Gran turismo 7 ps4 20167/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() License tests have been a mainstay feature for every Gran Turismo game admittedly, it’s nothing new, but they’re there because they work. I probably spent half my time with Gran Turismo 2 managing to perfect my skills and attaining all golds on all the tests, earning all of the prize cars that way, and it’s been the same with Gran Turismo 7. Things like getting a racing license, for example. It’s been a long time since I’ve been into a racing game this much, where I’m looking forward every day to driving around, and for as little as it might end being, I’m feeling rewarded each time. In fact, it’s the best that it’s been in years, thanks in no part to the DualShock 5 controller’s haptic feedback, which is amazing in this game – making you feel every bump and crack in the road, puddles and whatnot, as well as your car’s gear shifting, engine roar – but also to the varying sense of control tightness that each kind of car provides while tearing around tracks, and also the scaling options for driving assists that are incredibly customizable. It would be easy to fault developer Polyphony Digital and franchise director Kazunori Yamauchi for their overly eccentric delivery with Gran Turismo 7 if the racing itself was no good, but it’s anything but bad. I told you Gran Turismo 7 is quirky, so stop rolling your eyes! Back at the car wash, car wash, yeah… ![]() And you guessed it, with each new one of these that you complete, you get a lesson about something relating to cars. In fact, the café is the most important location of all as it gives you quests to partake that slowly doles out new game features and special events as you collect cars by participating in events and tournaments. That’s right, you get to sit and listen to some geezers go on and on while sipping on a cup o’ joe in this game, or as close to it as possible, except for the coffee. You can check the cars you own in the garage, go buy new or used one at either car shops, where you can also check out each vehicle’s extensive history files, go to the museum, buy new parts, take pictures, have a coffee, or hey, actually do some gosh-darned racing. ![]() Gran Turismo 7 consists of a number of different locations on a map that would otherwise be menu items in any other game. Is it the best racing game I’ve ever played? Surely not, but it’s put together in a way that makes for some good bite-sized slices of gameplay for a few minutes to an hour total a day. So to my surprise, for as much as Gran Turismo 7 tries to keep me from actually racing with all of its slow to pop text boxes, excessive videos, and cluttered menus, I’ve been putting some quality time in daily, plucking away at challenges and hell, enjoying my time with it quite thoroughly. In fact, ridiculously enough, even though I own all of the Gran Turismo games over all four generations of PlayStation, their total playtime probably doesn’t add up to a fifth of what I played of Gran Turismo 2. Over the years, though, I played less and less of Gran Turismo for many reasons, but mostly due to converging facts: with each new game, there was more to do and more stuff in the way of the actual racing, and I had increasingly less time to play games as an adult. I was in school and I had a lot of time to kill, so that game took over and didn’t let go for months. It was very in-depth for the time, and for someone like me, who’s always had a knack for appreciating auto racing somewhat casually, Gran Turismo 2 especially came at just the right time. Back then, Gran Turismo was incredibly unique, because it was the debut console game to take racing seriously and provide a realistic enough experience in game form of driving a car around a track. Gran Turismo 7 is the latest entry in Polyphony Digital’s long-running racing simulation series that started on the first PlayStation. It’s SO into cars, their history and every facet of driving that even if you can’t tell a shift clutch apart from a brake disc, you won’t be able to help but be fascinated about its existence. Have you ever had a friend who’s really into something? So much so that they sometimes come off as a bit crazy, but you still enjoy hanging out with them regardless because in the end they’re so passionate that it’s somehow contagious? Well, Gran Turismo 7 is like that. ![]()
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