EA Claims Gran Turismo 5 is Very Sterile, Codemasters Accuses it as Being Boring

[Oliver Beyer]

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SimBin didn't make Shift. They have made several great racing games for the PC as well as Race Pro for the 360. I'm really hoping they make a Race Pro 2.

They did. Shift was developed by Slightly Mad Studios. Pretty much the entire team of the studio is made up of ex-SimBin guys from the golden SimBin days of GTR and GTR2. Since GTR2 many developers have left SimBin. The SimBin of today has little to do with the SimBin that developed the great Sims. SimBin now just throws up little interesting touring car sims with dated graphics. The guys that made SimBin great are all Slightly Mad now and they made Shift for EA.

[LingeringRegime]

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EA can blast other people's franchises when they actually release a playable product. "Boring" and "sterile" from the same company that dumps both of it's basketball games and has not produced a nascar game for years...as well as the most bland version of Madden yet. GT5 is an outstanding game; the latest edition of the franchise that defined driving sims. I may never spend another dime on EA.

It's funny, when I was first playing GT5 the first day or so I was thinking: "Man, EA could really learn a lot from Polyphony. It's obvious they passionately care about details and quality."

But, what does EA do? They blast them publicly, and make themselves look even more foolish. After the fiasco that was NBA Elite 11, you would think they would have been humbled. Obviously not.

Just a superficial observation, but I think it is has been proven true, at least in my mind...

EA is only interested in their bottom line, not overly concerned about the quality of their products. There are a few exceptions of course, but seems as if most of what they put out the past decade would come under that umbrella. Especially Sports Games. The NHL franchise is pretty much the only one that I am interested in. Doubt that their Football and Basketball games can win me back.

[LucianoJJ]

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I bought Shift because of the connection to SimBin. I was disappointed and traded in the game. Let me re-phrase then. I'd love to see a Race Pro game from the SimBin B-team for PS3.

[lnin0]

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GT5's is what it is and has always been. It is not race pedigree, it is car porn.

[Skyboxer]

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GT5's is what it is and has always been. It is not race pedigree, it is car porn.

Pretty darn good description... And you're right.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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GT5's is what it is and has always been. It is not race pedigree, it is car porn.

Thus why it is called an enthusiasts game.

But yes, I like your description as well!

Only reason these comments were made, was fear of the competition and the behemoth that these companies know that will slow the sales of their games, especially the just released NFS. Thus they are hoping to get those bit of sales from the easily persuaded crowd that jump into groups of comments so easily.

And seeing this from EA shows even more why they did not give Sony the sub license for Porche like they did MSFT (Peter Moore sure had something to do with that)... since they considered GT5 "competition" but not Forza ironically. Pretty underhanded if you ask me.

[Behindshadows]

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Why does everyone keeps trying to take shots at EA? Look seriously it gets old, anytime a representative, developer, etc from their company speaks out on another game. Everyone goes into a EA hatred rant! Seriously guys the driving games by EA(Publisher) have been very damn good, and they can warrant themselves to speak out on other game.

From Need for speed series period. Almost everyone of them have been solid games, and Burnout Paradise was just that, Paradise! The game is still amazing til this day.

NFS Shift was one of their greatest games, because it did go the simulation route and tried to compete with games like PGR and Forza, they just took a new direction with it. Only people who had bad things to say about it were PS3 owners. Because on PC and 360 it was greatness.

So enough of all the hatred and bashing, they aren't the Madden guys, they are the driving guys. And they deserve the same respect as the guys from Codemasters, because both teams have designed and released great and solid titles. And both companies have a right to speak their opinions on what is bland or sterile.

And like the other guy above said, GT5 is auto Porn, a bunch of pretty cars you can't do much with than look at them and collect them.

All other games, have incredible career modes, especially Codemasters series of driving games, which every career mode has been excellent. And EA's direction on their titles with story tie in's, etc have been great.

[EnigmaNemesis]

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And like the other guy above said, GT5 is auto Porn, a bunch of pretty cars you can't do much with than look at them and collect them.

