digitalversus.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:16
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Polyphony Digital - a Japanese studio founded in 1998 and a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment - gained great success with the release of the first Gran Turismo on PlayStation. Polyphony has kept up the pressure and has concentrated on improving...
Excellent driving sensations, Numerous vehicles, Diversity in game modes, Enormous durability, Realism of physics engine...
Artificial intelligence very poor, Collisions and damage unrealistic, Poor modeling of non 'premium' cars, A few graphics problems, Poor overall finish...
We've been waiting for Gran Turismo 5 a long time! Although we like the driving sensations, the finish and persistent faults are only to be regretted. Without making the expected splash, it is nevertheless the best and most complete of all racing simul...
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digitalone.com.sg Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:17
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Only a must-have if you're a serious racing games fan.
Awesome car handling physics; good selection of cars and tracks; pretty good graphics; online play is good; they're still adding more features...
Singleplayer campaign could've been more innovative; poor computer opponent AI; cumbersome UI, long loading times.
Only a must-have if you're a serious racing games fan...
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canadianreviewer.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:17
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5 years in the making and expected to take car racing simulation on consoles to the next level, Gran Turismo 5 is a behemoth title replete with hyper-realistic visuals, a jaw-dropping selection of 1,031 cars, 71 different racetracks and environments al...
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Back in April 2008, I wrote a review on this here website for a ps3 title called Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Two and a half years later (give or take a few months) I am back to review Gran Turismo 5 . Now this review is about 12 months later then all of...
1,00 vehicles to own, handling is awesome, 16 player online racing, Top Gear test track...
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Gran Turismo 5 is the latest edition of the acclaimed driving series. The game is more for car enthusiasts as opposed to boy racers. With more than 1,000 cars, 20 tracks, such as the Mazda raceway and the Top Gear test track, and the huge variety of modes...
Gran Turismo 5 is the latest edition of the acclaimed driving series. The game is more for car enthusiasts as opposed to boy racers. With more than 1,000 cars, 20 tracks, such as the Mazda raceway and the Top Gear test track, and the huge variety of mo...
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The Real Driving SimulatorIts been a long time between drinks and 6-years in the making but the latest and greatest Gran Turismo is finally here on the PlayStation 3. Was it worth the wait? Definitely! Was it what we were expecting? Almost! That's beca...
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It was supposed to be perfect. After five years in development, over a decade's worth of superlative numbered iterations before it and PS3 now way past the flaky games that plagued its early life, there is no reason Gran Turismo 5 should be anything le...
Driving over crisp, clean snow, Wealth of data analysis to pore over, The licence tests are brilliantly hardcore...
Nonscaling difficulty sticks two fingers up to skill, Some shocking graphical compromises, The Top Gear van race...
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Gran Turismo 5 has been in the womb so long we were surprised to discover it didn't launch with a fully developed set of teeth. Can this long overdue game live up to the considerable expectations of an attentive racing fraternity?...
The new tracks and cars are incredibly detailed. The traditional GT racing experience is better than ever, with amazing attention to physics and handling. The challenges are diverse, and accumulating vehicles is just as addictive as it always was. PSP integration is a nice touch, too.
Little development shown on cars and tracks lifted from previous games. No Top Gear cars. Online multiplayer needs attention. Track creation tool is too basic. Soundtrack is uninspiring. Load times are grating. Non-intuitive interface.
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Each year, normally around Christmas, there’s typically a handful of blockbusters released. This is true in most media industries to a certain extent, but never quite so much as in videogames. Even then, it’s still pretty rare for a title as anticipate...
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Tweet You'll need three things to get the most out of Gran Turismo 5: patience, a steering wheel, and a deep, almost senseless love of cars and all things Gran Turismo. Of the three, only the steering wheel is optional. Of course, patience won't be a...
The cars, their handling, the driving experience, weather...
The racing experience could be more dynamic...
It's still a dream game for the sort of serious petrolhead for whom GT has always been the gold standard of driving games and - while that's no longer the case - GT5 will still give them week after week and month after month of pleasure...
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Gran Turismo 5. Just say it folks. Savour those words. It’s actually here. With a development period of more than half a decade, Gran Turismo 5 was perilously close to becoming video gaming’s equivalent of Guns and Roses’ Chinese Democracy in the “...
The incredible physics, lengthy career mode and moments of graphical beauty...
Terrible AI, inconsistent visual quality, naff car damage...
The suffocating burden of expectation will ensure that racing fans will be especially critical of Gran Turismo 5’s minor failings. The inconsistency of the graphics engine is rather galling, and the neanderthal opposition AI hasn’t evolved since the fi...
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For a few days now, we’ve committed many precise, intricate racing lines to memory, replayed tracks repeatedly to shave milliseconds off our best times, scoured endless pages of used cars for a good bargain and spent a considerable amount of time fine-...
