GT5 Gameplay Videos from Comic-Con 2010

Jordan Greer · · 234 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPg7dXCIqeU

Comic-Con is just wrapping up in San Diego, California, and Gran Turismo 5 was on display. The demo appears to be what was introduced at E3 2010, so while there’s no new content, we’ve got another round of game-play videos to check out.

Thanks to everyone who’s helping to round these up in our forums – please let me know if I’ve missed anything.

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Comments (234)

  3. robert

    i take back what i said about that 2nd guy being a forza driver, when it was indeed me driving in that video and im a mario krat driver

  6. Could be

    LOL, dunno. I keep seeing posts disappear like they’ve been modded, but they come back later, then dissappear again, come back, dissappear….

    You might be commenter 224 or 225. ;)

  8. Racer28

    I just dont get this, its extremely bad advertising showing GT5 like this time and time again! I would rather they keep it under wraps than putting out these demos!

  9. Hoepker

    Everybody must have 7.1 surround on there comp to know it’s going to sound like on their ps3. This is the net,nothing sounds good on it.

  10. PDSupporter

    Single file rolling start?
    Has there been ANY GT5 vids showing a side by side rolling or standing start?
    thanks!

    1. Sam__NY

      Yes. Some NASCAR gameplay during G4’s coverage showed double file rolling starts, just like they do in real NASCAR races.

    2. ismellbacon611

      In the GT-PSP credits, it shows a trailer of GT% which has NASCAR’s in standing start :D

  11. Jvkennedy

    It would be a NASCAR car, or an f1 car, or an IRL car etc. It is not a NASCAR. Just sounds retarded.

  12. HenGTX

    Very irritable does sparks flying around. Even hitting the tyrewall causes them……….. At least they will be the first to put it in a driving game…………and the last……I hope.

    1. Geo_212

      This is a really old version of the game, they probably fixed the sparks thing by now. And a lot of other driving games have sparks, too. I gotta say I’m loving the tire smoke, though!

    1. Bing

      I have some with women stepping on small rodents with high heels….

      How about people blowing out birthday cakes….

      I have also have five hits near you for closd Circut City stores. Just because they have “video” listed on old pages.

      Thank you for using Bing.

  15. Matt

    November 2nd, 2010.

    Maybe then we’ll see videos popping up of guys who can DRIVE and not twits who play on easy with driving and braking lines on.

    It must strike the filmers as infinitely funny to get footage of godawful driving. I wonder to myself, are they just flat out bad drivers even in real life? Given the scope of crap that we continually see put on display for all the world to see, I’m inclined to give an emphatic yes to the question.

    Rant off

    1. Gulyo

      Forza is really good ( I played 8 month and sold ) but GT5 gonna be at least the same or better ( must be better :) )

    1. Mossad

      Hmmm. Death threats over a driving game. Ran out of chores on our list of things to do today i’m guessing…..

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    1. Google Translate

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  20. iloveyouman

    Why GT5 is for b-i-t-c-h-e-s? Forza is a lot better! I have xbox and Bill makes me ice cream every night!

    1. HenGTX

      sorry, didn’t hear you right………………. .

      Forza is not better and Bill does a creampie on you every night?

  22. Arif :)

    I noticed that the NASCAR Cars.. when you drive there are no driver specific sponsors on the arms of the fire suit :/
    I was looking forward to that b/c it adds more realism to driving stock cars :x
    Even in the 2008 E3 Video you cna see Jeff Gordon’s Dupont Uniform as he walks though Gasoline Ally in Indy..
    WTH happend Sony?

  24. Geo_212

    Does anyone know if the “shift prediction” will be a setting? (like when the driver moves his hand to the paddle or stick before it’s time to shift) I REALLY don’t want it, it looks really goofy.

  25. Stu

    I can’t say I’m that fussed to see these videos.

    the next time we will see anything new, i.e the full damage model, weather, cars, tracks, track creater etc. will be in August at GamesCon.

    1. funrun

      C’mon now, you don’t want to get bitch slapped for making that stereotype do you? If anything it’s a male who has his balls removed.

