Hello Blog Readers and GT Fans! I enthusiastically return to the blog with very good news. Hitting on our promise to continue to evolve the GT series, a new update for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is NOW available. This update adds three new vehicles to the game’s line-up, plus a number of gameplay and performance enhancements we think you’ll be excited about. Here we go…
New Vehicles
All three vehicles and manufacturers have special ties to Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital. They will be added to their respective Dealership areas in GT5 Prologue.
GT by Citreon – The “GT by Citroen” concept car is the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between French automaker Citroen and Polyphony Digital. The formal debut of the vehicle took place yesterday at the Paris Motor Show, coinciding with the release of today’s update to the game. A video of the “GT by Citroen” can be viewed in HD within Gran Turismo TV.
Check out the screenshots below and for photos, follow this link.
The two other new cars are the Ferrari California and the Lotus Evora. They are a lot of fun to drive. For a look at these sexy vehicles, check out the images below.
The GT by Citroen is available for 1 Million credits; the Ferrari California will go for 300,000 credits the Lotus Evora for 100,000. Piece of cake, right?!?
GamePlay Enhancements
We’ve also added some great new gameplay enhancements to continue to improve the racing experience in GT5 Prologue. This includes changes to the penalty system; specifically, during Time Trial events, speed penalties have been removed, and instead incurring such a penalty now invalidates the lap time for that particular lap. Race events are also being updated, with tweaked difficulty levels and increased earnings for winning a top spot. Additionally, improved responsiveness when using the wireless controller, and improved sound volume balance for sound effects and music for a better racing experience. Drift Trial races have also been changed to feature a rolling start.
Disclaimer Note Here: Rankings, arcade time trial times, drift trial records, as well as vehicle-specific quick tune settings and custom key layouts will all be reset with the new update. Replay data created before the second update will no longer be viewable after this update. To confirm the version you have before updating the game, check the in-game manual.
That’s it for now, folks. I’ll see you on the track….
This game really kind of sucks. DO NOT BUY if you are just thinking about it. The racing on GTAIV is better if you ask me. Sure the physics are more Sim on Gran T. but the game play is just not that fun. How many times can you race the same courses any way? I did delete this and only wish i did not. Actually I have more fun on the Gran Turismo HD, as the car physics are better and the expectation for a free game is less.
EDIT I am gglad i deleted this game from my drive
#98
Get your eye’s checked, the original trailers (including the original introduction to the game) all used much higher levels of Anti-Aliasing and double the framrate (60FPS)
In game performance is fine (only occasional page tearing), though replays only provide 30FPS.
My biggest complaint is the lack of Anti-Aliasing (for an example of what I’m talking about, select the Aston Martin DB9 from your garage and look at the grill in the main menu) It’s a mess, and looks just as bad during a race (unless you are zoomed in very close)
awesome to bad i traded in my GT5P i guess its time to buy it again LOL at myself
Is it possible to download updates now? i was never able to download the last update and gave up on the game, cause after beating the game and not being able to go online i didnt have much to do… i always had an error when i tried to download, that never happened with other games, just GT5:P
@ Kamahl
Keep trying the download even when it fails. Most people experience the download failing a few times, perhaps more. When you retry the download it will continues from where it failed – for some reason, the progress bar doesn’t reflect this. Just keep retrying!
Will there ever be damage modeling in the game? This franchise really needs it to claim the title even though everything else surpasses the competition.
-First fix the chase camera like in gt3 ( i am with you @ mclaren777)
-Fix the online part of this game (its a shame as its right now).
-Dynamic weather effects please rain,snow,fog…( this most be in the full gt5)
-Damage simulation (the real driving simulator right?)make it happen!!!!
Kazunori San are you listening???????
Don’t get me wrong i am a GT fan since the fist one but i feel like Polyphony Digital are only improving the graphics a nothing more.
Still waiting for GT5!
Please listen to your FANS!!!!!!!
Oh hells yeah. I’m in, thanks. A short list of cars that I can not wait to drive.
1)2009 Ford Mustang KR500- King of the Road.
2)Lamborghini Estoque Concept. For anyone that has not seen this car yet. http://jalopnik.com/tag/Lamborghini-Estoque/
3)Aston Martin One-77
4) Peugeot RC HYmotion4
Can’t update… again. Love your non-standard update mechanism… NOT. Get your sh*t together Poly.
Back on the shelf this game goes. What a waste of $$.
this is free right?
I won’t go back to this game until it has private/friends online races. It’s no fun racing against some random people on the other side of the world – I want to play with friends!
This update is awesome. I don’t know if this is the place to request a feature, but Polyphony should have 60fps replay as an option. I know the current exterior replay has a “filmic” quality to it, but I think that having 60fps replay (like in the opening) makes it feel more like watching the broadcast replay of a live race :-) Hope this one is heard.
Tired of updates, Tired of online tweaks, Tired of the same old tracks. Until you release the FULL GAME Taku STFU!!!
…all these questions, and yet not ONE single comment from either Sony or Polyphony Digital.
Yep, no responses yet – but come on, it is the weekend!
However, the main issue people seem to have with PD is their lack of feedback and people are losing patience. In March it was said on this blog by Taku that we would be kept informed regarding private rooms and damage. As far as I am aware, nothing has been mentioned since… :(
Come on PD, give us a clue!
@ felononperole – yeah real mature! you sure told him man. any hope that you had of getting a response from him was just shattered by your stupidity.
I on the other appreciate any tweaks to make a game experience more enjoyable. just my 2 cents.
peace,
Lh
@117
Mr. Lakaihigh, If you had a brain instead of “2 cents” jingling around up there, you would clearly see that I wrote STFU- meaning that I dont care to hear ANY TYPE OF RESPONSE from Mr Taku..
