gran turismo game review
Gran Turismo Sport: A year later, how has it evolved?One year after the release of Gran Turismo Sport, the tracks of the Polyphony Digital racing game are far from dusty. A loyal community has settled in, adept at controlled cornering and improved times tenth by tenth. However, has GT Sport really evolved since its initial publication? Let's take stock.
ROAD CONTENT
The online dynamics of Gran Turismo Sport was, without a doubt, a risk for Sony and Polyphony Digital. A risk mastered certainly, the title remained on certain assets, but a risk all the same. Thanks to a complete and precise gameplay, a refined artistic direction and an online dimension as much based on the time as on the races itself, the fans navigate in known waters. GT Sport was able to attract a good part of the old men despite the turn, moving away from the solo for a clearly multiplayer experience. On the other hand, a whole group of players was not totally found in this opus, in particular with the disappearance of several concepts such as the collection aspect with more or less rare cars, the impressive number of racing cars and a real career mode itself. On this last point, Polyphony Digital tried to review its copy several weeks after the release with the arrival of the GT League mode, which takes up the principle of increasingly difficult solo competitions. Start with the Sunday Cup and then participate in more restrictive races, accessible only to certain vehicles, to finish with endurance races: on paper, we find what made the salt of the previous opus. However, in the end, this mode is far from a career mode. Indeed, obtaining powerful cars is much easier in GT Sport than in other Gran Turismo, especially when you know that you automatically win a car a day at random. If this principle makes sense with regard to the online competition orientation, it definitely breaks the progression aspect that one could feel in the solo modes. Thus, the GT League, which no longer offers one car per compet 'won by the way, is losing its interest and the excitement it had before. There remains a notable addition.Still in the ranks of additions, dozens of vehicles arrived over the months during the updates, just to inflate the proposals of the dealers. This is not too much given the disappointment of the players about the basic "roster" of GT Sport, divided by seven compared to GT6. From around 170 cars when it came out, the title now offers 258, which is a nice increase. It is always a pleasure to see a beautiful GT40 or a Shelby, even if most of the “new vehicles” can also be considered absentee returns: can we really be happy to see the Mazda 787B, which was yet already present in previous opuses at their release? The same question sometimes arises for circuits, with notable additions which include both real and fictitious circuits, returns (Circuit de la Sarthe) and real novelties (Circuit Sainte-Croix). Let's say that in a sense, additional content can only be cheering, but a bitter taste sometimes remains in the mouth. Gran Turismo Sport would have been better perceived if it had been a new IP? Maybe. If the past of a series makes it possible to create a community, it is a double-edged phenomenon: this community has expectations.
(IN) CONDUCTIVE LINE
Adding vehicles and circuits is necessarily a good thing for online gaming. One of the main criticisms of GT Sport, however, was aimed directly at online content. When it came out, the title offered three daily races and, shortly after, two championships (by nation and by manufacturer). A year later ... the proposal is the same. No additional mode has emerged, no special competitions or limited events as in Gran Turismo 6, GT Sport seems frozen in time with a total lack of diversity. However, the championships have been refined to offer two events per week (each), which include training, qualification and then real racing. The system, inspired by professional competitions, is exhilarating, obliging players to be precise and efficient in order to be well positioned on the starting grid. Snacking on the grass is severely punished, as are running contacts. Too bad the penalty system is sometimes strange, but so be it. Scoring points remains a pleasure and strategy, in races with tire wear in particular, is omnipresent. Unfortunately, once these few weekly events are over (we are talking about a maximum of four races, if one is available), only the three endless daily challenges remain. Of course, the salons are supposed to do the rest of the work, but since they are created by the players, we rarely come across what we want despite the filter system. Either you have to wait 10 minutes for the start of the next race, or the owner of the show decides not to launch it for obscure reasons ... Inevitably, unofficial competitions are chaotic, unless you are constantly playing with the same group of player organized via a forum or a fansite.We will not dwell on the few more anecdotal additions, even if the photo mode to its fans who will not deny the additions of environments. Gran Turismo Sport is a game that has been followed, and which still has a community that ensures future updates. If he has not really corrected his biggest flaws, he is not dying either and we always recommend his purchase if you like his competitive spirit.
The notes
+ Positive points
Very pleasant and more accessible driving
A very interesting online penalty system
Endurance races
The open aspect of online qualifiers
The excitement of competitions
Some routes are pure happiness (Nürburgring in mind)
Missions and tests allow you to learn slowly
Sometimes pretty, on PS4 Pro with the right screen
A good time trial game
Personalization of lounges
Negative points
Very insufficient online content for a competition-oriented title
Loss of gameplay depth for fans
We don't seem to evolve
Number of cars and tracks always light for the series
AI unworthy of a modern racing game that ruins the solo experience
Rally off topic and irrelevant gameplay
The visually very low "normal" PS4 version
The penalty system remains improving
Mainly focused on its online game, Gran Turismo Sport keeps a pleasant gameplay, faithful to the series. More accessible, it punishes carelessness less, which will be appreciated by neophytes while others will rail against a certain loss of depth. But despite some good ideas for his online game, such as daily qualifiers, the championships by season and the fair play / penalty system, he unfortunately fishes for content and diversity with few official competitions and a number of tracks and of cars lowered. Although there are still lounges to create online races, we could have hoped for more of a game that decided in its solo content to encourage multiplayer. Gran Turismo remains a great experience for racing fans who like to beat the clock.
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