Video Games : GTC Africa

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: GTC Africa

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Majesco
EAN: 0096427012757
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Majesco Sales Inc.
Manufacturer: Majesco Sales Inc.
Model: 96427012757
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Majesco Sales Inc.
Release Date: June 03, 2002
Sales Rank: 17557
Studio: Majesco Sales Inc.



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GTC Africa takes the fun of rally-style driving and combines it with the excitement of competitive circuit racing. Get behind the wheel of officially licensed and internationally recognized performance cars from Ford, Subaru, Pontiac, and Mitsubishi. Race through the streets of Cape Town, across Libyan deserts, and into the misty jungle of the Congo.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Technically disappointing - A 2nd tier PS2 racing game
I rented GTC Africa with a great deal of excitement and anticipation, and the game delivered, if only for a short while. The game developers had great subject matter (rally racing, with African rallies being some of the world's most difficult and exciting), many exotic locations (the whole African continent), and a ready-to-wear audience (all of us). Unfortunately, they did not fully capitalize on any of the above.

GAMEPLAY: Almost immediately I noted the sluggish steering. It seems to take about a 1/4 second before the car will respond. (I'm sure it's not that long, but in a fast paced environment, every 1/4 second counts!) The physics of the game leave something to be desired - it just doesn't "feel" right - the turns, slides, handbrake turns, jumps, and bounces aren't up to snuff with other racing games, even compared to some on my N64.

VISUALS: Speaking of N64, this game is certainly better than anything the last generation of machines produced, but not by the HUGE margin one would expect. The N64/PS1 "long-distance haze" is gone and the background scenery is quite a bit better, but the cars themselves haven't improved much, if at all. Not up to current industry standards, but enjoyable enough.

TRACKS: Sad, sad, sad. One characteristic of rally racing I find most interesting is that fact that there aren't often laps - the racer has a start point and an end point, with constantly changing scenery in between. This is sadly not the case here. The tracks are short, shorter, and shortest. If you don't mind finishing each race in less than 5 minutes, you won't mind GTC Africa. Each race is 3 laps, with many of the tracks (see Lesotho & Nigeria) so short, they could be completed by an experienced driver in under one minute. My first lap on the Nigeria track was 49 seconds... on my 1st try! One could memorize the tracks with little difficulty. If I wanted to see the same thing over and over, I'd get a NASCAR game.

CARS: There aren't many (maybe 8-10), and most of the ones they do have aren't very interesting. Imagine the excitement of rallying a Ford Focus. It has a spoiler and a rear-window Ford decal! Great.

INTANGIBLES: This is going to sound SO nitpicky (and probably even a little snobby - please forgive me), but the geography was really stinky! The programmers took every African cliche and simply patchworked them together, with some details being completely ludicrous! The Tanzanian track, for example, is their idea of a mountain track. There is ONE mountain in Tanzania (Kilimanjaro), and there ain't NO WAY you're driving on it, much less have European-style arched bridges, square barns, and tube tunnels running through it! I doubt the track designers even looked at a picture of Mt. Kilimanjaro! They could have designed a great track running around the foothills of the mountain, but instead decided to fit the square peg of the "Mountain Track" racing game cliche into the round hole of reality. It's just so rediculous. It also bothered me that most of the people you see along the tracks are WHITE. I'm not even going to comment on how dumb that is.

All things considered, GTC Africa is entertaining but is definately a 2nd-tier racing game for the PS2. The locale, the REAL Africa, is an excellent choice for a rally game and I hope someone will update this title and do it justice, fulfilling the game's potential. Nonetheless, this game still beats the pants off Paris-Dakar Rally (a truly squandered effort).

Bottom line recommendation: Worth a rental before you buy.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Worst Game Ever
This is the worst game I have played for the PS2. I'm glad I only rented it. First off, the graphics are terrible. There are better games graphically for the Playstation. Only one of the cars is a liscenced rally car. The rest of them would make pathetic rally cars. When I think of rally cars I think of Subaru Imprezas and Pugeut 206s not Pontaic Grand Prixs and Vibes. Another low point is the physics. Cars handle the same on snow as they do on grass and concrete. If you stray from the road even a little distance your car slows down to a crawling speed. The courses don't look like rally courses either. I just don't understand driving through a city with skyscrapers and dirt roads. There are more weak points in the game, but I'm trying to keep this short, so in conclusion don't buy this game. If someone gives it to you don't play it. It will only waste your time and make you want to write a review like this one.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - GTC Africa is a waste of a CD...
And I do mean CD. The game actually comes on a CD, not a DVD. This would be a great PlayStation game, but makes a terrible PS2 game. Don't let the graphics on the back of the box fool you, this game looks horrible. The cars in it aren't even real WRC rally cars. There's a Grand Am and Firebird Trans Am rally car... need I say more? Also in the lineup is a Ford Mustang and Pontiac Vibe GT. They did manage to license a couple of real rally cars, like the Subaru Imprezza WRX and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, but the game's horrible gamplay still doesn't justify buying the game.

As an alternative, I'd highly recommend the game WRC for PS2. It's a more true to life rally experience, with ALL of the real WRC cars, and a real rally atmosphere when racing. GTC Africa feels like a game that was rushed, and when you see what playing GTC Africa is like if you know anything about real rally racing, you'll see that the programmers of this game don't even know how real rally racing works. The control response is horrific at best, the graphics are grainy, and the music is downright annoying. I've never shelled out cash for a bigger waste of money in my life since Midnight Club. One star all the way across the board.

Do yourself a favor and pick up WRC or Grand Turismo 3 instead. Both of those games are a million times better than this.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - GTC : Africa or GTA3 , which is better?
I bought this game a couple of weekes ago. GTC:africa has preety good graphics but the graphics could have been much better, for a ps2 game its graphics are just chicken scratch. There are some other flaws in this game as well , for example, all the tracks are too short ,esapically the first track.There are only 4 car makers Ford, Subaru, Pontaic and Mitsubishi each maker has only 2 cars a total of 8 cars and some seceret cars which makes the total 10 cars.The amount of cars in this game are very short which is nothing compared to gta3.The only good quality in the game is its modes ( championship, practice, challenge, and multiplayer) in the capionship mode u will compete in various races to win and this mode is also the longest of al the other modes, pracitce mode is where u can practice ur skills, challenge is where u and a computer car have a race, and i guess u know what multiplayer mode is.With all this GTC:africa has alot of room for improvement. With this reveiew u might have already realized that gta3 is much much better than GtC: africa.plus gta3 is now for ... and GTC: africa is still ... which does not make sense at all.But if u are a hardcore racing or rally racing fan than this game is for u.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - At a price like that, you can overlook some flaws
The very first thing you notice is that GTC:Africa is a visually great looking game. And for a lower price point game, GTC can hold its own against the Rallisport Challenges (XBox), Sega Rallys (Dreamcast) and WRCs (PS2). While GTC has the look, the control is a bit of a sticking point. What GTC has going for it is a more forgiving controls that give you time to correct steering errors. That's the good part so you won't go flying into an embankment with one wrong tap of the analog stick. On the down side though, the cars feel extremely light and don't exhibit the correct physics when drifting through a turn or jumping a bump in the road. Despite this problem its still fun to play. The other major problem I had was the car selection. Although I haven't played the game in its entirety, there seems to be many trademark cars missing for a rally racing game. While GTC does have the obligatory Subaru Impreza and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, rally powerhouses like Lancia and Pugeot have been replaced by Ford and Pontiac. Overall, not a bad game, but it has some work to do if ever a sequel should be made.

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