Really? And you want to talk about baseless ranting?

EA reaps what it sows. Just because people are retaliating for childish and unprofessional comments made by a company, does not mean they have EA hatred. I think the comments lack major tact, but still purchase NHL, Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Bad Company 2, etc etc.

Everyone knows how GT is, it has always used the same formula which made it successful. Those two companies are comparing apples to oranges. And should act professional, and put up or shut up. You want to make a statement, make it with an EQUAL game genre. Not with words that internet fanboys would debate with.

Everyone in here is 100% justified for saying EA or Codemasters should not throw stones. That is not "senseless hate" for the companies... but reality check from the customers.

[Behindshadows]

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Really? And you want to talk about baseless ranting?

EA reaps what it sows. Just because people are retaliating for childish and unprofessional comments made by a company, does not mean they have EA hatred. I think the comments lack major tact, but still purchase NHL, Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Bad Company 2, etc etc.

Everyone knows how GT is, it has always used the same formula which made it successful. Those two companies are comparing apples to oranges. And should act professional, and put up or shut up. You want to make a statement, make it with an EQUAL game genre. Not with words that internet fanboys would debate with.

Everyone in here is 100% justified for saying EA or Codemasters should not throw stones. That is not "senseless hate" for the companies... but reality check from the customers.

I won't even make this into an argument, because I own every GT title, including GT5, collector's edition to be exact. I don't hate the game, it's just not the amazing clash of the titles driver sim they marketed it too be.

But I will say this, I have fun with other driving games more than GT5, hell Toca Racer Driver 2 and 3 are better than GT5. If you'd like to go into specifics.

And GT series has always been just that, more and more cars, as the did with Part 2 with the two disc set, to Gran Turismo 3 on PS2. And GT4 was terrible and a waste of a purchase, so I expected more out of 5.

With so many racing titles racing for sim status and some doing a hell of a better job. GT5 isn't much more than collecting cars! You don't have the customization, nor graphic details of Forza, during menu's and photo mode you have nice cars, on the track they drop resolution. Forza looks good in menu, and while driving. Not to mention I can customize to a "T". Forza's tracks are more detailed, complete environments with 3D crowds, building, high rises, etc. GT5 2D HD polygons with interlace buildings to keep progress lights on cars.

Burnout Paradise and Shift have better details in their cars, Codemasters Grid and Dirt 2 have better lighting, reflections, and car details than GT5, and I'm talking about while on the track, not while in photo mode.

As I've stated before release all those beautiful close up images during marketing were misleading to the car details during racing.

But against, I guess my disappointment or views can seem biased from the unbiased gamer.

[randombrother]

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Right now the games are just about all equal to me. I have Forza 3, F1 2010 and GT5 and I feel they are all equal to me. They all do somethings right and something wrongs and all to pretty much even the field. There IS one problem with that. FM3 is already an "old" game so to try to compare it to games released a few months to yesterday ago is a bit unfair. F1 2010 is Codemaster's first crack at F1. I'm the kinda guy to give a guy a break on their first shot at something. Not a huge break but you can get a slide if certain things are in place. F1 has those things in place but has a few issues. What I really like about F1 is, ok we're only racing F1 cars, but a few tweaks here and there and one car can feel TOTALLY different than the other, hell two identical cars can feel totally different than each other without adding one part to the car. Just off the numerous tweaks in the game.

Now we come to GT5 it's just as good as the other games and their in lies the problem. GT5 is not the kind of game that can come out with 6 years of development and have a reputation of "greatness" and have a lineage and just be "as good as the other games".

[Whitesox]

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But I will say this, I have fun with other driving games more than GT5, hell Toca Racer Driver 2 and 3 are better than GT5. If you'd like to go into specifics.

Why have this debate if you don't want to get into specifics? What is better about those games?

With so many racing titles racing for sim status and some doing a hell of a better job. GT5 isn't much more than collecting cars!