  28. MagicAyrton

    Well at least with a North American release first, we can see if the game is worth getting here in the UK… I’m sure that a lot of our American friends will test it well for us here in Europe :D

    If the sound is lacklustre, I will be very suprised to be honest.

    1. Hoodie1878

      Anyone who doesn’t buy this because of the sound is what’s commonly known as a plonker.

      It’s going to be ace fools!

    2. Gulyo

      I going to buy it but … to me the good simulator or arcade racing game start at the proper sounds … rFactor, Shift, GTR2, GT Legends, Dirt 1-2, Grid, FORZA 3 … all of them have excellent sounds. Reason of my hesitation is : how the hell could happen that such a fantastic title like GT5 has R/C style sounds, I can not understand !!! Peace !!!

    3. BWX

      on my 7.1 speaker, 900 watt setup GT5P sounds great. I bet GT5 will sound even better.

      I think most people that complain about the sounds og GT5 and even GT5p alot are using TV speakers or inferior surround sound setups- or listening to youtube vids on crappy PC speakers and making a judgment on that which makes them totally retarded anyway.

    4. Gulyo

      Dear BWX !
      You’re wrong…at least in my case.
      I use Onkyo reciever and 5.1 Jamo 6 sound system with subwoofer in my living room ( good enough ? ) and in my computer room I use Logitech Z 5500 sound system with subwoofer ( good enough ? )which are brutal !!! Fact and I don’t wanna repeat it >>> GT5P sounds are crappy with any kind of sound systems, in my opinion !

    5. Geo_212

      @Gulyo
      I agree with your posts. I’m still going to get the game, don’t get me wrong, but without proper engine sounds, it takes away from the realism.

      PS: Just got GTR: Evolution, and the engine sounds are simply amazing. (my favorite PC game right now…) Can’t wait for the new GTR game next year! :D

    6. Carbonfibre

      @Hoodie1878
      What about the 1/3 of us who don’t own a PS3?
      Think, before you open your trap.

  31. George

    I think I noticed a flaw in the game, very small but i hope it will be corrected in GT6.

    The inside mirror and the side mirror show the same “zoom” of what you see behind, in my car (ok, i don’t drive a R8 to know) the inside mirror makes things a bit bigger, surely their is a difference and tell me if your cars do show different “zoom” of behinds.

    How cares anyway, GT5 is a great game!

    1. Vulcao

      Some big vehicles like vans and trucks have convex mirrors, which makes the image distorted (“different zoom”, as you refer to it). Do you have a truck? lol
      The inside mirror doesn’t make things bigger, its reflection is just natural. The oustside mirrors make things look smaller so that you can have a bigger visual field from behind.

  32. organdonor

    I wonder why people drive so bad on GT5, you would never go full throttle 120mph around a sharp corner without breaking in real life, why do so many people do it on here?

  33. guyc1161

    hmmmm,well i guess we will have to wait and see for ourselves come nov. 2nd,i personally cant rate gt5 based on these vids the audio and video feed is too poor to come to any conclusions, i can say im disappointed with the AI though,i doubt it will be that way in the final rendering.

    1. GTireland

      i agree,its impossible to know untill we have our own copy in our hands,still no release date for europe,could it be 24th nov like the french suggest???

  34. GTireland

    will the new 1.600.000 260+mph buegatti veyron be in it? I watched top gear on bbc last night,james may drove it on volkswagens secret test track in germany,i had to pinch myself several times to make sure i wasnt dreaming,it was pure lethal,complete carbon fibre body,0-60mph in 2.5secs and 0-100mph in 4secs,imagine getting struck by it at that speed you would just turn into red mist,even your very soul wouldnt survive,why do they produce such ridiculous power when over here the speed limit is 70mph?…anywho i hope its in the game or the ascari A10

  35. Chico

    The problem is that we can only hear the engine sounds but not the exhaust sounds.
    As if all the cars had supressors.

  36. KWT85

    I do not know what is hidden to us this game I can only wait for 2 November, and I hope Kaz put additions to the load, such as additional cars or tracks and change the weather like rain, snow, etc.

    2 – to be download additional content for free

    3 – The game is available in cars such as Porsche and Bugatti, cars and other sports cars …. And do not forget The Koenigsegg CCX-CCR etd..

