Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4004 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sold Out Software
• Released on: 2002-02-15
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95
• Dimensions: .56 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
It was a time when racing circuits were designed to test the limits of man and not the safety. A time when a driver's talent mattered more than his machinery. Grand Prix Legends captures this experience in one of the most accurate and compelling racing simulations ever created. Based on an advanced 3D modelling engine, the driving feel has been authentically recreated. Cars slide, drift, bounce and skid with frightening realism. As your skills improve, you can start giving the legends of the era some serious competition: race against greats like Jack Brabham, Jim Clark and Graham Hill.

Customer Reviews

From a Youngen'
I am from the generation of PSone's and Sonic the Hedgehog, i however do know a good thing when i see it and play it. after getting F1 2001 for Christmas, although it looked the part, i didn't really get on with it as the tracks were mostly mickey mouse and the gameplay was boring - in the sense that once you had one good setup for you at one track, you could almost certainly use it for every track with a few adjustments and off you would go and win.

i then heard of GPL from an internet message board and searched the shops for it but to no avail, so i used the net to try and find this hallowed of all games. when i found it here [...], i thought "at this price, it doesn't matter if it's bad" so i [...] got it, played it and never stopped playing since. it is simply that good that when you first get onto the track (i reccomend Spa or the classic Nordschleiffe), it simply blows you away. now try telling me that F1 2001 or whatever game is better when you're screaming around Monza in a Ferrari racing with Jim Clark or Graham Hill or carving your way through the Nurburgring of blasting down from Masta to Stavelot at Spa.

it is so fun...BUT...and this is a very big BUT: it takes some time. beleive me - you'll be wondering why exactly you spent [money] on something that will frustrate you so much that you'll be scorning and spitting acid because it is very very very hard when you start out. we're talking a month of absolute humiliation, frustration and a few hysterical laughs and tears (the kind you get when you've completely lost the plot)...but...then...out of the darkness...one day you'll get on there - usually at the Nurburgring and it will *click*, you'll be carving smoothly around the track, taking corners at speeds you could have only dreamed of yesterday and you'll jump up from your seat after doing a 9m30s lap and shout "YES, YES, YESSSSSS" so much so, that your neighbours will be considering calling the police and your family will shift uneasily further and further away from you in their seats.

when you buy it, be prepared for supreme frustration but the greatest high when you're finally decent at it. my advice as well is: start off with the aids (they're there for a reason), then slowly ween your way off of them one-by-one. another thing, start off with the basic trainer and work your way up. i started off with the GP and F2 cars and thus, im still learning the ropes. finally, the greatest thing about this game is that millions of people have it and there are some really good drivers out there from which you can download setups from, so as to spare your hair for when you rip it out and save the game from being deleted from your hard drive. other than that, buy it and enjoy the greatest game ever to grace my computer.

Best Racing Sim Ever??
By far the most realistic F1 game ever created. Driving cars from 1967 you can see how things have changed since then. These cars are VERY difficult to control and you will need to be pretty dedicated to even finish a race of more than 10 laps. I have had this game for a couple of years now and it still stands out as perhaps the best ever F1 racing sim.

The best
Come on get this game, it blows other GP sim's out of the water. The cars are great, but hard to handle, and the tracks are as they should be.
The action takes place in 1967, the year befour tabacco advertising took over F1. It was also the last year of the wing less cars. So you can try and controle a powerful 3 liter Lotus 49 around such tracks as Monza and Spa, with out downforce. The other thing is that becouse of the era the tracks are un spoiled. Monza has none of the chicains that slow the track now, you come out of the Acari curve at 270kph and accelerate to over 300 befour brakeing down for Parabolica. A instant to soon on the brake and you lap is ruined, to late ant you are in the fenceing.
This is a great introduction to F1 and the era when drivers were heros, and risked there life. Of the drivers depicted in the game, four would die at the wheel befour the end of the `68 season.