My First Gran Turismo

I usually love racing games, but this one's realism is too much. When it says it's a simulator, it feels even less than a sim because it's so damn boring.

In order to be able to do anything, you first have to get a set of licenses, or in other words, pass the tutorials.

I found myself being bored to sleep by God awful jazz arrangements of When The Saints Go Marching In and some other sleep inducing song I will not bother looking up to be reminded of.

The game feels like, and I exadurate to clafiry, it feels like you spend hours waiting to start a tutorial, while some woman's voice over explains everything that can't be skipped, in order to literally do a 8 second thing in game. If you replay for gold times, you'd better not operate any heavy machinery for a week after playing.

I got so fed up with the tutorials that I didn't bother with the last one and just wanted to get into it and race. It felt like an eternity.

Then, the mechanics of the game are just as boring. Having to come to almost a stop from high speeds to make certain corners, yet can easily navigate others is nothing bit AI programed BS. It's no fun when you can't throttle it and just drift or have an alternate fun way to take sharp turns rather than just come almost to a halt, or else your steering jams up and you end up in a wall... yeah, it's trying to be real, but that's not how it actually is.

I pretty much only downloaded it as it shows a Lamborghini Countache, and as expected, it's like a final unlock on the hardest difficulty to get, and nothing at all else interested me after the Ferrari. So I'm just not wasting time with this, grinding, being bored to death with sleep inducing jazz music, and playing the same couple of tracks over and over to unlock the most boring of cars.... I mean, seriosly, a Volvo sedan?? Seriosly??

I'll stick to any of the good racing games over this boring title with a god-awful drift system.

No wonder it's free. The devs knew they'd be selling snake oil to pass this off as of any value to consumers.

Just a quick review here as "My First Gran Turismo" is essentially a demo, though one that is released as a small stand-alone game.

Undertake a number of time trials in an attempt to earn increasingly difficult driving licenses and unlock new cars. Playing the game successfully requires the ability to identify and follow racing lines and correctly use and release the break to get in and out of corners.

.. and that's where the games loses me. Every few years I say to myself that it's time I learned how to play serious racing games properly. I dutifully do a couple of the tutorials and get so far - but then the same question hits me every time, why? Why am I doing this when I can play Mario Kart, or Burnout or have fun and not slowly crash into this wall again and again. The problem I accept is me. It's right in the title that Gran Turismo is not a driving game, it's a driving simulator. I can't drive in real life either, so I don't really know just how accurately the are simulating the experience, but there reasonably famed for it, so I assume pretty well.

I played this for around half an hour before the inevitable happened. It looks amazing though and the audio was fine. See you again in another few years.