  37. KWT85

    In fact, the voices of some engines in the game, not all of reality and some of them real some thing, I wish to be serious about the development of voices of the engines the game such as = Mercedes-Benz SLS + Corvette Z-R-1 and many of the cars need to reconsider the mix sounds really developed in the game
    (This is my opinion and I’m a big fan of this game I can not wait)

  38. Team_MoFF-No2

    I really Don’t know, what to expect from GT5 other then brilliant 3D/2D Graphics.. But will it be fun ? will it be the cause of me loosing my job, because of Sleeping on Work, and will it be the Cause of me loosing my girlfriend and family and if so, then it must be FUN!! Haha Sorry

    PS. what a Huge steering wheel the NasCar Car has, or maybe my display setup is wrong Again.. LOL

    NasCar Car <– Sounds stupid ya.. Lmao

  39. Gulyo

    I can’t wait this game by the way and I just hope that this game MUST BE excellent and authentic car engine sounds !!!!!! This is the basis of a good race simulator. I don’t believe PD doesn’t know that !!!!! Wake up dear gentleman !!!!!

  40. Gulyo

    Maybe it’s not toooo late >>>>> CHANGE PLEASE THE FU****G DISGUSTING, LOW QUALITY, UNACCAPTABLE, SH*T ETC ENGINE SOUNDS PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THESE SOUNDS WILL KILL THE WHOLE GAME FUN FACTOR !!!!
    DEAR MR. KAZUNORI PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! XDDDDDDDDDD

  41. eternal darknes

    thats hela funny at 2:50 in the 3rd video he just plows right into da back of the mercdez n it just dives into the corner like noting had hapend lmao no pushing or notin very nice pass at the end on the inside

  42. Chris

    ^^ For whatever reason, the GTR sounds really close IMO to the real car but most of the other ones don’t even come close. It’s a shame really.

  43. LeX

    Love the fact that you can race NASCAR cars on non NASCAR tracks. Should be fun driving the 42 around Nurburgring.

    Shame about the sound though. Seems PD doesn’t think car sounds are important and stick to MIDI-like sound quality. =(

    2. tvensky

      WOW, that is terrible sparkle effect. how in the hell PD make up with this.. :) make it better or remove such a “Star Wars” special effects, its like from “Need for speed” game.. :P in this situation (at 2:22 last vid) have to be scraches, plastics flying off or at least spining the car into a barier and beat the sh*t out of it :) not sparkles

  52. Earth

    @ Simon H

    Alot of people are going to be surprised when they drive a stock car for the first time in GT5 at how difficult they are to drive. Why would you expect it to be easy? Because it looks easy on TV (oh they just turn left) you think it should be easy in GT5?

  53. Luke

    Well, 2nd vid, u can still grind along the walls. All my friends are using the walls to be faster than me and it`s working on some tracks :(
    But what annoys me the most is when my friends claim to have beaten me in a race. I hoped cheating like that wouldn`t be possible in GT5, but apparently i was wrong.
    It won`t bother me in Single Player, but rather in Multi Player.

    1. Carbonfibre

      We had this simplistic transmission whine in PC sims back in 2005. I understand you’re excitement if this would be you’re first time hearing it, but you will grow bored and irritated extremely quickly after a few days.

      You can simulate the GT5 affect by playing with the pitch control on a casio keyboard. I.e. there will be no nuance or character.

  58. Narly

    oh one question i do have:D… when were these clips recorded… it seems that somehow those are not from the “pre-final stage” shots… i think

  61. lilmann73

    I noticed at the end of the last vid, when the 458 rear ends the Lambo, the rear of the Lambo hops up a little bit in the air! :D

  62. Simon H

    This is all ridiculous, I didn’t think Nascars could even go around corners, maybe that’s why the guy is having so much trouble driving! Seriously, do Nascars even have steering wheels??

    1. Marcus

      I know what you mean they are basically designed to go left and straight. Imagine a co driver. Left 6 100 onto straight, Left 6 100 onto straight, Left 6 100 onto straight and so on

    2. RACECAR

      Thats a very ignorant comment. The NASCAR COTS do have steering wheels and while primerily setup to turn on Ovals, they can be setup to turn on road courses as well. Because they are heavy and don’t have any sort of steering assists like most racecars do, they require more finesse, something this guy clearly doesn’t have.

