Gran Turismo 7

Gran Turismo 7 is a game with an exquisite and addictive experience thanks to the support of DualSense and Tempest 3D Audio Tech. Following Gran Turismo Sport's disappointment, Polyphony regained his throne.

Gran Turismo 7 brings to the tracks every single thing fans always wanted: the GT Mode everyone loves, plenty of customization options, car loads, classic scenarios and one of the best DualSense and 3D Audio experiences the PS5 has to offer. This is the best Gran Turismo experience we have ever seen in a long time.

Polyphony Digital comes back to the roots with a driving simulator that feels better than ever by doing the same as ever, thanks to a very unique style. It has some little issues in terms of balance, but, inside the tracks and beyond them, it is a worthy successor of 25 years of Gran Turismo legacy.

Gran Turismo 7 is the definitive driving experience of this generation, but may be a lot to take in for the casual player.

Gran Turismo 7 is an excellent racing simulator for those looking for a more realistic experience or to learn more about cars. There’s a ton of things to do, cars to collect, and tracks to master with the game’s great driving model. While you can feel the sheer passion the developers have for the subject, it does come with some flaws like very slow and tedious progression gates and persistent microtransaction prompts.

Time will tell how fans will react to Gran Turismo 7's microtransactions, but putting them aside, what's there is still a deep racing game experience that will keep fans of the genre busy for hours on end. It's a gorgeous racing game and while it's not going to be knocking down any boundaries to convert non-racing game fans, Gran Turismo 7 should greatly appeal to its target audience.

If you can suffer through the clunky menus, endless dull dialogue and 100 visits to the cafe, then there’s an excellent racing game somewhere hidden in Gran Turismo 7. It’s baffling that the game does its best to impede you from getting to the track, but when you actually get there, there’s a lot of fun to be had.

Best racing game ever. On Consoles. I never felt this since GT1, and way much after, on GT3 to be honest. What a finition: From Chrome details to interiors Speedos, through cockpit, shadows, tyres pieces wear on the track (internal reflection of the pilot helmet on the screen(!), ray tracing….) And, though it might be great with a pad, it’s an absolute revelation with a DD wheel. This is absolute madness. What a game….

I spent 2 years on GT7, and for the longest time, I thought the game was pretty damn good. The visuals are spectacular, the road grip is a lot more realistic (probably specified for the regular civilian drivers), and it was really cool seeing the older circuits from previous installments return. Looking back however, the campaign was quite crappy and not what I expected, plus why are the vehicles so expensive? None the less, it's best to continue enjoying this title, until GT8 finally comes out.

Not the best gran turismo, i played more than 1000 hours because im a competitive player in this game but as a gran turismo game its not so good, offline races are sooo boring because you can't battle with cars in the race, then they give yo a lot of cars and you cant personalize your experience, boring, the graphics and the way they introduce things, like cars and circuits is amazing but if the offline gameplay is boring... Then the onlineis really fun, it could be better but for a playstation game is not bad. I completed the game with the platinum and i still playing the game because it uses to update every month.

The fixed camera isn't so great, but everything else is very good. The motor is the best part, but it's a small detail that makes all the difference.

I am a Gran Turismo fan. On May 9th (the day after it launched) I took my saved up money and a few quid my Dad gave me extra to go out and buy my original copy of Gran Turismo for the Playstation. That game started me on my racing and sim racing journey. Returning for the 7th edition then, I was only too eager to see what the next generation of the title had to offer. Sadly, I was disappointed immediately. The game lacked features. It lacked modern cars and it lacked a proper racing experience. Jaded and confused as to how they could get things so wrong, I put GT7 down for a year or two, returning in time for the Spec 3 update and the Power Pack. Has my mind changed? No. Is the short answer. The problems are everywhere with GT7. Vehicle choice is still rather limited despite there being free updates most months and there being a good number of cars in the game. The problem is, many of them are over 10 years old and so many are the same old models we've seen from the earliest games. Do we really need so many GT-R models? So many Mitsubishi Lancers? Are we going to care about the subtle, almost imperceptible differences? Some may. I do not. Second, the track choices are interesting here. So many circuits from the original games have returned but have been sanitised beyond belief. Old favourites like Trial Mountain, once a thrilling dash through sweeping turns and through tree-lined forested straights now have been changed into a technical nightmare of tight mickey mouse chicanes and concrete tunnels. They're still beautiful of course, that is one of the pillars of Gran Turismo. But the racing and driving experience has been blunted by the bland redesigns. With such a rich catalogue of circuits to pick from, so many have been left on the cutting room too which is disappointing. The gameplay loop in single player is also unsatisfying. I actually don't know who this game was made for. One the one hand, you will have petrolheads who want to tune their cars and paint them up. These people are well catered for since the tuning options have stayed largely the same across the 7 mainline games and the customisation options are an area of immense strength here. If you can dream up a livery, you can make it for your car and they look stunning, especially on PS5. But the actual driving is where the issues begin for me. First of all there are two types of AI. The original block head AI is as stupid as it has always been with cars driving into one another and generally not being very intelligent. The GT Sophy AI which is supposed to mimic a real human opponent is irritating and cheats clearly. Every opening lap I've ever raced against them has seen them speed boost like they've picked up a Mario Kart mushroom past me only to slow down and come back to me a short while later. So failure there too. If you're coming to this game to actually do some racing, well, in single player, prepare for some major frustrations and disappointment. The racing is poor. It's all down to the premise Polyphony have posed which, to me, a racing fan, is bizarre. Very few if any races are standing grid-based starts where a good one can make you up a few positions before turn one. Usually, the player is starting every race from 20th position, in a single file rolling start, which means by the time you get the iconic GT countdown tone to begin, the leader is half way around the lap. You frequently have to be making up more than 5 seconds per lap to just catch sight of the leader, never mind pass him. Performance from the AI varies too. Some of the competitions they have put together for you are simple affairs. Others, such as the Gr1 prototype challenge involve a ham-fisted attempt to recreate endurance racing but over 10 laps and just with ridiculously wild car choices and overpowered AI. They also make an attempt to throw the dynamic weather and time in here. Also, a mixed bag. We might as well address variable weather here. AI is affected by this, sometimes. They make an attempt to show them slowing down to match conditions but, and this is true of most games to be fair, here they simply aren't affected enough. If you manage to catch yourself on the wrong tyre in a monsoon, you will not be able to move, spinning wildly at very low speed. The AI though, they will function fine. Gran Turismo 7 is still beautiful and still offers that same blend of realism and arcade immediacy with it's handling but it's overreliance on bizarre menu-based driving challenges and its generally poor single player experience go hand in hand with its blatant shift to credits grinding (they want you to buy their in-game currency) to create a very empty feeling mess. It isn't much of a racing game if you want to race, and there isn't much else on offer either. If you will mostly race online with people you know, then there is fun to be had, otherwise this was a massively, immensely, disappointing game and I will not be looking forward to GT8.