You can watch a shower turn into a monsoon, and you can feel the grip levels of your tires change as they cool and enter standing water. Project CARS 2, for example, has a number of different wet weather states. Gran Turismo 7 simulates astronomical behaviour to ensure the night sky and the cloud patterns look true to life in different geographical regions, and that certain stars and planets are only visible in certain conditions, which is pure endearing obsession from Polyphony - but that same approach has been taken to simulating weather changes. More explicitly, the preposterously detailed lighting and weather give any of the current crop of serious racing sims a stand-up fight for fidelity. Serious racers will, of course, opt for the former, and its inclusion suggests Polyphony’s in sync with a sim racer’s demands. There’s a choice of graphics modes, for example - 60FPS mode or Ray Tracing Mode, whose titles don’t require any further explanation. It portrays a different kind of game to the one you’d sit in a bucket seat chasing an extra hundredth for six hours straight.ĭespite those big nods to chilled-out driving and using the game as a hangout space, perhaps there’s a hard-nosed racer lurking under there. They’re match-fit esports titles.īy contrast, the big headline features in Gran Turismo 7’s recent showing were Music Rally, a kind of zen checkpoint race synced to the beat of the song you’re listening to, and the Cafe, where car designers drop in to share their memories about the vehicles they dreamed up and made material. These are titles deemed realistic and broadcast-friendly enough to form the foundation of esports tournaments like The World’s Fastest Gamer, F1 esports Series, Logitech G Challenge, and the FIA Gran Turismo Championships. Its chief competitors in that regard are Assetto Corsa Competizione, Automobilista 2, the evergreen iRacing, Codemasters’ F1 series, and, oddly enough, its own predecessor, GT Sport. Can we still consider Gran Turismo 7, then, the real driving simulator? In the last couple of years when much of our time’s been spent indoors, sim racing has surged in popularity, grown in legitimacy in the eyes of the motorsport world as a way into racing, and the sims people chase ghost laps in for weeks on end have an unprecedented level of - well, simulation. In fact, a lot’s happened since GT Sport in 2017. Forza Horizon 5 included.īut something significant’s happened in racing games since a Gran Turismo game with a number on the end last released (GT6 in 2013). All the little touches from old games that you missed in Gran Turismo Sport, the forensic eye for detail is even more evident, and the visuals look as good today as the original did next to its PS1 contemporaries – it’s just somehow shinier, more luxurious on the eye, than anything else out there. Polyphony Digital recently showed a more in-depth look at the imminent Gran Turismo 7, the latest in a franchise with 25 years of history and acclaim behind it.
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