The full featured livery editor certainly makes up for that anyway.Ī majority of our time was spent playing Gran Turismo Sport on a 4K HDR enabled display on a PS4 Pro, and wow, GT Sport is one stunning looking driving game. I’m not one for collecting hundreds of cars and variations, so that decision is perfectly fine by me. It doesn’t hurt that the vehicle roster is more compact than previous numbered Gran Turismo releases, and many plain jane consumer vehicles didn’t make the cut at all. From a fairly average 2015 Ford Focus ST to the extraordinary 2017 McLaren Ultimate Vision Gran Turismo, there’s more than 150 vehicles available to earn or purchase in the game and every single one is exquisitely modeled and rendered to an almost photorealistic degree. The amount of detail present in the vehicles, both inside and out, is astounding and borderline ridiculous. With that being said, like other previous Gran Turismo titles, GT Sport is Polyphony Digital’s latest love letter to driving simulators and cars. Also, due to this fact, a more fitting title may have been “Gran Turismo Online”, but hey, what do I know. Mostly due to this fact, this review is a work-in-progress until we can spend a little more time with the proper online GT Sport community in a production environment. All your game progress is tracked and saved online and without a connection there will be very limited opportunities to do much of anything - so keep that in mind. You’ll be stuck with the fairly simple Arcade mode only and be literally locked out of every single other feature and mode in the game. Let get this out of the way, Gran Turismo Sport is an always connected online game first and foremost, and if you lose connection to the servers or don’t have a somewhat reliable internet connection, don’t bother.

Regardless, GT Sport easily lives up to the “The real driving simulator” tagline the series has had since its inception. Gran Turismo Sport is anything but a casual Gran Turismo experience though, which I guess can be a positive or a negative depending on your expectations. “Sport” as a suffix usually invokes (to me at least) a more casual/less serious implementation of whatever the root word it follows is. Right out of the gate though, I’m not totally sure I agree with naming this new installment “Gran Turismo Sport”. First of all, I’m absolutely thrilled that fellow PlayStation 4 owners and Gran Turismo fans can finally get their hands on a brand new title in the long running driving franchise.

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