  65. gtfan

    PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!

    PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!

    PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!

    PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!

    2. Obli

      Agree – the sparks need to be more realistic; less of them and no sparks between cars that are at a similar speed

    3. organdonor

      of course the sparks are a work in progress, i highly doubt they would release a game with sparks going through the actual car.

    4. BWX

      PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!PLS PLS PLS REMOVE THOSE HIDIOUS SPARKS AFFECT…. IT RUINS THE QUALITY OF THE GAME!!!!

      DITTO!!!!!!

    1. Sam__NY

      Not that we’ve seen, but a Sony 3D TV commercial hinted it when a real Audi R8 V10 was sitting in the GT “area”.

  68. Praggia

    I think the sparks coming off the cars are a bit gimmicky
    doesnt look realistic and too over the top

  70. TokyoDrift

    Great, we have Microsoft style progress bars now that slow down as they get near the end, and in this case, even go backwards…FFS.

    2. tvensky

      long loading times have good explanation – ALOT THINGS TO LOAD! :) and its not so long, drink some tee or coffee, take a break!

    3. danielwhite74

      15 seconds loading times and people are complaining? Ever played Forza 3? That game gave us 30 seconds loading times at best, and another 5 seconds for the CGI spinning car sequence to load at the beginning of each race.

    4. organdonor

      my god some of you people would bitch if you were starving to death and were served a steak dinner and it was medium rare instead of well-done.

  72. Gulyo

    The weakness of the game gonna be undoubtedly poor machine sounds !!! I can not imagine how can be release a game in 2010 such a ridiculous sounds like these …

    2. SEIDO463

      @ Gulyo, comment on the sounds when you have heard them coming through speakers right infront of you.

    3. HugoStiglitz_420

      you really need to be playing the game to judge the sounds. music sounds horrible through bad cameras & youtube bcuz many important frequencies are almost non-exhistant, therefore making it unreasonable for even a mastering engineer to judge

    4. Carbonfibre

      Yet I still heard the uncanny synthetic tranny whine on the Nascar and the unmistakable thump of the aboriginal crash drum. The SLS/458 video isn’t new to me, that’s the infamous laughing stock.

      I’d rather have accurate and goose-bump inducing samples with the odd clipping issue rather than engines in GT5 that only sound realistic between certain rev bands.

  73. tvensky

    Great videos, drivers are pathetic, when some GT fan will drive properly to show “how we do it” :)

    1. Maxiboy

      Dude if the people playing the demos suck this hard with a simple track, standard physics AND all aids on, im glad we havent been subjected to watching them attempt drifting…

    2. Rich

      Although I disapprove of the constant “Woe is me, they can’t drive!” whining that proceeds every single video (it’s not easy to drive well on an unfamiliar setup in an unfamiliar car with people watching you), I actually think we’d see better driving if they turned all the aids off.

      In GT4 and 5P I always find the aids really difficult to use as they make the car’s handling unpredictable.

      In fact one of the things I’m hoping for most is a universal setting so you can turn the aids off in ALL cars at once, rather than have to do it for every single bloody car individually as in GT4.

    3. Marcus

      I agree with you rich i hate having to turn off the driving aids in all cars. Also i don’t think we need a drift demo just somebody powersliding on the tg test track

    5. organdonor

      @Rich, yes maybe them being in an unfimilar racing setup and unfimilar car is one thing, but if you notice they apply full throttle and no break going 120 mph around a sharp turn. Pls tell me in real life you wouldnt go full throttle with no break applied going around a 90degree turn.

    6. Rich

      Well obviously not, but that’s not really the point.

      It’s the subtext of all these ‘boo hoo hoo’ complaints that annoys, that of smug superiority. That anyone who is allowed to have a go should be a trained racing driver or they are somehow ‘not worthy’.

      The other thing here is that people who attend these events, be they members of the press or public are unlikely to be avid sim racers and so they are just doing what they do in Burnout or whatever.

