One of the most unique aspects of Gran Turismo Sport are the fantasy race-cars that will make up the ‘Group 3’ racing class in the game. These cars have been prominent in marketing materials for the game so far and also in the playable builds featured at game shows around the world. Courtesy of GTPlanet user Rage Racer once again, we have some gameplay footage from IgroMir 2016 — Russia’s first and biggest gaming convention — showing off the Hyundai Genesis Gr.3 race car in a high-speed battle.
This time around it isn’t Brands Hatch but the new GT-exclusive circuit Tokyo Expressway that is the track of choice. The Expressway is a high-speed circuit which is plenty familiar to those in the GT Sport news loop, having featured in multiple Sony hosted events to date.
The combination of the Group 3 racers and the varying track-width of the circuit makes for some interesting racing with AI drivers seemingly doing their best to block overtaking opportunities. With that being said, it could simply be down to them having nowhere to go for passes to happen.
One notable aspect of racing on Tokyo Expressway is how close the racing is, almost stock-car like, due to the regulated car groups that will form the foundations of championship racing in GT Sport. It should definitely be intense fun online.
It’s always refreshing to get footage from these events with drivers who know their way around a race track. Since these events are open to the masses it can often lead to gameplay videos that showcase the game at a basic level, but not quite a representative experience of what a better driver may be up against from an AI perspective. Compared to other games GT Sport appears to lack in this area but development is still on-going, so we can hope by release the AI can provide some exciting wheel-to-wheel action.
GT Sport was recently at the center of some recent news regarding a possible release date, sooner than many thought, so it will be interesting to see how news around Polyphony’s latest title develops if this release window is to be believed. We will continue to share interesting GT Sport footage and other news as it comes in.
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A korean car at Tokyo. It is very romantic. I hope this track will be available with night conditions.
What a big stupid track that is… Really, I’m glad that GT Sport is not exciting me as GT6 did, since I was about to have to buy a PS4+Online Service exclusively for this game. So, I guess my bank account will be happier now.
I have Assetto Corsa for pure driving fun, Project CARS for immersion fun and Forza Horizon 3 for silly fun. Which extra’s does this GT game bring?
What certainly does not wet my appetite (on the contrary) are all these fantasy Vision GT cars but it seems the fantasy is spreading towards normal cars now as well.
Gran Turismo – The real fantasy simulator?
Maybe I am now jaded from what has gone on with PD, but that preview did not excite me at all. Maybe future releases will prod me to buy a PS4, we shall see.
For a change of pace, golly, a positive post! ;D
I’m seriously looking forward to this game. Like Forza, my PC sims have aspects I love and grouse at. Well, Assetto Corsa has decided it won’t work at all after a year, though maybe the PC deciding to update to Win10 had something to do with it. But when it did work, the most exciting thing about racing the bots, how most people play racing games, was rather lackluster. The bots were fast but about as boring as those in Toca. RaceRoom, my dream sim right now, has bots that within a lap lose all racing sense and go single file, and while competitive when I’m near them, will also do some stupid, dirty things at times. And environment graphics aren’t anything to rave about for either game. Forza, I’ve lost all interest.
So when I race, I end up going back to GT6 after a stint in RR. Even with all the next gen stuff on the market now, it still has that Polyphony magic that has quite a lot of us fans still racing it. Heck, there are still people playing GT2, have you noticed? So grumpy guses here aside, constantly reminding us how sucky GT is and they won’t buy it and they’ve moved on, the rest of us are keeping an eye on that finish line for the day the game ships. This is looking really good. RaceRoom good? Remains to be seen, but my money is on a game which is good enough. Anything more is platinum. So Kaz, team, do your work and BRING IT!
AI look painfully slow, but hopefully thats just the demo. Car looks beautiful and THANK YOU KAZ for finally making grid starts in arcade!
That’s Intermediate AI.
Professional isn’t much better though.
A Real License for Fake Cars
Oh man, what a crime.
Really, I’d rather have a much shorter car list than having those rubbish and uglier than horse arse vgt cars.
Still looks very emotionless and boring. Also, the track is the most useless track I´ve ever seen. Where is the sense to race in such a monotonous and clean corridor. It does not even look comprehensible as a location within a city.
“Where is the sense to race in such a monotonous and clean corridor.”
quote taken from: http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/a-night-out-on-town-lapping-the-c1/
“Thanks to a variety of videogames this has to probably be the most well known highway in the world, a place where up until ten or so years ago illegal racing was still pretty common.”
there’s your answer.
Racing on ge C1 loop should be a dream but because of the lighting, scenery and lack of collisiobs, it looks dull IMO.
@SkyArkz23
Even if that would be the case, it looks dull all over the place. At all because they race GT3 cars on it which isn´t comprehensible at all. If this would have been the most well know highway for illegal street racing, they should limit races to street cars only. It looks far from reality to held GT3-races on it. And the track looks as static as it could be (which is still a typical GT-problem).