Grand Prix 3
Grand Prix 3 (GP3) is a computer racing simulator by MicroProse. Released in 2000 by Hasbro Interactive featuring the 1998 Formula One season (with all drivers except Jacques Villeneuve, who is instead…
Grand Prix 3 is a racing developed by MicroProse Software, Inc., released 1 June 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Grand Prix 3 is
Grand Prix 3 is a racing game developed by MicroProse Software, Inc. and released in 2000. It was published by Hasbro Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Grand Prix 3 (GP3) is a computer racing simulator by MicroProse. Released in 2000 by Hasbro Interactive featuring the 1998 Formula One season (with all drivers except Jacques Villeneuve, who is instead replaced by a fictional character, John Newhouse). The game wasn't quite as well received as its predecessors, but at the time was widely considered to be the best racing simulation available. An add-on to the game, called GP3-2000 or GP32k, was released by Hasbro which updated the game to the 2000 Formula One season. A few other changes were made as well including: updated damage physics including damage from on-circuit debris, improved AI, a new replay system, and EAX 3D-sound. Since the…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Formula 1 series
Grand Prix 3 is the 67th of 123 entries we hold in the Formula 1 series. The next entry was Formula One 2000 in 2000. Its critic score of 100 is 23 points above the series average of 77. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Grand Prix 3 holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 28 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Grand Prix 3 launched on 1 June 2000, within three weeks of Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War, Perfect Dark and Ground Control. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Shogun: Total War, Perfect Dark, Ground Control.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Grand Prix 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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