We've all been having a laugh and a giggle at Kazunori Yamauchi (and Sony's) expense for the past few years now.
Usually we'd point out all of the significant events that have happened since the GT5 reveal at E3 2005 (three Forza games have been conceived, developed and released, for example) but we're pretty sure you get the point by now - it's been a long time. In many ways Sony's Gran Turismo has always been the poster child for gaming. Sure, it's not as relevant as Call of Duty or Gears of War these days but, to a huge contingent of gamers, GT represents simulation racing at its finest, cutting edge graphics and an unrivalled attention to detail. It's a real watershed gaming moment.
Now that it's on store shelves once again, the question has quickly become "Was it worth the wait?"
The release of Gran Turismo 5 came just four days after the return of another racing game franchise heavy-hitter, EA's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which was developed by Criterion Games - the creators of Burnout.
While Polyphony Digital toiled away creating another Gran Turismo game, Criterion has spent an equal amount of time innovating and pushing the genre in bold new directions.
Though some racing purists will undoubtedly argue the two represent very different forms of racing game. The more cynical (perhaps forward thinking) among us might instead posit that GT5 and Hot Pursuit represent two contrasting eras of video games.
On one side we have Gran Turismo, a game painstakingly crafted to offer the perfect sim experience, and on the other we have Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, a racing game designed to thrive off the technology and 'connected' nature of today's world.
There's no denying that GT5 is a very capable, high quality title, but it also comes across as an antiquated experience, with design decisions and a feature set that represents a time where creators worked on simple hardware and lacked the integration with the wider world that consoles now have.
Is Gran Turismo 5 really a showpiece of what the PlayStation 3 and games can do? Or is it just another really pretty racing game.
Though many of the features in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit are refinements of established concepts, it's still arguably leaps and bounds ahead of GT5, most evident when compared to GT5's barebones online gameplay options. Hot Pursuit is a game that thrives off constantly reminding you that you're just one racer and a huge world full of them. It constantly feeds you information about how your friends are performing, creates rivalries and provides a variety of ways to settle scores.
With that said we're throwing the question over to you. Is Gran Turismo 5 an out of date gem trying to get by in a world where its competitors have evolved? And which of the two racing games will you be spending your hard earned cash on? Get those fingers typing.
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for me Need for speed is liek a saturday night out with your mates on the pub, its rowdy, theres drinks and jibes and sum heavy ribbing when u beat sumones time by 0.01 of a second.
GT5 is more liek a bunch of middle aged blokes sitting in the track Lounge on comfy leather sofas with your shiny motor sat outside while u have lunch, ready to go out and show off your cars cornering/top speed/accel ect.
Both great games and fun in their own lil ways, altho i'm a bit peeved about a Civic i sent to a mate thats just vanished into thin air 
ahh well i has another one now
I shall be getting Hot Pursuit soon as a few friends have it on 360, they've been raving about it and I'll be able to drive around corners at unrealistic speeds - that's personally what I want from a car game!
You're comparing two very different games here though.
People should which ever they think they'd like the most, or both. They are only games.I've already made my decision, since I bought GT5 yesterday.I might be missing something here, but for me a driving game - arcade or sim - has to be about the driving model. I didn't mind the NFS demo, but it didn't grab me. NFS might actually be prettier overall, since most of the GT5 cars aren't actually fantastic in that respect (and I'm holding out for patches that slowly upgrade the rest of the cars - yes, I'm probably naive). But in terms of getting into the car and feeling like you are actually driving a car, GT5 is better. And yes, the menu system could use an overhaul and it was never going to live up to the 6-years of hype, but I will always prefer a worse-looking but better-playing game over a pretty-but-shallow one.
And before you say "sure but what about arcade-racing fans?" I say this to you. I really enjoyed Burnout Paradise, PGR and Dirt 2, and those couldn't be much further from real driving. But something about NFS:HP just didn't feel quite right to me. Hence my decision. Which after several levels of both A and B spec racing I think is right for me. But I will defend to the death your right to choose the other one.
I picked both games up and its a bit unfair to try compare them directly, ones arcade racer others a sim, for sheer fun and competition NFS is great, my facebook page has recently been littered with jibes, insults, maybe sum threats all thanks to tehir bloody autolog or because we've been online and sumones totalled mate A's veyron with mate b's cop car inches from finish, all good fun.then i have other mates who have bought GT5 and thats more a kinda liek discussing this weeks Top Gear, u can jump online and all talk bout teh performance of your car and races arnt so much on edge racing but more of 'look what my car can do' and swapping tactics to get a toyato yaris into 3 figure mph's to win the beginner vitz cup
for me Need for speed is liek a saturday night out with your mates on the pub, its rowdy, theres drinks and jibes and sum heavy ribbing when u beat sumones time by 0.01 of a second.
