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Rozgrywka ma być oparta na zawartej niedawno współpracy PoDi z FIA. Ogólnodostępna beta ma ukazać się na początku 2016 roku.
granturismo.com napisał(a):The latest instalment of the Gran Turismo franchise, which as of March 2015 has sold over 75 million copies worldwide, is coming to PlayStation®4 with the name “Gran Turismo SPORT”!
The graphics, sound and physics engine will be the most realistic ever experienced in a driving simulator thanks to the new
platform and the new technologies, but that alone would be a too obvious improvement: the way driving
games are played will also undergo a huge revolution with “Gran Turismo Sport”.
This is a vision that invokes the rebirth of motorsports.
In “Gran Turismo SPORT”, there will be two online championships running simultaneously: In the Nations Cup, players represent their
home country and in the Manufacturers Cup, players represent their favourite car manufacturer. Players can not
only race as drivers themselves, they can also root for their home country or their favourite
manufacturers teams as a spectator.
And the winner of a championship will be awarded at the FIA awards ceremony, in the same manner as real life
motorsports champions: this will be a historical moment, the day when a video game will be
officially recognised at the same level of motorsport.
The major difference between real life motorsports and “Gran Turismo SPORT” is in the fact that anyone, from children
to the elderly, can participate and enjoy racing.
Even players who have never played driving games until now can discover how fun it is to drive!
Whilst at the same time, it will have the depth and complexity to meet the
expectations of the existing Gran Turismo fans.
The FIA, with over 100 years of fabulous motorsports history, has become a partner in the challenge for innovation
undertaken by “Gran Turismo SPORT”. Being able to make this announcement in Paris is special to us, as
it’s the very city where motor racing first started and is also home to the FIA.
Together, Gran Turismo and the FIA will build the next 100 years of motorsports.
GTPlanet napisał(a):3 Game Modes
GTPlanet can confirm that GT Sport will include three distinct game modes: “Campaign”, “Sports Mode”, and “Arcade Mode”. This nomenclature is an interesting departure from what we’ve seen in the most recent titles, suggesting the game will take a different route in its overall structure.
FIA Gran Turismo Online Championship
The FIA aims to formally ratify the “Gran Turismo Online Championship” at the organization’s next World Motorsport Council meeting. Two championships will be held simultaneously throughout the year: the “Nations Cup” and “Manufacturers Cup”, where players represent either their country or their favorite car manufacturer.
Once ratified, the FIA will manage the series directly as any of their other franchises, including the World Rally Championship, Formula 1, World Endurance Championship, etc. The winners will be honored at the FIA’s annual prize-giving ceremonies in Paris.
Live “E-Sports” Events
The Nations Cup and Manufacturers Cup will have “live” components, presumably similar in form to the regional finals held around the world each year for GT Academy. Polyphony Digital and Sony are actively looking to promote Gran Turismo as an “e-sports” platform to promote virtual motorsports in the future.
We have also learned that organized “online events” are also planned to be held on a regular basis.
PlayStation VR Support Confirmed
There’s no doubt about it – Gran Turismo Sport will be fully compatible with the PlayStation VR virtual-reality headset. This will have a profound impact on the gameplay experience, as racing games have long been considered one of the best applications of VR technology.
“Through the testing that we’ve performed so far, the experience looks to be something that’s very good, and very natural,” Kazunori Yamauchi said during his presentation.
As of writing, there is no solid release date for the PlayStation VR yet, though it’s currently set for sometime during the “first half of 2016”. It’s likely to be closely tied to the full launch of Gran Turismo Sport.
Improved Graphics, Physics, & Sounds
This isn’t much of a surprise, but the physics will reportedly be improved to take advantage of the PS4’s additional processing power. Engine sounds have also been a priority for Polyphony Digital since the launch of Gran Turismo 6, and GTPlanet has learned the company’s new sound engineer Mike Caviezel has been hard at work to change the way the sounds are generated.
We’ll finally be able to hear his progress when we get our first hands-on look at GT Sport.
GT Academy 2016 & Vision GT
We’ve been hearing off-the-record for quite some time that GT Academy 2016 will be hosted on the PlayStation 4, and it appears all but confirmed that GT Sport will be the new platform for Nissan’s annual gamer-to-racer competition.
Kazunori mentioned both GT Academy and Vision GT during his presentation, discussing how both programs made history in the past, and how Polyphony hopes to continue doing so in the future with GT Sport.
2016 Launch Date, Public Beta in Spring
The PlayStation Blog has confirmed the game will launch in 2016, with a “Spring 2016” window for Gran Turismo Sport’s beta. During his presentation in Paris, Kazunori announced that the game will begin open beta testing with “everyone in the game community” starting “early next year”. What does this mean, exactly?
Since the launch of PlayStation 4, several major titles have public beta versions of their game on the PlayStation Network, including Star Wars: Battlefront and Uncharted 4. They are essentially pre-release demos, which offer an early look at the game.
Gran Turismo, of course, has a long history of such previews – older fans will no doubt recall Gran Turismo HD which released as a download-only title on the PlayStation 3 back in 2006. It gave us our first look at the Eiger Nordwand circuit along with online leaderboards and a small collection of new cars. There was a similar demo for GT5: Prologue, though it was only released in Japan.