First seen: 13 june 2007
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Polyphony Digital and Kazunori Yamauchi will never give up the Gran Turismo series. And they will never give up the release method by serving small amounts of their next creation of Gran Turismo. Following the same method, first applied for GT4, Polyphony released a prologue version of GT5 intended as a teaser for the full version which is still in progress. With 71 licensed cars on 6 tracks, each track with 2 layouts (normal and reversed), and online support for 16... Read more
The course we played is a new track set in Tokyo. It starts off in densely urban city street before branching out into a visually pleasing rural area, with trees lining the track casting gorgeous shadows down on the tarmac and shiny cars - which all looks as brilliant-clean as they did in GT5P. Of course, the first thing we did was take out shiny motor - the 2008 Subaru Impreza WRC - and slam it into the nearest wall just to see what would happen. Not a lot, is the... Read more
"I tried driving EV cars and hybrids as they've been released and I've found that they're actually fun to drive, [doing things like] monitoring the battery while you're on the road, it's actually kind of interesting," Yamauchi said. "And honestly we have this curiosity for new technology. When a new technology is released into the world, we're interested in trying to [learn] about that system and trying it out." Afterwords, I joked at the possibility of the inclusion... Read more
You have to complete the main events, I believe, then it unlocks them :) Read more
Gran Turismo is one of the best racing franchises out there today, contending with big names such as need for speed, midnight club, and race driver grid. And after playing the prologue of gran turismo I was somewhat dissapointed by the lack of basic things such as car speeds, graphics(compared to gt 4) and racing simulation. But I managed to actually play the demo of Gran turismo 5 and wow it is shockingly good. I treated it like any old Gran turismo game; gas wherever,... Read more