According to the official Gran Turismo website, around 800 or so of the promised 1,000 cars will re-use ‘older’ assets and wireframes and ‘recreated’ onto the PS3, with just 200 of Gran Turismo 5’s cars being what the site calls ‘Premium’ – designed especially for the new console and game.
“Gran Turismo 5 will feature over 1000 cars, the most ever in the series,” says the website. “It’s a collection of the hottest and most desirable cars from around the world, both past and present.” A bold claim indeed, but here’s where it gets interesting.
“There are two tiers of cars in Gran Turismo 5 – Premium cars and Standard cars,” it continues, before listing the differences between the two.
Premium Cars:
From the seductive curves of exotic sports cars, to the inviting sight of the road ahead when you slide into the driver’s seat and peer past the glass, down to the intricately detailed instrument panel and dashboard… Every one of the over 200 premium cars recreate every last detail of the car, inside and out.
Gran Turismo 5 contains over 200 of these “Premium” level cars.
Standard Cars:
The massive lineup of cars from past Gran Turismo games has been beautifully recreated through the latest technology and the Playstation 3’s cutting-edge graphics.
Gran Turismo 5 feature an astounding 800+ cars, a vast collection covering a wide range of eras and categories.
It appears the Standard cars are based on Gran Turismo 4 models then, and in some cases it appears, textures, as can be seen in the screenshot at the top of the page and the new YouTube video below. Indeed, it appears we won’t be getting the insane level of detail we saw yesterday for each and every vehicle, surely an impossible task for Polyphony from the off.
On the plus side, with the ridiculous attention to detail we’re getting on those 200 cars, they’ll no doubt be good enough for the next Gran Turismo, and potentially for the next PlayStation too. Let’s hope in motion, once we get the game, those ‘Standard’ cars still look good enough to eat, which we’re sure they will.
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Or to divide it up another way: “Gran Turismo 5 will feature over 1000 cars, the most ever in the series. It’s a collection of 500 of the hottest and most desirable cars from around the world, both past and present, and 500 Nissan Skylines.”
Jas-n
I think your exaggerating a bit too much, there’ll most likely be 499 Nissan Skylines.
Jas-n
Hmmmm… I like the cockpit view though, it’s what I race with.
Also if the cars have been remodelled from GT4, that means they still have an interior, and the driver animations (which is quite something seeing as Forza 3 can’t even map the gear change to the gear stick), so surely they could just upscale and add dials?
Ahwell, I’m playing through GT4 again, so I’ll be used to it in part.
Oh, and I presume these cars include those from GT5P?
Jas-n
I’d of happily traded damage for all cars to have an interior view.
BIGAL-1992
So what, I just want to race in a ferrari and the le mans cars. Also an F1 car if they include one in the game.
Pemberton_
Yup, F1 cars are included. Ferrari was confirmed and they said they’re are more to be unveiled. In one of the trailer (E3 maybe) it shows them at Red Bull too.
shields_t
As long as my new motor, the Honda CR-Z is in there I’ll be a happy man.
Pemberton_
It is! twitter.com/honda
Kaz was answering some questions about it on their the other day.
shields_t
Sweet, thanks.
TRiLoGY
Im hoping my new motor (350z GT4) will be a premium Car, but i supsect it wont be..
Jas-n
“Customization in GT5 will be better than GT4.” Oh thank GOD
Fresh191
I know this game will be pant wettingly good but I can help be a tiny bit dissapointed that such a large number of cars wont have the in car view or that high level of detail we have seen and want.
Something I have always loved about Sims like this is you can get everyday cars and put them on slicks and bang them round a track, I just hope that they havent just put supercars and GT cars in the premium list, yes they are awesome but they lack that special something I enjoy when taking an old civic type r on track or a tuned up Nissan Silvia s16.
Does anyone else get what I mean?
Jas-n
Yeah, I love using the dials as a judge of speed (if it’s in MPH) rather than the HUD,makes it more involved and realistic.
BadBoyBoogie
There may ‘only’ be 200 premium cars, but I’m sure that they’ll all be the most desirable cars that we’ll want to drive the majority of the time anyway.