Gran Turismo 5 is real enough for box art

by Andrew Yoon on Jan 6th 2010 2:30PM

Click for high-resolution box art.

2010 is totally the future. How can we tell? Gran Turismo 5 will actually come out. Half a decade after Gran Turismo 4, Polyphony Digital is finishing up a true successor to the self-described "real driving simulator." The evidence? Box art!

Mercedes-Benz's gull-winged SLS AMG has the honor of gracing the GT5 cover. It's a terrific marketing decision, if only to trick Back to the Future fans into thinking this is a game all about time travel. (It's not, we're afraid.)

Check out a brand new video of Sony's long-awaited PS3 racer after the break.

Gran Turismo 5 (SLS AMG)

Tags: box-art, gran-turismo, gran-turismo-5, mercedes-benz, polyphony-digital, sls-amg

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It'll be interesting to see whether the wait was worth it or whether we should have just moved on to Forza.

After such a long dev time this is either the greatest racing game ever conceived or a monumental waste of time.

Before you downvote hear me out!! Forza and the Burnout franchise have both had fantastic releases in between GT4 and GT5. If GT5 can't push the racing genre forward as much as Burnout and Forza have, I'm officially done with that series.

It might run into the hype problem again.

Well that's just over hyping it, take it for what it is. A great racing game and not the evolution of sliced bread.

How the hell has forza pushed anything?

Have you played this thing called online gaming?
Also googe forza designs and be ready to pick up your jaw.

burnout? really? it's a great game, but seriously, why not just compare the game to grand theft auto 4? that has cars too.

I kinda see where naeem is coming from. But this is freaking GT5. Let me spell that out for you Gee Tee Fighv

Bxgt is right. Customization is a big plus in my book. We, the consumers have to support games like this that allow us to do things like this.

In the battle of never ending DLC, at least games like Farcry 2 (creating your own maps using dev tools), Forza (total car customization), UT3 (mods), Uc2 (creating lip synced scenes), etc help make developers think twice before releasing rubbish.

The car physics in GTA 4 are not any good. It is like controlling floating bricks.

Well to compare GT5 to Forza is like comparing Fight Night and Punch-Out!! They're both racing games yes, but they're definitely not coming from the same point of view. It's quite apparent if you've seen any trailers. Where Forza is about driving fast and doing crazy shit in a car, GT5 is about going fast around a track. Forza is about giving you an artificial rush of adrenaline, where GT5 is about finding the perfect driving line. Forza is for people who don't want to take to the time and dedication of trying to squeeze down your time by .001 seconds. GT5 is for driving aficionados (did you hear that classical music at the end of the vid...is there classical in Forza?)

Driving in Forza is a game and in GT5 it's an art.

@ Marco - Are you sure you meant Forza? Sounds like you were trying to describe Burnout.

Forza is every bit as much about Car Porn as GT is.

Exactly, Marco. They're really not the same type of game. GT is in a class all by itself. It's more appropriate to compare Forza with NFS Shift.

I think I'd prefer both games for very different reasons, for Forza, purely for customizations and access to fast cars quick.

For GT5, it would be the development and process of working my way up to the top I'm most interested in, sort of like the progression you'd get in an MMO, everyone's journey is different and once you get that first supercar, the feeling of joy is overwhelming.

Prologue wasn't the greatest sim I've played, but it did give me a positive outlook, if GT5 could simply better what was given in prologue and correct the issues, I can't see why we wouldn't have a superb title.

Are you a retard? All the GT games come out approximately 4 years into the consoles life, happened with the PS1, PS2 and now PS3.

I thought it was just the dumb fanboys that wrote this crud that couldn't graps that, but it seems there are other idiots too.

Clearly they are all Xbox fanboys, which is a classic example of how rushing somehting out makes it end up crap.

Fact: GT3 came out in 2001...a year after the PS2 launched.

"GT5 is for driving aficionados (did you hear that classical music at the end of the vid...is there classical in Forza?)"

Wait so because Forza doesn't have classical music at the end of its trailers, it's not for "driving aficionados"

wut?

@Granger maybe but not in the classical sense that GT is. Forza is definitely more modern. Oh and Forza is about car porn, GT is about truly passionate car sex. Hope you can tell the difference.

And for some damn reason I'm not getting e-mails with your responses, yes the box is checked.

Bradwart and Marco, I doubt you have played the Forzas as your descriptions are hardly accurate. It's one thing to have a hard-on for GT and love it, but it is totally different to then make other games of its genre not stand up because of your inflated ideal.

Forza is a damn good racing sim and anyone who has played it knows this. GT has always been a great sim to - but it's not the only sim just because it was before Forza.

@ Marco - No, "truly passionate car sex" would be actually driving a car.

