Apr 15, 2008 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for PlayStation 3 game reviews & Metacritic score: The real driving simulator returns with the highly anticipated precursor to Gran Turismo 5, featuring 50 cars from worldwide auto manufacturers including Ferrar. I've been a huge, huge fan of the Gran Turismo racing series ever since it debuted back in 1997. I remember seeing the game a little earlier that.
.Like a classic car that has been lovingly but only partially restored, parts of Gran Turismo 5 look as good as new, while others are showing their age. Developer Polyphony Digital's latest 'real driving simulator' introduces plenty of great new features to the long-running series, but it also recycles a lot of content. This is undoubtedly the biggest and best Gran Turismo yet, and despite its impressive level of realism it's also the most accessible, but aspects of both the gameplay and the visuals evoke deja vu, while the all-new online play uses a lobby system with about as many modern conveniences as a Ford Model T.
If you love to drive, Gran Turismo 5 is a game that you're sure to enjoy; just don't expect it to have that new-car smell. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )After 5 years.Go-karts, Rally, Nascar, B-Spec, A-Spec, lots of tracks and track layouts, 250+ premium cars, 700+ standard cars, The most realist damage ever (at lvl 25-40), Rain, Snow, Time change, Track Editor and Gorgeous Graphics just wasn`t enough. Its funny, cause this game made me realize how pathetic everything in gaming has become.
Maybe they should have put guns on the cars to please all you simpletons.@hydrolex (below)Not me. This game exceeded my expectations,in all reality.
It`s art in car form. I`ll be playing this for years.WAIT.WAIT. You think game should be reviewed based on hype and the time it took to make it?!?! Do you have ANY idea how stupid that sounds?!?! A game should be reviewed for what it is and who is going to be playing it. 3423d agoI don't think you understand, Forza is a raod racing game only, and it got high scores as a road racing game. GT5 trys everything.
Forza beat GT5 in Road racing Imo.Also I can't believe I have to remind people about thisQUality over quantity. 1000 were only 230 are actually good? How about we he a middle ground?
How about 500-600 of Almost premium quality cars?People saying damage is too hard for newcomers? Look up GTR2.With all this said, what would I prefare? Forza3 or GT5? Of course GT5, it's just got so much more in it.However GT5 again, it's a whole product, you can't review a game on only half of it. Half is bueatiful tracks and premium cars, the other half is mediocre graphics with gimpped cars. 3423d agoTo be fare all games this gen that took to long to develop and where hyped got panned.
Only the fans of these games will still like these games.Also if you havnt bought gt5 yet then your not going to buy it based on a review.Sony sort of forgot that this is the online gen. Team races and other social things would have went a long way.People forget this game was suppose to show why Bly rays are needed, what the ps3 can do when fully taped and other hype riddled pr. The main problem is most people are not true car fans and just wanted a fun game. They clearly did not expect a sim. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )'This is undoubtedly the biggest and best Gran Turismo yet'But, they gave GT4 a 8.9/9.edit.The game was also given 'the bad' of1. Bad musicYou can create your own custom playlist of any music you want through USB.
So I guess all music is bad?2. Long load times.It's only a few seconds longer than Forza 3, but forza 3 didn't recieve that.3. Bad first impression.If bad first impressions are what you're looking for try EVE online. Over complicated and an incredibly bitter first experience. But if you give it time, it's amazing. 3423d ago@estrangedIm sure. And this standard is held because?At the bad music.
It is pretty bad.Amazing Grace?? And even though it has an option for custom soundtracks. Its not a part of the game exactly.As for the load times. They are bad. And due to the way the game is set up, you have to go through them sooo many times!
Lets say you go to the race, and you try to figure out which races you can enter, but realize you have the wrong car chosen. You have to go all the way back to your garage and then choose the car and go back.
This process is actually very time consuming. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )1. 'You can create your own custom playlist of any music you want through USB. So I guess all music is bad?' They're talking about the music that was included in the game obviously.
Yes, custom playlist is the solution, but not everyone knows about this feature nor do they know how to copy music to the PS3 (I'm serious). Is My Chemical Romance the intro music?
