Overview of the game grand turismo sport. Forget everything you've been taught in Need for Speed ​​- Gran Turismo Sport review. So what should you ride?

Gran Turismo Sport is the third and most anticipated racing game of this fall. At the moment, this series is actually the most famous in the world. It is surrounded by a lot of marketing, its creators collaborate with car manufacturers and professional racers. GT has its own history, its own nuances and its own characteristics. Gran Turismo is a whole layer of gaming history and culture.

This year marks the full 20th anniversary of the Gran Turismo lineup. Many of us grew up on these races. For some, they have become an ideal, for others - a subject of controversy or an object of open hatred. Over the years, technology has changed, the games themselves have changed, and so have we. And Gran Turismo, apparently, stopped in its progress. And it's incredibly sad. It is bitter to realize that from series to series the game is losing its competitiveness, content, technology and banal relevance.

I remember the days when I used to sneak out of class with my classmate to play Gran Turismo 3 at his house. We were naturally addicted to the game, passing on the rights or participating in the races. Maybe it's a matter of age and perception, but it was the same with other numbered parts. Even the fifth and sixth GT, despite a number of obvious problems and shortcomings, remained in memory and were periodically launched for the sake of "ride". And this is already at a conscious age, when there is less time for games.

Four tedious years of waiting are over - Gran Turismo Sport is in front of me, and I have a great desire to get something grandiose, exciting and evolving. Well, or at least what we are already used to seeing in the series: a bunch of tracks, a mountain of cars, good physics and the list goes on. But in fact, in front of me is actually a dead concept of racing from the past, having lost almost all the content, charm and former merits along the way. The right word, the game has a virtual museum of the watch manufacturer, which is the sponsor of many real competitions. In it, for example, you can find out the entire biography of Lewis Hamilton. It's commendable, but why? Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Colin Macrae, Richard Burns, Niki Lauda, ​​Alain Prost - where are all these names and dozens of others? Somehow I have to believe that the brand of a watch is much more important. This is not a sport guys.

The concept of the game, its philosophy and methods of "narration" are morally outdated. All this does not work in the modern world, does not cause a wow effect, does not motivate to play, does not give pleasure. Gran Turismo Sport can be compared to plastic surgery, when the skin is pulled almost to the back of the head. It seems beautiful, but everyone is well aware that the old woman is long overdue for retirement. The game does not meet the modern needs of the player, does not have content content like that of competitors and drives into a kind of sadness. This is not even a game as such, but rather a simulator or a basic course in motorsport theory. And this is absolutely not the case when you are on the verge of something big and interesting.

In any other game, you can drive on any track in a free race, practice, understand physics, learn some trajectories or get to know the behavior of cars better. In Gran Turismo Sport, you can't just ride, because you first need to level up the pilot, which gives you access to the tracks. At the same time, there are only 17 of these tracks in the game. Of course, there are their variations with different turns, reverse movement, and so on. But this is simply ridiculous for the modern market and the game with the proud subtitle Sport. There is simply nowhere to go here. Tracks have time to get bored, especially against the background of the fact that they are not at all unique - they are in other games or were in the past parts of Gran Turismo. This simply cannot be explained. You cannot release a new game that is worse than the previous one in terms of quantitative indicators.

Let's move on to cars - there are 120 of them here. There is nothing else at the moment. For reference: in the sixth part there were over 1100 cars. Yes, not everyone had salons, many were low-poly "ports" from the past parts of the series - everyone complained about it. The creators of the game should have increased the number of highly detailed cars, and not cut them out at all. Moreover, even these 120 cars are just an artificial number. So, for example, there are five cars in the Alfa Romeo series at once, but four of them are variations of the same model with different colors and body kits. Of the eight BMWs, three are M4s and two are M6s. Five Chevrolets are four variations of the Corvette C7. Continue? Not a problem! Of the four Ferraris, three are the 458s. It's the same with Lamborghini: three out of four cars there are Huracans. And this happens with every brand of car. But here there are six GT-Rs at once. Feel the scale of the tragedy?

The developers enthusiastically talk about the fact that now you can take beautiful photos of cars against the backdrop of hundreds of different landscapes, whether it be Japan, Paris or Manhattan. Why is this all? Why is the first day patch 12 GB and additional backgrounds 9 GB? Is Gran Turismo Sport a game about sports or about watches and beautiful photos? Why is there so little core content in the game? Did the famous quality control department, as well as the marketing department, not see that there was simply nothing to do in the game? You can ask a million rhetorical questions. Even more questions will remain outside the brackets, especially during the first hours of getting to know the game. It's Gran Turismo, it's Sport. But one gets the feeling that four years of development from the game diligently cut everything out, and did not add or improve it.

