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This is such a cool game. There are hundreds of cars to buy from over 20 different dealers. You can buy from American, Japanese, German, English, Italian, and French dealers. At some places you have the option to buy a used car (tip, buy a used car at the beginning of the game or you'll get stuck with a car that has 22hp. Believe me. I know). This game has magnificant sound. You can here the difference in the engine when you upgrade it and all the small details. If you want to upgrade your car just go to the dealer and select tune. The thing that makes this game better than the first is the fact that instead of just winning money you win new cars too. There are 4 kinds of races. Special, endurance, rally, and gran turismo. Special is just a normal race for different horsepower or drivetrain. Endurance is for people who like 40, 50, 60 or up to 90 laps. You can usually win 150-500,000 for first place. Rally is offroad dirt driving and you need a special car. Sometimes you can win one or you can buy one for 500,000 normally. Gran turismo is racing around the world. You pick races in different countries and race. If you beat the pacific league or the Atlantic you unlock a new set of races. Like the first there is license training but most aren't too hard. The hardest one in my opinion is the super license test where you must beat Laguna Seca with a Viper. It sounds fun but the Viper is always spinning out of control. The rest are fairly easy but getting the gold (tip, if you get a gold on all license tests the you unlock more races) on all is very hard. If you have trouble watch the demo and try to recreate it ecactly. This game is so cool. I bought it a long time ago and it's still practicley the only game I play. BUY IT!!!!

When the original Gran Turismo showed up on shelves in '98, I had no idea that this would become the greatest racing game of all time. I bought it, sight unseen, and found a game that transcended video gaming! So, it could be concieved that my level of excitement was off the charts when I found out that there was going to be a sequel, and now it's here! The long awaited, much anticipated, Gran Turismo 2 is here, and it's everything that it is expected to be! 400+ cars, ranging from $1,000 to over $2,000,000! 20+ tracks! Almost every manufacturer you could think of, and some you might have never heard of! (but still great cars) 5 racing license catagories! And the best thing? Each car has it's own realistic characteristics, like sounds, handling, etc!

Some say the graphics could be a little better, but don't forget, PS technology (32 bit) is a little old by today's standards. And yes, maybe the competition you race against is a little weak, but not everybody is Mario Andretti, after all, so at least they give the rest of us a chance. If you can deal with those two flaws, you'll find a game that is very worthy of the title "Greatest game ever"!

Bottom line, If you enjoy living a fantasy where you can buy, sell, and race cars worth over a million dollars, and are a master mechanic, tuning everything from $10,000 Daihatsus to $500,000 Porsches, then this is the game you've been searching for! One bit of advice, though... Just make sure your don't make your wife mad by staying up until the crack of dawn playing Gran Turismo 2!

I enjoy "Gran Turismo II" as much today as I did years ago.

I have "Gran Turismo III", and probably will pick up "Gran Turismo IV" after a price drop, but I still find myself going back to "Gran Turismo II" often.

Of course, I no longer play "Gran Turismo II" on my PS1 (or PS2). Today, I play it on my laptop.

Yep. Laptop. Look for "EPSXE" -- a PS1 emulator.