I saw an article that it was, but hopefully someone can confirm this? If it is, then I can see why they gave it a bad music emblem:P2. 'It's only a few seconds longer than Forza 3, but forza 3 didn't recieve that.' Loading times are long. Just accept it, and they also take the long install into consideration and how it's implemented.3. 'If bad first impressions are what you're looking for try EVE online. Over complicated and an incredibly bitter first experience.
But if you give it time, it's amazing.' GameSpot said the long load times, the installs, menus and music gave them a bad first impression. They talk about your first car. I can see the loading times, installs and confusing menus turn someone off. 3423d agoreview a ps3 exclusive, it seems that those reviews are from a 360fanboy perspective. That's why when deducting scores, the reasons are straight up nitpick(s). The game got an 8.0, and it's a good score.
But for a game like gt5! Give me solid reasons why this game receive such a score.here are the reasons:Quality of visuals is wildly inconsistent,Outdated and impractical online lobby system- which seems to be the most valid point.Too easy to win early races simply by entering in a powerful car.Now in total, these negatives deducted 2 whole points, which mean, the problems in the game should be noticeable.I don't have the game yet, but when I get it today, I will be looking for these issues.
3423d agoWho cares about standards when it comes to GT5??? I think the Polyphony team held themselves up to a high standard. If this game does not crack 5 million sold it will be a disappointment to SONY and Polyphony and serious changes will be made. I love the game although after many hours and level 20 one thing is apparent and that is lack of tracks and races.
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One thing I have always loved about this series is getting better licenses to get in tougher races. I have yet to see any endurance races which I find disappointing.
Also this game need at least 10 more tracks. If you are going to play it to a serious level you do need more variety. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )GREAT review'This is undoubtedly the biggest and best Gran Turismo yet'But, they gave GT4 a 8.9/9.' The standards for games when GT4 came out are different from the standards for games today.For example, lets talk graphics. When GT4 came out, it was shocking how good it looked since the PS2 wasn't viewed as the 'graphical powerhouse' of the last generation.the Xbox was.Fast forward to 2010, where the PS3 IS the graphical powerhouse as far as HD gaming consoles are concerned. Considering it took nearly half a decade to make and it was developed exclusively for the PS3.GT5's graphics are less impressive than GT4's graphics in the sense that GT5's level of graphical detail is EXPECTED considering the time PD had to make the game and the raw power of the PS3's CPU.@Maria- U missed the whole point of my comment.
Gamespot gave GT4 a higher score than GT5 for the same reason that they gave Halo 1 a higher score than every other Halo game.GT4 and Halo 1, at the time of their release, gave gamers things that they gave NEVER seen before. THATS why their critical acclaim is so high. GT5(while obviously better than GT4 in technical terms such as content, graphics, and physics) is merely a refinement to the genre.
In order, for a sequal to outscore an awesome predecessor they need to do something radically different that betters the experience and brings the genre forward. From what I'm hearing, GT5 did not accomplish that.
3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )I have seen the vids but it doesn't make the ps2 imported models look any better. For every amazing aspect of the game there is an equally jarring/ dated counterpart. The scenery looks horrible at parts.
Trees and shrubbery look like ps2 place holders. Standard cars are from ps2 gt4 with upscaled res. The menu system is archaic and lacks many options that are seen as standard these days.
Forza 3 has long load times. Just as long as gt5 but people complain about it in gt5 because the menus are set up so bad, you have to go through several screens and a few extra load bars just to get the same thing done that would of taken only one or two clicks from the same screen in Forza. This isn't a technical limitation. Just bad design.
Pd may know cars but they need to learn that making some things simple or easy to do, like the menus and online system, is ok. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )To give a 8/10 to a game with so much content.I think its completely inpractical.
