Gran Turismo 5 Inside Sims Racing Review - Part 1.

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Mendicate Bias said:

Based on that review

Pros: Best physics and force feedback in any console racer (maybe even pc sim), huge amount of things to do and unlock, great sound effects for collisions between cars, best graphics around, great menu's

Cons: Horrible damage (should be fixed with patches), bad engine sounds, crappy course maker, can get repetitive due to being forced to unlock everything, shaky multiplayer, bad songs (can be fixed by deleting and uploading own songs), Logitechs wheels have huge deadzone and very touchy breaks and lack of configurability, bad AI, vast majority of cars are standard cars (they would prefer to have only 500 premium cars than only have 200 plus with 800 plus standard cars, this may be fixed with the supposed update coming for standard cars), lack of car customization (livery editor)

Since car handling and physics are the most important thing to a sim racer and a lot of the cons are supposed to be fixed through updates I can see GT5 scoring very high. It's going to be very interesting to see whether they give Forza 3 or GT5 the higher score. I'm thinking GT5 is going to slightly edge out Forza 3 and when Forza 4 comes out it may slightly edge out GT5. The two developers are probably going to keep one upping each other with each new game. Its pretty exciting how there are two great developers out there that push each other to make great sim racers.

And this is the advantage of having two great developers pushing out great games in the same genre. GT5 wouldn't have had the same amount of features if it wasn't for Forza 3 nor would T10 try to outdo the improvements made on GT5 with Forza 4. 

It's a win-win situation for us gamers.