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Gran Turismo 5 Spec II

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noob q: what does 'gran tourismo' mean ? i know forza is 'force' in italian.

 

gran turismo is italian for grand touring.....grand touring is a particular syle/format of car racing

 

 

 

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thanks dude, from the trailers, i thought it was a F1 sim (with a diff type of car) !

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With Gran Turismo 5: Prologue captivating the Tokyo Game Show 2007 floor much the way it did in Leipzig, we took the opportunity to visit the Polyphony Digital studios and sit down with Gran Tursimo Producer Kazunori Yamauchi, with the man's personal translator Tsubasa Inaba on-hand for assistance.

 

As the new cockpit view highlights, the team has made significant strides in the fairly short time since Gran Tursimo HD came out. Yamauchi said that while working on the new hardware hadn't been easy, they are currently steady progress. During the planning stages for Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, Sony told us later, the resolution had been set at 1080i, but only a couple weeks after making that call, the team had a breakthrough that enabled them to hit 60 frames-per-second in 1080p during gameplay. Replays, however, will remain 30 fps at 1080p to allow Polyphony to add more layers of special effects.

The big Gran Turismo news from TGS 2007 centered on digging into the demo's My Page elements and the details of the TV mode. The new game interface stems from the team studying how incorporating online connectivity would impact the Gran Turismo world. Yamauchi talked about how the goal was to bring in a more personal element. To that end, you start by customizing both the centerpiece car and its background scene that serve as the main screen wallpaper. At the top, a band brings in online elements related to your friends. There are weather reports from around the globe at the top right, and all of your friends currently online -- all around the world -- show up as little points of light on a global map at top-center.

 

But, it's the GT TV mode that really highlights how seriously the team treats the idea of being part of car culture. Recognizing that auto racing has become regionally segmented, Yamauchi wants to use the Internet link through to Gran Tursimo 5: Prologue to make gamers aware of events you would otherwise not be able to see. For instance, GT fans are well aware of the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC, now known as Super GT) from their cars being in the game, but finding it on TV was all but impossible. With GT TV, you will be able to go to the Super GT channel and check out the latest events. And, when you leave your My Page screen on idle for a few minutes your video content will start roll.

 

Getting content like that is only one aspect of GT TV. Car manufacturers will also be able push video out to you that will be one part of the expanded dealerships in the game. These "channels" are embedded into the interface as another option right next to selecting a car. And that's just the tip of the iceberg for Yamauchi's plans. Ultimately, he said he sees a point where when you went to a dealership in the game you could take an official virtual test drive. During this test drive, someone from the dealership could ride along in the passenger seat with you, describing the car, its features and capabilities via voice chat. Once you decided to buy the car, everything could be done through the GT dealership short of going down to pick up your real new ride.

 

As elaborate as that sounds, it's representative of the team's passion for cars that runs "deeper than the sea." That passion, and tireless attention to detail form the foundation of the series. It guides everything they do. As Yamauchi put it, "racing is not only lap times; it's the whole experience."

 

Of course, we'll be plenty concerned with lap times too, though. And certainly having rumble back in the controller should help with them. Yamauchi said looking back on the history of the series Gran Turismo, it has always been one of the leading titles to incorporate rumble because it brings such an important feedback to the game. He termed the announcement that the PS3 controller would not include rumble "devastating" and added that it "discouraged" the team. It's return has made them very happy and working it back into the game was easy, given their experience with rumble in the previous games.

 

While no American release date was given to go along with the Japanese one, the demo gave us a few rays of hope. During the presentation Yamauchi kept accidentally canceling his way out of menus instead of selecting. Towards the end he apologized for this and said that he had been playing the Japanese version so much that the switch to the American version threw him off (in Japan the usual "O" and "X" button functions are reversed to the US). Without that to give it away, you'd never have known it wasn't the same Japanese version as the one on the TGS show floor

 

With any luck, this means localization is ongoing side-by-side with development and we won't have long to wait for Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, either.

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Dont know if this has been posted earlier:

 

New Features in GT5:Prologue

 

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue—a taste test of sorts for the full release of Gran Turismo 5 set to hit the PlayStation Network—is nearing release, and Sony sent out a fact sheet further detailing the specifics of the game. Here are some of the more eye-catching points:

 

* A first for the franchise, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue supports online racing with up to 16 drivers racing simultaneously on a beautifully rendered race track.

* Race 30 high-performance and exhaustively detailed cars, including vehicles from Ferrari, Lotus, Nissan and Mitsubishi

* Race on five stunningly realistic tracks, including the Eiger Nordwand, the London City Track and Suzuka – then race them in reverse and with alternative routes

* A new physics engine delivers next-generation vehicle handling. True to the heritage of the Gran Turismo franshise, this new physics engine provides unprecedented realism and authentic handling specific to each car

* A new in-cockpit view provides a unique perspective for racers and features a customized dashboard for each of the cars in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

* All-new and improved opponent AI for a nail-biting race experience

* Access to Gran Turismo TV: a world of great motoring TV programming online through PLAYSTATION Network

 

In-dash cockpit view? Thank the gods. This is a feature that I think Gran Tursimo has needed for a long time, and now I'm really excited. Hopefully the developers take a page from DiRT's implementation of the view rather than Project Gotham Racing. The improvements to the physics engine and A.I., though, will ultimately make or break the game.

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