You only get reply emails if you were the OP, in which DBuck_Eye is (sorry for your inbox mate)

@Granger Ha! You're totally right.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that GT5 is not for everyone. As where "Forza is for Everyone" as stated on the games website. http://forzamotorsport.net

I have played Forza, albeit 2, put plenty of hours into it and I thought it was very good racing game. I just didn't get the same feel and by feel I don't mean driving the cars, I'm more talking about the atmosphere. From GT, I've always gotten this majestic, regal feel.

With all the content, and after playing the demo. I really think the wait might have been worth it. And just recently it's confirmed that night racing, indy cars, and full weather will be in the game too.

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http://www.gtplanet.net/

I don't understand the craze over GT. How can this be the de facto racing series when they didn't even have a Porche or Ferari in the previous entries? They are only recently adding damage. The last GT I played was GT3 and it was just GT2 but only this time on PS2. Forza gets you online from the get go and racing against CPU doesn't compare.

In terms of physics Forza has been doing thermodynamics from the start. Tires and brakes heat up appropriately over time. Your 3rd lap won't feel like your first. I won't even speak about customization. It took me hours to figure out tuning and when you do you feel a sense of ownership and connection to that car.

The only thing GT does better are more realistic colors and this may be an ATI D3D vs Nvidia OpenGL issue that make Xbox games have more artificial colors.

Well to be honest Vamp, GT4 was rather depressing, GT3 was the last incredible GT game I played and heres hoping GT5 will be as well.

The hype surrounding it I think is basically the progression system. There is indeed a lot that GT needs to account for and really theres no reason why it can't have these features and while Forza may already have it, I suppose people just like to have faith in something they have been supporting since the beginning, sort of like how people waited around despite 360 already being out to see what would happen with PS3 ¬_¬ Which wasn't a worthwhile wait. But lets hope GT5 is.

@ Emo VampireHunter guy

What are you talking about VampHunter ? They said it wasn't a full game, hence the price at just 40, what did you expect moron? They also did have Ferrari, so plz STFU if you dont know what you're talking about, PLZ STFU! ... your crap is not valid because its NOT TRUE, go play liar liar with your emo-vampire friends somewhere kid. Both games are fucking awesome, there's no reason to compare them when you havent even played GT5 THAT HASN'T EVEN COME OUT YET, yet you talk crap on the other game series like if your points are valid, plz. GT that has ALSO gotten MAJOR SALES, EVEN SINCE ITS FIRST CONSOLE RELEASED OVER 10 years ago! I mean, sure sales don't make a game a great one, BUT something MUST be working for them to still be here over 12 years later, and for people to still get hyped and excited for this is saying something. That's history and EXPERIENCE for you, of course you dont know what either is because youre just a kid, its not your fault, you just dont have it, but you'll get it one day. I hope.

I'm gonna have sex with this game when it comes out....It's so pertty.

Wait...Can I take that back???

....Please?

Not. Funny.

Exactly...

Why is there no edit button?

What's worse is that you knew it was unfunny and wrote it into the 'joke'.

^^ It's so we can laugh at peoples typos.

Why was I downranked? You assholes.

i'm so confused!

Muahaha then they've accomplished what they've set out to do. Btw that Mercedes is pretty much brand new. I'm not even sure you can purchase it yet. It's what you would call "iconic".

Forza arguments aside, here's to hoping that it turns out great and that half a decade was worth it.Competition is only a good thing for us.

Well over 1000 cars and all of them have custom damage or something?
It sounds like alot of work just that but then they have all the other stuff they have been working on as well.

I was pumped for this game, played the demo which seems to be a watered down version of every screenshot and video I've seen and I got less pumped, been reading and looking at pictures and now I'm back up to full pumpedness(don't bother lol).

Was that a Mercedes commercial, or a GT5 commercial?

I can't tell the difference.

I think the point was that you weren't supposed to be able to tell the difference. The graphics definitely look pretty convincing.

Oh yeah, I definitely got that. But considering the amount of time they've spent making the game, I expect no less.

The box art doesn't look like a photo-real image of a car though. Sort of confusing with the whole "The real driving simulator" tagline, isn't it? You'd think they would have a great image for the box.

Oooh... pretty.

They do need to release a new demo instead of the physics demo though. It's very deceiving to the average consumer.

I'm not even an average consumer and I am holding off on buying this game until they release a better demo. That last one is a stinker.

Gotta agree with Space on this one. I was expecting something very different than the last demo.

So people are just buying this game for the graphics.

Have you never played a GT game bef- *looks at name*

*downvotes and moves on*

Ha ha! New kid!

So you're the new alternate account for Filthy Assistant/Dreaded Fear?

I know this is a stupid thing to complain about, but I wish PS3 game boxes were a little more colorful. 3/4 of my library (and it's a pretty big library of PS3 games) have boring black spines.

I wish they hadn't changed the box art logos. Now the new games won't match the old ones.

Was I the only one who liked the Spiderman font?

yes, you were.

Dude I totally agree. I hate looking at my game shelf and seeing like 6 black spines in a row, then a colour that doesn't even look good beside black, like the yellow spines of the Lego games.

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