GT5 is more liek a bunch of middle aged blokes sitting in the track Lounge on comfy leather sofas with your shiny motor sat outside while u have lunch, ready to go out and show off your cars cornering/top speed/accel ect.
Both great games and fun in their own lil ways, altho i'm a bit peeved about a Civic i sent to a mate thats just vanished into thin air ahh well i has another one now
That'sa pretty good analogy of both games to be honest so I agree in saying that you cannot compare them both at all. Now if you were going to compare GT5 and Shift 2 when that comes out that makes far more sense. Especially as EA have claimed it will be better.A moot point really since I choose not to own a PS3, and I already own "NFS: Hot Pursuit". One of the videos for it sold me almost instantly. It looked F-U-N! Also, I prefer racers to be more arcade-like than simulators, hence one of the reasons I consider "Forza 3" a racing masterpiece: It allows each individual player to tweak the settings to cater to his/her personal arcade or sim preferences. So, even if I had a PS3, I would likely still have opted for "NFS: Hot Pursuit" instead of "GT 5".Gran Turismo 5 vs. NFS: Hot Pursuit - Which will you buy? Then you harp on about how need for speed is better. Certainly seems like CVG has already made up its mind. Might have well have just posted," EVERYONE BUY NEED FOR SPEED". Thats not really a question at all now is it.Gran Turismo 5 vs. NFS: Hot Pursuit - Which will you buy? Then you harp on about how need for speed is better. Certainly seems like CVG has already made up its mind. Might have well have just posted," EVERYONE BUY NEED FOR SPEED". Thats not really a question at all now is it.
Maybe its becasuse PD have made CVG and others look just a little silly rushing out a halfassed review before actually playing the WHOLE game first. Hoped maybe they would of taken a lesson from it but no,instead they will just berate it more.
On the whole im very happy with GT5. Got nothing against NFS,Forza and the like but havent got room in my life for more than 1 game at a time and GT5 will do for me for a long time to come.
I was quite looking forward to Hot Pursuit, with it (kind of) going back to its roots but the demo left me underwhelmed and disappointed.I do pretty much all my multiplayer gaming on the PC so the multiplayer part of NFS:HP adds nothing for me. GT on the other hand has always been a single player experience for me so wont be using the online features of that either.
As the article also points out these are two very different racers so if you like both then just buy both. I would have bought NFS along with GT if I had enjoyed the demo.
CVG, honestly... All I had to do was look at the first paragraph to know where this was heading, ugh.
Only 2 things these games have that are simular is that they both have cars, it is like comparing Numchucks to Dynamite.. they can both be used as weapons but entirely different beast. I got both games as I wanted a Sim and a Arcade racer.
I have got to admit. I am rather unimpressed by GT5. I really do think the graphics are a major step back from Prologue and what is with the terrible shadow clipping on the car models. This is supposed to be the flagship of PS3 development, 5 years in the making and it really does look bland and unappealing. The menus are a mess, just upgrading your cars takes several long loading screens.I am really thinking that CVG were right on the graphics front, this does look worse when compared to Forza III.
Hopefully they patch this soon, but it seems to me like they might have made some last minute concessions to shoehorn 3D into the experience at the expense of graphical superiority.
The AI seems to be the same as every other GT game and doesn't even seem to acknowledge the player is on the track. As demonstrated by the frequent pit maneuvers where they take you out and nudge you off the track.
Quite a poor showing so far as far as I am concerned for something even the developers stated was trying to achieve perfection. I think the truth is, GT isn't king anymore because others have done racing better and more interesting both on and offline.
Is this article attempting to justify the rushed GT5 review score?I only bought GT5 yesterday, but I've spent a good 6 - 8 hours with it already and I'm still in no position to claim a score out of ten on it, because I've barely scratched the surface. All the day 1 GT5 review scores are a farce.
But yeh, GT5 vs Hot Pursuit is a ridiculous question, they're totally different, like comparing FIFA to NHL or something.
When I heard Criterion was going to bring back Hot Pursuit, my eyes lit up. About a decade ago I can remember playing my best friend in Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) for literally hours, breaking track records, hitting stunt jumps, and getting in gnarly wrecks. While Need For Speed may be an "Arcade game" as most of you would like to call it, I feel that if you want that "Sim" kind of feeling, why not jump in a real car instead of wasting $59.99? Hot Pursuit is the jewel and king of racing. Hands down. -dirty2the3rdNext article; ARMA 2 or Call of Duty - Which will you buy?Pointless one guys. You tried to justify this articles existence but it was just laughable.
Like others have said, they aren't really comparable. I bought GT5, but I prefer sim racers to arcade ones.What I'm wondering is, how the hell do you innovate in a sim racer? A rewind button, like Forza? Because frankly, that's a joke of a feature that noone claiming to like racing simulation would ever touch. You can only improve the physics and add new cars and race modes. GT5 did all three, and then some.
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