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.
3shirts
I am disappointed. I hope that is not final because that is the first GT5 video/screenshot I have seen that has not been totally amazingotron.
After that trailer with the Impreza flipping over and the amazing damage modelling on that, I expected more
DJ-Katy
You must’ve missed all the go-karting shots.
Kennykazey
Why can’t all the cars have the same level of detail, the special super-detailed ones are just stupid. I don’t mind detailed models, but when they come in varying level of detail and varying levels of damage modeling, it’s just plain stupid. If all the cars where of the less detailed, but still great looking, type with decent damage modelling, then they could probably fit more stuff on the disc, like additional tracks or cars. Me sad…
gazzagb
Not overly impressed, but I doubt there will be to many scratches on my car anyway ;)
beeje13
are those pics at the bottom real if it’s GT5 then no racer has ever come close to matching these gfx.
gernboes
those pics dont look like the cars have been damaged, but just the pictures distorted, not really photoshopped, more MS painted…
(not saying the pics are fake, just that the damage looks bad)
cc_star
See the Ferrari in the vid… its no different (slightly worse if anything) also, I know you’re not saying they’re fake but GTPlanet wouldn’t post fake pics about GT.
ScaffGTP
That I can vouch for. The pictures and videos are real, the exact build being used for the demo is however unknown.
Scaff
gernboes
yeah, i watched the video, looks likle a crumpled papermodel of a car…
and i only put that “disclaimer” in my posting to avoid someone replying with “dude, those are real, are you drunk?” or something like that :)