Gran Turismo 4 Mobile is Here...

Ulukai on 17/9/2009 at 18:13

...and it's not great, (http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/102/1024698p1.html) apparently.

What is the point of Gran Turismo without a career mode, Sony? Hmm? It's like having a Mario game without it featuring a fat plumber. I no longer have any reason to keep my PSP other than the fact that it's one of the very first ones which I bought on the premise that GT4Mobile would be released imminently back in Ooo, 2005. And so it's now worth little more than a voucher for a free 5 minute happy slap.

Hang your head in shame, (http://www.sony.com/) Sony.

P.S. My TV is awesome. Get more mens making awesome TVs and less mens making rubbish PSP games k thx

gunsmoke on 18/9/2009 at 10:20

Man, you've been waiting for that for so long, and I remember you saying that you bought it for the title several times. What a disappointment, seeing as it is basically Sony's flagship series and the length of time it sat in development, that it comes off as a quick and dirty cash-in. :erg:

icemann on 18/9/2009 at 18:54

I read the first paragraph of the review at ign.com for the game and closed the page the second I read "no career mode or car upgrading". To me thats not Gran Turismo. Rather its Ridge Racer, which while a an ok game doesn`t hold a candle to GT.

Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, GTA Liberty City Stories and emulators on the go will forever be reason enough for me to keep my psp though.

Ulukai on 28/9/2009 at 18:37

Whilst I'm on my Gran Turismo soapbox, the GT5 damage model seems to be confined to "(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOd6o9Fv8TM) you can bounce it off concrete walls and scratch it a bit".

Play Burnout Paradise if you want to see what a damage model should be, Sony Mens.

Sulphur on 28/9/2009 at 18:40

I was under the impression that that's the reason why the Burnout series never has any real-world car licenses.

Ulukai on 28/9/2009 at 19:20

Probably. But that doesn't really matter because Burnout is awesome. My point is, on the strength of that video, Sony don't have a damage model as they claim, they have a very expensive Paint program.

They have denied us the joy of recreating the Cristiano Ronaldo crash were he skillfully (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/cristianoronaldo/4175679/Cristiano-Ronaldo-in-Manchester-Ferrari-crash.html) fails to turn right in a tunnel full of uh, no traffic :(

Aja on 28/9/2009 at 20:02

Same old GT crashes now with detachable body parts.

I'm pretty tired of Gran Turismo, honestly, and I used to be its biggest advocate. Then Forza 2 got it mostly right: not so realistic as to frustrate, but realistic enough that you fear the consequences of poor driving. For all the years I played Gran Turismo, I never truly realized how frightening a pass can be. After playing Forza, auto-racing on TV is actually exciting because I understand the stakes now.

icemann on 30/9/2009 at 07:16

Cant wait for GT5 on ps3. Going to be excellent.

Thirith on 30/9/2009 at 07:35

I've got GT4 for the PS2 and I've even got a steering wheel for it, but somehow I haven't managed to get into the game - mainly because I suck at it. At some point I want to give it a second try, and I've even ordered GT5 Prologue for the PS3 Slim that I should be getting soon. Somehow I've got this weird "Playing Gran Turismo will make you a better person" feeling that I can't shake... as if GT will counter-balance my enjoyment of, say, Plants vs. Zombies. :joke:

gunsmoke on 30/9/2009 at 15:51

I, personally, thought that Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec was more enjoyable than Gran Turismo 4. Probably just me, though. BTW, there isn't anything specifically better/worse about either...it is just in the overall 'feeling' I get from the games.