![]() It's also heart-stoppingly beautiful on PlayStation 5 hardware. Most importantly, Gran Turismo 7 remains a sprawling, engrossing racing game that will handily hoover up hours of your life, to the detriment of work, family and personal hygiene. Not to sound like a joyless pedant, but that does also mean that the Hungarian folk song blasting out of the speakers drowns out the engine note and makes it considerably easier to miss a gear shift. It's designed to be a more casual driving experience, emphasising driving to an eclectic, and frankly weird, selection of music tracks rather than focussing on listening intently for the first evidence of tyre scrub. We should also mention the bizarre new Music Rally mode, which is a brief diversion that for some reason takes pride of place on the main menu. It's helpful because, necessarily, there's a lot of duplication of content from previous game GT Sport – each car in a modern Gran Turismo game is the 3D modelling equivalent of painting the Sistine Chapel, so it's not really surprising that there aren't many all-new vehicles. Those two wildcard elements combine to add texture and variety to race events, meaning rocking up to a circuit where you've already turned hundreds of laps doesn't necessarily mean exactly the same experience as last time. The on-track driving experience is masterful, the tuning options are better than they've ever been and we're particularly impressed by the dynamic day and night system and the localised, changing weather. That's by far our biggest gripe, but it's probably our only one. ![]() You'll feel everything from locking brakes to the weighty thunk of a racing gear-shift, stuff that's usually the preserve of owners of high end sim equipment.Ĭombine that with stingy prize payouts and absolutely brutal roulette spins that usually seem to pay out either pocket change or a camshaft for a Mazda Atenza and you can't help but feel the game is pushing you ever so gently towards spending real money and further away from earning your way to that dream car, whatever it is. The handling is also brilliantly intuitive, particularly in conjunction with the PS5's DualSense controller, which transmits a remarkable amount of information via your clammy palms. Rest assured, the sheer quality of GT remains completely unmatched – these are still the most precisely modelled, most lovingly textured and certainly the shiniest cars you'll have ever seen in a videogame. ![]() Without a convenient, trite analogy close to hand, we'll just have to call it what it is: the biggest news in racing games all year.īut does Gran Turismo 7 itself, out this week on PlayStations 4 and 5, live up to the sky-high expectation? Well, yes and no. We'd have described it as akin to the arrival a new Star Wars movie, if there hadn't been approximately a hundred of those, of varying quality, in the last few years. The Endurance layout is used in the Nürburgring Endurance Series (NLS) while the 24hr layout is seen in the gruelling Nürburgring 24 Hours race.Īnother new content is the addition of new Scapes featuring cherry blossom trees.It's hard to adequately convey the excitement when a new, full-fat, numbered Gran Turismo title lands. The Endurance layout is slightly shorter (23,864m compared to 25,378m)- cutting at the same turn 4 as the Sprint layout. The Endurance layout combines the Nordschleife and Grand Prix courses but not in the same way as the existing 24hr layout. The Sprint layout cuts the Grand Prix circuit at turn 4. Gran Turismo 7 March 2023 Update New Track Layoutsįor Update 1.31, The green hell that is Nürburgring is the one getting additional layouts. Porsche Carrera GTS (904) 1964 (Legend Cars).Gran Turismo 7 March 2023 Update New Cars The five new cars bring the tally of total cars in GT7 to 464. ![]() It’s a land yacht that every other driver on the road despises, but secretly want one, so it makes perfect sense to see one in GT7 of all places. But if you live in some parts of the world like Malaysia, the Alphard are kings of the highway, used by the many rich and famous to cruise at high speeds as well as a status symbol to flaunt and flex at family members. To the uninitiated, this is some random MPV/minivan that got added. But we also got the last of the Class One DTM race cars in the form of the Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM, and then we have totally normal cars in the form of the Mazda 3 X and a Toyota Alphard. Sure, it’s another month of more Porsches (but it’s the 959 and a 1964 Carrera GTS so they’re cool). The five cars in the selection are the wildest so far seen in post-launch GT7. ![]()
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