Last week, Best Buy in the US started to roll out a playable Gran Turismo 5 demo throughout their stores. According to info from the store (as we previously mentioned) the demo weighs in at just over 3GB and contains a time trial and arcade mode around five circuits with eleven selectable cars.
This fantastic opportunity for early hands-on time has led to lots of mobile phone footage hitting the net, and some images of the damage modeling in detail.
Before we get to the images here is a vid of the Lamborghini Gallardo in action, thanks to a dodgy Best Buy controller it wasn’t possible to turn left so there was plenty of crashes.
As you can see in the replay mode, that despite some nice smoke and particle effects during both low and high speed crashes, the Lambo comes out of them without so much as a scratch.
This is because damage seems to only be present on certain vehicles in the game and in those vehicles varying levels of damage is possible, from a paint scrape to a complete write-off, this in itself was expected, we suggested as much last year.
Below is a reasonably high quality capture of a car which does have damage modelling, the Ferrari 458.
If that video wasn’t enough to satisfy your appetite for destruction, GTPlanet also have a wealth of photos showing off the damage across a variety of vehicles. As you can see the vehicles contain a huge amount of damage, but the results vary from impressive to disappointing, and looking like the kind of zig-zag style damage a child would draw.
Let us know what you think of the damage in the comments below.
Of course it must be said, these images and footage are captured from a pre-release demo and may not be representative of final release, although as the release date isn’t too far away now there can’t be too much time for endless tweaking.
TRiLoGY
hmm, some of those screenshots look like someone has just used a distort effect in Photoshop lol..
Forrest_01
I thought that! Like, placed two ‘ripple’ type effects (or something) on the bonnet.
Not amazingly impressed if i am honest.
ScaffGTP
While some of the images do look more than a bit ‘strange’, the overall impression of the damage from my point if view (and having worked in the motor industry for most of my life) is good.
Car do look like they have been ripped apart by a dinosaur after a crash…
http://www.autospectator.com/cars/files/images/08Taurus_CrashTest_01.jpg
…and the GT5 damage model can at times look very ‘real’…
http://i55.tinypic.com/14x0aom.jpg
….regards
Scaff
moshi
Its like Salvador Dali designed the damage
Tanzil
Polyphony are waaaay too serious to let it look like that! Let me be the first to call shenanigans
Tanzil
note: I’m a hardcore fan so this won’t sway my opinion that this’ll be awesomesauce
ico
Can’t see the video but the screen shots look like a damaged car may look like (I can honestly say I’ve thankfully never experienced it myself) if you’d got your nose a little too close to the exhaust pipe for a limited time. Looks like someones gone crazy with the photoshop editing. If this is damage modeling you can keep it.
ico
Cannot see the videos due to damn work firewall issues FYI.
Tuffcub
It doesnt look right as there is nothing missing. If you smash a car, bits fly off. These videos seem to show everything just gets squished up and nothing drops on the tarmac.
bunimomike
Hahahahaha! The screenshots are hilarious. I’ve just contacted Kaz over at Polyphony Digital and have wired him £20 through Paypal on the basis that he’ll get the bonnet to mouth the words “cookie monster” for me.
cc_star
I’ve had a go myself to see what PD have been doing for the past 26 years (or whatever) http://twitpic.com/2m5m3w It turns out not a lot.
:p
bunimomike
Haha! I’ve been busy doing my own version.
OM NOM NOM
yogdog
mike, can I just say, that photo’s very, very funny! you have a brilliant sense of humour.
bunimomike
I’ve been laughing whilst making it in Photopaint. Ah, ignoring work is so much fun!
yogdog
sent the link to a couple of my friends and they’re pissing themselves over it!
I hate my job atm, so I think I’ll be out looking for another soon.
bunimomike
You any good at damage modelling?
yogdog
I don’t know the first thing about it yet could still do a better job than this :P
bunimomike
Touché, sir. Touché. :-)
Peter Rushton
Well I know which cars to use and which to make my friends use during races ;)
Foxhound_Solid
Looking forward to GT5 big time
Shlomi1995
Holy mother of … !
Now THAT’S ugly.