The big news of the day is definitely the announcement of the release of a Gran Turismo 5 demo on PSN on December 17. It will include a time trial race on one track at the wheel of the Nissan 370Z. Now it's not the end of the story as a big time trial competition will accompany the demo, giving the fastest drivers the chance to join the GT Academy 2010. After a national final event that will oppose the 20 best racers of the demo, only two of them will win the right to enter the GT Academy 2010 and drive real racing cars. Players will have until January 24 to send their best time, so gentlemen, let's start your engine!
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This was a huge surprise [to me] by the way, can't wait to play it!
Plus, the previous GT games (with the exceptions of GT5P and GT-PSP) pretty much were the RPGs of racing games—with character/car development, hundreds of accessories and upgrades, not to mention the epic, but implied, story of a racer from his humble beginnings to a world class Formula 1 or GT driver.
Oh crap. I did it again: I responded to a comment that reflects little to no understanding or thought with the expectation that the person to whom I am responding would read my post with understanding or thought.
It took a month for each car in GT4 to be made but with GT5, it's closer to 6 months. Unlike GT4 which used most of the codes from GT3 (also on the PS2), with GT5, all the codes from GT4 was replaced and the game was practically built from the ground up.
It's really clever from Polyphony to have a time-trial demo only, so we can't determine whether or not GT5 suffers from the infamous bumper car syndrome. Besides that, I'd like to be optimistic, but I think this demo will have the damage and weather effects disabled. The reason why I think that is simply because seeing the world as a pessimist spares you from lots of disappointments.
It's really clever from Polyphony to have a time-trial demo only, so we can't determine whether or not GT5 suffers from the infamous bumper car syndrome. Besides that, I'd like to be optimistic, but I think this demo will have the damage and weather effects disabled. Just because seeing the world as a pessimist spares you from lots of disappointments.
there is an intent to include them, but if they don't get what matters right like the physics, why would they persue the implementation of another half-assed bullet point?
So the only thing the demo will really demo is driving physics without car accidents and graphics.. impressive…
@ Ishigami: You forgot the sound. I think the sound is just as important for a racing sim as graphics and phyiscs. But you're right, it's a weak demo, I'd have liked two or three more cars and another track, at the very least. Is that too much to ask for a game that supposedly has tons of content?
I KNOW RIIGHT??!!
wait.. what?
I would guess world wide.
I just think that a demo to a racing game should feature a race. Thats what you will most of the time.
Awesome in FM3, really awesome!
Not so in GT5P however… the FF is buggy and without FF steering just feels fake.
It apparently works just fine in Shift.
I hope GT5 will work, would be shame to keep my G25 just for that. At least now I have something to look forward to test in the demo.
This is a time trial because it's the official competition for the 2010 GT Academy, which is a big deal for enthusiasts that are serious about this.
Also driving games like GT can be very deep in depth with just one track, one car and one mode.
We'll just wait to see how good it is ;)
http://www.gtplanet.net/gran-turismo-5s-nurburgrin...