Gran Turismo (series)

Gran Turismo is a series of video games of automobile race begun in 1997 and cash four episodes principal and various variations. Conceived by Kazunori Yamauchi and its team of Polyphony DIGITAL, the series is famous for the realism of graphics and the depth of piloting. Produced by Sony Computer Entertainment for the consoles PlayStation, it is one of the series of most popular plays of race with more than 43 million specimens run out in 2005.

Plays

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

  • Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec
  • Gran Turismo Concept, left in several versions entitled “2001 Tokyo”, “2002 Tokyo-Seoul” and “2002 Tokyo-Geneva” and sold at reduced price, these plays propose limited contents centered on the concept-bus presented at the time of the world shows of the car.
  • Gran Turismo 4: Prolog: a play with the reduced contents, prelude of Gran Turismo 4.
  • Gran Turismo 4 Toyota MTRC Version, Gran Turismo 4 Toyota Prius Edition, Gran Turismo 4 Nissan 350Z Limited Edition: demonstrations centered on a vehicle and used in particular at ends of promotion by the manufacturers concerned.
  • Gran Turismo 4

PlayStation 3

  • Gran Turismo HD Concept: a free of Gran Turismo 5 , downloadable Demonstration playable on the PlayStation Blind.
  • Gran Turismo 5 Prolog (provisional name): a prelude to Gran Turismo 5 , the contents reduced and envisaged in remote loading on the PlayStation Blind with the autumn 2007.
  • Gran Turismo 5: envisaged in spring 2008.

PSP

  • Mobile Gran Turismo: episode especially developed for PSP.

Chronology

Common mechanisms

Two sights at least are sélectionnables by the player, the first is the subjective Vision, which shows only the minimum of the instrument panel (speedometer, number of remaining revolutions,…), the second is a Vision cinema where the car is seen of behind. There exists in certain episodes, of the sight intermediaries. When a player starts again a circuit alone (without opponents), it can see its phantom Voiture.

At the beginning of left, the player must pass a Permis to lead. He directs cars lent for the occasion and must traverse portions of circuits or circuits complete in a limited time. If it arrives there, it obtains its license. Thanks to this one like with a modest sum, it can buy a car " bottom-of-the-range " and to begin championships where it earns money if it arrives in the first places. This money enables him to improve its car and/or to buy others of them. Thereafter, it can pass from others made it possible more difficult to arrive to levels of competition more élevés.
However, for the series Concept like for Gran Turismo 4 Prolog , the championships are not present and one cannot buy vehicles, it should simply be gained by gaining licenses.

These plays of race proposes circuits very faithful to reality. The jouability and the physical models of the cars are them also very realistic. A point on which Gran Turismo are not coherent, is the invulnerability of the cars. The famous manufacturers lending their mark to the play (like Mitsubishi or Audi) did not want that their cars are destructible.

See too

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