Best Racing Game (Gran Turismo 4 for the PS2) |
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 The Gran Turismo series of racing games on Sony’s PlayStation consoles have defined the racing genre, with every new Gran Turismo pushing other racing games to improve and evolve. If you’re looking for realism and a seemingly endless variety of autos, Gran Turismo 4 for PlayStation 2 is the way to go.
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Ever since the series launched in 1998, Gran Turismo has combined an incredible inventory of licensed cars with carefully coded driving physics to create the most realistic driving experience yet. Whether you want to push a ’63 Honda S500 to its limits or take a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Rally Car for a few laps around the track, Gran Turismo 4 is exactly what it claims to be: “The Real Driving Simulator”. In fact, Gran Turismo 4 lets gamers drive around 700 different cars on famous racing circuits from around the world.
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The careful attention to physics in the Gran Turismo series is what captures racing fanatics and keeps them lashed to the wheel. Learning to corner properly in Gran Turismo is an art that follows directly from life, and it’s easy to spend hours shaving another fraction of a second from your best time, or tweaking the configuration of your favourite car to gain that extra edge.
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There are some issues with the series that persist, but they’re hardly problems for automotive purists. Damage is imperfectly modelled, as most car manufacturers don’t want to see their valuable vehicles totalled in game or in reality. This does create opportunities for people to drive unrealistically by caroming off walls. Also, the AI is never as much of a test as your own best time. But the unparalleled feedback gives you the feel and sound of real racing. For the total experience, players should graduate from a gamepad to a force-feedback-capable racing wheel (and perhaps even pedals), to really feel the road.
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Racing is a crowded field, with a lot of capable contenders, but if you are interested in a pure driving experience, Gran Turismo 4 is the way to go. Despite the flashier graphics of the latest generation of consoles, Gran Turismo 4 on the PlayStation 2 offers the most realistic racing around. And now that it's part of Sony’s “Greatest Hits” collection, it costs nearly nothing to add to your PlayStation 2 collection.
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