I won't lie - in comparison with the sixth and even more so the fifth part in terms of graphics, the game has stepped far ahead. This is no longer a gray mess without color correction and with cardboard spectators, square trees and buildings. Finally, the tracks look juicy and photorealistic. Now we see a quite acceptable picture with cardboard viewers and square trees. And it's not sarcasm or some wild kind of irony - it's the truth. Technologically and visually, the game has become better, but children's sores remained in it. Why? Because of which? After all, the PlayStation 4 is much more powerful than its predecessor, not to mention the PRO version. Yes, there are no such miserable backs as on the same console. But the faces of the spectators are “blurred”, the marshals take out their flags from a parallel universe, and everything that is outside the visible limits of the track raises questions.

But this is not the end. The only thing you can do in the game without a constant Internet connection is to play with bots in arcade mode. If you didn't have time to pump your pilot level - you will rot on five tracks until the end of the century. You won't be able to take your PS4 with you to your country house and race around the fireplace on the weekends. Do you play on consoles and value their autonomy? Good luck - this iteration of Gran Turismo has decided everything for you. They also decided not to let you into online rides until you watch two three-minute videos about racing etiquette and bad driving style. It seems like it affects something. All these rituals and high-flown tricks do not work in today's world. Online, everyone is still pushed off the track, cut off and using dirty tricks. It is practically impossible to drive purely, because where there is another player and his desire to win at any cost, it is simply unrealistic. Gran Turismo Sport has a driver rating and a safety rating. Everything seems to be clear from their names, but the last rating consists not only of those collisions that occurred through your fault, but also from those that occurred through the fault of other drivers. Thus, all these demands and attempts to cultivate racing etiquette are useless.

Let's go back to the single player campaign. There is no plot or introductory here, and that's fine. True, now the driving school is part of the same campaign. It is no longer necessary to obtain any rights or licenses to be admitted to certain competitions. That "sport" has left us. Get in and go - no problem. You have access to eight test stages of eight races each. These are not only ring competitions - there can also be tasks to achieve a certain speed to some section of the track, pursuit races, tasks to knock down cones, rallycross, high-speed races along oval tracks and other things. But it all looks like separate pieces of something whole. From a game about sports, you expect full-fledged leagues, separate mono-class competitions, famous races, demonstration races. There is nothing like that here. The motivation to pass everything for gold is only in driving school, but in everything else you just wind up kilometers and get bonus miles. The latter are needed to buy discs, paints, cars or other small things.

In the end, you are left with almost nothing. Yes, Gran Turismo Sport is still a great driving sim. It is driving, since the game has an excellent physical model of the car's behavior. But apart from that, there is almost nothing in the game. Nothing catches, does not encourage to improve their results or performance. It's like you've been hit on the back of the head with all your might. You can endlessly love and respect the series or be committed to a certain gaming platform, but to say that Gran Turismo Sport is a good game is to deceive yourself.

Gran Turismo Sport is one fiftieth and sixth of the same series. This is one thousandth of its competitors. As is the case with popular writers who sometimes “write out”, the series “played out”. The creators of the game hit the racing philosophy so hard that they forgot about the races themselves as such. Gran Turismo Sport looks like an interactive postcard, like a piece of something big and meaningful that had a name and a success. You literally feel the whole history, past achievements, high-profile scandals and victories. But somewhere in the past. Not here.

What happened to the game is disappointing. We can only hope that Sony will beat everyone in the next generation of driving simulators. Let the continuation of the series come out in 10 years - if only it was grandiose, exciting, interesting and not empty, both in terms of content and in terms of the presence of that same motorsport "soul".

Gran Turismo Sport

Reviewed version of the game: PlayStation 4

Pros:

• Good physical model.
• Driving school.
• Nissan GT-R'17.

Minuses:

• Few cars.
• Few trails.
• Track detail issues.
• Inability to play without internet connection.
• Weak and short campaign.
• Weak musical accompaniment.
• No weather effects.

Grade: 5.5

Verdict: Gran Turismo Sport has great car physics but nothing else. Only a very dedicated fan will love and defend this product. It is sad to see that the once indestructible bastion begins to collapse over time.

Version Reviewed: PS4 Pro / European

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Comments ( 86 )

Should tell you what you need to know about virtual reality. In short, it's a very good in PlayStation VR but totally underutilized in terms of modes, etc.

Disagree, I think the racing is exceptional. Obviously not everyone's cup of tea, though. Sounds like you should be playing OutRun instead.