      Plus they probably don’t give a s**t about a good lap time, they’re on a demo limited to two minutes so they’re just ragging it about for a bit of fun not trying to set a new track record…

  75. DrTrouserPlank

    Rather stupidly the first and third video was running in 3D mode which is why is all looks so awful and blurred.

    Also let’s hope that texture loading problem at 1.25 in video 1 is because of it struggling with the 3D rather than something we’ll see when playing normally.

  76. davissi

    Looks good again, shame about the driving obviously and watching it load lol still nice to see these clips though.
    I still get the impression that no matter what ends up in the game gone are the days of the majority of people being positive, I think it’ll get ‘trolled ‘ to hell. Its like the iphone 4 people will be desperate to find fault and ruffle up a big email campaign stink about the game. Especially those who favour other platforms and games.
    No matter what we end up with though I will be 100% happy anyway.

  77. GB

    Is it just me, or does the AI look pretty poor in these vids? CPU opponents just ramming straight rather than the avoiding manouvers we’ve seen before?

    5. MMtheory

      What? Are you drinking or something anomanous? The last poster “called him” , and “He” “awnsered”. Makes sense to me….

    7. Geo_212

      If they don’t improve the AI in the final version, it’ll be a major let-down… even Forza 3 has decent AI, and it’s not even a real simulator. (well, technically, GT5 isn’t a pure-bread simulator either…)

    1. danielwhite74

      Old damage system is old. When are Polyphony going to release footage of their new “real time deformation” engine?

    2. Vulcao

      danielwhite74,

      I’ve sent some (2 or 3 I think lol) screenshots to GTPlanet showing severe deformation. IT LOOKS GOOD, trust me. I think it’s going to be published soon. Just wait ;)

  79. William F.

    U know, what’s the point of recording a 3D TV? Even if u’ve got some 3D glasses you won’t see a thing

  80. Gamer GT5

    Awesome video. I wonder would we be able to drive convertibles and hardtops in the game just like in GT4. That would be cool if they have the nissan 370z roadster featured in it. I would be considering buying that car in real life.

  82. freakyclown

    interesting that they seemed to have two different builds there, the first two videos have the latest build (that we have seen) with the aweful looking gear changes and the last two videos have no gear changing animation and those cartoon like sparks.

    also of not is there only seems to be 8 cars in any race but maybe this is just a limitation of the demos or maybe just because they are in arcade mode (beginner level).

    Nothing new in these videos as far as I can tell, but good to see something!

  83. Gallagher

    Look at the road at 1:25 on the first clip! It looks like a clipping issue with the entire road! Or is this just because its in 3D or something?

    1. Blinkwing

      I posted it 2 posts ahead of yours, and its not a clipping-issue.
      clipping is 100% physical, so it doesn’t affect the graphics itself (only if there are clipping issues on walls, and the physical actor bugs through it and is visible on the other side).
      What I think is, that the error at 1:25 in the first video is an artifact, that gt5 comes to its limits displaying the maximum available amount of cars on one track. So, the cars have to be in the RAM all the time and the developers had to find a way to get the room for that.
      Their solution was: We just don’t cache too much environment.
      The problem is: When the PS3 reads the BluRay too slow, those errors appear. But it could also be the system itself, that is not optimized yet for this track.

    2. Blinkwing

      Not to forget, that the 3D feature is also a burden for the PS3 …
      Jordan, don’t forget to post that, because that is important information!

    3. r35-vspec

      Yea thanks for pointing that out. I remember this happening to me in Shutokou Battle PS2 version because the disc was way too scratched. It’s amazing how the PS3 can handle GT5+3D

  84. GTR12

    Anyone notice the “race type”, its set to rolling in the 3rd video. Just rolling and standing start?

    1. Maxiboy

      Yep I noticed that too … Dont remember that ever happening in Gt5P or any of the other ones. Prob shouldnt read anything into it though, it is a Beta demo version.

  86. George Washington

    but I will never understand these losers who hop into a demo setup WITH THE BRAKE LINE ON and just sail into the first corner EVERY TIME!

