Gran Turismo 7 Review - IGN

Mixing the original GT’s trendsetting format with GT Sport’s stern but very successful focus on competitive online racing, Gran Turismo 7 makes a few errors but is a potent podium performance from developer Polyphony Digital.

[CR7JUVE1897]

Welcome back, baby. We've missed you.

[Flawlessmic]

Juventus fan and a gt fan, my man 🤙

[CR7JUVE1897]

Dusan Vlahovic, brother. Now, let's re-sign Dybala and get another midfielder for next season, please.

[Flawlessmic]

Vlahovic has been a god send, he is rediculous!

Dybala hasnt lived up to my hopes tbh, i l9ve him but hes injured to often so not sure whether we should pay him what he wants to stay.

Allegri needs to go though.

[Father__Merrin]

Forza Juve!!!

[z2g]

I’m excited to play it too, but is everyone gonna let that big disclaimer in the review that implies a near pay to win situation slide?

That part has me seriously concerned and is a bit disappointing to what I would otherwise consider a return to form.

[Shane Kim]

From what I understood it's paint and stuff like that. But English isn't my native tongue so I could have misunderstood the whole thing.

[neutralgamer1992]

King is back, a true system seller SIM

[Flawlessmic]

Never in doubt!!!

The king is back, one more day to go, horizon and elden ring are getting dropped real quick from my playlist for this🤙🤙

[EvertonFC]

I've just completed hzd fw (111hrs, 82% completion, 96% trophies. Perfect timing for GT7.
Elden ring can wait till summer as I suck at them souls games lol

[Flawlessmic]

Wow nice work man, id say im on the home stretch for horizons main story bit a majority of side content to go.

Elden ring iv beaten 3 of the 5 or 6 elden lords so getting there but both will need to wait to be finished now lol

[mattyhaxxx2]

I finally found the one which has no life

[ElvisHuxley]

@matty Dude, people have entire relationships over texting and social media, it's now possible to game all the time while simultaneously talking to girls and stuff. I game a lot, but I'm still keeping in touch with people, and we go out on the weekend.

[terstomp]

Fantastic man! I wish I had your gaming skills.

[ElvisHuxley]

It's like when PS4 came out, like okay, they made some mistakes, but now they're back.

[outsider1624]

Hell yeah!!! So excited for this right now!!.

[P_Bomb]

Great meta jump from Sport. Safe to preorder.

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

Lmao, I can't believe I'm your ONLY agree.

[P_Bomb]

Lol, I’m just a controversial Cory! 😂

[anast]

Forza just lost its shine. lol

[Old McGroin]

Because IGN gave GT a 9? Wonder what they gave Forza Horizon 5?

[Flawlessmic]

Yea i dont know why were talking about horizon at all here, the only thing they have im common that they both have cars in it.

There both great at what there aiming to do

[anast]

People are thinking about the better racer. It has finally came out.

[Ezio2048]

Forza horizon is arcade racer and GT is simulator. They are two very different games.

Nevertheless Forza is still higher rated and it is the first racing game to have won over 50 goty awards. It was actually one of the top 3 goty winners in last year.

Anyway Congratulations to Polyphony. It is a huge comeback for them after GT4.

[CrimsonWing69]

Ok, this comment makes no sense to me.

[Tedakin]

The last Forza got a 10.

[hiawa23]

I enjoy both franchises.

[MadLad]

The game being called the best racer ever released just a few months ago?

[Chevalier]

Wow just shocked Ted is here downplaying another Playstation game. Would have thought this skit would have got old months ago.

[RedDevils]

Arcade racer*

[SurgicalMenace]

What Mr. Cruz lurking again. What a surprise. I guess you should be off playing Forza then, now shouldn't you? There's nothing to see here, just another inferior Playstation title, hoping that someone would buy it. If only Sony had GP... Without it, GT will just have to remain the highest SELLING driving franchise ever. It's such a shame that people are only willing to buy such a subpar offering from Sony.

[mike32UK]

What are you talking about? I've never even owned an Xbox or played on one but I would be hard pressed to say the last ond didn't look bloody great

[ElvisHuxley]

The visuals are so much better on GT7.

[strifeblade]

That actually isn't possible. Forza as an arcade racer will always look graphically better than gran turismo which is a simulator not just because the series x is more powerful, but most of the power of the ps5 is used on the simulation and running numerous different types of physics and the game on 60fps not on the graphical fidelity.

Horizon 5's best looking mode graphically is on 30fps and it's not running a simulation as a result there is much higher graphical fidelity on horizon 5.

[franwex]

The sim Forza yeah. Maybe. Similar to Gran Turismo 6. Lol.

[King_Noctis]

Forza Horizon 5 has higher Metacritic score than GT 7, FYI.

Both games are still great and best in their respective genre, so your comment is unnecessary.

[Junkrad2022]

THE TRUE DRIVING SIMULATOR

[mattyhaxxx2]

No that’s asset to corsa

[Knushwood Butt]

Yeah, where cars can pass through each other in the pit lane.
And there's only one pit crew in the pit lane.
And you have to pit to change drivers, but the driver doesn't change.
Etc

[Om4ever]

😱 how dare you on n4g ????
People here don't like the truth 🤣

[ClayRules2012]

It really is.

[BehindTheRows]

Yep

[whitbyfox]

For comparison

GT5 Metacritic: 84
GT6 Metacritic: 81
GTS Metacritic: 75
GT7 Metacritic: 88

Best GT for generations, bring it on.

[Limitedtimestruggle]

Jesus Christ, those physics at 4:56 :D That made me chuckle for sure! Looking forward to trying this out over the weekend!

[Eonjay]

Now imagine that in VR lol.