Five games in and what feels like countless years of legacy before it, we’re amazed that Gran Turismo 5 can still spark this feeling and keep it eponymous with the brand, It’s a feeling you only get with Gran Turismo, and as such, we’re not prepared to...
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GT5 features an incredible array of cars, which are split into two ranks: Premium and Standard. The Premium cars are rendered in amazing definition and look absolutely gorgeous. But most of the cars in the game are Standard, and their quality ranges f...
Mind-boggling number of racing challenges, cars, tracks and features; superb online mode...
Inconsistent graphic quality; slow and sometimes frustrating user experience; its sheer size and complexity means GT5 is not a particularly accessible driving game for more casual players...
After an extremely long gestation period and seemingly endless delays, Gran Turismo 5 is finally here. Was it worth the wait? Here's where you can find out...
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T3.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:21
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This is it. After five years of waiting and repeated increasingly disappointing delays, the fifth installment to the Gran Turismo franchise is here as GT5 finally gets its official global launch. The one question that will no doubt be on the l...
Huge array of vehicles and tracks, Stunning graphical detail, Accurate racing physics...
Endless menus and loading screens, Lack of damage...
Following the wait and hype, GT5 just reaches its potential...
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The original Gran Turismo was released in 1998 on the PlayStation, sporting almost 200 cars to drive, an amount unheard of then.Now in 2010 after an epic waiting period as well as numerous delays, Polyphony Digital and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE)...
The game’s graphics and gameplay is great, with only the long loading times and its elevator or restaurant mood music detracting from the overall presentation. The variety of races, cars and tracks will keep you entertained ‘til well into the new year...
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a cut 'n' shut is the police and DVLA name for a car made from two different vehicles - usually write-offs - where the back end of one is welded to the front of another. In the case of Gran Turismo 5 , the back end of t...
GT5 ultimately feels like a missed opportunity. Polyphony has fallen way short in fulfilling expectations of producing the defining racer of this generation. By spending too much time tinkering under the bonnet, the developer has failed to notice the adva...
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Tweet Gran Turismo 5 has been out for over three months, yet sometimes waiting a while to post your review is a good thing. You see, there have been a number of patches to tweak the game since its initial launch that are very telling about the latest i...
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I was starting to think this day would never come. We’ve all been waiting so long for the much-anticipated release of Gran Turismo 5. Even as I write this were are two months shy of my last review for 2008’s Prologue; an ambitious attempt to release a...
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gameplaymonthly.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:16
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It has been five years since Gran Turismo 4, which is the same length of time that Gran Turismo 5 was in development for. An extremely early GT5 prototype was shown at E3 2005, and since then there has been a wave of jaw dropping trailers as well as...
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evergeek.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:17
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Selling 423,000 copies per day for a whopping 5.5 million units sold in its first 13 days, Gran Turismo 5 is now officially the best-selling videogame for the PlayStation3. It's also a solid contender for game of the year. Five years in the making, GT5...
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atomicgamer.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:17
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After years of delays and a wait that almost put Polyphony Digital's latest racing game, Gran Turismo 5, solidly into vaporware contention, it's finally here. The PS3 now has a true flagship racing game, one that goes beyond Polyphony's two previous...
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Gran Turismo 5 does not make a good first impression. Lengthy development process aside, sitting down to play the game feels like Polyphony Digital are playing some kind of practical joke. After a humorously over-the-top introduction, which features re...
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Expert Review It's hard to understand the hype around Gran Turismo 5 and the way it makes people blissfully oblivious to all that is wrong with it. Mind you, GT5's mistakes aren't subtle blemishes on an otherwise pristine experience. I'm afraid what...
1000 cars, some special events stand out, kart racing, cockpit view, accurate reproduction of the Nurburgring...
Broken graphics, inaccurate physics model, dim-witted AI, cursory and cosmetic damage modelling, bad foley (car/engine sound) work, looks and plays just like GT4...
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Sony took a mammoth five years developing Gran Turismo 5. On top of that the game saw innumerable delays because of many different reasons, some of them suspected to be PR ploys. Being a fan of the franchise I was a bit nervous rather than excited beca...
An extremely varied and capable driving experience, Bspec mode is amazing.
Opponents seem never to crash, but if you're slightly nudged you spin out.
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Gran Turismo 5’s long awaited release is finally upon us, and though Sony’s hype machine would have you believe otherwise, it is not the event it has been hailed as. Upon starting the “cutting edge” sequel, you’ll immediately be greeted to an optional...
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The Gran Turismo franchise has always been a staple of the PlayStation brand, delivering great gameplay and fantastic visuals on every console the company has produced. Gran Turismo 5 marks the arrival of the franchise on the current generation of syst...
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Play.tm Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:19
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There's a point around three minutes into the Gran Turismo 5 intro video when we sat back, completely stunned by the cinematic prowess on display, and thought to ours 'if we were proper car enthusiasts, this would probably be better than a porno'. As t...
