Re: Gran Turismo 7 Review - A Legacy of Love on Display
I've been play Gran Turismo since the first version on the OG Playstation. GT has always had robotic Ridge Racer type AI except that would be an insult to Ridge Racer.
FINALLY, you can actually race and have a competitive good time in GT7. Racing the AI on the Italian Maggiore is just a blast. I dialed up the AI to HARD and they were really racy especially into the corners. As most racing sims such as Assestto Corsa and others have AI that tend to brake early and slow down into the corners where it becomes too easy to predict and as such, you can start climbing the leaderboard.
In GT7 the AI is pretty damn good in not trying to punt you out of the way. I've passed cars only to be passed by the same car. The AI would try the outside, then it would try the inside but never to the point that if you were side by side would they slam into you as in previous iterations. And this is just Polyphony Digital's AI 1.0 so what will it look like with their highly anticipated Sophy AI?
The replays in 4K look absolutely stunning. It really is a beautiful game to behold. Maybe Forza 8 will trump this? Who knows but for me what sets Gran Turismo apart from all other racers including sim games, is the driving model. How, the lateral weight transfer going into and out of corners uses believable physics to cause the car to go wide depending on how fast you are going and the level of input required to keep the car from sliding off track as you fight the weight transfer physics. To this day, no driving or racing game has nailed what it's like to drive a virtual car, not Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 1&2 or Forza Motorsports. And i'm not throwing shade on AC, ACC or any of the other racing games because I have purchased them all.
I'm not implying that Gran Turismo driving model is perfect but it represents how a car at high speed should or might react when throwing into and out of corners as the lateral weight and inertia shifts from one side of the car to the other.
The other thing FINALLY fixed in Gran Turismo is the SENSE OF SPEED....Finally! You actually sense that you are driving at HIGH speeds rather than in the past where 110MPH, felt like 50MPH.
But hot damn, for the first time, I can actually race the AI and have competitive fun.
I've been play Gran Turismo since the first version on the OG Playstation. GT has always had robotic Ridge Racer type AI except that would be an insult to Ridge Racer.
FINALLY, you can actually race and have a competitive good time in GT7. Racing the AI on the Italian Maggiore is just a blast. I dialed up the AI to HARD and they were really racy especially into the corners. As most racing sims such as Assestto Corsa and others have AI that tend to brake early and slow down into the corners where it becomes too easy to predict and as such, you can start climbing the leaderboard.
In GT7 the AI is pretty damn good in not trying to punt you out of the way. I've passed cars only to be passed by the same car. The AI would try the outside, then it would try the inside but never to the point that if you were side by side would they slam into you as in previous iterations. And this is just Polyphony Digital's AI 1.0 so what will it look like with their highly anticipated Sophy AI?
The replays in 4K look absolutely stunning. It really is a beautiful game to behold. Maybe Forza 8 will trump this? Who knows but for me what sets Gran Turismo apart from all other racers including sim games, is the driving model. How, the lateral weight transfer going into and out of corners uses believable physics to cause the car to go wide depending on how fast you are going and the level of input required to keep the car from sliding off track as you fight the weight transfer physics. To this day, no driving or racing game has nailed what it's like to drive a virtual car, not Assetto Corsa, Project Cars 1&2 or Forza Motorsports. And i'm not throwing shade on AC, ACC or any of the other racing games because I have purchased them all.
I'm not implying that Gran Turismo driving model is perfect but it represents how a car at high speed should or might react when throwing into and out of corners as the lateral weight and inertia shifts from one side of the car to the other.
The other thing FINALLY fixed in Gran Turismo is the SENSE OF SPEED....Finally! You actually sense that you are driving at HIGH speeds rather than in the past where 110MPH, felt like 50MPH.
But hot damn, for the first time, I can actually race the AI and have competitive fun.
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