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Feann Torr25 Jul 2017
NEWS

Sneak preview: Gran Turismo Sport

Jaw-dropping graphics and tight physics headline upcoming race simulator

Get your caffeinated beverage supplies stocked and block out your calendar, because Gran Turismo Sport is coming to the Sony PlayStation 4 on October 18, 2017.

The game that's not called Gran Turismo 7 – but may as well be – and is the latest chapter in the GT franchise that has sold more than 64 million copies globally.

To cut a long story short, it's almost as good as my home made marshmellow-goji rocky road.

It delivers a level of visual acuity that just hasn’t been seen before on a console racing game.

It's almost more approachable now, the added realism of the game engine adding to experience rather than taking away from it.

There's loads of new modes in the game, and following an afternoon smashing out laps on the Nurburgring and Brands Hatch in Ford Mustangs and McLaren S650s, it’s clear that it’s going to consume the lives of car-lovers everywhere.

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There’s a bunch of new modes now, including native support for PlayStation virtual reality or PSVR headsets, which is pretty cool, and the level of customisability on cars has improved by orders of magnitude.

There's more multiplayer modes now, the drift mode and dirt modes are seriously cool and there's even the first-ever FIA-sanctioned e-championship.

Yep, you can bet that this game will spawn more professional racers like Aussie Matt Simmons via the "couch to racer" GT Academy program.

Stay tuned for loads of videos and an in-depth review of the preview code soon, and we'll talking to GT founder Kazunori Yamauchi to see just how closely he works with car-makers to ensure the game is sharper than a surgeon's scalpel.

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