Agree, the dailies need to rotate every 24 hours. It "s bizarre because I"m almost certain that"s how it was in the beta, and I think everyone assumed it"d be that way in the final release, too.

I "m impressed you" ve completed that much of the campaign so quickly, though.

Gran Turismo Sport is the third and most anticipated racing game of this fall. At the moment, this series is actually the most famous in the world. It is surrounded by a lot of marketing, its creators collaborate with car manufacturers and professional racers. GT has its own history, its own nuances and its own characteristics. Gran Turismo is a whole layer of gaming history and culture.

This year marks the full 20th anniversary of the Gran Turismo lineup. Many of us grew up on these races. For some, they have become an ideal, for others - a subject of controversy or an object of open hatred. Over the years, technology has changed, the games themselves have changed, and so have we. And Gran Turismo, apparently, stopped in its progress. And it's incredibly sad. It is bitter to realize that from series to series the game is losing its competitiveness, content, technology and banal relevance.

I remember the days when I used to sneak out of class with my classmate to play Gran Turismo 3 at his house. We were naturally addicted to the game, passing on the rights or participating in the races. Maybe it's a matter of age and perception, but it was the same with other numbered parts. Even the fifth and sixth GT, despite a number of obvious problems and shortcomings, remained in memory and were periodically launched for the sake of "ride". And this is already at a conscious age, when there is less time for games.

Four tedious years of waiting are over - Gran Turismo Sport is in front of me, and I have a great desire to get something grandiose, exciting and evolving. Well, or at least what we are already used to seeing in the series: a bunch of tracks, a mountain of cars, good physics and the list goes on. But in fact, in front of me is actually a dead concept of racing from the past, having lost almost all the content, charm and former merits along the way. The right word, the game has a virtual museum of the watch manufacturer, which is the sponsor of many real competitions. In it, for example, you can find out the entire biography of Lewis Hamilton. It's commendable, but why? Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Colin Macrae, Richard Burns, Niki Lauda, ​​Alain Prost - where are all these names and dozens of others? Somehow I have to believe that the brand of a watch is much more important. This is not a sport guys.

The concept of the game, its philosophy and methods of "narration" are morally outdated. All this does not work in the modern world, does not cause a wow effect, does not motivate to play, does not give pleasure. Gran Turismo Sport can be compared to plastic surgery, when the skin is pulled almost to the back of the head. It seems beautiful, but everyone is well aware that the old woman is long overdue for retirement. The game does not meet the modern needs of the player, does not have content content like that of competitors and drives into a kind of sadness. This is not even a game as such, but rather a simulator or a basic course in motorsport theory. And this is absolutely not the case when you are on the verge of something big and interesting.

In any other game, you can drive on any track in a free race, practice, understand physics, learn some trajectories or get to know the behavior of cars better. In Gran Turismo Sport, you can't just ride, because you first need to level up the pilot, which gives you access to the tracks. At the same time, there are only 17 of these tracks in the game. Of course, there are their variations with different turns, reverse movement, and so on. But this is simply ridiculous for the modern market and the game with the proud subtitle Sport. There is simply nowhere to go here. Tracks have time to get bored, especially against the background of the fact that they are not at all unique - they are in other games or were in the past parts of Gran Turismo. This simply cannot be explained. You cannot release a new game that is worse than the previous one in terms of quantitative indicators.

Let's move on to cars - there are 120 of them here. There is nothing else at the moment. For reference: in the sixth part there were over 1100 cars. Yes, not everyone had salons, many were low-poly "ports" from the past parts of the series - everyone complained about it. The creators of the game should have increased the number of highly detailed cars, and not cut them out at all. Moreover, even these 120 cars are just an artificial number. So, for example, there are five cars in the Alfa Romeo series at once, but four of them are variations of the same model with different colors and body kits. Of the eight BMWs, three are M4s and two are M6s. Five Chevrolets are four variations of the Corvette C7. Continue? Not a problem! Of the four Ferraris, three are the 458s. It's the same with Lamborghini: three out of four cars there are Huracans. And this happens with every brand of car. But here there are six GT-Rs at once. Feel the scale of the tragedy?

The developers enthusiastically talk about the fact that now you can take beautiful photos of cars against the backdrop of hundreds of different landscapes, whether it be Japan, Paris or Manhattan. Why is this all? Why is the first day patch 12 GB and additional backgrounds 9 GB? Is Gran Turismo Sport a game about sports or about watches and beautiful photos? Why is there so little core content in the game? Did the famous quality control department, as well as the marketing department, not see that there was simply nothing to do in the game? You can ask a million rhetorical questions. Even more questions will remain outside the brackets, especially during the first hours of getting to know the game. It's Gran Turismo, it's Sport. But one gets the feeling that four years of development from the game diligently cut everything out, and did not add or improve it.

