Product Description

The definitive guide to the definitive game. This is the definitive winners' guide illustrated through high-res screenshots in 16:9 wide-screen format, technical images and detailed tables. Overview of cars to help you choose your optimal vehicle. Couple this with a detailed run down on the tuning categories and their corresponding options and you become a serious contender for every course. Explanation of all car dynamics and driving physics to improve your Lap times Entire information to the universe of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec Arcade-Mode, Gran-Turismo-Mode, 2 Player head-to-head and i.LINK Battle Mode. Also racing controls, steering interface, handling and complete overview of all options. Tried-and-tested driving tips for all 48 license tests and an individual presentation of each track, analysed in both directions. An A to Z glossary where we explain all essential terms from the world of motor sport and a comprehensive guide index for quick reference. Introduction to the Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec European Online Winner's League. Pit yourself against Europe's top drivers, take a look at their current record times and enter your own results. How to enter your score and be automatically positioned in this European Online League Table. And that's not all: this book reveals all the game's secrets, so you can release the hidden cars and tracks. 164 pages in full colour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #514769 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 164 pages

Book Information

• This is the definitive winners' guide, illustrated through high-resolution screenshots in 16:9 widescreen format, technical images and detailed tables.
• Overview of all cars to help you choose your optimal vehicle. Couple this with a detailed rundown on the tuning categories and their corresponding options and you become a serious contender for every course.
• Explanation of all car dynamics and driving physics to improve your lap times.
• Entire information to t he universe of Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec Arcade-Mode, Gran-Turismo-Mode, Video-replays, 2 Player head-to-head-and i.LINK Battle Mode. Also racing controls, steering interface, handling and complete overview of all options.
• Tried-and-tested driving tips for all 48 license tests and an individual presentation of each track, analysed in both directions.
• An "A" to "Z" glossary where we explain all essential terms from the world of motor sport and a comprehensive guide index for quick reference.
• Introduction to the Gran Turismo 3--A-Spec European Online Winners' League. Pit yourself against Europe's top drivers, take a look at their current record times and enter your own results. How to enter your score and be automatically positioned in this European Online League Table.
• And that's not all: this book reveals all the game's secrets, so you can release the hidden cars and tracks...
• 164 pages in full colour.

Customer Reviews

Good, but not THAT good...
...It's simply not THAT good. Here's why: first...If you haven't seen this book in the flesh, then, like me, you're going to be a tad shocked. It's not a book so much as a magazine - A4 format and all. Secondly, the content is far from comprehensive - it doesn't, for instance, list which cars are eligible to enter which championship series (and there are nearly one hundred different series' in five leagues). Less important perhaps but true anyway, there are places where the text has been translated literally from a foreign language - which reads very clumsily. Also, the index at the back of the book - all one page of it - is so thin it's nearly useless. The cover boasts, 'this book reveals all the game's secrets'. In reality, this offers a page and a half listing just four 'secrets' in a five page section. There are also some 'special' cars that, "are so secret that you won't even find them listed"! What's the point of a 'secrets' section then?!

But I have bought this title and I like it. Even with the short comings the book is virtually indispensable for GT3. It doesn't really offer good VFM as it stands (computer magzines frequently offer similar amounts of information for much less money)

...The book does score well in its lists. Each of the 48 license tests are detailed, and (nearly!) all the cars are listed, pictured and speced, as are the tracks. The section on car tuning and running settings is very helpful and well laid out - important because tuning and settings are very complicated. One of the most interesting features is a list of the top cars for various values - up to 30 000cr., 100 000cr. etc.

THE BOTTOM LINE: this title's insights really boost the 'fun factor'of GT3 - but it does not deserve a perfect score. Never the less, I love my copy and couldn't do without it now.

Fantastic
This book is a must need for Gran Turismo 3 owners with its fantastic Strategies and secrets that will surely make you a gran turismo 3 freak, the book also gives you a breakdown of the cars and the tracks and what cars to race in certain tracks like i say a must have!

Pretty much useless
The 'book' would be about 10 pages if you removed all the colorful images for a start (although they are very nice and probably make the book end up in the 10£ category). It says it has extensive coverage of every track in GT3, but it really has 3 or 4 hints on each track. The hints are more or less the same as the texts in the licence tests. Half the book is a listing of all available cars in the game. Most of those car stats can already be viewed in the game. They mention the F1 cars, but no stats are listed for the, neither which F1 car can won in the endurance races.
What I used the book for was really only to see what cars can be won in the different championships. This information can be obtained for free from the Internet, so it really makes the book pretty useless.