Personally, I prefer the grid start – revving up your engine and getting the perfect start by overtaking several cars and gaining a good advantage on your opponents – something that isn’t seen in Prologue. Unfortunately what Polyphony Digital have done in Prologue is the rolling start the computer starts the race for you and you’re constantly moving. It would of been nice to be able to set the “human” attributes to the AI, maybe allowing for more aggressive driving by your opponents if you’re confident enough. This is evident in some parts of the race, but it can still feel quite obvious that you’re racing against a computer and not a player. Polyphony do boast a sophisticated AI system however, claiming that each car is “thinking” as it’s driving. Although they tend to stick to the racing line (the best line to take and you can see it if it’s turned on), you can take advantage of it by watching the line they’re about to take and you can overtake them by cutting inside or swinging around the outside of them and getting up the grid.
Your opponents stick to the racing line and they aren’t rough – which is good as it’s part of the racing experience. The AI in Prologue is also practically the same. To be totally honest, it’s very easy to go through C and B class as you only need to get a trophy in the events, whether it’s bronze, silver or gold, the only difference apart from the trophies on offer is the amount of credits you get for gaining 1st or 3rd place. Once you complete each of the challenges (with either a bronze, silver or gold trophy) in the C class, you open up the B class and once you’ve completed the B class you open up the last class available on Prologue – the A class. Starting out in the C class, it’s no surprise that the opponents you’re racing in this class don’t go that fast and average between around 100mph to 120mph. Although the ’beasts’ of cars cost hundreds of thousands of credits, it’s possible to race the same race over and over again to quickly wrack up those credits – something which I admittedly have done on the quicker 1 lap races to get more powerful cars. It’s all good knowing what cars are on offer, but of course you’ll have to earn credits to get the best cars available. There’s a great selection of vehicles to choose from knowing that all you’re playing is a fraction of what the game has to offer when released (hopefully) in 2009. Other cars that appear in Prologue include the Subaru Impreza WRX, Mitsubishi’s Evo X and the Ferrari F40. You’ve got the sluggish Suzuki Cappuccino that is slow but surprisingly handles well around tight corners and then you’ve got cars such as the Golf GTi, Ford Focus ST ‘06 and Mini that aren’t that powerful. Although there’s ’only’ 70 cars to get your hands on, all of them handle differently as you’d expect. It’s a formula that’s only been tweaked ever so slightly, and still proudly boasts the title as the ‘ultimate driving simulator’ – and this is just a slice of what’s to come.įeaturing just over 70 cars and seven courses, Prologue is fast, smooth and ultimately fun to play. But before going into the graphics, does it really play the same? Yes, Yes it does. The gameplay hasn’t changed drastically and is still as fun as ever, but as it leaps into the new generation of consoles, Prologue certainly does look the part. Having started out on the original PlayStation, Prologue is the first taste of Gran Turismo on the PlayStation3 and it’s in HD. I’ve played all the Gran Turismo’s, PGR’s and played the two Forza Motorsport titles and they all have their positives and negatives, but I’ll stick to the what this review is on – Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, but recently GT5: Prologue has had a slating for being unfinished – which is true, but this is a ‘teaser’ of what’s to come, and isn’t actually the full-on Gran Turismo title. In today’s videogame world, there seems to be a three-way battle in the racing genre with Gran Turismo competing against two Xbox360 titles Project Gotham Racing 4 (PGR4) and Forza Motorsport 2. We’re now up to their fifth instalment of the series, and here I am reviewing a ‘segment’ of the game in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
Gran turismo 4 prologue review series#
Rewind back to 1997 and PlayStation gamers will undoubtedly remember the game that started a series which has shipped over 47 million units worldwide across all of Sony’s PlayStation consoles.
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