Dezz K

The best in the series this is a complete Gran Turismo, and have played them all. Hands down Polyphony Digital have nailed it, finally hitting their marks with GT7 on PS5 hardware. Playing with prioritizing frame rate runs a silky smooth 4K 60fps. Have not experienced any dropped frames or frame rate issues yet. Ray tracing is only available during replays (ray tracing mode), but the overall detail, clarity, and graphics look stunning being the best ever seen. Dynamic weather effects and day/night cycle all play into factors that effect how cars handle and drive. They handle differently at night due to colder temps of asphalt and so on. Sense of speed also seems to be improved. Use of adaptive triggers and haptic feedback are well implemented - smash the brake all way down to soon it will lock up trigger giving an ABS effect. Spin outs, loss of control, driving on rumble strips - all trigger really cool haptic effects. 3D audio is vast improvement over previous titles. Music archive is pretty good been a mix of classical, jazz, lounge, dance, techno, and even instrumentals. More importantly sound effects are enhanced, will be able to hear directional engine sounds of opponent drivers quite easily. Engines, turbo spools, transmission sounds, tire squeals all do a great job to add to immersion. Tuning has very deep emphasis. There's a point system called Performance Points (PP) that determines the overall rating of car. You have to meet PP requirements for races. If below the recommended level, then upgrading parts and tuning will boost rating. If beyond the max threshold, then you'll need to de-tune. Lots of parameters for tuning and pretty much covers all areas. From engine swaps, NOS, drivetrain, aerodynamics, suspension, gear ratios, weight reduction, tires, body parts, just to name a few. Hefty single player campaign takes place in GT Cafe with tasks that allow progression, further unlocking vehicles. License centre is back with cool track challenges, allowing you to grind and earn CR faster. Drag racing also unlocked later on as well. Demo Mode is back once again. Like to turn this on when my game's idle on main menu. After a set parameter of time, a demo will kick in and it's the best montage of anything car related. From car histories, to wallpapers, to short videos of drive bys, random fun facts, and even car racing demos on tracks driven by NPCs. Great feature to sit back, relax, and watch when taking a break. With so much content jam packed into GT7, car enthusiasts and fans of racers will be spending lots of time getting their monies worth. There's so much here to do, and whatever your mood feels like at moment, GT7 has you covered. Cannot recommend enough, a must buy for anyone looking for a solid sim racer. Is it worth the money? Yes.. totally... every asking penny!

Got this yesterday on launch day. Up until now it's been a total mess and disaster of an experience. Aware that there are bugs, but the ones I'm experiencing are game breaking and it's literally unplayable. Constantly getting stuck during main missions - Ones that require a 'prompt' to progress but there's never any most the times. For example: A mission requires interactions with NPCs at a location, but when proceeding to, the prompt for 'talk' does not appear. Another one that's game breaking - While speaking with NPCs during the scenes that require a response choice, often times the game will be caught in an infinite interaction loop leaving the player no option of backing out or skipping. Just to progress a tiny bit you'd find yourself constantly having the need to restart game. Screen also flickers from time to time which only happens while playing this. After a hefty 17GB Day 1 patch all the major bugs still exist. This is the experience right now on a PS5. So much potential yet marred by game breaking bugs. Save your money for now, so so disappointed in Techland..

This game is amazing, I bought on Day 1 and couldn't be happier. A huge successor to Payback and NFS 2015. Manual shifting is back, which I always look forward to since I love the immersion it gives over automatic. Earn money in the day through legal races, while earning rep at night through illegal races. Cops are also present during the day cycle but won't bother you unless you slam into them. My only gripe is that I have to use a set control mapping, that does not have the options to change buttons. This can be an issue for people who use manual and are familiar shifting with Square/X buttons. The gear changes are now L1/R1 buttons which forces the player to use 2 index fingers for shifting, that should have preferably been used for Brake/Gas. With Square/X buttons I could just use my right thumb for both. I hope they fix this with a future update giving you the choice to map your button layout. Otherwise I'd recommend getting this if you're thinking about it.