Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Launch Center

The premier racing simulation series is back for its fifth iteration. Gran Turismo 5 Prologue lets you race more than 60 highly detailed cars from manufacturers such as Ferrari and BMW on six tracks including Suzuka Circuit and London City, and includes support for up to 16 players online with detailed leaderboards. Keep an eye on our launch center for the latest news and previews, plus our review.

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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue may be only a practice lap for the real thing, but it's a beautiful joyride while it lasts.
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141 Comments

  • BullOfRage

    Posted Aug 2, 2008 1:15 am PT

    Can someone tell me if the is a rally class like there was previously, and if there is damage to cars?

  • coin13

    Posted Jul 24, 2008 10:18 am PT

    is this 4 wii & X360 also?

  • punkologist

    Posted Jul 20, 2008 3:02 pm PT

    I'm a XB360 and PS3 Owner.

    I bought the PS3 for GT. Can;'t wait for the full version but I'm still enjoying prologue.

    Forza 2 was a great game and I think it can only be good for GT to have some serious competition. (maybe they will want to match the damage modelling!!!).

    Forza 3 I'm sure will continue that.

    I'll be happy playing both I'm sure. I'm sick of all this fanboyism.

  • trusake3

    Posted Jul 15, 2008 6:17 pm PT

    I want the actual GT5, not the prologue, it better come out soon too or I'm suing somebody!!

  • akl712

    Posted Jun 30, 2008 1:33 pm PT

    I wish they can make these graphics for PS2.

  • luna_chanfui

    Posted Jun 20, 2008 12:57 am PT

    "Forza 3 is the greatest and it will outsold GT5 and it will have more realistic graphics and more to simulation and it's the best racing game ever ..."

    logically, if they said " 100 tracks and 500 cars in 2 DVDs", do you think that the realisticm characteristics can be compared to the GT5, which will use bluray disc?

    if you r playing 360, just stick to your forza, no need to compare GT.. I think GT gamers don't even talk about Forza.. when talking about it, they might said "ok.. ....." "oic.... ........" "oh is't?...... ..........." "I might try this game ...... ..........well......" now we're waiting for GT5 online system that support multi-player up to 16 players works perfectly. gamespot scored 7.5 for GT prologue i might agree, too much 360 fanboys here include the author themselves(lol) and GT do need a lot of improvements like online gameplay.

    and who cares Forza might have the characteristics that r listed above?! I just know that GT is the world best selling racing game. Experts and Racers use GT to practice indoor .
    Top Gear do a lot of reviews in GT and even will have special channel in GTTV.
    GT has its special exclusive Steering Controller made by Logictect.
    GT is working for car damages that we haven't seen before, the damages might be downloadable for GT5 prologue, promising us that'll be the most realistic racing simulator ever. so GT5 might postpone to late 2008
    Car manufactures like Ferrary, Nissan,Toyota,Citroen.. have big and strong relationship with GT and have cooperation in developing GT. GT is sponsoring 24-hours Nurburgring Races.
    GT developers help to design multi-functional meters display for Nissan GT-R..
    Every poligon shape and physical part of car is made 40 times of Playstation 2, ultimating the power of Cell (military)processor and Bluray

    everything is GT now..

    The Drive of Your Life...

  • financeranger

    Posted May 1, 2008 1:19 pm PT

    PGR, snore.... BTW do not compare a prologue to a full game version that would be short-sighted

  • Zerosumgame

    Posted Apr 22, 2008 12:51 pm PT

    Downloaded it through PS Network and you know what I think? There might never be a driving game that can surpass the GT franchise. PGR is now officially a bargain bin item.

  • daveg1

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 5:17 am PT

    i might get tgis today since i can get it for just 17 squid.

  • Woofdog2

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 1:00 pm PT

    Hey hey, his words, not mine. He's bound to say something like that about a rival game to his own anyway. I don't know about Forza, I've never played it, but I do think GT5 will eventually be a very very good game.

