Grand Prix 4 (Windows)

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Description

Do you like Formula 1 racing, the Grand Prix series, racing in general or do you just want to be the best at the grand prix? You can become the worlds best F1 driver on the world's best tracks from around the world with this very simple racing game.

Grand Prix 4 contains all what you would expect from a Grand Prix race: pitstops, mech's and engineers are all included.

This games has better physics, as well as sound and graphics. You can race against the AI, or play over the LAN with anything from 1 up to 8 other players.

If you like winning the grand prix with style, nothing gets you closer to the real thing than Grand Prix 4.

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Alternate Titles

• "格林批治F1赛车4" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Grand Prix 2001" -- Working title
• "GP4" -- Abbreviated title
• "Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 4" -- European title

Part of the Following Groups

• Covermount: Fullgames
• Formula 1 licensees
• Formula 1 racing games
• MicroProse Grand Prix series

User Reviews

Nothing more than an upgrade	greenmangroup (13)
Facelift from earlier GP Series	david hickling (4)

Critic Reviews

Eurogamer.net (UK)	Jul 07, 2002	10 out of 10	100
ActionTrip	Jun 29, 2002	92 out of 100	92
Svenska PC Gamer	Jul, 2002	90 out of 100	90
GameSpy	Oct 18, 2002	88 out of 100	88
GameStar (Germany)	Jun, 2002	88 out of 100	88
GameZone	Sep 16, 2002	8.5 out of 10	85
Joystick (French)	Jul, 2002	85 out of 100	85
JeuxVideoPC.com	Dec 31, 2002	17 out of 20	85
Gamesmania.de	Jul 11, 2002	82 out of 100	82
PC Powerplay	Jan, 2005	77 out of 100	77

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Trivia

Cancelled Xbox port

An Xbox version of the game was in development. But due to the bad selling numbers (caused by the huge amount of bugs) and the Shutdown of the Microprose studios the Xbox version was never published - although it was nearly finished. At a PR event two months before the release it was possible to play the game on Xbox.

Manual

In the first release version the European manuals were mixed up. Half of the manual was in German, the rest in French and visa versa. The same happened to other languages.

Release

At the release time the game contained so many bugs that it was nearly unplayable. This was due to the fact that Infogrames rushed the release because they wanted the game to be release before EA's F1 2002.

Therefore the beta test team did not have the time to test the game and the Microprose programmers could not finish the game - this was the beginning of the end of the GP series. Three months later Infogrames shut down the Microprose studios.

Title

In the development stage the game was named Grand Prix 2001. But later on Infogrames decided to name it Grand Prix 4, because it should not be one year behind EAs F1 2002 game.

Related Web Sites

• Grand Prix 4 (Official Site)
• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
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