As you do so, the cornering, acceleration, and required approach to driving all changes in kind. You’ll start out with cars that aren’t really designed around racing (not that taking a Mini Cooper or VW Beetle on a race track isn’t a lot of fun, but it’s not their principle reason for being), and work your way up to the Lamborghinis, Maserattis, and actual GT sports cars. However, for anyone who has had the pleasure of being on an actual race track, GT7 feels good.
The thrills are more subtle than in Forza, Grid or Project Cars, perhaps, and by that I mean that to create a sensation of speed, most video game developers exaggerate the visual and physical effects of racing, and GT7 doesn’t quite do that. “Kaz” doesn’t just love cars, he used to race them, and his understanding of how vehicles behave on the road informs an authentic and genuine effort to capture motorsports. That’s not to say that the game doesn’t perform well on the track, of course.
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I’ve always preferred Gran Turismo to, say, Forza or Project Cars, precisely because the focus of this series is on the cars rather than the act of racing (Project Cars) or the dudebro culture (Forza), and, after the ill-advised eSports effort of Gran Turismo Sport, I was immediately over the moon that GT7 has so completely re-focused on the series’ greatest quality. Not only does every car of the dozens (and dozens) in GT7 have an immaculate, beyond-real recreation of both their exteriors and interiors, but the soft lighting-like aesthetic presents each in a way that glossy magazine photographers and editors could learn a thing or two about. This has always been the quality of Gran Turismo I made a video way back in 2014 about GT6 being “car porn,” but of course, the PlayStation 5 is a far more powerful console than the PlayStation 3, and the developers have used that to some exceptional effect in building GT7. If Marie Rose, Kasumi, and Hitomi were cars, Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 would have been designed in exactly this way. I really cannot believe that I’m comparing a car game to Koei Tecmo’s pure exhibition of fan service, but I’m really not exaggerating in making this comparison.
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With the most laid-back music that you’d expect for café ambience, these scenes call to mind the most romantic French movie you’ve ever seen, combined with, again, the ravishing love of the form that we’ve seen in the likes of Dead or Alive. All this time, you’re also watching loving, silken-pristine-clear slow pans of the camera as it lingers across the bodies of each of these cars, their immaculate paint glistening thanks to GT7’s incredible lighting system. It’s about the cars.įrom there, the most memorable part of your first few hours in GT7 will be the time spent in the “café”, where you’ll be given “menus” (a checklist of tasks to complete in exchange for cars and other rewards) and, as you complete those tasks, the “café proprietor” will give you history lectures about the various cars that you’re steadily earning. The production values of this video are loving, and while racing has always been a component of car engineering (it is, after all, how engineers can show off their skills with engines), and the “documentary” does feature some of that, it also makes it clear that it isn’t really about the racing.
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It kicks off with an (unskippable) 10-minute documentary of sorts – its not voiced, but it does offer a full history and celebration of the kind of engineering that has gone into car design and manufacture over the years. That is its first, second, tenth and 100th priority of everything that has gone into the game. GT7 is a celebration of the majesty of cars. What this game offers, first and foremost, is an almost inspiring kind of fan service that will make you just wish that you loved anything as much as “Kaz” loves cars. In the case of DoA, doing that would be slammed by the critics for objectification or whatever, but here, with GT7, that’s okay, since the subjects are already objects. Gran Turismo 7 is filled with the kind of longing, slow-panning, romantic camera angles that focus on the bodies of these machines in a way that you would think more typical to a Dead or Alive volleyball game. I really wish I loved anything as much as Yamauchi Kazunori loves cars.
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