Gran Turismo : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
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Book Review: A beginner's guide to GT, very basic and with errors.
Summary: 2 Stars

Once you've played the game through a few races and tracks, however, you will know just about as much as the book can tell you.

Another value the book brings is a fairly accurate description of the many cars that come with the game. I say fairly accurate, however, because there are some difference in the horsepower, weight, etc, between the cars in the book and what you actually get in the game.

Again, at the basic level the book can give you a feel for what car you should try to go after, but at the highest level of competition in the game, you will need more accurate and detailed specs for the cars than what the book can provide.

That's the good part about the book. What about the bad part?

For starter, the book is incomplete, literally incomplete, as in there are paragraphs and words missing where they should be in description of cars and tracks and races. Some of the missing information is just annoying, as in words ____ out of sentences (in this example, the word "left" is missing). In other case, a whole race was left out of the description, including tracks used, purse for winning, etc. Having info on this race would be nice to plan your career in the game. These omissions lead me to think that the publishers had very poor or non-existent proofreading of the text, which is surprising given that this is not a first draft but a book available for purchase by the general public.

Another gripe is that the book is very basic. Once you get beyond the beginner level, you'll wish for more information on cars that you can win, and setup info for the cars that you do have, in order to optimize them for each tracks in a championship. This type of information is incredibly useful unless you want to take hours and hours testing the myriad combinations of suspension, turbocharging, gear ratios, etc. that the game gives you, for each car you have, for each track you will race on. Even for a gearhead and real-life racecar driver like me, going through all the testing to give myself the best chance of winning a championship gets old after the first few track/car combination.

Bottom line, having the book is better than nothing, but after purchasing and reading the book (before even starting to play the game!) I went on-line and did a Yahoo search under Gran Turismo, and found much more accurate and much more useful information on how to play the game, from what I think are non-professional writers who won't sell a single page of their much better reviews and tips. Were I to do it again, I would've saved my money and print out the various tips from the websites.

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