Gran Turismo (also previously known as Gran Turismo 4 Mobile,[2] Gran Turismo PSP[3] and Gran Turismo Mobile[4]) is a PlayStation Portable game developed by Polyphony Digital. The game was announced at the E3 Sony press conference on May 11, 2004, the same conference where Sony announced the original PlayStation Portable. Following five years of delays and speculation, it made a reappearance at E3 on June 2, 2009 in a playable form. It is slated as one of the launch titles on the ne PSP Go.
Developer:Polyphony Digital.
Publisher:SCEA.
Designer:Kazunori Yamauchi.
Platform:Playstation Portable a.k.a PSP.
Release date:Oct 1st 2009 along with PSP Go.
Info:Developed exclusively for PSP by the internal team of designers and engineers at Polyphony Digital, Gran Turismo is built for optimal performance and fun racing excitement on the portable platform. Consistently setting the bar in terms of quality of design and physics technology with every product release, Gran Turismo on the PSP is no exception and offers an authentic and accessible racing product for the series' millions of fans and newcomers alike.
- Developed by Polyphony Digital Inc. for PSP -- Gran Turismo's debut on PSP is developed by the internal team behind the world's best-selling racing series.
- Over 800 vehicle models -- Players can race their favorite vehicles from the top manufacturers around the globe, including Ferrari, Nissan, and more. The vehicle model count climbs to over 4,500 when the various paint configurations are included.
- Over 30 Tracks from Around the World -- Famous circuits and some of the favorite environments from the Gran Turismo series have been optimized for racing on PSP.
- Share and Trade Vehicles with Others -- For the first time in the Gran Turismo series, players can share and trade the vehicles they have acquired throughout the game with others via PSP's ad hoc mode. Certain vehicles will be acquired by trade only, so players will want to trade and share in order to virtually drive all of the meticulously designed vehicle models.
- Dynamic Vehicle Roster -- Based on the amount of time Gran Turismo is played, the in-game calendar will change the dealer car lineup seasonally.
- Single player and mutiplayer.
- Local play 4 player versus.
- 60 frames per seconds.
Specs:
Release Medium
- 1 UMD
- Downloadable
Multiplayer Functions
- Offline Versus Multiplayer (4 players)
- Multi-cartridge Multiplayer
Development:Fitting a full-scale Gran Turismo on the PSP platform was a challenge for Polyphony Digital. Series director Kazunori Yamauchi stated that the main problem was trying to fit the game in such a small memory space. However he has said the game will run at 60 FPS and take up only 1GB of storage.[5]
Delays
Originally named Gran Turismo 4 Mobile, the game was intended to be one of the flagship games of the PlayStation Portable. The game's long gestation period and frequent delays led to many publications questioning whether or not the game would ever be released.[7][8]
The game was initially to have a release date sometime in April 2005;[9] however, the game was notably absent from the 2004 Tokyo Game Show[10] and then from E3 2005, a year after it was first announced.[2] At the end of 2005, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that the game would be pushed back to sometime in 2006.[11] Despite no news for most of 2006, Kazunori Yamauchi assured audiences that Gran Turismo for the PSP was still in development and on its way.[12]
In April 2008, Yamauchi stated that developing Gran Turismo 5 on the PlayStation 3 "took much more time and effort than we had first imagined," and that it was unlikely the PSP version would be released by the end of 2008.[13]
A version of Gran Turismo for PSP was shown during Sony's E3 2009 keynote on June 2, 2009. Called simply, "Gran Turismo," its October 1, 2009 release date coincides with the launch of the PSP Go (announced at the same conference).[4]
Yamauchi discussed many reasons for the delays with one of them being Polyphony Digital's busy schedule with releases of Gran Turismo 4, Tourist Trophy, Gran Turismo HD and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue during the time of Gran Turismo's development. The company also refused to outsource the game to another developer describing that move as, "unthinkable."[14] Yamauchi also considered other names for the PSP game, either "Gran Turismo Spyder" or "Gran Turismo Portable," but decided at the end to name it just, "Gran Turismo" because he wanted people to know that it was a, "fully-specced Gran Turismo."[15]
Images:From IGN.
Video link:http://media.psp.ign.com/media/682/682963/vids_1.html
Last thoughts:Gran Turismo is quite an achievement on the PSP, and we're confident series fans will appreciate the large amount of content featured in the game. It may not be the best GT game ever, but it is undoubtedly a real Gran Turismo game recreated fully on a handheld. We were unable to test one of the other new features of the handheld version: the ability to trade vehicles via Ad-Hoc wi-fi. With over 800 cars to collect, it seems players will need to work together to complete their collections. Gotta catch 'em all, right?
Verdict:A must buy for any dead hard racing fan or any PSP owner.
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