A fun series, RUINED.

User Rating: 3.5 | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue PS3
By johnskitt | Review Date:
The graphics are great, the sounds are great, it drives like a GT game. Polyphony did everything right, so why did they feel the need to TOTALLY RUIN the game with the RIDICULOUS new penalty system.

If it actually worked as it should, i.e with a semblance of logic, then I would be writing such words as BRILLIANT and ABOUT TIME. However the penalty system seems as arbitrary as the US legal system.

The Guantanamo factor hits you as you hit another car (either AI or online), the new system will decide to penalise you a number of seconds up to a maximum of 5 in which time you cannot accelerate.

Identical collisions result in ever different penalties, an innocuous tap can result in 5 seconds, a full shunt can be escaped unpenalised, is the AI driver similarly punished? Is he f*ck.

The element of annoyance brought about by this shower of sh*te will come as a shock to GT fans who pride themselves in playing a FAIR GAME which rewarded skill and track knowledge built up through hours of experience.

The penalty system introduces an unknown and quite frankly unknowable facet to the game which leaves the question:

Is GT headed the way of all other franchises? THE BIN.

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