[Limitedtimestruggle]

*barf alarm*

[PhillyDillyDee]

Sounds great! Well… except for that one modern videogame issue:

“Gran Turismo 7 features the shady ability to top-up your in-game credit balance with real money via the PlayStation Store. At the time of publish the link to do so directly from the various purchase screens in-game is not functioning, so we're unable to see how much credits cost. It would seem that this is a different approach to the microtransactions added to GT Sport in 2018 (which was around a year after it was reported it would not feature microtransactions). The microtransactions added to GT Sport allowed cars to be directly purchased a la carte for real money; GT7 appears to be a cash-for-credits scheme. Either way, GT7's microtransactions have me feeling a bit cynical overall, especially considering how hard GT7 leans into making some of its coolest cars artificially scarce. Some rare cars will only pop up occasionally to buy before they're "sold out", and others require peculiar, time-limited, in-game invitations to actually purchase. It's easy to see how the fear of missing out may coax some players who are light on credits to shell out real cash to grab certain cars before they disappear again.”

So the race payouts are paltry, the price for some tires can reach as high as 100,000 credits, you have to use credits to repaint your cars…

Nope. I’m out. Ive seen this grift before. Create a problem and sell the solution. There are plenty of other games out there that respect my time.

[SurgicalMenace]

So many words, you could have just gone off and played said games. Trust me, no one would have even noticed your absence. Just a minor observation.

[PhillyDillyDee]

60 percent was copied directly from the review. Seems you didnt notice the quotations with all of your observing.

[RaiderNation]

Looks like the series is (finally) back on track, pun intended! I cannot wait to dive into this!

[Gardenia]

Just want to make a few points on his criticism.

- The high costs of cars and tuning parts is a good thing. In GT Sport I had every car in the first year and the next years nothing to spent my money on. At least now you have something to look forward to.
- As for the cars themselves, over 400 is more than enough. The best cars are in there, like the 90s classics. No one wants to race a 2020 Tesla.
- Off road was always crap in GT, don't bother with it.
- Rolling starts are needed because of the easy AI. If not a rolling start you would pass everyone in the first corner and be in front the whole race. Maybe they make changes when they update the AI to GT Sophy.
- Music Rally doesn't seem very interesting, but it's a bonus.

[hiawa23]

Sold. I pre-ordered the Digital Deluxe version.

[S2Killinit]

Im so excited for GT7. With modifications, its going to be amazing.

[mattyhaxxx2]

Can’t wait to play

[z2g]

I purchased and am excited to play it! PS5 says 1 day 12 hours and 23 min at the time of this writing and my g29 wheel is ready.

If I’m being honest tho I’m concerned that this review states that upgrades are exceptionally high priced and some cars are only available at limited times or are “sold out”. Manageable until you read the part about microtransactions and being able to purchase in game credits for real money. That part makes it feel like a pay to win strategy when you realize the high priced upgrades and scarcity of certain cars is probably to push you into buying credits to upgrade in a more reasonable timeframe. Not down with that, and I sincerely hope this gets updated.

[hiawa23]

Come on, it's GT for the PS Freaking 5. Automatic digital deluxe pre-order purchase. No reviews needed.

[ElvisHuxley]

The lighting is so good, such a pretty game. Would love to play it but my house caught fire, burning down my rec room. I can buy the stuff back, as painful as it may but the PS5 and RTX 3070, are gonna be a bit more painful. Beautiful game though, that doesn't rely on excessive lens flare to fake better visuals.

[slayernz]

hmmm sooooo keen to pick this up but tempted to wait until psvr2 comes out (fingers crossed they update GT7 for it!)
currently half way through horizon fw, then got elden ring and still got returnal and deathloop to get through - too many games not enough time!!!!

[GOULDYBOBS]

You can't play split screen offline.
Did you see that fucking roll on the rally stage.
Music from a eurovision song contest?
9 out of 10 my arse

[dominicdecoco]

Pretty sure there is split screen

[GOULDYBOBS]

There is but you have to be online to use it. Its on the video

[andy85]

And? It's not 1999

[KONG22]

Can not wait for my new PS5 tomorrow - Black Blades - Black extra controller - official charging station and
GT7 25th Anniversary Steel Case Edition

[Petebloodyonion]

Great scores all around! glad to see that GT7 will continue to be one of the best racers around.

[iplay1up2]

What happened to " we don't like sims" apparently Sony fanboys like sims, if it's on PS. Flight Simulator is much more detailed and impressive. I like games, and am not tied to any system. I am a gamer.

[darkrider]

Of course, gamers don't like booooring "games"... That one is good to sleep.... This is a racer. Competition, upgrading the cars, trying to be faster. I don't play with Google maps it's also very detailed... But gt it's dream to race on certain cars. Just the noise! Pushing the gears, the sense of speed. That's why millions play gt and it's big deal when one of this games is launched. The one you are talking is niche pc game with almost zero impact on console

[dmonee]

I’ve always loved Gran Turismo for the realistic ways the cars handled, ever since GT1 on the original PlayStation. One thing that’s always bugged me, and I’m reading it in the early reviews, is the strange presentation. I just feel other racing games, Forza to name 1, have just had an all around fun feel to them that Gran Turismo lacks. I remember it took forever for Gran Turismo to add car damage

[XxINFERNUSxX]

If this was also on the PC it would have had everything ray traced, or if not the modders would surely have ray tracing on everything possible, plus some sort of ultra realistic graphics mod would be there later on. Not taking anything away from the PS5, I was just thinking about how the mod community can really do something with this beyond stock. It does look good though 😁

[repsahj]

...thanks PD for releasing a game without performance issues.

[blackbeld]

I still miss the gt1 splitscreen battle with your own customizing cars. That was the best part of the franchise. I used to race against my brother with our own customized cars. It was really fun. So sad they removed it.