Its not glitchy, its not a short game. It has satisfactory online and many addtional features such as gttv, photo mode and track generator.I just don't see this game as anything below a 9/10 and thats nitpicking.Your all out of your minds, if you pass this up your doing yourself a HUGE injustice.Sidenote: I own every GT. I have a wheel and a chair. This game is absolutely WONDERFUL. I kid you not and i'm HUGELY thankful to Kaz for including all the Old cars, as I have relationships with many of them! 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )No wonder people accuse these reviewers of being bought-off with these kinds of reviews!GT5 only does what is necessary to keep it a Gran Turismo game; there's nothing wrong with a franchise keeping the aspects of what define it. Every other franchise does it.Franchises that don't (Final Fantasy) are criticized for it.And yet GT5 adds so much more on top of what every Gran Turismo fan knows and loves.
This game is like a MMORPG for car lovers.Even the 'Special Events' part of the game, which allows players to engage in races based on popular and real backdrops (Jeff Gordon and NASCAR, TOPGEAR, etc) is worth the price of admission. It's awesome.My only complaints are that the cars don't look exactly as realistic as I imagined, but then again, any more realistic and you have real life.I only agree with the online mode complaints thus far - issues that if truly significant will be patched.This game is about as perfect as perfect can get, short of being a real-life racer in 2010.The five years of work in this game is apparent to me; I seriously struggle to understand what more I could have wanted out of it. Eventually, they have to release the game - if Polyphony tried to add everything that people can imagine into the game, it would never come out. I think that along with install base concerns is the reason for the 5 years, tbh.That's the thing - I don't know what more they could have done with GT5.Finally, I think that GT5 Prologue and perhaps even the PSP version of Gran Turismo gave people a clue of what GT5 would be and this perhaps 'spoiled' the full effect of GT5 for some people.But you have to be mature about this - look at all that is in this game and that it's being sold for $60. That alone is 10/10 worthy in this day and age of games being released for full price and then having DLC a week later.12PSN: TheTwelve (add me). 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )I can agree with their gripes. I think their score is a little too low, but it's their opinion.
GT5 is getting lower scores because everyone expected more than they got. If GT5 was the first GT game, guaranteed the scores would be higher, It's kind of an unfair disadvantage. But the only opinion that matters is your own, and I think it's the best racing game I've ever played.EDIT:: Absolutely agree with you. To quote myself from another article:'Personally i'm not a car enthusiast.
I love cars but i'm not a gear head, nor a huge racing game fan. GT has always annoyed me because i felt it to be so damn hard. I also have never owned a GT game, only played them. But I set my sights on GT5 and ordered a Driving force GT.
Lemme tell ya, boy am I impressed. GT5 is more intuitive than it's predecessors by far, just the addition of the driving line is a great improvement. The game eases you into action, teaches you how to drive and gives you great satisfaction.
Last week I would have hit every wall on the nurburgring. This week I'm racing around that track like nobody's business, having the time of my life and wanting to scream out loud 'wahoo!!' This game is awesome and truly is fun when you respect what it's trying to teach you.' 3423d agoIf GT fans did not care about reviews then why are there forums all over the web now that have those fans saying the reviews are all wrong and its biased against the PS3.IF REVIEWS DON'T MATTER?Reality is REVIEWS mean squat if you love the game.Reviews are one persons opinion.But to say GT fans don't care about reviews when there has been a lot of hoopla since release is quite wrong.
Just look at the GT5 threads on this site for proof.Reviews mean shit. Just enjoy the game you bought and to hell with what one site tells you. It's YOU that are playing the game. 3422d ago (Edited 3422d ago )Heh totally with you on the Driving Force wheel. Never was a big fan of racing sims but the wheel plus this game makes it so much fun. The feedback from the road, grip on the tires everything feels awesome with the Logitech DFGT. I wouldn't have looked at GT5 if not for seeing a video about the wheel and I'm glad I did.The game does not deserve a perfect score cause its lacking in the online experience with subpar match making.
Its quite behind the times in that regard. They could have done so much more with the map maker that mixed in with a better online experience would be worthy of all 10s and 9s.Much like I can't play Street Fighter anymore without an arcade stick I will never be able to play another racing sim without a wheel. 3423d agoMariaHelFutura + 30m agoAfter 5 years.Go-karts, Rally, Nascar, B-Spec, A-Spec, lots of tracks and track layouts,250+ premium cars, 700+ standardcars, The most realist damage ever(at lvl 25-40), Rain, Snow, Timechange, Track Editor and GorgeousGraphics just wasn`t enough. Itsfunny, cause this game made merealize how pathetic everything ingaming has become.
