Gran Turismo 5 To Be Released November 24th

UgLyPuNk writes "After many, many delays, Gran Turismo 5 has finally gotten a solid release date: November 24th. ('Tis the season for vaporware titles to emerge into the real world, it seems.)" Eurogamer posted a preview of the game back in August, saying, "It's been a whirlwind of features and car chatter, beneath which the game still looks fantastic. It may have been in development for the whole of this console generation, but the technical arms race has slowed down and GT5 still looks as good as any other racing game we've seen, and it is, to say the least, comprehensive." Joystiq has a video of the course maker and a collection of screenshots.

Comments

I'll pass

[faragon]

I no longer buy new games since Sony blocked new games to work on PS3s running Linux (I'm stuck in firmware 3.15). Take that, you greedy overlords!

Re:I'll pass

[Stormwatch]

Gran Turismo: the so-called "real driving simulator" that does model damage worse than the wildly unrealistic Daytona USA did back in 1993.

Re:I'll pass

[hardburn]

A while back, Sony hosted a hot lap contest in GT5: Prologue. The first one was High Speed Ring, where the final turn is a long turn with guard rails on the side. If you want to do it the cheap way, you can enter into the turn much too fast, then grind along the guard rails with the gas to the floor. You'll enter the straight much faster than you should. So you do it once, enter the straight really fast, then do it again to get the best time.

Sony refused to cull out entries that did this. Funny thing was that when I downloaded the top replay in the contest, my split times were catching up through the middle of the track. I'm hardly the best driver, but I'm sure that I was better than the "top" player.

Needless to say, a proper damage model would stop this misbehavior.

How does it handle crashing?

[timeOday]

Car crashes, I mean. They're a tough issue in racing games. Some of what goes wrong:

* A griefer who wants to crash rather than race ruins the game
* You discover you can lap more quickly by driving into the hairpin at the end of a straightaway at full speed and crashing into the wall, saving time on deceleration
* You discover you can't crash the AI drivers. So you get the inside line and ride them around sharp corners.

Once you find a ridiculous tactic is highly effective, the game is spoiled. But for whatever reason, it's not fun to drive a game so slowly/safely you can go for an hour without crashing, so handling crashes realistically is problematic too.

Re:How does it handle crashing?

[h4rr4r]

GT has always been a rather unforgiving game, try just qualifying to race in GT3 and 4. Crashes should be realistic. Hit the wall at 100mph? Race over and you do it again.

Not every game has to be super easy.

Re:How does it handle crashing?

[geekoid]

Great question. To my mind there should only be too modes. Highly realistic. You crash, do it again.
The other one, highly ridiculous. Like your the hero in some over the top racing movie. The middle ground is blah.

Sorry Sony

[sdguero]

But I got tired of waiting and sold my PS3 on craigslist about 18 months ago. After my experience with the PS3 (way too expensive and did not deliver what I was expecting, particularly with game titles) I don't expect to purchase another Sony console anytime soon. It's too bad cause I was what you'd call a fanboi 3 years ago...

Re:Sorry Sony

[AbRASiON]

Ok so buy one now then? They are cheaper? The list of games is quite good now, the exclusives are really nice. The graphics for most games are neck and neck on 360 / PS3. The online is free, the device is quiet, it plays blu ray movies, it plays HD MKV's over the network, some of the PSN downloadable games are brilliant etc.