good thing though since it means that you will have challenges for a long time ahead. The replay-function is the best thing about the game... incredibly fancy. My girlfriend tried it... and she is as hooked as me. Her female friends thought it was hilarious. Our neighbours "borrowed" it for some days and almost refused to give it back........ need I say more?

When I'm bored I take semi-random, usually unmodified, cars and try and win the Sunday Cup. Usually you can win if you don't make gross mistakes. It took me two tries to win with the Camaro anniversary special. First time I got 3+9+9 to 9+6+6 and it gave the win to the AI car. Grrr!!! So I tried again and won. That's one car where you might as well pick "AT" over "MT". It never even gets into fourth gear, not even at Grand Valley!!