New GT5 Scans Confirm Karting

Some new scans have emerged of Sony’s racing simulation behemoth that is Gran Turismo 5. We brought word of stunt arenas, showed off how head tracking could work and relished in the PS Home-style wonderment on offer with My Lounge. Now, dear readers, we are very proud to bring you some sort of grainy and a little bit out of focus camera shots of a French gaming mag’s feature on GT5. I know, I know; we spoil you.

In all seriousness, some very interesting looking GT5 screens have been posted to the French gaming website and blog Gamerama. The shots are of the French summer edition of the Official PlayStation Magazine’s fairly sizable feature on the racing behemoth that has forever been on the horizon.

The shots themselves, aside from once again reminding us just how gorgeous this game is looking, touch on a number of things such as the 3D functionality, kart racing and incredibly detailed car damage modeling. What is most apparent, however, is that SCE are certainly not doing things by half with GT5. There are more than 70 courses and we counted no less than fourteen different racing classes, which, combined with in excess of 1000 cars, allows for a staggering amount of race time.

We’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s on display here and could go on with what we can take from these pictures, but for now we’ll let you pore over them for yourselves. Just follow this link and click ‘voir’ to bypass the anti-spoiler measures.