As much as I loved driving GPL back in '98 (pre FFB) I often hear people talk about how the cars in GPL are much more slidey than they were in real life. I'm tempted to go back and try it again, I should still have my original copy lying around somewhere.
I still have the old GPL installed on a FAT partition my HDD. Although fully modded with all that was put out till around 2005-6, when giving it a go nowaday, I find myself fairly unimpressed with the game. Today, how the cars slide around seems ridiculous, but that just shows how far Sim racing has come in those 20 years.
We must not forget, that back in 1998, there was no sim on the market, that even tried to replicate how real cars drove. And then, out of nowhere, came Grand Prix Legends.
Not only did it take driving physics seriously, but it also replicated the glorious GP cars of those days, when people like Stewart, Rindt, Hill, Clark, Ickx, well, there is almost none in the 1967 field who is not an icon today, were racing.
So, if you were a petrol head back in those days and had a computer, you have been playing games like F1 Grand prix, GP2, Indy500, Indycar racing. And then, with a bang, comes GPL, out of nowhere, and it immediately was in a league of its own, completely.
Therefore, I really like this GPL v2.0 mod, and am for ever grateful that Bazza and his team have dedicated their time to update and polish these cars and make them work in Assetto Corsa.
Of Course, the renaming of the v2 version of the mod to GPL, may be a bit unlucky, and also, me personally, I would have put less emphasis on trying to replicate the original GPL cars handling,
but we should take this mod for what it actually is, and that is the perfect kit to build our own 1967 F1 season. GPL is a legacy as a computer game, but it is the legacy of these old 1967 Grand Prix cars, that I'm really longing for.
Like Alfie, I'm also solely driving the original Kunos 49 and 312/67 cars, and run those two alongside the other cars of the mod. For this the mod is damn near perfect.
Add to this the historic Kunos tracks, or the old Spa and Monaco tracks of AC.reboot, and you are, well, at least I am, in an old mans sim racing heaven.
I understand, that there are still issues pending with regards to the origins of the models itself, and the textures used, but given that there are no other choices if one fancies those old GP cars, in this case, I do choose to overlook that aspect. If I'm in the middle of the desert, and someone is offering a bottle of water for free, I will amicably overlook from whose well the water came.