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just ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great but the interaction with games is poor, also, I've been trying to set the time and date but is impossible.

Amazing Game, Definatly worth it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is much better than what other reviews say it is.
First of all the Graphics are sometimes too good to be true.
This is so much better than the conecpt version if you played it.
So heres a nice and short detailed review.
When you start up the game you need to install the game(5 min)no biggie
After that its all amazing.
The menu is really nice and simple
You get to see your car in the back while you are in the menu.
Realtime weather for differnt places in the world. Dont know why but its good to know
Buy your car then you start racing.
Races have good gameplay there not boring
The inside view of the car is impecable.
You can play online imediatly of you wanted to.
It has a semi-story with a beginner and intermediate and expert mode
Pros:
*Graphics look real
*its $40
*Sounds real
*Gameplay if fun
*Online(no lag)And you get to get in the games fast
*Easy to get into
*Two player splitscreen
*Gran turismo TV(pretty fun to watch)
*SoundTrack
Cons*
Its a prolugue which means you dont get the full story but you do get full gameplay.
No customization
Its pretty limited but the limitation doesnt feel make it feel like a demo. Its done right thats why it isnt a demo.
Highly recommend though especially for Gran Turismo fans and people who havent really picked up racing games.
This one is one you dont want to miss.

HOLY PENALTY

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is as good as the last GT game, graphics are better and the cars seem to respond more lifelike but and this is big, the tuning aspect is maybe 15% of what it was and WOW!!!!! the penalties in the class S races are EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING, for example you hit a car and get a penalty usually about 3 to 5 seconds depending on how hard you his the other car. But if a car hits you no penalty for the cpu car and if that car pushed you off track guess what 60% of the time you will get a short cut penalty for going off the track, when that car hit you, it will drive you MAD!!!!! Every car you want to play with you have to buy and if you don't like it you might get back 1/4 of it selling price when you sell it back and when money is hard to come by unless you play online it makes it tough not to be forced to play the same quick big money race over and over and over just to get the cash to buy the many cars you have to buy to complete the game, for example, you have to purchase a BMW M3 100,000, a Ferrari f430, 250,000, a Ferrari 599, 350,000 a Ferrari f40 450,000 and a few other cars to complete the game and with the prize money for the races around 20,000 for first and always having to start 16th rather that QUALIFY it makes it tough and like I said FRUSTRATING. I want to trade it in but I just can't because I am a fan of the game but its sometimes hard to play for more than 1 hour before your blood begins to boil.

Not as fun as I'd hoped

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely beautiful graphics, but overall it just wasn't that fun. I didn't like the new lay out of the game. I'm a huge GT fan and thought there would be more to this game. I realize it's just a prologue, but still it should have had more features. By now you'd think they would have been able to add a little damage to the cars.

I've played the Gran Trurismo 5 Prologue Demo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the demo of GT5 Prologue since its début this past October around the time of the Tokyo Auto Show. It was very cool because as the unveiled cars in the real world, the game was doing the same thing in the virtual (i.e. GT-R, WRX-STi). The game plays extremely smooth. The A.I. is on top of you every step of the way. And with the new cockpit view, full force feed back, & complete surround sound - you fell like you are very much there. GT news updates and GT-TV round out the mix to give very compelling experience. This a definite must buy.

Over rated as a Game - vastly over rated as a Driving Simulator

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: July 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is hyped for its great graphics. That should give anyone pause because graphics alone don't make a game. The highest definition pictures only extend to the scenes when you are NOT actually playing the game. Once you are driving ---- the graphics quality drops and while you still have very good graphics they are far from photo-realistic pictures you see elsewhere. (I'm using a HDTV, connected via HDMI, at 1080p)

The graphics you see when actually playing the game are good but far from stunning. As noted - graphics alone don't make a game anyway.

Another claim of this game is that it is a driving simulator. That claim is very questionable. At the basic settings you can do crazy things like hit your brakes at their maximum and still steer with relative ease. I'm sure that makes the game playable but not realistic.

If you even want to even approach a simulation you will need a steering wheel with gas/brake pedals. Logitech sells one for about $120 here on Amazon. The regular Playstation controller does not give you the finese to even approach a simulation. Still the physics seem odd even with a wheel and the game set at advanced physics settings.

