Now I love Gran Turismo or at least I did but with the release of GT5 everything has changed.

I initially said GT5 was great, I mean look at those graphics they are amazing, but good graphics don’t make a good game do they, NO! So what is wrong then?

• Well plenty of things really, firstly everything takes an age to load, I don’t want to wait several minutes to get into each race plus how many updates have there been and some of them have been huge.
• How many cars do I need to buy and why is it such hard work to get them? I mean why do I get awarded the car I need to do the race at the end not get give it as a reward of doing the race before maybe? It just seems daft and tiresome to often buy a car that is way to quick for the rest of the cars in the race not making it fun at all, and a game should be fun.
• Why do the cars that I get given go into a truck for me to accept or well accept, why can’t go straight into my garage and for it to say new cars or for them to be highlighted when I go into it, another stupidly unnecessary step.
• Damage, its there but its not. Its only available on premium cars and you can only use it when you have got to a high experiencing level.  Why? every other racing game manages to make the a great damage model available from the very start I don’t want to wait and I shouldn’t have to.

But above all the biggest thing is that its just not fun enough, far too much time is waisted buying a car that isn’t quick enough for the race you enter or more often is the case is way way to quick. Let us choose from 5 cars that are all similar for each race or indicate which are the right once to pick without going into the race looking, coming out buying seeing it needs upgrading and then going back in again. It really does detract from this being a stunning game. In the end I’ve gone back to playing NFS Shift which has its fair share of issues but its still great fun to play.

They could have made the game great, we all waited long enough but in the end its a massive miss that they may never recover from, I certainly won’t be pre-ordering it again when the next release comes out.