Hi. A friend of mine who's not registered here on GTP asked me to repost his pics and comments about his trip to CES and the GT demo station. He asked us (PSN NA) what to do while there and went forth with the instructions.
Here's what he posted on PSN afterwards:
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hdrider1989s' post )
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Ok I accepted my mission. Departed the house, 1st stop at pick up CES passes. Then off to Las Vegas Convention Center to find parking...haaaa! First off CES is off the hook with people and cool electronics. They are both everywhere. After arriving at CES it took over an hour to find the Gran Turismo display. There were large crowds around the game. Didn't get a chance to go thru all the menu's. There was no tuning menu. I did ask the Sony Rep [Edit: Chris Hinojosa-Miranda] about tuning compared to prologue...and he said it was expansively larger (he used hand gestures showing an explosion) to me meant really big...we will see. The sound sucked, but that was because it was drowned out by the massive crowds. AI still drives sloppy, I was rear ended and side swiped, however I was not super fast. I asked about how many tracks and was told 20 locations with over 60 variations. I asked him to expand on that....he said Daytona Motor Speedway is 1 location with 2 variations....super speedway and road course. Also had the opportunity to play GT5 in 3D. Although the 3D tv's and video games were extremely cool, I didn't see an advantage for Gran Turismo. The camera view was locked on trailing view, the car was 3 dimensionally opposed over the track, but other scenery such as trees were 2 dimensional. I could live without the 3D. I've recently purchased a new camera, takes terrible pictures. Here's the ones that came out.....
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And here are his pics posted on page 2 ITT and now down to reasonable size. Nothing shatteringly new in these pics, although grid list screens overlaid on the Nurburgring are sweet.
linky to the fullsize his photo host:
hdrider@CES
pics here
