Gran Turismo 5 Review Round-Up: A Mixed Bag

I thought gt5 would have crash damage to the cars,where is this.
Just started playing the game already bored. i waited for this game to see if i would keep my ps3 i am now moving to xbox.

@ James, Are you serious is more to the point?, have played the game and seen how bad the AI is? or are you trying to tell people that is how AI should be in a racing game?.

Iv been a forza and xbox man for years now since sony kept this game back. the min it was out i went out and spent 300 quid on ps3 and gt5. What a waste of money the game has no fun. FORZA is the new king!!!!!!

Take a look at Metacritic scores and Forza 3 beats down GT5 on every one of the respected sites
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GT5 gets a only 2 perfect scores and one of them is from A PS3 ONLY SITE !!!!!!!!! -
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FORZA 3 get's 10 perfect 100 scores and not from any Xbox only biased sites-
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Not counting the one console biased sites or any official magazine for this (other than one for GT5) as I am expecting the official PS3 mag UK to give it 100, the officail USA ps3 mag to also give it 100 etc (Only ONE official mag should have their score put up)....................................

Forza 3 has been out a year and can be had for under £10 now, dual console owners would be mad to buy full priced GT5 while the choice of Forza 3 is there.
Forza 4 will make GT5 the last in the series..

@U_r_Fullsh1t
Your hilarious, have you seen all the options in Forza 3 and the amazing amount of data it can show about evey aspect of the car and also all the adjustments etc you can do to the cars?, also have you seen how much more you can do with the cars online (Customise etc) which you can't do on GT5 ?
Forza has a lot more in car views than GT5 so where is the sim in the mainly NO in car view of the majority of cars in GT5 ?

GT5 tracks are a joke tearing and distorted and as for the trees !! they look like someone has taken a pair of scissors to them.

Just looking at your logic on what controller you have says it all really, so as long as you can afford a controller minimum of the G25 that starts at around £150 that will make you right and everyone else wrong eh!!!!!...

Bought a 37" 1080p tv specifically for this game and can't tell you how much of a disappointment this is.


Tried the track maker which in theory is good but when I increased the complexity of one track the screen just went blank - after 10 mins I figured something had gone wrong. Also the tracks that were built do not look as good as they would had a designer spent time adding detail.
I think they have tried to be too clever and the PS3 can't cope with all the detail. There are really shocking shadow effects, particularly in cockpit view which look very unnatural ( and under the cars when stationary - very jagged)
I can only think it has taken them 5 years because they only had a few people working on it. You can't tell me it would take that long to re texture some of the old tracks.

EA sports have been scathing saying it is sterile and more a car collectors game than a racing game - unfortunately I have to agree.

They made a big thing about 1080p and 60 fps - I don't think it is running at that and in some tracks the smooth camera panning when going around corners is far from it - there is awful screen judder and rippling.

Tempted to sell it on - GT5Prologue was a big improvement on GT4 but this is not

@Jordan_Dyckes - black ops is broken? Man what have u been smoking? Black ops is awesome, red dead redemption was a killer game, even vanquish was fun. But thanks for the review on gt5, u saved my hard earned cash!

Say what u will

Watch everyone in the whole wide world go buy a copy

Jeez you guys are all muppets..

GT5 is a big disappointment!!!! the online game play sucks and u have to unlock cars in the game in order to race them online... Why cant they have a online mode to unlock and advance levels besides in the awful game??? This was a real let down.. be warned dont buy this crap.

I got GT5 12:00am 24th. The games is stunning, the graphics are a slight let down due to the volume of videos of the game and there has not been any real improvement since these teaser trailers or the GT acadamy DLC. I feel the physics are incredible just try to get a Zonda S round the trck with traction control off i dare you. If you like the pervious pace of GT series this is defo for you if you don't like it don't play it. If you love cars then this tribute to the industry is awesome you really can feel the love for cars pouring from this game. I would score 9/10 ll day long, also the addition of fun aspects like the Karting is just perfect the physics are wicked for the karting. If you are a TRUE PETROL HEAD buy this game you will not be disappointed.

I agree with Climbtize. The menus aren't great, loading times are a bit slow but the game has the physics down. All these people on here that say it's too hard to corner obviously can't drive in real life. Forza is a good game, I enjoyed them but it has nowhere near the depth and realism GT5 has. This is the way these cars handle in real life. And quit knocking it for being a simulator, it says it on the front of the box. This, in my opinion, is by far the best in the GT series. If you want to paint your car pretty colors and chat with fellow teenagers online, buy Forza. If you want to see what it is like to drive a real car and push it to its limits, buy GT5.

well dont no if it just me but i manage to keep the cars on track i found the handling perfect if you treat the cars as a real car and as for top gear challenge with vw vans i managed to win it on 10th attempt only by driving perfectly as you would if u r racing overall this is a brilliant game and also the fact it supports my PS2 driving force wheel

thanks for the reviews guys, I havent even played it, its in my basket on play.com but since then I've been reading reviews. As I see it...it doesnt matter who's right and who's wrong, if a games reviews are this bad from anyone, its not worth buying, I have a PS3 and only play GT5 prologue, dont get as much time anymore...so Im not buying this...what racer do I buy?

@prolific If you like GT5 prologue, buy GT5. Regardless of what anyone says, it's still a good game/sim. Just not as good as it should be. Not as good as expected. And people are pissed because of that. And have a right to be. Because we didn't imagine GT5 is going to be amazing, end-all racing game. That claim was pushed down out throat for the last 5 years by Sony and Polyphony Digital. So understandably many are pissed to find... just a solid racing sim. Nothing more, nothing less. If you can objectively accept this and don't expect the God of racing games, you'll prolly love it. However, if NFS or forza are more your cup of tea, than by all means don't buy it. This is a SIM. And for all the n00bs out there (I'm not calling you one) a sim means you can't enter a corner at 250km/h in a BMW. Don't believe me? Try it in real life, see what happens. It means you have to actually use the breaks. It means mastering corners is key to a good time. Etc.
Those who enjoy this, will enjoy GT5. The rest should just go away and buy mario kart.