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Gran Turismo 5 has been half a decade in the making. In those five years we've had some good news, some bad news and a delay just weeks before release. Every single piece of Gran Turismo 5 related information was scrutinized, right down to the trees th...
Gran Turismo 5 is an amazing achievement, whatever issues it has is washed away in a tsunami of absolute driving perfection. There are very few games out there that teach you something every step of the way and that is what Gran Turismo 5 has done. It...
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Gran Turismo 5 finally clicked for me shortly after my souped-up, scary-fast Nissan GTR went airborne during a particularly ill-approached overtake on the Nurburgring. Greed is a killer on a track as claustrophobic as the Ring, and I knew that I was in...
Premium cars; fantastic driving simulation.
Tons of ugly standard cars; menu hell; frequently idiotic A.I.
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Well friends, here we are. Gran Turismo 5 has finally launched. The series has provided a marquee title for each successive generation of Sony consoles—the original Gran Turismo sold many gamers on the PlayStation, GT3 was hotly anticipated for the P...
The premium cars are gorgeous, Online play with up to 16 players, Dynamic weather, day-into-night racing, The Nurburgring Nordschleife is great...
800 cars just copied over from previous games, Clunky interface, Collisions still aren't right, AI still not good enough, In a game that's about cars, making the majority of them lower-quality models without interiors is ridiculous, The shadows look terri...
I'm not sure that's being rendered correctly. Online gameplay seems to work great, when it works, but the servers were unable to handle the volume of traffic on launch day, and they were spotty this weekend. You can gift cars to friends, compare trophies...
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gaming-age.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:19
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A word of warning: this review may not tell you what you want to hear about GT5, but you probably need to hear it. If you're a sensitive GT aficionado, PS3 fanboy that thinks FFXIII going multiplatform was a travesty, or a 360 fanboy hoping to see one...
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gamespot.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:20
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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 feature...
Accessible and rewarding for newcomers and veterans alike, Uncompromisingly realistic handling, Loads of great cars to drive and varied courses to drive them on, License tests are no longer mandatory, Premium cars are incredibly detailed.
Quality of visuals is wildly inconsistent, Outdated and impractical online lobby system, Too easy to win early races simply by entering in a powerful car.
This accessible but realistic driving simulation is both sublime and subpar...
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totalvideogames.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:20
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Good things come to those who wait, or so they say. It's a proverb we'd hoped would ring true for Gran Turismo 5, a game that's been in development for over five years and continually pushed back from one vague seasonal release window to the next over...
With this fifth full instalment in the series, Gran Turismo manages to hold onto its legacy of genre dominating driving sims, but only just. If and when Gran Turismo 6 arrives on the PS3, Polyphony Digital might have to look at bringing more innovation...
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The actual driving in Gran Turismo 5 is brilliant. If driving cars is all you care about, Sony and Polyphony Digital have you covered. These days, I want more. I want a streamlined career mode, an exhaustive set of online features, cutting-edge visuals...
The driving is superb, Looks stunning at times, Lacking essential features, The racing isn't great...
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gamepro.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:21
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After an extremely long gestation period and seemingly endless delays, Gran Turismo 5 is finally here. Was it worth the wait? Here's where you can find out!I've been a huge, huge fan of the Gran Turismo racing series ever since it debuted back in 1997...
An amazingly deep racing game that offers an almost mindboggling amount of racing challenges, cars, tracks and features. Superb Online Mode that gives the game incredible longevity.
Inconsistent graphic quality. Slow and sometimes frustrating user experience. Its sheer size and complexity means GT5 is not a particularly accessible driving game for more casual players.
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ign.com
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2012-01-25 02:53:21
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For Polyphony, it's all about the detail. Take one of Gran Turismo 5's premium cars to a night-time Kyoto in the Photo Travel Mode and you'll see where those six years since the last installment proper have gone; they're in the light refracting across...
Gran Turismo 5 is a 10/10 simulator wrapped up in a 5/10 game – driving is as exhilarating as anything that’s gone before, and slavish obsession with the minutiae of many of its cars ensure it's an encyclopaedia of automotive delights. Its brilliance o...
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1up.com Updated:
2012-01-25 02:53:21
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There's a quote, attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto, that could well serve as the mantra for racing enthusiasts waiting to play Gran Turismo 5: "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." Much like Miyamoto and other notable perfectioni...
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It didn't even register at first. I put my review copy of Gran Turismo 5 into my PS3 and started it up, watched a lovely cutscene and then began playing. No fanfare. No parade. No banners hanging from the ceiling. Here I was, in a slow car and on som...
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Gran Turismo 5 is out. No more delays, pushbacks, or excuses. The release is enough to get any serious automotive gaming fan excited, and by the time this review is published, I am nearly certain that die-hard automotive fans will have already picked up a...
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