Today sony released a new trailer for Gran Turismo 5. Quite obviously, most people just noticed that it didn't include a release date (it's always amazing how shallow gaming journalism can be, isn't it?).
I wonder if someone was that silly to really expect an announcement on that before E3...
Anyway, there was another quite interesting detail, besides some really amazing suspension rebound effects that by themselves made the trailer quite spectacular to the eyes of a racing fan like me.
At the end of the trailer, in the usual "it only does everything" features scroll, the following was displayed: "950+ Cars, Online Play, Career Mode, Drifting, Rally, Damage, Customization".
Basically nothing has been said so far about the car customization options included in the game, and such options have never really been a big selling point of the Gran Turismo franchise, especially visual customization, that has been basically absent since Gran Turismo 2.
It's quite surprising, then, that Sony would advertise "customization", as one of the main features of the game, even if in a very subtle way with the features scroll.
This leads me to wonder if GT5's customization options will be one of the big surprises Sony will deliver at their E3 presentation, maybe even some nifty visual customization features.
It wouldn't be that farfetched, after all.
Sony seems to have acquired a taste for user created content, shown quite clearly in releases like Little Big Planet or Mod Nation Racers, and that kind of options normally add a lot especially to online gameplay, that's seemingly another big focus of Gran Turismo 5.
That's why I wouldn't be that surprised to see Yamauchi-san on the E3 stage showing off some nifty visual customization options included in the game.
Granted, it may never happen, and for now it's just my speculation based on a blue word scrolling at light speed in a trailer, but come on, a game with Gran Turismo 5's graphics and richness in content paired with Forza 3's visual customization?
I don't know many racing fans that wouldn't drool on that.
You can see the trailer after the cut:
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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I love when media keeps bringing up the development time of GT5, and yet they never really give harsh criticism with Alan Wake (an adventure horror game developed around 5 years).
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