that's right, you can collect them and store them away in your privatest of places). The other, with credits from a digital wallet that we charged using one of those new 5,000 PlayStation Network cards released by Sony to Japanese shops today (different from the PlayStation Network Tickets released through convenience stores earlier this year, these are actual cards, similar to the cards offered for Xbox Live and Wii. Unfortunately though, while the game has oodles of realistic details and an established, refined game model for customising cars and progressing through races – enter a race, win money, upgrade your car, rinse, repeat – there are also some annoying flaws.One comes on a Blu-ray disc while the other comes as a bunch of bits and bytes downloaded from Sony's PlayStation Store to your PlayStation 3 hard disk. Not that you'll have much of a chance to look at the scenery as you race past. The streets of London are modelled in minute detail and the views of the mountains over Eiger Nordwand are simply jaw dropping. It's in the non-racetrack courses that you see the full power of the graphics engine. There are six tracks available in the game, from the long, lazy curves of Daytona to the tight, ninety-degree turns of London and the impossible hairpins of Suzuka. This means that this is probably the closest you'll get to racing round the streets of London at high speed without getting arrested. The cars are all as accurate as you can make them in a game – not that I know what it's like to drive an F430 – and this physics model has been beefed up for this iteration of Gran Turismo. Now it's the time to find out whether I'm Captain Slow or The Stig… So, is GT5 Prologue worth the money, or is it really just a tech demo for things to come? In true Top Gear style, the only way to find out is to take the cars out for a run around the track. Whichever story you believe, the GT4 Prologue model must have worked, since Sony is now repeating the exercise with Gran Turismo 5.
Some said it was a good way of practicing before the full title came out others said it was just Sony wanting to get more money out of gamers and that developers shouldn’t need to practice – that’s what testing is for! There was much debate on the interwebs as to whether or not this was a good thing. With the fourth edition of the Gran Turismo series, Sony and Polyphony Digital, developers of Gran Turismo, decided to release an interim game, cunningly entitled GT4 Prologue. Delivery)Ĭonsoles have always had their own exclusive racing franchises: Xbox has Project Gotham Racing and Forza, Sony has Gran Turismo and Nintendo has Mario Kart.
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