  • n3ck

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 11:21 am PT

    Forza2 Lacks quality? mabe the grafix could be better but thats it, and the grafixs are good, but there is improvement to be made. Forza2 is the first RPG racing sim, and its good regardless of GT5. I own both games and can promise you that where GT5 Prologue is at the moment, its not a patch on Forza2 in any department other than lighting and replays. I'm sure GT5 will improve but as it stands its not ready to take on Forza2.

  • Woofdog2

    Posted Apr 20, 2008 5:25 am PT

    Well the link is basically an interview with the game's creator, Kazunori Yamauchi. In it he talks about, among other things, damage, and how it will take a long time, but will be in GT5. He also mentions how the PSP version is STILL in development, and how he can't play Forza for too long as he "can't stand the lack of quality"! He also mentions more interfacing online, with car clubs and racing teams etc. There's still a long left to go before the final game, and I hope they take their time.

    About prologue being a nearly finished game, he says that's just the best they can put out at the moment, but there will be a major update before the final release, including damage and community features.

  • n3ck

    Posted Apr 19, 2008 5:52 pm PT

    Woofdog2 I looked and i can't get the link to work. I don't think damage will happen, sony have lied so much with PS3 i just don't believe them anymore. Every car takes a month just to draw with no damage, the fact that they are having 700 cars in the game indicates to me that damage will not be present, it would take too long to draw damage for 700 cars with only 1 yr left. Also they never called this a demo they called it Prologue which to me means nearly finished game as in the actual game, all there adding now is content. I hope i'm proved wrong as i want GT5 to be great, but i'm not going to fanboy and pretend its the greatest racing game ever!

  • Woofdog2

    Posted Apr 19, 2008 1:33 pm PT

    n3ck, there will be damage in GT5 final

    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=130180

    Interview with Kazunori Yamauchi

  • xXxZooYork182xX

    Posted Apr 19, 2008 7:31 am PT

    I think it looks amazing, N3ck you need to chill. The Graphics are the best I think I have ever seen on a racing game.

  • n3ck

    Posted Apr 19, 2008 4:08 am PT

    I think gamespot were quite generous giving it 7.5, I wouldn't even give it a 4. IGN WILL look stupid giving such a broken game 8.5, and to those who say its just a demo, YOUR PAYING MONEY FOR IT, YOU RATE IT LIKE ANY OTHER GAME YOU PAY MONEY FOR.

  • theNEXTguy

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 3:40 pm PT

    A good fix for the GT junkie.

    Ok, I'm not getting to much into the demo debate. It is what it is, it's priced how it's priced. It's either worth paying to you, or it's not. Dry you eye, and drink your juice.

    I for one have some really mixed feelings about this. The game is beautiful, not questioning that. As someone who always used the in-car view since GT1, I am so stoked about the in-CAR in-car view they've added.

    I can't tell if it's just the fact that you can watch how much lock you are dialling in, or if they've just spent some time calibrating the steering sensitivity to cater for a joypad just as much as a wheel, but it's a lot easier to be smooth in the corners. It's all good really.

    And the on-line gives the series a lift in terms of the unpredictable nature of real 'drivers'. I was so entertained on my first spin around High Speed Ring, Where I couldn't even see the track at corner two for all the tyre smoke, then a car suddenly rolls backwards across the track, and I narrowly missed it on the right hand side before swinging left hard on the breaks to get around the corner - ace! You never get that from the in game AI.

    Downsides?

    Really, my only complaint wih the game (aside from the fact that my home page calendar seems to have stopped on 4th Apr - anyone else?) is the way the online racing works.

    First (and biggest mistake), you can not choose who you race against. Friend lists be damned, you choose a track to race on. Click the button and it will allocate you to a random grid of strangers before kicking you back out to the track select screen. No rematches guaranteed if you narrowly lost out, or someone spun you off the track. No owning your mates with your mad-racin'-skillz, nowt. Aside from the bad driving I've seen on there, you may as well be racing against the computer again. This is poor, and something I genuinely hope gets addressed - either by download update or in the final product. In fact because of that deficiency in the social on line game this keeps losing out to CoD4 for my evening gaming, even though I prefer driving games to an FPS.