    1. V8SuperCars

      Agree 100% im starting to hate watching videos of GT5 cause everyone just drives like they have no idea at all and dont know how to drive a real car ie left pedal is brake, right is accelerate, it makes the game look so bad, that or GT5s physics are so horrid and on ice like? but im guessing the first reason.

    3. smthrlr

      Man, all you haters seem to know a lot about how a Forza player drives, even though, you know, you all HATE Forza and so probably don’t play it, and so probably have NO CLUE anyway.

      Is “massive inferiority complex” an oxymoron?

  87. Lachlan1662

    y doesn’t australia get ant thing like this! UK and US do and obviously japan unfair, wont matter any way coz even if it was in OZ for 1 reason or the other i would miss it ( sigh ) nov 2

    1. Grumpy Dave

      Simple Answer: Australia’s population is a drop in the ocean compared to other markets.
      Japan: 125 million
      USA: 300 million
      UK: 61 million
      Australia: 21 million.

    8. Klorenz

      Saying Australia is a continent is misleading. I would rather it be referred to as Oceania or Australasia. These are terms also in common use.

  88. djcorrosive

    LMAOOOOOOOOO AT THE GUY IN THE FIRST VIDEO!

    what a loser! He was fixing his hat and wearing his sunnies, like he was good, and couldn’t even go straight AT ALL hahahahhaha SHAME

    2. George Washington

      Yeah blurriness and the reflection of the guy taking off the glasses is a dead giveaway.

  91. Protocol

    looks like if you race with a nascar you HAVE to race against other nascar’s :( or maybe their aren’t any comparable cars in the demo to it.

    1. Sam__NY

      NASCAR is an acronym, not a word. I don’t drive an F1. I drive an F1 car. Same thing applies to NASCAR.

    3. Sam__NY

      That’s just your opinion because saying NASCAR car is grammatically correct. Even if you think it sounds stupid.

    4. MMtheory

      WTH are you even bothering to argue how to say it. The “correct way” is not by and large how the fanbase speaks of it. ESPN announcers, drivers, crew, and such go back and forth. So is everybody supposed to stop just because it’s grammatically incorrect? Not going to happen.
      BTW, I also here “drive an F1 car” shortened to “drive an F1” by fans and drivers, etc, has well. Not really a good argument for proper grammar has it pertains to NASCAR.

    6. Vulcao

      MMtheory,

      1) it’s “as well”, not “has well”.
      2) in the second post from Sam__NY, right before “Even if you think […]”, there shouldn’t be a full stop, but a comma.
      3) even my name is wrong. It should be Volcano.

      See? The world is wrong, the world is a misstake.

    8. Sam__NY

      @MMtheory- F1 is not an acronym, so it would not apply there, even if some Europeans call it “an F1”. I think the only reason people even started to call it “a NASCAR” was because it had the word “CAR” at the end of it, thereby causing people to think it was a NAS CAR.

    9. MMtheory

      Ehhh, mabey.
      Personnaly, I just think it’s because americans (yes, I am american) just like short slang and treating acronyms has whole words by themselves. If there is any way an acronym can be pronounced has a word, chances are americans will say it that way. (NASA, NOAA, “LAW” rocket,…etc)

    10. Sam__ NY

      “QUOTE-If there is any way an acronym can be pronounced has a word, chances are americans will say it that way.-QUOTE”

      Obviously, that’s why it’s called an acronym. It means you can pronounce the initials as a word. NASA, and NOAA are acronyms, however, Americans, and people in general, would never say, “hey look, I see some NASAs over there”. Meaning people who work for NASA “over there”. NASCAR, on the other hand, refers to an object, rather than an organization, in most people’s minds. Due to the “CAR” at the end of it.

    11. Just_two_cents

      Just to interject,
      I have heard airforce personnel refer to NASA employees has “NASAs” at Thule and Edwards airbases both. I.E., “Look at the NASAs just sitting and getting paid for it…” and things like that.
      I would not say it’s the common term, but it gets used. Pretty much anything like that can and does get shortened to “slang”. I have even heard NASA get butchered down to “NASies”, and “NASholes”, where they don’t even use the whole abreviation.
      I think the point that comes to mind to me, and apparently to others who have posted, is not that anyone really dissagrees with you that it is bad use of the english language, but rather some of us just wonder why bother correct people for a common practice, and who aren’t going to change the habit anyway?