Maybe theyshould have put guns on the cars toplease all you simpletons.this guy isn't letting up lol. He,s like one of those doomsday sayers you meet on the streets proclaiming to everyone how the world is about to end. We all feel sorry for him but we can't help but chuckle at his paranoia. 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )In comparison can't you guys just say hey this is my opinion but x game is better than y game.
It's really annoying to hear opinions sugar coated as fact.Hey Jesus is better than Superman, Gargamel is more evil than The Grinch. Cap'n Crunch is a better pirate than Jack Sparrow.Seriously though it's all just an opinion but when you say your opinion as fact and then bash others for theirs.now that's just plain rude. At the least spin it as an opinion and not the Gospel.Random Thought: 'Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar, Who Me! Yes You!!, Couldn't Be!!! 3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )'IHATEYOUFANBOYS'you are absolutely correct.
The only problem is that the fanboys don't won't to hear that sh.t. They don't want to hear that the their very very looooooong awaited game has so many flaws. They don't wan't to beleive that that game is nothing more than average.
Telling them the truth will only make your bubble count drop fast. Every journalist out there who has given GT5 less than 9 is a f.cking xbox nut hugger. Reality doesn't sit well here.This site is a gong show.
3423d ago (Edited 3423d ago )InvaderZim it is a well known fact that PS3 games always get lower scores for things that are not even mentioned in other games. GT5 has glitches but other buggy, broken and almost unplayable games get a free ride with out a scratch.
Starcraft 2 was worked on for probably as long as GT5 was and still had to be patched after it was released.No one made huge headlines about it taking so long and still having problems.Games like Crackdown 2 and Fallout New Vegas are practically cut and paste copies of their counter parts but still got sales. Microsoft's games have terrible game stories that are so mindless and cliche that make you want to mute the television so you don't have to listen to them. But UC2 gets lowers scores for being cliche while other games get perfect scores while their stupid mindless stories are ignored.Other developers make the same games every year. Each one is basically a cookie cutter expansion pack of the last one.
Yet God of War and Ratchet and Clank sequels are accused of being the same game every time and are said to be boring and repetitive.Everyone is always ready to tell the 'truth' when it comes to PS3 games but anything else gets a million excuses why you ignore the glitches, repetitiveness, short campaigns, crappy story, lazy design etc. Xplay does it all the time. They say things like 'The story is stupid but hey it's a Mario, Gears or Halo game. Who cares about that?' And slap on a perfect score.I don't mind if people find something wrong with a PS3 game but don't judge it differently.
360, PC and Wii games should be all judged by the same standards not get special treatment for any reason. You shouldn't say a game's graphics are good for a Wii game for example.The graphics are either bad or good one or the other.
3423d agogames arent games anymore. People want non stop action. Why do u think fps games are taking over. Some people need more than video games. Why do u think we have crap like move, the f'ing wii (waste of time), and kinect. Its all a gimick for stupid a$$ people. Dude i saw a commerical for kinect the other day about a game u buy to work out on the 360.
Is this world coming to. U buy a 360 or a ps3 to play GAMES!!! Not dance around like a crack head. Go to the damn gym if u want to workout. Also rock band is cool and all but that isnt a f'ing video game.
Its a joke man. I miss the old school days where u can just play a game alone and be happy. Now u need people to play with or ur not happy.gt5 seems like a full fledge f'ing video game that sticks its juggs in ur mouth. But people just want to hate on it. Where is the hate for games like modern warfare 2?
4 hour campaigne. Super crap compared to cod4. 3423d agoIndeed.We are seeing the decline of the gaming medium. Older crowds, lol myself included were brought up on a different sort of milk. Games were there but weren't catered to hard or easy.