On-line racing (the reason I purchased the game) is horrible. You can't meet up with a friends at all. Select a race and you'll be grouped with a bunch of strangers (no options - no on-line lobby). Play consists largely of each player trying to ram other players off the track. Even if you are not rammed off the track (which is very doubtful), you'll find you will lose the race because you have not mastered the art of crashing into barriers at high speed. Done right - you can smash into a guardrail at an insane speed and you'll pass all your opponents. In short: on-line racing consists of bumper cars and learning where to crash. As far as a simulation goes - online racing is a total failure.

If you are just looking for a game to play and aren't expecting much of a simulation this game may suit you. Like any game, you'll learn how to play it and I'm sure you'll then enjoy it. Playing bumper cars On-line may also suit many.

I was hoping for a game that simulated racing, paticularily on-line. In that sense Gran Turismo is an absolute failure.

GT5 P Is for Fans Only, the Rest Are not Welcome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Introduction:

We all know how GT series has been set up for over 10 years: stunning graphics, sound, tracks, and etc. But, what matters after all is that this is not a Ridge-Racer type of game. So, if you expect to handle the turns by just easing off the gas and drifting, you'd better not buy this game.

Purpose:

This game is designed for people, who love cars and care about the beauty and details of them for real life experience. The producer's passion is to bring the cars to our lives as like we are really driving them. When you go to GTTV and see what those people do to make things as nicely as possible, you will realize that something like Forza will be no match for such a huge franchise with this amount of effort put into it.

Graphics and Sound:

Nothing to say. Certainly, show the capability of PS3 to its maximum limits. The cars and environment, literally, are photo-realistic, meaning you are there and you feel it. Same goes with sound. And, by sound, I mean engine sounds and soundtracks. No match has ever come any close to achieve what GT has in this category.

Gameplay:

This is a GRAN TURISMO! That means, you cannot beat the game in 2 hours like you do in NFS or Ridge Racer. As a professional race driver, you need to suffer to get to where you want to be. So, do not complain about the fact that you need money to purchase the cars. This is why GT is called a "real driving simulator". Have patience and enjoy the ride along!

AI:

These critics say why the AI drivers always drive on the racing line? That question simply proves that they are not into racing at all because if you watch a Touring Race Championship or F1 Championship on TV, you will see that all drivers will always drive on the racing line to optimize their cornering, unless there is traffic or accident on the line should they not drive on it. That is the same case in GT5 P. The AI will always drive on the racing line to optimize its cornering, like in reality, unless there is some sort of block ; in that case it will not drive on the racing line. The real racing games must carry the real racing actuality and skills. So, if you think the AI drivers are driving unusually, you do not know racing. You'd better, first, watch some F1 or other races on TV.

Online:

It is true that those people that do not know racing assume that GT5 P is demolition-race type of racing game and run into you and grant you a very painful experience in guardrails, but this is just a prologue version. They may make the races in GT5, where you will do qualification laps, ghost racing, and grid position starting. These improvements can, however, be made to Prologue now.

GTTV:

This is an amazing feature. How come nobody ever notes that? They show you how the cars are tested and put in the game. What kind of racing game has such a feature?

Damage Modeling:

What the heck is the point of damage modeling about which every single person complains? Why would you want to see a beautifully crafted car be smashed and totaled? Are you a car fan or a demolition racer? Do you prefer to see how a GT-R gets smashed and totaled by going to back of a Ferrari F40, or do you rather want to see how the car handles in the real life? I mean, there is a trade-off. A professional racer would want to see how a GT-R drives in the real life than to want it to be totaled and see the debris of crash on the track.

Conclusion:

This game, certainly, is worth the buck! But, if you are looking into arcade type of racing with crazy things happen like Twisted Metal, you are better off playing other racing games...anything, but GT5 P.

GT5 will be always a top seller, as usual, dominating the market!

Feels like Ridge Racer...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok. Lets begin by...well, let just get right to it. Ridge Racer. Thats how this game feels to me.

I played Forza2 for about 8 months before it got old on me, but the way this is going probably 2 at most for prologue.

Its not just the lack of damage (which is a huge negative in my opinion), its the total feel of the game. Driving along and bumping into another driver or hitting a wall causes no driving change. The biggest thing is running off the track, getting in the grass. This causes you to slow down and spin. Thats it, spinning in the grass. Thats it.

However, as stated by the developer, the car detail is excellent. But, when I buy a racing game, being able to see highly detailed body panels is not as great as feeling like you are racing. Again, truley beautiful game. And the music between the loads is outstanding.

