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For Collectors Edition is to be noted that the APEX booklet alongside much general Bla Bla unfortunately only on some pages accurate information for voting on different substrates and if it is above includes / understeer. Detailed information about individual vehicles, Bonus Cars, prize money or a walkthrough guide on how they could for example buy GT 4 then, are not included. Once scrolled through and that's it.
The 5 bonus cars are custom models with more power and other optical and otherwise not so in the game. Of course you have a huge advantage in the game, if you from the very first race has a 500 horsepower cars. Moreover, it will save you tedious repetitions of the same race, just to earn money.
As the biggest selling point of GT5 should be noted that the ultra-realistic driving feel and the (partial) HD graphics are currently unmatched by any other game. The game is good scope for huge and weekly entertainment.
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Realism was the top priority for the developers. Unfortunately it is so, as I had feared. The sound of vehicles sounds like in the previous versions and in the Race Academy - completely tinny and unrealistic. A little better, it is only at the rear exterior.
Have unsuccessfully tried all possible settings. From my HD 7.1 home theater in which the PS3 via HDMI cable is connected to the receiver, now drown Audi vacuum cleaner, vacuum cleaner reputation, Mercedes-vacuum cleaner. One can also view the vehicles the dealer in a short demo - all just too high circular saws / vacuum cleaner sound under the, at best, away hints at a halfway realistic sound. The BMW M3 V8 sounds like a crazy insect. Wers does not believe that the merchants should be able to demonstrate even a few cars, (for example, Lamborghini Murcielago, M3 V8, Ferrari F1).
Grade 2.0 times at the four cylinders Asian design comes the sound modeled close, because these cars sound in Natura as circular saws.
The engine sound of a Lamborghini Gallardo was on the PS2 in NFS better (!), That hurts.
When driving with Ferrari F40 came to me almost in tears - that sounds like a sewing machine. Even Audi Quattro from 1982, Mercedes SL 65 AMG V12 Biturbo have again only completely false four-cylinder sound from the bar, as in the previous parts, and were evident from GT4 transferred 1: 1.
You can tune the cars, how many write here, then the sound is indeed different, but by no means authentic.
If you like listening to music while driving, or who found the vehicle sound of GT4 and the Race Academy has great and authentic, and who likes to ride with the rear outer camera, will disturb the less.
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The head-up display with lap time, Geschwindgkeit, distance, etc. can be hidden in GT5 NOT. What I got from the previously acclaimed, oh so great ultra-realistic cockpit view when they (and most of all: the rear-view mirror) is half covered by the HUD? Where is the realism?
Even more annoying is the whole thing in rally mode - there is a route map that is displayed exactly in the middle ...
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Cockpit view only the 200 Premium models. For example, a Bugatti Veyron in GT5 NO premium vehicle ...
On all other vehicles, you can only choose between the bumper, roof and camera behind the car. Since moreover, much of the premium vehicles of Asian type, I can understand the disappointment of many here. The cockpit view is not entirely convincing, of real perfectionism no trace. The digits on the speedometer are often blurred recognizable and are to some extent fuel gauge and temperature gauge to 0. My new Audi R8 Chrome Line had gone at the beginning, according to speedometer already 148.000km ...
Who likes to ride with Outdoor Installation and music, will not interfere with anything (2 to 4).
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To pick a car is to say that Asians and Americans are more likely to come at their expense. The Porsche brand there in GT5 not only the handful of familiar models of RUF. A larger number of Audi S and RS models from BMW M and one looks in vain. Especially hurts me that the legendary Audi S1 is not included again. The "Audi Pikes Peak Quattro" is a Q7 SUV prototype ...
The engine power is this time only indicated in kW, why is that no longer can now switch remains a mystery.
It is also important to mention that you have to unlock the vast majority of vehicles only.
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The route selection has exactly 20 (in words: twenty) different tracks from which you have made by means of all possible variants and day and night cycles 70. On Pikes Peak, Mount Panorama, Spa and Co, I again waited in vain.