Secondly, Nobody asked YOU for, nor gives a sh#t about what personal tweaks you prefer or dont prefer..
Third, who made you an authority of what is considered to be “mature” or “stupidity”? Please post/email me your credientials..
What I originally wrote clearly got my message across and thats all that matters, Diqhead!
Why does every GT5P update have to reset my options? Suddenly I get that horrible background music when I race, and my speed in measured in miles per hour. Fix this, please! It makes your developers look stupid!
Thanks for the update! Nice to there’s still time for improvement, while working on GT5 at the same time.
However, I can’t understand why one of the top games on the PlayStation3 isn’t up to date with Trophy support. Especially considering the campaign mode is a step-by-step process, where it would be a piece of cake to unlock a trophy.
http://www.aiguarentacar.it
Thanks for the update, I just can’t imagine what GT has in store for it in the future.
If you guys do add Trophies to GT5 Prologue. Please make them retroactive. This is one game that I DO NOT want to start over from scratch. I’ve unlocked all the cars even the 3 latest ones. This game is very challenging and grind heavy when it comes to credits. I cannot see myself doing this over again. “I WILL NOT DO THIS HEAVY GRIND AGAIN!”
Dear Polyphony Digital,
I was racing online last night, and I accidentally joined a race a little out of my league. When I wanted to quit, a screen told me, that I couldn’t quit while racing online.
But then again: I really wanted to quit, and to do so I had to quit the game. Thanks to the slow online gameplay and race joining, quitting the game completely didn’t take much longer than quitting the game, back when that was still possible.
Nevertheless, I would very much like to know the reasons behind this decision. Why is it you think you’re entitled to enforce a player to waste his or her time with this? I feel insulted when I’m not able to quit a *MY* game on *MY* PlayStation which I have bought for *MY* monkey. What the hell is the matter with you?
If it’s because you’re afraid the race host might quit and thereby kill the race (which happened before), why not implement a feature that lets another client take over and be the host?
If it’s because the prize will potentially get unfairly split (in the even only two or one player is left), find some reasonable way of splitting the prize anyway.
Sure, your game is 1080p and 60fps which is very impressive. And your cars have 2142194872184214 polygons and look nice and shiny. But please, now it’s time to care of the game play!
Say something, would you?
@Zta
Your message started off well but after the first two paragraphs, I’d be surprised if they responded to you!
I doubt many more are going to read this blog post now – unfortunately, it dropped off the first page too quickly while less important blogs (to me) knocked it down rapidly!
When you join an online race, surely you realise that you’re committing yourself to X laps on X track? Why would you want to quit mid-race? I get annoyed at people quitting (and I’m not saying this is you) just because they don’t win. I’ll spend 12 mins going around Suzuka battling for mid-pack or trying to catch someone up in the last few places.
Hopefully PD can implement a host swapping feature mid-race to save any interruptions and then allow everyone to quit a race when they like… although then I think opponents will dwindle in numbers during the race.
It would be nice to hear more feedback from PD as many of us are getting frustrated – we don’t have a clue what is happening. Hopefully there will be some nice news at the Tokyo Game Show Thurs – Sun.
@Gadbury,
I know this blog post is getting old by now — and maybe you won’t even read my reply =) And I know my chances for a response from PD are small after my flame (well, angry tone of voice), especially since they haven’t replied to anyone at all, but I hope that I made my point clear: The game play of this game is getting worse by the updates, and a new car now and then just won’t cut it.
It’s time for them to focus on the game play!
…and why the hell did my fingers type “monkey” back in post 122? Perhaps it’s for the better if no one reads that post =)
Loud and clear. There have been two replies so far from Taku (although unfortunately giving nothing away!).
Let’s hope they do hear our concerns and opinions – I’m sure they do.
There’s a wired controller?
These have probably been mentioned already but I’m just backin them up. In game chat, friend only/ invite capable, and the ability to play your own music would all be nice additions to an already great game.
It seems PD are not hearing us!
No replies!!! What the Hell!! i am getting tired of this waiting. almost 5 years since GT4 and no gt5 in the near future.
HURRY UP P.D. what is taking so looong?????
Imasaki san,
thanks for the update. I did not expect to see those cars so fast in the game.
but I am a little bit worried. I know you want to make the game perfect. but it is just taking to long. an other update in the near future would make it up a lot, cars are nice but they don’t really ad a lot to the gameplay. new tracks will. give us a reaction giving away a little bit more. It will comford a lot of your fans.
whe have seen “the ring” footage a few months ago. also we have seen la sarthe in the promo video of the ferrari california.
will these tracks be available in the game soon? because that would be great. so if possible, make it happen!
grtz.
Private rooms
stop the corner cutting on suzuka online racing
damage
that in that order for me, i aint arsed about more cars although a couple of new tracks would be cool but private rooms 1st please
And let people be allowed to quit an online race, if they want to. Just because you make a pop up that says “No!”, it’s clear to see, that people are still quitting the game entirely. This is a really bad design!
Instead, first implement host switching. And then perhaps find out why people are quitting. I think it’s usually because the penalty system failed, and gave a very unfair judgement. For example, you can push a car into a wall or another car, and get away with it clean yourself, while the victim is getting either a barrier or ramming penalty or even worse: a full stop by crashing into a tunnel wall.
The penalty system needs some work, I’m sure you know, but denying players to quit the race until you fix this, is stupid.
Anyone able to access the origional game video in the beginning?
It doesn’t show it anymore for me, just another lame video.