If you don't, you won't win.ĭrivers fortunate enough to have driven GTR will undoubtedly feel familiar with SimBin's physics concept. In essence, GT Legends teaches you how to drive properly and follow the rules of physics. And, if you're driving well and you watch the replay closely from a TV view, you'll see your maneuvering doesn't look at all out of place.

You don't ever feel as if you're 'on rails,' but at the same time you never believe the designers sneaked a little extra coding in there just to make things more difficult than they should be. Conversely, the physics behind GT Legends simply feels right. Case in point-any NASCAR Racing road course, where Papyrus' excellent oval-based physics engineering seemed to evaporate under the weight of turn diversification. Magnificent and certainly light years ahead of its competition at the time, the NASCAR Racing physics modeling engine now seems somewhat rudimentary in comparison. It doesn't completely follow the Papyrus NASCAR Racing formula either.

But when undertaken at either of its two or three most challenging difficulty levels, it's a truly impressive drive that doesn't keep you on the edge of your seat by being frustratingly impossible (hello, GPL), but rather by convincing you that you must treat your virtual car like you would a real, live hunk of machinery. When played at the most approachable of its five difficulty levels, GT Legends is a great racing game for those who don't want to sweat the details. Unlike GPL, which initially proved too difficult for so many players, and different from other time-traveling racing games that plop you in glorified hovercrafts, GT Legends delivers a gritty, entirely believable, and eminently scalable experience. From tricked-out water bugs like the Mini and Cortina to growling Shelbys, slick Porsches, and a variety of madly powerful built-for-racing beasts, the game is a journey into the past on today's tracks. Effectively mimicking the FIA's current real-life FIA-GTC-GT Historic Racing Championships, GT Legends takes a cue from Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends and concerns itself wholly with vintage '60s and '70s racing machines. Rather than following the crowd and throwing drivers behind the wheel of the latest high-tech thoroughbreds, the game travels down a far different road. The view of the inside of your cockpit is almost as nice as the view outside. It also sports one very intriguing twist. Less than a year later, SimBin and 10tacle return to the pavement with GTR's descendant, GT Legends, a game that benefits from SimBin's typically superb physics treatment and attention to detail. In a time when virtual vehicular competition was moving inexorably in the opposite direction, GTR was a welcome respite for those who bled transmission fluid and desperately wanted to pilot authentic cars on authentic tracks against authentic competition. In spring of 2005, developer SimBin and publisher 10tacle Studios dragged the PC racing world back to reality with the warmly received GTR: FIA GT Racing game.

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