![]() ![]() Because even if they can be done in fifteen minutes before I can jump on to the next racing division, I know that I will have to redo everything again in about half an hour when it's time to unlock the next stage. I curse and grind my teeth during those miserable, wretched driving licence tests. ![]() This makes Gran Turismo 6, just like its predecessor, feel like two different games with two different teams working on different parts that are ultimately just clamped together with no real thought put into it.Īnd I curse. ![]() It's weird considering that the first race - before a drivers licence has even entered the picture - is packed with tutorial-texts and tips.Īfter nine races, loads of mandatory tips on braking points and gears and how to use the car's acceleration force, I'm going into the driver's licence phase, which takes a long time to complete - despite being significantly less severe than in previous games. I race nine times before Polyphony forces me to step into a driving school car and ask me to show that I've understood where the brake pedal is located. It isn't a case of driving one short race before I'm hauled into driving school to learn the basics. The strange thing is how these have been distributed in the game.įor even if the driver's licence system was a good idea in the series' beginning, it is also counterproductive and an ill-advised design choice. Each licence contains six separate tests. To gain access to the various racing classes I need to obtain a license for each of the six divisions. Licence tests have also been incorporated into a mandatory trial in this sixth installation, which makes progression through the game's career mode one of the most tired and least entertaining gaming experiences of the whole year for me. It hardly comes as a shock, rather the opposite, but I had hoped that Polyphony would have bettered it this time round. ![]() As far as racing goes, it's as bad as it gets. My orange Honda and I drive around at 88 km/h, shuffling ourselves through wide asphalt curves like a concrete refrigerator on wheels and I am forced to spend all the money that I earn in competitions to tune up what looks, and acts, like a very slow mini-van. I understand that Kazunori Yamauchi does not want to compromise on the basic recipe, but after the first five hours of GT6, I find it difficult to agree with the conservative approach. I understand the difficulty in trying to make drastic changes in the concept that made Gran Turismo a genre-changer fifteen years ago. The next four hours are, as usual, an incredibly slow and boring process where I torture myself through extremely slow contests to win money in order to tune my Honda Jazz. It has a 1.1-liter engine and sports 87 horsepowers. A positive improvement that, just like in the games mentioned, provides a picture of what the racing will be like later in the game.Īlthough these initial minutes are different compared to the last five games, it takes only 120 seconds before I have to choose between a Volkswagen Polo, Ford Fiesta, Honda Jazz and Suzuki Swift. Just as in Need for Speed, Grid or Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo 6 begins with a race where I'm thrown into a tuned race car and asked to "show what I can do" right after the intro movie. It hurts to write the following, but it has to be done Gran Turismo 6 is a mediocre racing game and one of the year's biggest disappointments. And when the game provides neither sufficient entertainment nor a sufficiently realistic driving feel, well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that the game series lost all of its original appeal. Because that's what we've been fed for fifteen years.īut somewhere along the way, amidst all those cleverly-designed marketing tricks and all those initiated talks on how a real racing car behaves - the game has been forgotten. By now everyone knows already that Sony's popular, genre-defining racing series is "The real driving simulator". ![]()
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