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RELEASE DATE FROM GAMESPOT.COM

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 27
Date: September 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

1/7/04 Don't know when we can do a preorder though!!

Mocking the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The review by Naznin Baldwin from the USA is a mockery of the game. None of the information he states is accurate. I couldnt find any other way of telling you guys but it really needs to be removed. He obviously has not read anything about the game and his information is not only misleading, but it is an outright lie.

Worst car game ever!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 24
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has to be the most booooooring game ever for the PS2. The only good thing is the types of cars you can drool over but never can drive. I especially like the Subaru selection Like the Legacy Wagon and the VW Beetle which only goes 19 MPH. How lame do you have to be to include these cars in a racing game. The controls are stiffer than my mom's gin and tonics. The cars react like your driving them on an Atari 2600 joystick. What good is a car game if you can't do donuts in the parking lot?
The soundtrack has got to be the most uninspiring music I have ever heard on a video game. How can you race fast listening to Joe Satriani and Earth Wind and Fire? How gay is it to rock out to Papa Roach while replaying your race with a Volvo station wagon? Anyone who enjoys smoking bong loads of dope while the you constantly crash into invisible walls and roadblocks will love this game. Anyone who has actually taken a real driving lesson and has a real license and drives a real car will just be waisting there money on a pre-pubescent fantasy about driving Jay Lenos roadster. Stay away from this game.

A great game but not much different than the predacessors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tons of cars, excellent detail in the courses, great reality factor, long game...thats the good...the bad to me is the repetiveness of the game. Save up money, buy a car, pump that car up, win a race...save up money buy a car pump it up win a race etc...just goes on and on. The license tests are pretty annoying too...I mean, I could win the race with my driving skills before I get the license, what is the point? Over all, if you never played the Turismo series you will love this game, if you played the others this will seem like a newer version and nothing more...oh, and the fact that there is no Lamborghini or Ferrari really sucks!

Worth the three year wait? I think not!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Gran Turismo 4 is like robots taking over the world. If they conquered, there would be peace, and everything would be perfect. But everything would be bland and uncreative. GT4 has a great amount of potiential. The game has great graphics, lots of cars, and tons of features like taking pictures of your car. It is very realistic. What will irritate you is how the game feels. The menu icons in Gran turismo mode are scrambled confusingly without a garage icon. The racing portion just feels way too slow. (It might just be me, because once you've played Burnout 3 for a month or so anything feels way to slow) The speedometer says 120 miles per hour but it only feels like your going 45. It's just sluggish. The driver's licences are annoying and seem much harder than GT3's. Most cars you won't want to drive anyway. (Do you want to drive a Scion XB or a Honda Insight? Me neither.) Did I mention GT4 is a real memory card hog? It takes up 1,495 kb, which is about ten times as much as a normal game. The memory card icon is simply a white bland cube that has Gran Turismo 4 written on it. That fits the game alright. Uncreative. The game has very little creativity, the only really new addition was spectators. The cars handle like bumper cars. It feels hard to make a slight turn. There are no damage or crashes. ( How realistic is that?) They held off this game for about 3 years and they couldn't fix these problems? Overall, this was a very disappointing game. This wasn't worth the wait. You have little to no fun playing this. Instead, I recomend the awesome Burnout 3, which breaks away from annoying realism, is extremely and overly fast, adrenaline pumping, and most of all, is really, really fun.

Gran Turismo 4 Will Be Incredible!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 21
Date: October 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Of course this game will be nasty. Look at the first three. They were so innovative and great. This game is going to have A Spec and B Spec views and something like 2000 cars. Old and New. I am pretty sure a '70 Chevelle 454 is in here as long as a Volvo 240(Which has never been in any game). What I have heard and seen in the trailers, I am lining up on December 14th and buying this game. Do the same if you want a real driving game and not one that you can hit and wall and still keep going 140mph (NFS). Buy it!

oh my god

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 62
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i cant wait because they taste good like marshmallows!

Amazing !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I made my first hard breaking in GT4 (I raced real karts), the car physics was so real that I couldn't believe it , I knew I lost the control of the car before it hits the wall .

I was playing and my wife said "Wow, the guy that is driving that car is so good"........ she though it was a real race ;-)

More evolutionary than revolutionary, but still fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me say that Gran Turismo 4 is an awesome game. There is no other racing game out there that will let you drive as many cars, on so many varied tracks, and give you as much fun-for-your-buck as GT4. You also won't find any other racing game that will have you screaming out expletives as often as you will with GT4, either because of your own shortcomings or those of the game.

