Gran Turismo 7: Eights Amazing Things Around Top Awaited Game in 2021
1. The Return of Career Mode
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What is special about Gran Turismo 7. Gran Turismo Sport currently revolves around online competition. This is all well and good but many fans of the franchise have long been pleading for 'Career Mode' to make a comeback. Last seen in Gran Turismo 6, this single-player option lets you accrue points and collect cars away from those stressful online lobbies where unsporting drivers can lead to serious frustration at times. Study the trailer and you'll spot a 'Championships' tab in the new Gran Turismo 4-esque home screen. Great news for offline warriors. A favourite from the release of Gran Turismo is B-Spec. Whilst the revered A-Spec mode is a franchise essential, the B-Spec mode holds a special place in our hearts, and we’d love to see it make a return in Gran Turismo 7.
Remember those races where you couldn't be arsed with them and wanted someone else to do it, but realised you had no friends? That's where B-Spec mode came in - and at the time it was a game changer. You would basically play the role of race engineer here, instructing your driver how to act, changing the race pace and general orders to ensure that your team won. I see no reason why this can't make a return in Gran Turismo 7 - especially with realism being at the forefront and all that, cites drivetribe.
2. Flexible Team Options
One good thing GT Sport brought us was the livery editor - where players could customise their cars however they wanted to (see mine above for full effect of sweet DTRB propaganda). As we've seen in DiRT 4 - players had the option to create their own team, hire staff such as engineers, PR managers, etc. What's to say that Polyphony can't take inspiration from that and create something similar for us Gran Turismo fans to enjoy? It would add a lot more depth to the game, and could make players feel like they are the boss....
3. Menu welcomes Classic Track
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From what we can tell from watching the trailer it seems that Gran Turismo 7 will carry over most of the tracks already available in Gran Turismo Sport. However it also seems that some of the great fictional Gran Turismo circuits are returning to the franchise. In fact the trailer plays out around a newly adapted version of 'Trial Mountain Circuit' — a fan favourite that's been in existence since the first game dropped in 1997. This hopefully means that other asphalt institutions like 'Deep Forest' and 'Grand Valley' will also return. The track editor from GT5 and GT6 was a huge selling point for the franchise in general. Not only could you create your own race track, but especially in GT6 - some of the tracks created were insane. From recreations of the Complex String circuit to what resembled a massive rollercoaster for cars, the possibilities were practically endless. This feature would be very popular if added into Gran Turismo 7, and more insane tracks would grace our gameplay sessions. But word of advice to Polyphony - have it as an in-game feature and not as a separate mobile app (that was bloody annoying), according to gtplanet.
4. You can tune your vehicle to suit your crazy
One of the best things about the previous instalments of Gran Turismo was the ability to tune and modify your favourite vehicle. You could take a base Mazda MX-5 and slowly build it up to be a fire-breathing, 400kW Lamborghini killer. Awesome. This feature was missing from Gran Turismo Sport and now it returns with the arrival of Gran Turismo 7. Again, scan the home screen in the trailer and you'll see the 'Tuning Parts Shop.' Yay!
5. The return of proper endurance races to the single-player campaign
Let's admit it, the Endurance League in GT Sport was underwhelming to say the least. The longest race was about two hours, and the contests felt sterile and boring - even with varying rates of tyre wear and fuel consumption. However, GT4 and GT5 had full 24 hour races at Circuit De La Sarthe and the Nurburgring Nordschleife for us all to attempt (fun fact - I've completed the Le Mans 24hrs on GT5 twice). That's a lot better than the races in the Endurance League in GT Sport. Other races such as the Tsukuba 9 Hours and the Indy 500 would be welcome returns as well.
6. Performance Points make a comeback
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GT Sport has, at times, had issues balancing cars properly. Road cars in particular slot into power-based classes (N300 is roughly equivalent to 250-349PS, or 247-344hp) and that can lead to some unusual vehicles dominating racing in these classes.
Perhaps in order to counter this GT7 has brought back the Performance Point (or PP) rating, previously seen in GT5 and GT6. This gives a car a rating of its on-track performance, based on a number of factors which includes power and weight, modifying an underlying value for the chassis — older cars have a lower PP than equivalent newer ones.
Players of these previous games will recall that this wasn’t necessarily an ideal system either, however it would appear to work alongside the N-class from GT Sport, with cars in the clip — the Aston Martin DB11 and Toyota 86 GT — having both a class and a PP value.
7. More cars to drive
It's a no-brainer to assume that Gran Turismo 7 will offer players an even greater variety of vehicles. New additions spotted in the trailer include the BAC Mono, Porsche 917K (in its classic Gulf racing livery) and Porsche Carrera GT. Let's hope the latter sounds like it should. We also spotted an Aston Martin DB11, Dodge Viper and Lamborghini Diablo.
8. The mystery of the GT Café
While most of the tabs in the Gran Turismo 7 home screen are fairly pragmatic there is one that still has us scratching our heads — 'GT Café.' We're really not sure what this is all about and neither do other online speculators. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see once the game actually launches. Speaking of which, no concrete release date has yet been set for Gran Turismo 7 but we're damn sure it's going to be worth the wait.
System Requirements suggested by cpygamescracked
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Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.8 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3.1GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.2GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 or AMD HD 7950 with 3GB VRAM minimum (Support of Vulkan 1.1 required)
Storage: 55 GB available space
Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1300 X @ 3.4 GHz
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580 with 4GB VRAM minimum (Support of Vulkan 1.1 required)
Storage: 55 GB available space
| Gran Turismo 7 release date There has yet to be a confirmed date for Gran Turismo 7’s release. Fans had hoped that we would all be surprised by a PS5 launch day release, but that hasn’t materialized. That leaves us looking at a mid-2021 release, potentially in April/May time. But does Polyphony have a preferred window? Do their previous releases give us any hint at when it could come? Thankfully, a more recent ad confirmed the 2021 release window. Whilst we still don’t even have an exact month, it is nice to see the year confirmed for PS5 owners. |
Previous Gran Turismo releases
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Stretching back as far as 1997, we have a plethora of information which we can use to predict a GT7 release date.
The release date for the original Gran Turismo was late December of 1997. Whilst this was only the product for the Japanese release, we have seen international release dates align more and more closely in recent years.
This is seen in the case of GT Sport, with NA, EU, and Japanese releases all happening within 3 days of each other in mid-October.
With regards to Gran Turismo 5, PlayStation 3’s first instalment of the GT franchise, the game came out in late November across all regions, 24 and 25 November 2010.
Hopefully we don’t have to wait until the tail end of 2021 though!
Early accessMost racing games usually have an edition somewhere that offers a few days of early access, and while we expect Gran Turismo 7 to be no different there is no guarantee. It’s notable that Gran Turismo Sport launched with just two editions (Standard and Deluxe) and neither offered any early access. So don’t get your hopes up if you are keen to get on track before anyone else! There are plenty of new features we want to see in GT7. What’s on your wishlist? |