They just were, you didn't get hand outs, you became better.I can understand the sweet spot of catering to Hardcore and Casuals, but don't loose the sauce trying to get everyone in the pot.or and African Proverb.a squirrel going after 2 nuts will soon have none. Another point to ponder.do they have squirrels in Africa.See now your thinking on a deeper level. 3423d agoI think the review nailed it when he said 'recycles a lot'. That's how I felt when played the first time. I'll be honest I only at level 6. But it's not really all that impressive. It's still a bumber car racing game so far.
And don't try to make me believe that it's a good thing that damage 'unlocks' later and it gives the game a sense of rpg! In my opinion, it's just a way to hide a big probleme of the game for the fact that they ported a lot of cars from gt4 and couldn't implement damage to those said cars. And no cockpit view for 80% of the cars. You're stuck with only the road to see (like if you'd be lying on the hood) that's realistic!
LOL, and you rpm and speed gauge. This is a big let down for me. I'm sorry but it's not what we were lead to believe before the release of the game. No wander reviewers ar a bit disapointed in general. I know I am!Yes it might deliver on something that I might not have seen yet.
But what I saw it's pretty average.I'm a racing games fan and I've played both Forza games also on the 360. And so far I'll take a Forza game every 2 years instead of a GT game every 5 years. 3422d ago (Edited 3422d ago )Don't spend money on chassis repairs unless your car is acting totally wack, or motor repairs unless you see the HP is much lower than it used to be.This is an area they should improve on with some kind of display to show how much the car is degraded, because at first you don't realize one easy lap in a new car will autmatically trigger the option to purchase a chassis repair, even though it is totally unneccesary.
Obviously in real life, you can inspect your car for damage, so something like that should be included in the game if they are going to include repairs as a feature. 3423d agoThis huge uproar from the GT5 fanboys is because the average is roughly 8.0. Not a perfect score like they expect.However if they actually spend time to read the reviews, they'll realize that some of the criticism are valid in many regards.For example the racing experience is very stale, the AI are drone like, they never crash, they don't make mistakes and there's no damage modeling on the AI cars. You can plow your car into the wall and pay a huge repair bill but you're still playing bumper cars with the AI. You can run head on into the AI at 150mph at level 40 and they'll shake it off and continue driving as if they just ran into a plastic box.There are some aspect of GT5 that is deserving of praise but it's far and away from being the perfect sim merely because some aspect of the racing experience is not simulated at all.
It's abstracted. 3423d agoForza got it's scores because of easy to play, It's not a sim.GT is a sim through and through.Even arcade mode is.And that is the problem, arcade should have been more fun in that respect.Then there is the graphics.In terms of cars,lighting,tracks. Gt remains untouched by any.The game is crystal clear.But i know what people are moaning about.Tree's - Shadows - and a few textures on old tracks.I think they should have gone with x2aa for 720p with all those cars, would be less bandwidth, and use that was shadow aa.In the case of content.There is so much, no other game comes close unless it's an rpg. 3422d agoI like GT5, but it is a psuedo-sim - half sim, half arcade racer. It simulates how cars behave without contact very well (simulation). It does not simulate what happens when cars make contact with another car or object at speed in any realistic way, nor do the NPC cars behave like autonomous drivers looking out for what's happening on the track with other cars (arcade style).If people would get away from this puritanical view of either sim or arcade game, and see this as a combination of both to different degrees, they might be able to accept the game on it's own terms. 3423d agoOkay.
I consider this a valid point, but I really do hope going forward that NFS, GRID, Motostorm, Forza, etc will be judged on the same merits.Personally I don't think they are, I really do think GT is rated at a much higher standard. No other racing game gets this much attention, I mean NFS just came out what this week, last week how come no one is on that one. Simply In all respect other racers are lunch meals just tiding you over until the next GT. It's always been that way.On the Issue of Forza. Honestly I don't know if its a arcade or sim game as I've never played it.
Can't even say its worse or better than GT, but I do know I don't really hear any really good debates on whether it is or not from someone whose played both.But if Forza is MS/Turn10's answer to GT then they need to be judged on that same scale. Don't tell me that GT is judged by the same token as its not, as clearly the amount of input on this site alone would suggest otherwise.I'm not a review and I respect GS's score, but I'd have to respectfully disagree. I can not in good conscience give it less than a 9/10 and that is pushing it.