Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

THE GOOD:
- Sticks to the same winning Gran Turismo formula.
- Graphics are among the best to ever grace a console.
- Details are painstakingly crafted ingeniously.
- The new in-car view is fantastic.

THE BAD:
- Only six courses.
- A relatively low total of about 70 cars.
- Online mode is a bit on the basic side.
- Only forty events.
- No rallies/special challenges.
- The curse that is the penalty system.

SUMMARY:
Background:

The Gran Turismo series has presented an extremely exquisite look of the best cars, tracks, and drivers for the last ten years. From Gran Turismo in 1998 to the upcoming fifth full version due out in 2009, the series hasn't had a disappointment yet, and that continues to be the case after this game was released.

Gameplay:

In this game, you start out with only a little bit of dough, similar to the other games in the...

Wow, genius I must say and kudos to the makers of the GT franchise for being able to sell a demo. I mean demos usually come free or bundled with magazines, giving you a taste for the real game when release. GT: Prologue is more or less a scheme to say "Hey look, you just bought an unfinished product for half the price of the actual game". Though enough of that, although the price tag on a demo was a financial success and a dirty scheme, it certainly does prove its worth.

Firstly, I am not a racing game fan, in fact you will more or less spot me as the one spinning off and hitting the barriers or losing control because I don't know the inner workings of a driving game but GT: Prologue certainly shows you what devious plans they have cooked up for the real thing, however I use the word devious in a good way.

Graphics:

Superb is all I can state at this moment in time but then from seeing GT4 when they announced its development, who...