SCEA: GT5 "Still About A Year Away"

Damn, I thought GT5 was coming this year. I'm getting GT5P regardless.

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I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but I downloaded GT5 a few days ago from the Asia PSN store. Whilst the demo is great to show off the power of RSX, to be honest I wasn't that impressed with the handling of the car at all. Granted, I don't have a wheel, I think this game is best played with a wheel, but I feel handling and gameplay improvements could be made for controller-based players. I found Dirt, especially the multi-car racing secions (which admittedly are more arcady) far easier and enjoyable to play. I played GT5 for an hour and haven't picked it up since. I may have another crack at it in a few days time... but the annoying wheel screeching sounds and frustrating handling has not impressed me. Visually it is one of the best games I have seen, and probably the best modeling of cars in any game that has graced any computer entertainment system, including the PC. Other than that let us hope the full game is far more enjoyable. I am sure with feedback Polyphony will do what they can to make it better for a quick "pick me up and drive me" game.

Other issues users will come across are:-

1] Online lobby is a little clumsy and slow (in asia anyway, can't say for the Euro and USA release)

2] When you slide across gravel/sand trap... car slides across it and hits the barriers far to easily... usually it should dig in and stop quite quickly. When trying to drive out the sand trap it is very slow - which is the way it should be

Qubex
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PS3 60GB|Dell Latitude D630|XDAII|Amiga1200

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What about the handling bothered you? Did you play on standard or professional settings? Traction and traction managements on or off?

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Arnold, the problem is my version of GT5 is in simplified chinese which does not help. What I did is I played with 'default' settings, out the box... I would expect the settings then to be at least set as Arcade and not Professional. At the moment I haven't tweaked any settings due to the menus understandably. Anyway, on the standard settings, with the controller, I find it very different to games like Dirt, ProStreet etc. I think a wheel would be fine, but it should be more accessible than it is.

Qubex
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PS3 60GB|Dell Latitude D630|XDAII|Amiga1200

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