The demo, yes, I said it...and they should be ashamed for charging for it...could have just released over the PSN with 3 cars, two tracks, and waited to deliver a full finished product. My feeling is that this was released to create revenue for finishing this already outdated game. Sony should at least allow a cheap DL of the finished product to all the people who financed the completion of the game.

Pros: Music, detail.
Cons: Not finished (Damage, ability to practice, qualify, stats, etc.)

Finally, I have been playing the normal controller, maybe playing this game with a wheel would make all the difference. No, probably not. It would probably still feel like a simulator trying to be an arcade game or a arcade game trying to be a simulator. Hmmmmm....that is the question.

Hungry for more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game tops all previous incarnations of the Gran Turismo Franchise. Many have called it a demo, but with over 70 cars and over 10 tracks it feels much more like an appetizer before a great meal.

The game feels and plays great. The customizable controls are a plus.

No game has ever gotten my adrenaline to pump like the online mode of Gran Turismo 5. Yes, you might get pushed off a track by a 10 year old playing on his dads television, but just that makes it so much fun. You want to prove to everyone that they might be able to push you off the course, but coming back and finishing in front of them.

My only major complained is that, just like previous Versions, it skews very strongly towards Japanese cars. However, I guess that is what one should expect from a game developed by a Japanese company.

Overall, this is a great game that just makes me hungry for the full game.

The Return of the Greatest Racing Franchise

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There are very few games on any console that can be as addictive as the Gran Turismo series, especially if you are a car or racing fanatic. GT5:Prologue certainly continues that radition of addictive gameplay and the most beautiful car renderings at least I have ever seen on a computer, console or pretty much anything that is not the real thing.

Taking into account the fact that this is not the full version of what will eventually be GT5, and also that we are paying a lower price for it, it's very easy to forgive such a short game. I guess it could be called a preview. In fact if you look at it that way this game is huge considering the above. However its not without its flaws.

The graphics in this game really show the PS3 hardware capabitlity and the car models have so much setail it's sick. Right down to the details of the wheels and the detph of the tread in the tires. Just when you thought the cars couldn't look any better in GT4, they come up with this. In this regard, as well as track accuracy, this game has no equal.

The menus are also beautiful although I found them a bit frustrating, especially when trying to buy cars. I understand that theres a lot of info to load but sometimes it feels like scrolling through the menus is taking forever. They seem less intuitive. Details like in past editions, when you finished a race and had the different options before you, all you had to do to exit was hit the left d-pad and you were in the exit icon. Now you have to scroll through all the otions to hit exit. Its small thinga like that that make the menus a little clumsy. Thats not to say they are not beautiful. Watching your active car posing at all those different locales is kind of breathtaking. Its like combining the menu options with the photo mode in GT4 except you dont need any extra memory space and you get to watch all the time.

To upgrade your cars, you first have to finish the first three race classes C, B, and A. This opens the S class which is really challenging because the cars are awarded performance points based on your modifications and the races have point limits. This makes the racing very even and forces you to win by driving skill. You cant win on horsepower alone. It almost make me glad there are so few tracks because you really have to learn them to be successfull in the S Class. It reminds me of GT2 in that it had Power restrictions to enter the different races. Even though its all fun and good it is the upgrading part of the game that both worries and dissapoints me.

Once you have the option, the upgrade menu is a series of parameters where you adjust horsepower, weight, ride height etc... This is so NOT the way it was done in the past. To upgrade your car you had to buy parts and if you were serious about it you would go and test the results of your upgrade at the test tracks. This is the way its done in the real world. Why change such a crucial part of the game that way? If you want a powerful car you just hit the HP parameter all the way up and the weight all the way down and thats it.No work on your part. Also, you get to change paramenters right before a race. You cant work on your car at any other time. And also you cant change wheels, spoilers... nothing cosmetic. I'm not one to "rice" my cars a la Need for Speed but I expect some form of customization.

This really worries me because it might be a sign of things to come. I can understand why it was done in this version but it would take so much out of the full version of the game it scares me. I only can hope it fixed for GT5. I also hope that this is not the price we are paying for having Ferrari finnally in the game.

Having said all that, this game is lot deeper than what it's name implies. The controls are right on and realistic and of course its incredibly beautiful. It's one of the most engaging experiences on the PS3 right now. Be warned: This game will draw you in and wont let go for a long time. Probably until GT5 comes out.

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