Gran Turismo 7 is a racing simulation video game in 2022. It was made by Polyphony Digital and put out by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is the eighth main entry in the Gran Turismo series.
Gran Turismo 7 Review
The Gran Turismo series has a very long history. The first game came out in 1997, and it was an instant hit with gamers. When the second one came out, Gran Turismo had quickly become Sony & Polyphony Digital's best console racing game. Since then, the series has had several games that broke records, but it has also had to keep up with a lot more and better competition in the simulation racing game space. Unfortunately, the Gran Turismo series has only just caught up. The release of Gran Turismo 7 shows that the problems first seen in Gran Turismo Sport have finally come to a head.
Like the last few Gran Turismo games, Gran Turismo 7 begins with a look back at the sports history & car industry. This book has everything from the actual start of the car in a small Ford factory to how Aston Martin changed motorsports and much more. It's an excellent way to remember how far the business has come. After this first trip down memory lane comes one of the longest and least exciting cutscenes the franchise has ever made. Players see scenes of beautiful cars and track tours for a long time, and then they are thrown right into the action. Of reading.
Gran Turismo 7 has little to no voice-over work, which makes no sense. In the game, players have to sit through hours of text-based dialogue. It might not be too much of a problem since it's a racing game, but it's also a game that's mainly about a linear single-player story. So, players are called to a random cafe, where a talking head gives them sets of missions to complete to get certain cars. When all the vehicles are found, the player must watch a winder cutscene showing the history of these cars and how they fit into the story. This whole thing was fine but forgettable, especially since racing games don't usually have good stories anymore. However, Gran Turismo 7 is a clear example of a feature that sounds way better than it is. No one wants to read through a whole lecture's worth of paperwork before and after races. It gets old. It makes the "story mode" for a single-player rather uninteresting. Visual novels and role-playing games are the best places for essays.
Considering all of this, it's clear that driving in Gran Turismo 7 is one of the best racing game in the games series & business. The vehicles moved by touching them, and the physics is a nice mix of severe simulation and casual arcade racing. There are a lot of settings, switches, and toggles that players can flip and set to make the driving experience just right, and the track rules are as strict as they are fair. It isn't even close to the hard-core simulation games. Like Assetto, Corsa has perfected, but it feels much more natural and accurate than games like Grid while still being fun and lighthearted. On the road, cars feel heavy and switching paint seriously affects the controller. If you brake too hard, the car's back end will swing around because of inertia, and if you try to make hand-brake turns without steering, you will crash. It is great!
Even though the DualSense haptic triggers on the PlayStation 5 still feel like little more than a gimmick. Gran Turismo does an excellent job of using the console's features. It's probably the first game since the console came out where the overall experience sells the DualSense Controller, making the unique haptics something special to experience and enjoy. Almost to the point where I wish other console makers had this feature more often. We still don't know if this feeling will last or not. No matter what, it's clear that Gran Turismo 7 was made by car fans for car fans, even with the weird thousand-word essay reading in the single-player mode.
The way cars feel is just as important as how they look. And this new Gran Turismo game, like all the others in the series. There are several cars in the game, and they all look great. Small details like the stitching on the leather seats and the grain of wood on the dashboards of the few cars with wood dashboards are all perfectly shown. Also, thanks to the power of the PlayStation 5's hardware, reflections are finally good enough that you can't tell if you're looking at the real thing or a thought. During races, replays, and showcases, reflections are still limited to 30 frames per second, but reviews seem to be rendered in real-time. It's a huge step forward for how vehicles should look in games, and it's sure to get your blood pumping.
Even though tracks aren't the main focus of GT games, they can be hit or miss. Much work has gone into making them look as good as possible. When they are still, they are easy to tell apart. Even if there are cardboard-cut-out characters in the audience who can't be played or backgrounds that are just pre-rendered, these minor problems don't matter that much. However, what stands out is how well everything works when you're moving around, which is how most people will play the game. So, Gran Turismo 7 amazes me in almost every way.
A few strange game choices take away what should have been an unforgettable and wonderful experience. One of them has turned into a horrible example of what game publishers should never do. As usual, the problem is microtransactions, which are terrible.
It has never really been a problem to release games with some downloadable content (DLC) on the side. Most racing games have hundreds, if not thousands, of cars you can play with immediately after you unlock them. In both Forza Horizons 5 and Gran Turismo 7, vehicles can be opened by just playing the game, and there are a lot of them. But the hard truth is that DLC will eventually be added to the game, and a storefront is a natural addition to the menu. However, how Polyphony Digital and Sony Interactive Entertainment have decided to handle their "premium content" plans is genuinely disgusting.
Since the game came out, it's been clear that race rewards feel unfair. Aside from the chance to win a car now and then, the game is very tight with money. Most first-place wins don't feel like much, and after hours of tournament play, the winnings aren't even enough to buy half a car. Online sleuthing proves that these imbalances are actual and shows how bad the winnings are compared to previous games in the series and how bad they are compared to winnings after buying boosters and currency packs. Nothing is worse than beating an entire tournament in a racing game and still feeling like you didn't do enough. The publisher's pushy style has finally ruined the experience—a terrible disappointment for an otherwise good new entry in the series.
A few strange game choices take away what should have been an unforgettable and wonderful experience. One of them has turned into a horrible example of what game publishers should never do. As usual, the problem is microtransactions, which are terrible.
It has never really been a problem to release games with some downloadable content (DLC) on the side. Most racing games have hundreds, if not thousands, of cars you can play with immediately after you unlock them. In both Forza Horizons 5 and Gran Turismo 7, vehicles can be opened by just playing the game, and there are a lot of them. But the hard truth is that DLC will eventually be added to the game, and a storefront is a natural addition to the menu. However, how Polyphony Digital and Sony Interactive Entertainment have decided to handle their "premium content" plans is genuinely disgusting.
Since the game came out, it's been clear that race rewards feel unfair. Aside from the chance to win a car now and then, the game is very tight with money. Most first-place wins don't feel like much, and after hours of tournament play, the winnings aren't even enough to buy half a car. Online sleuthing proves that these imbalances are actual and shows how bad the winnings are compared to previous games in the series and how bad they are compared to winnings after buying boosters and currency packs. Nothing is worse than beating an entire tournament in a racing game and still feeling like you didn't do enough. The publisher's pushy style has finally ruined the experience—a terrible disappointment for an otherwise good new entry in the series.
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