Catalogue No. -  GS-9022

I remember seeing a very early beta of this game and it looked better than this final release. So what the hell happened?

Gran Chaser runs pretty smooth most of the time but it does suffer from some pretty bad slowdown.  It also has a lot of polygon bending issues but then again most early Saturn games did.  The learning curve of the courses is pretty good mind you however the courses them selves are too plain and dull for the most part plus the control system could be a lot better.

Considering that this was made well before Wipeout I'd say it's not that bad and I wouldn't be surprised if Wipeout even borrowed ideas from this game such as the weapon system.  One point of interest though is that the western versions of Gran Chaser (Cyber Speedway) have had all the story modes removed.  I wonder why?  It's not as if translating the text would have taken any more than an hour or two.