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One cool thing about it is that it features a red on-the-fly tweak adjustment wheel, which you can assign to a number of different options to adjust while racing. While we don't usually mention peripherals of any sort in our reviews, I want to point out the Logitech Driving Force GT as it has been designed alongside the game and certainly makes the overall experience more realistic. And it's certainly no slouch of a raceway, either. The cream of the crop in terms of visuals is definitely London, which shows off Prologue's impeccable lighting model. Even the Daytona Speedway, which is just an oval in its basic setup, becomes interesting to drive when you switch to its largely road-based alternative setup. Though the track count is limited to a total of six selections, all of the courses are great fun. It's something that's hard to describe with words, but, again, once you've taken a few laps in a Ferrari F430, you'll know what I mean. Not just mass, but correct and region-specific weight. You actually get a sense of how the weight is distributed simply from driving a car, with Polyphony pulling off some sort of magic trick as cars actually feel like they have weight to them. In other games, upgrading to a more powerful vehicle may simply give you a higher top speed, better acceleration or tighter cornering, but Gran Turismo gives you much more than that. Each car has its own, very distinct feel. While the previous games, and especially Gran Turismo 4, felt great, they're nothing compared to GT5 Prologue. This may sound weird, but once you get behind the wheel of any of the game's cars, you'll know what I mean. You can almost always predict what your ride is going to do in any instance simply because everything works exactly as you'd expect it to. Cars will understeer or oversteer exactly as their real-world counterparts would and drive very, very predictably. Polyphony has once again absolutely nailed how each and every car feels (and sounds), giving each vehicle a character and voice of its own.

And if you want to buy the Ferrari F2007 formula car for 2 million credits, well, you'll be driving for a while.įortunately though, the driving mechanics far more than pay off and make running the same races time and time again a pleasure for the most part. Considering that most of the races pay far less than this, you're looking at a whole lot of repeat laps in order to fill your stable with only the required rides, much less the ones that you just want to own. The bare-minimum ride selection will cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5 million credits, while the biggest payoff you'll get for any race is around 30k credits. However, the amount of cash that you earn from each race doesn't scale as well as I'd like, so in order to complete every race in the game you'll have to do some serious grinding for cash in order to simply be able to afford the cars you need. It's easy to tell if your currently selected ride can compete as a flag next to each race will be grayed out if you can't enter. The progression is pretty good, and I dig the way things are laid out quite a bit.

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Each class contains 10 events which can be played in any order and range from standard races to a time trial to having to run from last place to first in a single race.

Completing all of those unlocks the B class, which leads to the A and then S classes.

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Rather than having to complete a series of tests to earn the right to race, you can jump right into the C class events.

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One thing that you won't find in GT5 Prologue is license tests. If do you, Prologue is a no-brainer of a purchase and you won't be able to put the controller down. So what it comes down to is whether or not you love the Gran Turismo racing experience. Click here for the goods.Ĭontent-wise, this means you're getting more cars than some competing racers out there (such as Need for Speed ProStreet), though the track count is certainly less. GRAN TURISMO 5 PROLOGUE GUIDE Racing methodology and unlockable cars covered.

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While it's true that the amount of content pales in comparison to what we'll see with the full GT5 release, Prologue still includes roughly 70 cars and a half-dozen tracks, a couple of which feature alternative routes that drastically change their layout, bumping the number of 'unique' courses closer to 10, and that's not counting reverse routes.

Some folks are calling it a demo, which I don't think is entirely correct. Much like GT4 Prologue, the game serves as something of a taster for the full Gran Turismo 5 experience, which is still a year or so out.

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