![]() ![]() I found myself spending a lot of time just doing time trials on real courses like Laguna Seca or Willow Springs rather than actually racing, which is exactly what you’d be doing in real life. You load up the game, pick a car from your garage, and then take it on the track. It took me a while to wrap my head around, but I believe the intent behind GT7 is to be less of a game about racing and more of a game about cars and car culture. ![]() Gran Turismo 7 chooses to take a different approach to being a racing game (as discussed above). Why they felt the need to hide all of this behind layers of inane nonsense is beyond me. Every car feels real, the DualSense controller lets you feel every bump in the road, and the graphics are second to none. It’s frustrating that this is how the game is set up, because the core driving mechanics are incredible. I had a lot of fun with Gran Turismo 7, even suffering through the incredibly generic conversations I was being forced to have with Luca. I’m not sure how detached from reality you have to be to think this is what people want, but the same game also forces you to sit through an 8 minute long montage scene about cars. Somewhere along the line, the creator of the game though that lecturing the player about cars was more interesting than just letting the player play the game and build a virtual racing career. I wish I was making this up, but I’m not. The career mode of GT7 is handled through the Cafe, where you get menu books that tell you to go do a race, which unlocks that track/race etc. ![]() This isn’t optional either, it’s all part of the game’s incredibly strange “career” mode. You spend way more time than anyone should have to getting talked to by a series of stock photo characters that lecture you on cars and car history. However, the game stumbles over itself by hiding the meat behind an incredibly cumbersome series of menus and talking heads. GT7 is an impressive technical marvel on the track, with cars that look, sound, and feel more real than ever before. It’s 2022 however, and the years in between have seen the rise of games like Forza make incredible quality of life improvements to the genre. Back in the 90’s, there weren’t many realistic racing games, and Gran Turismo had little competition. ![]()
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