Crispy Gamer writes: "With more cars and tracks than most full racing games, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is more than just a glorified demo.
It may be a cliché, but it's also true: You can't just a book by its cover. You also can't, it turns out, judge a game by its name. Take Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which sounds like a glorified demo, a hefty teaser for Gran Turismo 5, the next chapter in Sony's vaunted racing sim series, which won't be out until we've all grown accustomed to writing 2009 on our checks. It doesn't help that, besides being sold in stores, Prologue will also be downloadable from the PlayStation Store. As we learned when we had some hands-on time with the game at Sony's offices in Santa Monica, not only is Prologue more than a demo, it's actually got more going for it than most racing games. We talked with Associate Producer Chris Hinojosa-Miranda to find out more.
Crispy Gamer: I'm going to play devil's advocate for a moment: Gran Turismo 5 Prologue sounds like a glorified demo. Am I wrong?
Chris Hinojosa-Miranda: In many ways, yes. I think the way Gran Turismo has been seen in the public's eye, for a long time, is that it has tons of cars and numerous tracks, to the point that it's almost overload. But GT5 Prologue is a condensed version of that -- which doesn't make it a demo. A demo is something you'd play for three days and then you're done. But with the online modes and all the different features, there's a lot in Prologue. There are over 70 cars and six tracks. There are both single- and multiplayer modes. We have Time Trial mode, we have a regular eight- to 16-player races -- that all depends on the tracks; some would be too crowded with 16 cars -- and we have Drift Mode, which is new to the franchise. When you compare Prologue to other racing games, we actually have as much content as they do, sometimes even more."
iLLGaming contributor Anikait Makkar writes about the gaming industry's current business practices, and how it affects the consumer.
free to play no matter how good the game is if it is a free to play i dont play.
i want to pay full price for a full balanced experience unlocks shouldn't be earned by money but by the hard work you put in the game.
my free to play nightmares are borderlands,diablo,titanfall,w arhawk 2,halo and star wars battlefront.
Worst business practices
Paying to play online (PS+, XBL)
Season passes
disc locked content
Paid DLC (DLC should be free unless it is significant enough to be an expansion)
Paying to use your own internet, DLC (all of it, I'd rather have expansion packs with a ton of content), DLC coming out a week after the game's release, incomplete games with missing sections sold as DLC, pre order bonuses, short and pointless campaigns, not having server lists (like COD which insert you into random games and maps), expensive and permanent digital prices, yearly sequels with minor changes at full price, lack of challenging AI, lack of originality, and most of Micro$ofts "business practices." This may sound like a hateful statement, but I blame M$ for bringing most of these things to consoles. I remember when there free and inexpensive map packs on Live in the early years of 2006 and 2007, then they started pinching pennies.
Who else here has been gaming long enough to remember when paying $50 got you the WHOLE game? No left-out content sold as DLC, disc-locked content, season passes, outfits, avatars, etc.
Excuse me, I need to go have a cry at what has happened to my beloved hobby.
TechPrezz: The Grand Turismo 5 update 2.08 is set to be released and coming with a trio of new DLCs and will be launched on coming Tuesday
The new cars include the Nissan GT-R N24 GT Academy ’12, the Subaru BRZ S ’12 and the Honda weider HSV-010 (SUPER GT) ’11, with a cost of $0.99 for each of them. The update also include some enhancements apart from the fix to reported bugs.
With this update, you will be bale to select “Disable collisions” in the [Event Settings] of online races and the clutch pedal response while using the steering wheel controllers “G25 Racing Wheel”, “G27 Racing Wheel”, “T500RS” and “TH8RS” has been adjusted. The ID’s are now shown above cars when watching online races. There are also some other improvements. The Grand Turismo 5 2.08 is coming as free downloadable update.
that's why i love the real driving simulator.
Wow updates for this game are still coming. i wish all companies were like this
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