I won't lie - in comparison with the sixth and even more so the fifth part in terms of graphics, the game has stepped far ahead. This is no longer a gray mess without color correction and with cardboard spectators, square trees and buildings. Finally, the tracks look juicy and photorealistic. Now we see a quite acceptable picture with cardboard viewers and square trees. And it's not sarcasm or some wild kind of irony - it's the truth. Technologically and visually, the game has become better, but children's sores remained in it. Why? Because of which? After all, the PlayStation 4 is much more powerful than its predecessor, not to mention the PRO version. Yes, there are no such miserable backs as on the same console. But the faces of the spectators are “blurred”, the marshals take out their flags from a parallel universe, and everything that is outside the visible limits of the track raises questions.

But this is not the end. The only thing you can do in the game without a constant Internet connection is to play with bots in arcade mode. If you didn't have time to pump your pilot level - you will rot on five tracks until the end of the century. You won't be able to take your PS4 with you to your country house and race around the fireplace on the weekends. Do you play on consoles and value their autonomy? Good luck - this iteration of Gran Turismo has decided everything for you. They also decided not to let you into online rides until you watch two three-minute videos about racing etiquette and bad driving style. It seems like it affects something. All these rituals and high-flown tricks do not work in today's world. Online, everyone is still pushed off the track, cut off and using dirty tricks. It is practically impossible to drive purely, because where there is another player and his desire to win at any cost, it is simply unrealistic. Gran Turismo Sport has a driver rating and a safety rating. Everything seems to be clear from their names, but the last rating consists not only of those collisions that occurred through your fault, but also from those that occurred through the fault of other drivers. Thus, all these demands and attempts to cultivate racing etiquette are useless.

Let's go back to the single player campaign. There is no plot or introductory here, and that's fine. True, now the driving school is part of the same campaign. It is no longer necessary to obtain any rights or licenses to be admitted to certain competitions. That "sport" has left us. Get in and go - no problem. You have access to eight test stages of eight races each. These are not only ring competitions - there can also be tasks to achieve a certain speed to some section of the track, pursuit races, tasks to knock down cones, rallycross, high-speed races along oval tracks and other things. But it all looks like separate pieces of something whole. From a game about sports, you expect full-fledged leagues, separate mono-class competitions, famous races, demonstration races. There is nothing like that here. The motivation to pass everything for gold is only in driving school, but in everything else you just wind up kilometers and get bonus miles. The latter are needed to buy discs, paints, cars or other small things.

In the end, you are left with almost nothing. Yes, Gran Turismo Sport is still a great driving sim. It is driving, since the game has an excellent physical model of the car's behavior. But apart from that, there is almost nothing in the game. Nothing catches, does not encourage to improve their results or performance. It's like you've been hit on the back of the head with all your might. You can endlessly love and respect the series or be committed to a certain gaming platform, but to say that Gran Turismo Sport is a good game is to deceive yourself.

Gran Turismo Sport is one fiftieth and sixth of the same series. This is one thousandth of its competitors. As is the case with popular writers who sometimes “write out”, the series “played out”. The creators of the game hit the racing philosophy so hard that they forgot about the races themselves as such. Gran Turismo Sport looks like an interactive postcard, like a piece of something big and meaningful that had a name and a success. You literally feel the whole history, past achievements, high-profile scandals and victories. But somewhere in the past. Not here.

What happened to the game is disappointing. We can only hope that Sony will beat everyone in the next generation of driving simulators. Let the continuation of the series come out in 10 years - if only it was grandiose, exciting, interesting and not empty, both in terms of content and in terms of the presence of that same motorsport "soul".

Gran Turismo Sport

Reviewed version of the game: PlayStation 4

Pros:

• Good physical model.
• Driving school.
• Nissan GT-R'17.

Minuses:

• Few cars.
• Few trails.
• Track detail issues.
• Inability to play without internet connection.
• Weak and short campaign.
• Weak musical accompaniment.
• No weather effects.

Grade: 5.5

Verdict: Gran Turismo Sport has great car physics but nothing else. Only a very dedicated fan will love and defend this product. It is sad to see that the once indestructible bastion begins to collapse over time.

The best car simulator of 2017 or another "prologue" at the price of a full-fledged game? .. let's figure it out.

Tested on regular PlayStation 4

Gran Turismo is approaching its imminent 20th anniversary: ​​the game arrived on the shelves of Japanese stores December 23, 1997. Three months later, a pirated copy of the fruits of four years of team work Kazunori Yamauchi was in the hands of your obedient servant.

