According to PlayStation, Japanese game designer Kazunori Yamauchi, along with SCEE CEO and President Jim Ryan, unveiled on stage the latest “Gran Turismo” iteration – the “Gran Turismo Sport”.
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Gran Turismo Sport will feature improved graphics, physics, and sound to “deliver the most realistic driving simulator to date”. Are you excited about this new announcement? And while that worked back then, the entire focus has now shifted, which means Polyphony Digital is trying to keep up.
The game will also be heading to PlayStation VR, though not many details have been revealed yet but if it’s getting a virtual reality version, it could only imply that Sony is determined to give fans an immersive gaming experience.
Gran Turismo Sport will focus more on racing leagues thanks to its FIA partnership, that will see the game play out over Campaign, Sports and Arcade modes.
But under the surface it looks like it’ll have more in common with beat-matching games like Rock Band Blitz, Amplitude and Audiosurf 2, as players time their rocket ship’s moves to coincide with key moments in each course’s soundtrack.
The game will include two championships, the Nations Cup where players represent their home country and the Manufacturers Cup, where gamers can drive on behalf of their favourite auto brands. Champions of the series will be awarded alongside the real world champions of the FIA races. GT Sport will be released on the PS4 exclusively in 2016. Yamauchi apparently has been working on the game for a long time.
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While Gran Turismo games have always tried to recreate the world of racing in the closest possible manner (without the smell of the burning rubber, of course), the FIA stamp on GT Sport just gives this game a boost that none of its rivals will be able to match in the near future.
