Beta Tester
It's a bit of an oddball review. They say the cars and physics are great, but not the presentation.
It probably won't stop anyone. GT4 didn't exactly get great review scores either for that matter, at least not from IGN if I remember right. There may be a few lemons in the field, but I can guarantee the most prestigious cars in the game (the line-ups from Ferrari, Jaguar, Aston Martin etc.) will shine.
I normally discount IGN reviews because they're overly optimistic. In this case it might be the opposite. Still while GT is undoubtedly a great game I think it will suffer in the review scores simply because of the weight of expectation 6 years of development brings.
Playing the game myself I have no idea why it took them that long to get this product out the door. It's more or less the same as prologue in almost every way.
Playing the game myself I have no idea why it took them that long to get this product out the door. It's more or less the same as prologue in almost every way.
*puts up the flame umbrella*
In my opinion that score's not too far wrong. I'd bump it up to a 9.0, but anything higher I think gives the wrong impression about the game. The graphics are awesome yes, but unfortunately that's about the biggest step-up from GT4. Six years later and everything else is basically the same, some minor handling tweaks and more cars including Ferrari and Lamborghini are welcome, but essentially it's just more of the same and that will be good enough for most people. To me what isn't good enough is that there's only 20 tracks and half of them were in GT4 (I think that Forest one has been there since about GT1???).
To some, it will be all about the cars and that's fine, but doubling the tracks would've helped. If you have 20 tracks and 1000 cars, logic prevails that you'll need to race each track an average of 50 times to experience every car. Tracks where every corner is chiseled in the minds of fanatics who've played every GT up to and including this one.
What I would say is, don't be offended by the review scores. I'm loving it, I had two multi-hour sittings today and it was great. But to get into 9.5-10 category it needed to be revolutionary as a game. As a game, really GT5 is more GT4 HD + 300 extra cars.
I sense that there is going to be a lot of backlash with reviewers, over just how long Gran Turismo took to be made, and yeah fanboy elitism. Lets face it, it's there and getting worse. Game journalism is completely for the most part a unprofessional endeavour right now.
I hardly ever look at any reviews anymore. I'm quite fond of http://www.psxextreme.com/ though. they do some great reviews with a bit of a integrity at least. My advice, especially ignore sites like IGN, their integrity went out awhile ago.
I hardly ever look at any reviews anymore. I'm quite fond of http://www.psxextreme.com/ though. they do some great reviews with a bit of a integrity at least. My advice, especially ignore sites like IGN, their integrity went out awhile ago.
The work they did for Gran Turismo 4 with reusing the cars for the standards in GT5 is still getting details that weren't there in GT4 as they designed with a higher detail than was possible to show in 4 to begin with.
Kindof like Battlestar Galactica being seen as intended on Bluray as it was completely shot on HD cameras. Just saying....
Kindof like Battlestar Galactica being seen as intended on Bluray as it was completely shot on HD cameras. Just saying....