Well, except for the racing part in GT5, which is realistic. Is there something in TOCA beyond racing cars? If I remember correctly, you don't even purchase cars in TOCA.

You don't have the customization, nor graphic details of Forza, during menu's and photo mode you have nice cars, on the track they drop resolution. Forza looks good in menu, and while driving. Not to mention I can customize to a "T". Forza's tracks are more detailed, complete environments with 3D crowds, building, high rises, etc. GT5 2D HD polygons with interlace buildings to keep progress lights on cars.

Perhaps you should visit the tune shop in GT Mode? Plenty of customization. Not a ton of visual customization, but the cars look good enough already.

As for tracks, could you cite examples? I see little difference between Forza and Gran Turismo's tracks.

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but you speak of 3D crowds. I went to google and searched for a crowd picture, and came upon a forum thread of people talking about Forza's graphics.

Burnout Paradise and Shift have better details in their cars, Codemasters Grid and Dirt 2 have better lighting, reflections, and car details than GT5, and I'm talking about while on the track, not while in photo mode.

Burnout:

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Shift:

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GT 5 (Stolen from the photo thread)

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Shift is an excellent looking game, no doubt. But I humbly disagree with the above statements.

As I've stated before release all those beautiful close up images during marketing were misleading to the car details during racing.

But against, I guess my disappointment or views can seem biased from the unbiased gamer.

The above images were taken from races. Details aren't disappearing from cars during races and reappearing when you take photos. The cars in GT 5 look phenomenal.

Also, the last statements makes no sense to me.

[randombrother]

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Why have this debate if you don't want to get into specifics? What is better about those games?


Well, except for the racing part in GT5, which is realistic. Is there something in TOCA beyond racing cars? If I remember correctly, you don't even purchase cars in TOCA.

Perhaps you should visit the tune shop in GT Mode? Plenty of customization. Not a ton of visual customization, but the cars look good enough already.

As for tracks, could you cite examples? I see little difference between Forza and Gran Turismo's tracks.

Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, but you speak of 3D crowds. I went to google and searched for a crowd picture, and came upon a forum thread of people talking about Forza's graphics.




The above images were taken from races. Details aren't disappearing from cars during races and reappearing when you take photos. The cars in GT 5 look phenomenal.

Also, the last statements makes no sense to me.

Dude at first glance that Porsche pic looks real. I was wondering why you were posting it.
Secondly that pic is definitely photoshoped. Nowhere , that I know of , you see the crowd standing in complete darkness like that. Once you start photoshoping that pic loses credibility. In no way I say Forza has the best crowds on earth but they definitely aren't the worse.

When racing cars don't have the same level of detail as they do in photo mode. The resolution is knocked back to keep the game moving.

[Whitesox]

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Dude at first glance that Porsche pic looks real. I was wondering why you were posting it.
Secondly that pic is definitely photoshoped. Nowhere , that I know of , you see the crowd standing in complete darkness like that. Once you start photoshoping that pic loses credibility. In no way I say Forza has the best crowds on earth but they definitely aren't the worse.

When racing cars don't have the same level of detail as they do in photo mode. The resolution is knocked back to keep the game moving.

Firstly, are you accusing me of photoshopping that picture? If so, check this thread. (NOTE: I do not share the views in that thread, just the pictrues. If you can prove otherwise, please do.)

Also note that all of the pictures above were not taken in game, so saying that cars in race don't look as good is a moot point.

[trufootball]

if you want a racing sim, the NFS Shift series is where its at

[Behindshadows]

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You took a crappy photo of Forza 3 with someone playing it with AV cables...lmao....and from a replay angle none the less...

Try HD!!!

Forza 3 - Gameplay

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Forza 3 - Photo Mode

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and when I was talking about Shift, Burnout, etc....I meant gameplay wise graphics... But here are better replay images than those low resolution images you posted.

NFS: Shift

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Burnout Paradise - Gameplay Images and Photo mode

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Codemasters - Toca Pro Racer Driver 3

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Codemasters - GRID

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