I've always loved cars and racing, but the racing games of those years - even the ones misunderstood as car simulators - were basically pathetic attempts to give gamers an imitation of the thrill of driving fast cars. They really had nothing to offer: seven, ten, at best twenty dull, crude models of wheelbarrows, resembling their prototypes a little more than the drawings of a five-year-old child. The number of locations for tracks only occasionally exceeded three.

Gran Turismo not just raised the bar, but launched it to the moon: almost two hundred cars from Japanese and American manufacturers, which, moreover, could be tuned, tuned, and for some there were racing body kits. Seven locations for 12 tracks, a great (at least in the Japanese version) soundtrack and the coolest graphics for the late nineties. The wow-effect of the latter was provided by banal highlights on the paintwork: the cars finally ceased to be matte boxes, turning into virtual copies of their real prototypes recognizable at first sight.

About the first Gran Turismo and sleepless nights spent on obtaining all the licenses, you can talk for a very long time, but the main thing is that after 20 years of cosmic gaming industry scale, it is still pleasant and interesting to play it. This was followed by the second part, which added dirt tracks and increased the set of cars and tracks several times, again leaving competitors far behind. On the new PlayStation appeared GT3, after a couple of years - GT4 and...

Outside the end of 2017, and for a four-year old woman PlayStation 4 the most long-awaited part - Gran Turismo Sport came out. To be honest, I was hoping that this would be the best game in the series, for which hundreds of thousands of people would buy PS4 or immediately PS4 Pro. I hasten to disappoint you: alas and ah, there was no breakthrough and the heart of the fan Gran Turismo broken. But first things first.

The cars look more than cool and realistic (especially in cutscenes and replays), but this hasn’t surprised anyone for a long time. The tracks, in general, meet modern standards, but there are not enough stars from the sky. The lighting, weather effects, smoke, and hot brakes were a success, in contrast to the terrible (apple-sized) clods of dirt flying out from under the wheels when leaving the track.

Now it will be terrible, but I will say that the games of this series, frankly, have never shined with a physical model. Sometimes it was better, sometimes worse than others. And now it just fits the times. Satisfactory if you do not use the steering wheel. With him, management turns into a fight with a mad kart and has little to do with a real car. I have driven cars from the list of GT Sport cars and I can definitely say that the steering wheel does not break out of my hands at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

It's hard to believe, but some (actually - none) damage model appeared only in Gran Turismo 5 sample 2010 release. Excuses from Yamauchi there was a lot: from perfectionism and the inability to make perfect damage for several hundred models and ending with the unwillingness to turn Gran Turismo in a race to the bottom. However, released in the late 90s Carmageddon and Colin McRae Rally had very good damage patterns.

And now the question is: why, at the end of the second decade of the XXI century, everything that a fan can get Gran Turismo, - are these sluggish dents on the bumpers and the paint that has been worn down to the metal right away? This is how toy cast models that are entirely made of metal beat. It's hard to believe I'm saying this, but Gran Turismo Sport would have been better off with no damage at all.

The worst thing is that neither the fleet nor the set of tracks amaze the imagination and lose (!) The first part, released already 20 years ago. Of the pluses, one can only rejoice at the debut in Gran Turismo four models Porsche, and even then, this achievement is doubtful: after the expiration of the exclusive license ea, Stuttgart sports cars have appeared in many games. New tracks have been added, but the classic ones have disappeared without a trace, including grand valley, deep forest, Trial mountain and Laguna Seca.

A moment of rage: not only does the game itself take up 60 gigabytes, but it also constantly downloads updates of ten in size, until the installation of which the functionality of Gran Turismo Sport is reduced to two tracks in arcade mode without accumulating experience points and saving lap records.

Finishing off all of the above is that the emphasis in Gran Turismo Sport is on a network game with all its pluses and minuses, a system of experience and levels has been added that opens up new tracks, while a single will last at best for a week, and even then, if all events try to get gold and beat the records of friends. Interaction with the network is elevated to the absolute: in case of connection problems, neither the profile with open tracks and received cars is available, nor even the ability to pass offline tests (similar to licenses from the previous parts).

***

In fact, Gran Turismo Sport is another "prologue" to a full-fledged Gran Turismo, albeit unrealistically delayed. It could be said that one and a half tracks and heels of cast-iron cars in 2017- this is normal, if not for the fact that the game stands as a completely complete and complete part. With such positioning, this is a natural robbery, which neither pseudo-encyclopedic timelines nor useless photo mode can justify.