(Full Gameplay) Gran Turismo 7 [1080p] - No Commentary

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Review by @CoinEaterBTBM :

For longer version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17M8m5-Hq9jw-yfZphWALw_P8XpxpDiv_NwsFFDN8XAA/edit?tab=t.0

Graphics 5 / 5: This game is one of the only games that utilizes the PS5’s full capability. The game’s graphics are overall highly realistic, and all vehicle models are 1 to 1 replicas of their real life counterparts. It’s easily the highest quality game I have ever played in terms of graphics, which is even more impressive when you see how optimized it is. I know it’s a result of the game being developed entirely by Polyphony, a subsidiary of Sony that literally solely works on Gran Turismo, but this game doesn’t even seem to stress the console at all. The fans never have to run loud and there’s never any frame drops. It just like. Works. Really well.

Playability 5 / 5: The game makes it very easy to understand how the basic mechanics and techniques of racing work. You can turn on and off a ton of visual indicators and accessibility features to make playing easier or more challenging depending on your skill level. It has support for regular controllers and racing wheels, although you can tell it was designed for the PS5’s dualsense. It makes amazing use of the controller’s haptics, simulating a realistic pedal feel on the triggers and adaptively vibrating for the surface you’re driving on. The driving feels like a mix of sim racing and arcade racers, which is exactly what the game is going for. Traction is affected by the weather conditions and the state of your tires, which will wear as the race progresses.

Music 4 / 5: Note: Most music is turned off in the video to avoid any potential copyright issues.
This game’s soundtrack is pretty good. Most of it is not original, being licensed by other artists which for the most part are decent, although some of them are not good. The great thing is you can change which songs appear during gameplay or on the menu, letting you remove the ones you don’t like. The best songs are the ones produced by Masahiro Andoh, who has been making music for the series since the first installment. However, he is also the reason I am deducting a point. I’m at the stage where every time a song from somebody else comes on during a race I end up rolling my eyes. But I can’t just take out ALL of the other music because he makes up a small section of the race music playlist. Every selection in the menu music department is fire though.
As for sound design, every vehicle’s engine is recorded from a real life sample with incredibly high quality. Every race sounds almost exactly the way it would in real life. This is especially noticeable during replays. As someone who has seen a Nascar race in real life, if you just boosted the game audio’s volume I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Difficulty 3 / 5: This is the game’s biggest drawback for me. Collecting cars is too hard after you complete the story mode. Winning races is not (despite what you may have seen in the video 💀). To save space, I’ll gloss over how cars are unlocked. Many can only be bought at random times, and many of those are REALLY expensive, especially compared to how fast you earn currency. When you do unlock them, if you want to fine tune them you have to be very well versed in how cars operate, as the hints do not clarify much if you don’t have a decent baseline. If you’re not a dedicated car person, I recommend leaving things mostly stock or only customizing with parts from the store, and just ignore the suspension and downforce tuning stuff.

As for racing, this game features rubberbanding. Most racing games do this, but in this game it feels like it's stronger in one direction than the other. Cars slow down when you’re behind them, but it doesn’t feel like they speed up much when you’re ahead. You can easily beat a 700 power rating AI in a car with 550 points if you can drive halfway decently, even on the highest difficulty.

Personal 5 / 5: I really like this game. It’s one of the few I own that when I play it, I feel relaxed. When I’m not trying to grind 6 million dollars or whatever. But otherwise this game is very fun. It’s easy to pick up and just play without thinking too much. When I’m done with everything for the day, I can hop on, do 2 or 3 laps on a track and then go to bed feeling more relaxed. Not a lot of other games can do that in my opinion. I think part of it is that cars were in the top 3 things of all time for me growing up. Nothing was cooler than a racing game. This is easily the highest quality one I’ve ever played. Every inch is oozing with obvious care, effort, and love for both video games and cars. Maybe that’s true for every Gran Turismo game, I’m not sure. 7 is the only one I’ve ever owned.

Please suggest games for me and I will do my best to post a Full Gameplay of them as early as possible. I will comment if I can not on your comment.