This is a big game. And I mean BIG. There's over 700 cars in this thing, and some 100 tracks you can race on if you can unlock them all. All the good things from Gran Turismo 3 have been retained and improved on, but many of the things people hated from GT3 are still present as well.

THE GOOD:

- Tons of cars, tons of tracks, tons of ways to play. Arcade mode is decent if you don't mind racing at achingly slow speeds in marginally tweakable cars. The Gran Turismo Mode (formerly "Simulation Mode") is where it's at, with a phenomenal range of places to race and cars to drive while doing so.

- The ability to import your A and B licenses, as well as up to $100,000 from a Gran Turismo 3 game save is extremely welcome. Driving tests, as usual, are annoying as hell. At least by importing your basic licenses, you can avoid some frustration early on. Not to mention that by bringing in a big chunk of my GT3 cash, I got to start the game with a $45,000 car with reasonable upgrades instead of a sucky $10,000 car with no upgrades.

- Graphics and sound are improved, but not phenomenally so. In fact, some of the improvements are at once more realistic and more frustrating. When racing on certain city tracks, it can be extremely difficult to tell where the track is going ahead of you because of how muddy things can look. This is realistic when you're in dingy neighborhoods, but can be frustrating when you realize too late that you are plunging head-first into a barrier at 150mph.

- The new photo shoot modes are great fun. You can do still photography at scenic locations, or do in-motion photography on race tracks. There's lots of tweakable options like shutter speed, aperture, etc. Best of all, even though it's not mentioned on the box or in the manual, you can save your pictures at high res (1280x960) to a USB storage device, such as a flash drive or a card reader. Very cool for people who like to take beautiful pictures of beautiful cars.

THE BAD:

- Restrictions on what races you can drive are more annoying than ever. For example, to go beyond "professional" level races, you have to complete EVERY series of races at the beginner and pro levels. This means you have to buy or unlock different kinds of cars and trucks to qualify for said series. This in turn requires you to run many races over and over and over in a desperate bid to get more cash and more cars to sell off, so that you may eventually get the car you DO need for a given series.

- The AI drivers STILL don't even acknowledge your presence on the field. They'll ram right into you if you're in the way, and for some reason GT4's physics seem to favor them over you - I've had AI cars push me all over the track, yet I can hardly influence their path at all no matter how I hit or push them.

- Annoying license tests!!!

THE SUMMARY: Gran Turismo 4 rocks. The sheer range of things you can see, do, tweak, and play with is mind boggling. The same old problems with the series still exist (sucky AI drivers, annoying license tests, no damage modeling). But do they keep GT4 from being a ton of fun? 90% of the time, nope. The 10% of the time they do is not enough to outweigh the sheer immersiveness and enjoyability of this game. If you're willing to invest time in building up your skills and car collection, GT4 will reward you in spades. Buy it now.

this game is great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

they made a lot of improvments to this new version that has made it more of a challenge. some of the license test are very challenging which will really teach you how to play the game better. the rally portion takes even more time to get used to, but it seems to be more realistic. and as a fan of the WRC i'm glad about that. it would be really cool if they made a rally only version and had the courses set up like a WRC event where it is a point to point course rather than a circuit.

also something that i thought was really amusing was the review of "rockethead7". his review was not of the game but of the reviewer "rex". i have read both reviews and have found that rockethead did not totally do any research into this. the claim is that rex is the game developer. after reading his review i would say that rex is more of a car enthusiast and possible amateur race car driver. is it so impossible to believe that someone that lives 80 miles away from Laguna Seca and is a car enthusiast and possible amateur race car driver has not driven on that track? it is possible that someone in the silicon valley that is a car enthusiast and possible amateur race car driver makes enough money to attend the Skip Barber driving school that holds driving classes in which you actually drive on the Laguna Seca track. i think some of the terminology rex used supports the fact that he is a driver rather than a developer.

also it was possible for him to have access to the game at the dates included in his review. E3 and Game Developers Conference are probably large video game developers exhibitions where they like to showcase their new products that are open to the public so that they can get feedbacks from the consumers that use their products. Polyphony Digital and Logitech probably had working demos of the game and wheel at those times since Logitech was developing their new steering wheel with GT4 in mind. i'm sure rex who also is probably a fan of video games, probably attended these conferences knowing that they would have a demo of GT4 there that you could play. also the GT4 Prologue was released in japan a while back.

as far as knowing a lot about the tracks and other things about GT4, you could search on google and find page after page of rumored things that were to be included. also it is true that the developers did go to each of the tracks and did testing to try and make their game as real as they possibly could.

there are many other aspects of rocketheads review that has more holes in it than i have time to go into so please know what you are talking about before you go mouth off someone.

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