Add to this that you already in- virtually all routes from the previous parts and knows by heart.
But if you're thinking that then all routes from GT4 are at least this is wrong - many classics were not taken (eg El Capitan, Midfield Raceway, the huge Test Oval, Costa Amalfi, Tahiti Maze, 1000m acceleration, ...)
After Nürburgring, Monza, Laguna Seca, Monaco and Co. are very presentable, sometimes even implemented photorealistic HD. The Nürburgring also has to be only unlocked.
Anyone who thinks that he could already build the path configurator his desire route itself, which will also be very disappointed. You can only choose from already predefined routes and then specify how often intervals are taken ...
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The much heralded damage model is not much more than a bad joke by Mr. Yamauchi. Since there is a trophy for a de-energized auto part, I have done with different models frontal high-speed crashes against a concrete road dividers with up to 300kmh. Even after the twentieth crash it was not possible to bring me out of any car part to fall. The rear and front bumpers deform / discolor at best, a little, or hanging slightly askew, that's it then also. Flashovers have no effect. The body shines like new, the exterior mirrors remain undamaged. Effects on driving physics have the "damage" either.
So a "damage model" you could have saved. GT5 - The Real Driving Simulator? GTA on the PS2 was in this respect, since even better and more realistic.
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Intermediate conclusion at Level 20: Unfortunately, the very things whose improvement I hoped in vain since GT3, again not implemented (better sound, more European vehicles, new routes). If others write here that this essentially is a GT4 in HD in GT5, so unfortunately I have to agree. The damage model and the track editor should be able to save the same.
9. REZI-UPDATE:
Bin 25 arrived at Lvl and will now finish the game. The following should be able to finally be noted:
- Now have around 150 cars. That's 15% of the advertised 1000 cars! Since you are constantly suffering from lack of money, I'm going to a lot of interesting cars, but several million Cr. cost, never can go. For that I would have one and the same events over and over again driving because you per race at best, 100,000 Cr. receives. The same applies to the experience points that you need to climb to the next level. Will certainly not infinite turn on the old routes that I know by heart for 10 years, with a cucumber, which sounds like a sewing machine, circles. But my time is too precious.
- As in the previous parts, it is still not possible, with several races to save in between as part of a championship. In a championship with 5 races a 20 rounds so you have to plan for 1-2 hours at a time. Even more annoying is the whole but at the races of the endurance racing championship. If you drive the 24 hours in a by, or leaves the console days in pause mode, lack of storage capability? What the developers thinking? Ease of use is different. If you could alternate with a friend while driving at least online ...
- You can no longer, as yet possible in the predecessor, switch during the race in the B-Spec mode. Thus we all have to himself the hour-long endurance race this time, and without the console off in between, deny.
- You can fast forward in B-Spec mode no longer. Those who sit for hours in front of the console, thereby sees to the completely idiotic acting AI driver as he rumgurkt incapable? It is sometimes not even capable of having a vehicle that has the multiple power of opponents to win. These races have also still a period of 15 minutes upwards. What's that for an experience?
- The load times are despite full installation under all. Sometimes charging takes longer than the actual race. This long load times go hand in hand with a completely impractical menu structure. If you want to, for example, in a race ABS from 1 to 2, so you have all the way back to the screen where you can select from all the races, and then reload the race again. ABS provide from 1 to 2 takes therefore before several minutes. In most other racing games you can make such adjustments in pause mode while driving.
- The sound is, as others have noted: unacceptable. My Corvette ZR1 in full race trim has rich 2.0 four-cylinder rally Sound. A Dodge Viper with 600 hp sounds at 5 GT at best as the air conditioning compressor of a real Dodge Viper, not even remotely but to V10 with 8 liters. Without cockpit view only altbekanntem GT-Tacho is the drive on a, moreover known for years distance, immediately completely uninteresting.
10. Addendum: Those who buy the game now, you should have a fast Internet connection, because you have before you go online, download first round 1GB updates.