    Second gripe. It's also about the online, and it's the crazy physics that come in to play, attempting to give everyone a better racing experience. This consists of two things:

    A) 'power loss' penalties if you either, unfairly hit an opponent, or if you hit the barriers hard.

    B) temporary removal of collision physics, for cars the system deem to be driving erratically - so for example if you spin mid corner while surrounded by other people, you can 'ghost' right through them, rather than wipe out half of the field and be hated for ever (well, the next two minutes, until the race finishes and you never see any of these people again).

    Now surely this is all very good right? Can't go barging people off the track and sleep at night can you? Don't want your driving mistakes to cost someone else?

    Wrong!

    Don't take this the wrong way, I can see what they are trying to do, and appreciate why they are trying to do it. It's just the the excecution is nothing short of pants.

    My reasons for this are at least threefold:

    Scenario 1: Coming into a sharp corner, the person behind me misses their braking point, locks up and skids. On goes the ghost physics, so they overtake me by driving right through my car. They skid right across the track, and manage to scuff the barrier with less force than it takes to invoke the power loss penalty, and then the barrier scoops them round and on to the straight with more speed than if they'd just driven the corner properly. That might be fun if you are 12, but it's not racing.

    Scenario 2: Racing last night, along the straight on high speed ring again. person gets just on my right rear 3/4s and then tries to come across to the left - may have been a mistake, may have been intended but they give me a nudge. I'm in and FR car, and they've just sent me into a full tilt slide. i try to correct it. Almost catch it, but ultimately fishtail it down the straight for a bit before it snaps me into the barrier - which invokes the power loss penalty, and then also imposes the no physics thing, so the person who caused my crash goes on unimpeded. By driving right through my car.

    Scenario 3 Cornering, miss my breaking point, just tap the person in from of me enough to make them lose their line. The collision is not hard enough to slap the power loss penalty on me, but i've just put someone who was running in 1st place into the barrier on the second lap of a two lap race - no headset chat so I can't apologise. I felt bad, all the way to the finish line. Then pocketed their first place cash. Ho hum.

    Oh, another one:

    Scenario 4. You are aproaching a part of the track where the people ahead have just spun. there can be cars flying all over the place, and because of that they've all got the 'no physics' flicker going on. So you just drive ahead on your existing line, right? NO! The no physics think switches off just in time for you to T bone someone, and loose all your speed while firing them off down the track without having to accelerate.

    You know what, I need to:

    Shut my whinge.
    Stop playing so much CoD.
    Complete the A driving event, and get racing on the pro events:
    I'mn hoping that will feature more people who just want a clean race.

    NOTE:
    Sorry for the stupidly long comment - They've just switched on my ability to leave comments, and I clearly need to vent.

  • n3ck

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 8:00 am PT

    GT5 is well off the mark, all these fools saying its realistic probably never even driven a car in real life, grow up! its nothing like the real thing. Handling is wrong as hell, drifting is all wrong, crashes are a total joke, cant mod cars so the fastest car is the fastest end of, Online is TERRIBLE, cars jump , slowdown , game even crashes. This game deserves 7.0 at best. Really fake feel to the whole game. The final version should be better but this is basically it, there will not be any crash modeling as it takes a month to make one car without any crash physics. Forza2 is far superior in every way, the only thing GT5 has is grafix and replays, everything else is crap in GT5, except that things have moved on and GT is still living in the past on PS1.

  • dairyboy3065

    Posted Apr 18, 2008 7:08 am PT

    WTF???
    ONLY A 7.5???
    I think gamespot is loosing there touch. serisely only 7.5???
    IGN=8.5~ I can't trust gamespot anymore. they r a frking retardo

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