![]() Gran Turismo 7 lacks the sense of speed of some racers, but this is more of a technical game - every corner must be carefully considered in terms of speed and angle. I would describe the handling itself as weighty. Even little details, like water sitting for longer under bridges, have been accounted for. ![]() Transitions are natural, moving from bright sunshine to torrential rain with no sudden, jarring changes, and when things go in the other direction there is an immense satisfaction to keeping your car on the drying racing line with the jeopardy of puddles all around you, knowing even a small mistake could cost a lot of time. Wet racing is a joy, feeling slightly less grippy without turning tracks into ice rinks, as in some other games. Speaking of the rain, the weather system really deserves all the attention it has received. Rain and spray pattering on your windscreen sounds just right, and even the post-race reward screen is set to the metallic clicking of a car cooling down. Polyphony Digital has thought of everything, from the clunk as you run over a kerb to the rumble as you race across road markings on street circuits. You’d expect a big-budget racing game to have great-sounding engines, but Gran Turismo 7 really goes above and beyond when it comes to the small touches it would be easy to overlook. The circuits look great too, even if things are a little sparse trackside in some areas, with HD revamps of some of the beloved fictional Gran Turismo tracks a particular treat to race on. I wrote in my first impressions article about how the beauty of the vehicles often led to a conflict between my sim racer instinct to use the first-person view and a desire to use the chase camera to see more of the cars. Even on the PlayStation 4, the game is gorgeous. So although everything here is true at the time of publication, there is hope on the horizon! Driving fast, shiny carsīut let’s start where Gran Turismo 7 does deliver: out on the tarmac. Note: On the day this review was due to be published, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi published a blog post announcing several upcoming updates that address many of the negative points in this article (although notably not the always online problem). So you’ve been warned – I’m going to be saying a lot of nice things about the racing, but make sure you read until the end. The truth is that there is a fantastic racing game here – possibly the best ever.īut in writing a review it is impossible to ignore that the game’s experience is soured by implementations of some of the dirtiest tactics the video game industry has been perfecting in recent years in order to extract every penny possible from players. Writing a review for Gran Turismo 7 having observed what has happened to it in the three weeks since its release is a hugely difficult task.
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