The lights are on
When I posted our list of 25 most anticipated games of the rest of the year last week, Gran Turismo 5 was the most-mentioned missing game on the list by far. Maybe the long wait had just made us forget how huge and exciting a new Gran Turismo game is, but Sony's latest Gamescom reveals for the upcoming racer have us getting hyped up again.
One huge surprise, especially so close to release, is that GT5 will come with an extensive course creator. This isn't quite a complete track editor, but it allows players to build races by tweaking options such as the setting, frequency of curves, sharpness of corners, and more. Apparently it will be a very quick and painless process, so even players who aren't normally into user-generated content will be able to use these tools.
The game will also feature kart racing. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi said that this was originally planned for Gran Turismo 6 -- a release I expect we won't see until sometime after 2018 -- but the feature was leaked, so they decided to put it into GT5. Fair enough! I found the following YouTube video of go-karting in the game, and it looks like a fun way to mix things up.
[via Kotaku]
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lol nice another reason to get this game i was going to buy it regardless but this just makes it better.
Course Creator is awesome. Hope it's not gimped. Kart racing?! That's really dumb.
cool.
i might play this game just for the kart racing
WOW they put in too much... and yet people will still say that its not enough, or its not what I wanted.
Maybe they should have came out with the core game and all it had then have DLC for those who want more. IT would have come out sooner, and people could complain that everything should be included on the disk. +^) LMAO... lol
I hope the karts have funny sounding horns lol.
FT86 FTW
Wow, this game has a lot of stuff! Some of it didn't need to be there but it's nice that it is. Defiantly going to make the game feel huge and give players hours of playtime
Gran Turismo 5 is going to be the definitive racing game of the current gen consoles and all the features are making it so the wait for Gran Turismo 6 will be really easy
Awesome.
GT5 is going to be a masterpiece.
At least they captured the fun of kart racing pretty well.
That video needs a few more red shells.
wow this is going to be cool....i cant wait till this comes out
we can only hope for one more thing now- go-kart vs. f1 racing
I sill think this is going to be a great game....
Wow, this seems really random, and fun. Can't wait for GT5!
They were going to put this in GT6?