    12. MMtheory

      Forgive me, I was not clear.
      I know an acronym means you can pronounce the initials as a word. What I ment is that americans like to shorten things further by using just the acro itself has slang, without car, or employee, or whatever other such words following when they should be.
      That’s why I put “LAW” in qoutes to seperate it from rocket. Has in “pass me a LAW to hit that tank with…”.
      My fault, bad choice of wording. It was ment to demonstrate that an object can be shortened down to just the acro, just like the listed organizations. Hehe, probbably should have picked organizations that had something to do with LAW rockets has well…

    13. Sam__NY

      I get what your both saying, however, I’m quite a devout NASCAR fan, and I generally don’t like to see it misused.

      @MMtheory- Why do you tend to use the word “has” in place of “as”?

    14. MMtheory

      @Sam__NY
      hehe, odd question….
      I am aware of the “has” and “as” thing. I am a high-functioning autistic though, and that can impair language skills.
      In my case, I had a vocabulary in the top 1% of the US population by the time I was in third grade, but I don’t grasp the mechanics of how to put all the words in the right place. Certain rules, though I have been corrected by many teachers, simply don’t become habit, while other things I develope (bad habits ussually) stick arround forever.
      When I win the lotto, I’ll hire a full time editor to follow me arround. Problem solved… ;)

    3. blademask

      Forza/Arcade drivers usually are the people that play these things.

      The dead give away is how they never seem to think about the laws of physics…

      You can’t stop from 100+mph while turning, on a dime. Or you can’t stop within 4 feet of a wall from 100mph.
      You can’t go WOT in a f`ing NASCAR let alone most of these cars while turning/general driving without traction.

      You can do that in most console games though. So Thats why its always the case.

  94. Jeffree Star

    I was there i liv 10 minutes away from this place ‘Convention center’

    I hate comic on
    But i just went to play the demo
    & left :).:)

    1. lado

      Hey just describe how does it feel to drive this demo, are the physics like in the time trial demo in december or is there a difference between the versions? I will be on gamescom in cologne i live less than an hour away from the convention.

    2. TokyoDrift

      If you had played the demo, you would have not felt the need to brag about it. Photo evidence, or you didn’t go.

    3. Yaycandy69

      i live only a couple mins from it too and i went for a little bit with my friend and we did play the demo and it was awesome. just felt like GT5 prologue but with different cars and tracks

    1. SZRT_Ice

      Dude… All of these are youtube videos… They’re imbedded into the web page. You can even see the “youtube” water mark in the corners!

    1. SZRT_Ice

      Dude… All of these are youtube videos… They’re imbedded into the web page. You can even see the “youtube” water mark in the corners!

    1. ICEMAN_ZIDANE

      1.Awesome Real driving (watch the Nascar video and the first corner)
      2.The guy in the 2nd video CAN’T drive
      3.ITs just awesome (Nordschleife +F458 will be amazing)

    2. Witham

      1.I thought sound was better, especially gear changes.
      2.It was funny to watch people who hadn’t had force feed back before driving.
      3.Game looked great fun and physics seem good, so i can’t wait untill nov 2.

    7. mauricio

      @ robert. i actually already preorder the collectors edition and i just hate forza, but come on. have you see the damage really working on, on a video maded by someone else that´s not polyphony? i just hope they are just wanting to give a big surprise at the end.
      and, there is a part on the last video where they are coming to the end, a gray ferrari overtakes the R8. it might be a dislocation of the bumper.

    8. NEED4FISH

      Why the track got dissapered in the 1:24~1:25 in the first video??? I don’t want this happen again in the full ver.!!!

    9. smthrlr

      @mauricio: Can someone explain to me why ppl around here can actually find it in themselves to HATE Forza? What IS that?

      Fanboyism at its ABSOLUTE FREAKING WORST, I guess.

    10. AGNT009

      Nice to see the cars still driving on rails. In the first video Tony and Brian were slowed down plenty and could have turned to the right to avoid Gordon and the pileup, but still drove into the mess, unable to leave the tracks they were on….

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