"How do you review a game like Gran Turismo 5? To be honest with you, the more I play the more I come to realize this is an extremely frustrating review to write, and I'll explain. "
Looks like IGN took the easy way out and only played an hour of it.
I wouldn't give any game a 10 because there is always room for improvements. GT5 looks stunning, But somewhere there will always be a 'Could have done this' or 'That should be this' etc etc.
Dont get me wrong, GT5 in my opinion is the greatest racing game, But every game has room for improvement.
Read the review and you'll find out. They also reserve the right to revise their score to a 10 should the future patches fix the majority of their concerns.
I totally agree that the more you play of the game the more you appreciate it. When these reviews first started coming out, I made a comment on here to the effect of, "I'm not really bothered by the scores it's getting because I know it's a really good game". But the more and more I play this game, it actually makes me angry that GT5 has got the scores it did and the abuse it gets. It's a total injustice, and that's why I've been so riled up defending this game because it's ridiculous the grief it's getting. Gran Turismo 5 is an absolutely stunning game. It's massive, beautiful and an incredible driving sim. If you're into racing games and you don't have GT5, it's your loss.
Review seems about right. I would probably give it a 9.95 but I am not going to nit pick here.
Chuckles aside. This game is flat out amazing. Anyone here the has me on their friends list will tell you I have been living on this game. Taking a break to watch some football but then I am right back to turning laps. Favorite racer this generation. No doubt about it.
My favorite event so far is the rally snow challenge under the special events. Even after receiving gold I played it over again just for fun.
@ irepbtown: 10 doesn't mean its perfect and can't be topped, it means its top of the line. I hate when someone says nothing would get a 10 cuz there's always room for improvement, then wtf is the 10 on scale for? Why not just eliminate the 10?
gt5 is a great game i am sure, but you hit the nail on head with what you said..
and gamer.blorge, tut tut, that truely is a shameless fanboy blog site
edit below...i try to avoid anything that comes from psls now. i even avoid there killzone stuff, because they are another fan-site that annoys me greatly.
motorola...lol come on, how many times have you read the conspiracy rubbish about 360 games?? its in every 360 review!
anyway, just so you lot dont get to upset, i am a ps3 owner/gamer, and will be picking up gt5 after i've fitted my new kitchen next week. my girl knows that the work wont be getting done if i buy this...especially as i have taken 4 days off work next week.
Please tell me what's wrong with it? http://gamer.blorge.com/201... I know PSXExtreme is shining some positive light on GT5 by using some logic, but come on you guys.
Too much positive information about the game for you? lol
All the extremely positive reviews, goes into detail at least the extra features packed in this game like "NASCAR, Go-Karting, B-Spec, damage, driving, etc".
And all the sub-mediocre reviews ended up only nitpicking the graphics, the poor damage, poor AI.
I'm on A license but the 1 where u have to go through the pylons like zigzag shape is hard dude, I can only get a time of 20.107 sec.. & I need to get 20:00 for Gold. I've been doing this 1 for days/hrs & that's the best I can do. I went on to do others but I feel like I fail if I don't get gold there(LoL), I'm just super excited to own this game.. it's so addicted.
I had the same problem on that license test with the zig-zag cones, it's really difficult to get gold. But I just got gold a few hours ago on it by the skin of my teeth and punched the air in relief. Keep trying, you'll do it
Anything where you don't play enough of the game despite enjoying the game only to moan about the uninclusion of features that are infact included at later level in order to create A DIFFUCULTY CURB.
If you had damage at level 1 I GUARANTEE the game would be IMPOSSIBLE. It'd cost too much to repair. and IGN would moan the game is too hard.
That sounds pretty unprofessional to me
The guy who did the review list his favorite things as Xbox, Halo and Mass EFfect 2, seems pretty biased to me.
Nice
I love this game, im only at level 8. But im jumping around to so many things.
I played it, it's awesome, period.
biased and unprofessional review
edit; so i did my bad. great review, spot on, no questions asked and no need to mention the war.
the best way to review this game is after you spent a ton of time playing it.