Gran Turismo 4 -- what's the point?

[Kurt_eh]

Anyone pick it up yet?

Doubt that I will. As amazing as the graphics and driving engines are, what's the point of a driving game where you can drive square into a concrete wall at 200 mph and the only thing that happens is the car comes to a complete stop and/or bounces off the wall unscathed?

In the words of a friend of mine:

(He thinks) they should cut it down to 100 cars (rather than the almost 800) and add a career/profile mode. If you're guy crashes into a wall at 200 mph or drives off a cliff......game over, you're dead. Start again or hire a new driver. They should make it more of an rpg where your driver gains experience, better skills etc....then dies in a fiery yet comical crash.

[Pip_The_Great]

Gran Turismo is such a #itch to learn, the driving controls are soooooo touchy. I prefered Need For Speed, course the latest version of NFS that I've played came out about six years ago. Haven't gotten much of a chance to try anything new.

[TheBladeRoden]

NFS needs a damage model too. It's like driving matchbox cars. bouncy! bouncy!

[AgentSun]

there's a new one, i think by konami, that is supposed to destroy them both.

[Pip_The_Great]

NFS needs a damage model too. It's like driving matchbox cars. bouncy! bouncy!
well, in NFS high stakes you can trash the cars and have to pay for the damage, but really it didn't affect the car's ability to drive.

[Primaleick]

I'm not much into racing games, I may pick it up but I'm going to wait for X-Play to review it ;) Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb are really good at showing the good the bad and the ugly in games.

[grinner]

try Richard Burn's Rally... it is frelling awesome. It is a toss up between Colin McRae 2005 or Richard Burn's Rally which I like better.

[MadWombat]

Burnout 3 is definately one of the best racing games I have ever played. when you are going 170 mph, you actually feel like you are going 170 mph. and if you crash, you crash, your car gets messed up and the worse the crash, the more points you get.

you eventually get to drive an indy car, and when you use the boost, its damn near uncontrollable, but thats whats great about it.

All the cars are generic no name cars, but you forget about that pretty quickly the first time you play. You realize the car being a real life car means nothing compared to Sick Ass gameplay.

And its got a pretty decent soundtrack:

1208 - "Fall Apart"
Amber Pacific - "Always You"
Ash - "Orpheus"
Atretyu - "Right Side of the Bed"
Autopilot Off - "Make a Sound"
Bouncing Souls - "Sing Along Forever"
Burning Brides - "Heart Full of Black"
Chronic Future - "Time and Time Again"
Donots - "Saccharine Smile"
Eighteen Visions - "I Let Go"
Fall Out Boy - "Reinventing the Wheel"
Finger Eleven - "Stay in Shadow"
Franz Ferdinand - "This Fire"
From First to Last - "Populace in Two"
Funeral For A Friend - "Rookie of the Year"
Futureheads - "Decent Days and Nights"
Go Betty Go - "C'mon"
Jimmy Eat World - "Just Tonight"
Letter Kills - "Radio Up"
Local H - "Everyone Alive"
Maxeen - "Please"
Midtown - "Give It Up"
Moments In Grace - "Broken Promises"
Motion City Soundtrack - "My Favorite"
Mudmen - "Animal"
My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not Okay"
New Found Glory - "At Least I'm Known"
No Motiv - "Independence Day"
Silent Drive - "4-16"
Sugarcult - "Memory"
The D4 - "Come On!"
The Explosion - "Here I Am"
The Fups - "Lazy Generation"
The Lot Six - "Autobrats"
The Matches - "Audio Blood"
The Mooney Suzuki - "Shake That Bush"
The Ordinary Boys - "Over the Counter"
The Von Bondies - "C'Mon C'Mon"
Yellowcard - "Breathing"

[AgentSun]

oooh Von Bondies!