I was rather disappointed this week to find out that the great looking weather and day/night features from the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 will not be universally available throughout the game.
The official track list has been released and along with it comes info about the different tracks as well as whether or not they support the time and weather features. It makes you wonder if things have really been taken too far, and if we should have already had GT5 a while back, and be looking forward to GT6 with all of the features available on all of the tracks.
I was also really disappointed when I saw just how few tracks actually support the features.
Here is a list of the tracks in Gran Turismo 5, please note that these are the main track names and do not include all the variants and versions of each track. I have however put the number of variants in brackets.
So, out of all of these tracks and variations, how many do you think have weather and time?
World Circuits
Fuji Speedway (2)
Suzuka Circuit (2)
Daytona International Speedway (2)
Tsukuba circuit (1)
Circuit de la Sarthe (4)
Nurburgring (5)
Indianapolis Speedway (2)
Autodromo Nazionale Monza (2)
The Top Gear Test Track (1)
Laguna Seca Raceway (1)
Gran Turismo Originals
High Speed Ring (2)
Cape Ring (5)
Autumn Ring (4)
Deep Forest Raceway (2)
Grand Valley Speedway (4)
Eigar Nordwand Track (2)
City
London (2)
Rome (2)
Circuit de Mardrid (4)
Tokyo R246 (2)
Cote d’Azur (1)
Special Stage Route 5 (4)
Special Stage Route 7 (1)
Dirt and Snow
Eiger Norwand (6)
Toscana (2)
Chamonix (4)
Now, if I add those variations up (and I do so quickly so I hope I was correct), I get 69 total variations.
Out of those 69, only 14 total variations feature weather or time, and in most cases, not both.
They are the following:
Suzuka Circuit – Weather
Circuit de la Sarthe 2009 – Time / Weather
Nurburgring Nordschleife – Time
Nurburgring 24 hr – Time / Weather
Autodromo Nazionale Monza – Weather
High Speed Ring – Weather
Eiger Nordwand Short Track – Weather
Special Stage Route 7 – Weather
Toscana – Time
Toscana Reverse – Time
Chamonix Main – Weather
Chamonix East – Weather
Chamonix West – Weather
Chamonix Mini – Weather
So just to reiterate, these are the only variations noted as having weather or time, not the complete tracks and their variations. In some cases they have listed many tracks as having weather or time, but not the same for the same tracks in reverse, which makes me wonder.
Either way, I am pretty disappointed about this. Sure I am looking forward to the incredible looking weather effects and even the time of day feature, but it feels like in order to finally get this game out the door, they had to stop in the middle of even more additions to the game.
Last Updated: November 15, 2010
spl0it
November 15, 2010 at 15:46
So glad I am not a racing fan because GT5 is looking less and less apealing.
al360
November 15, 2010 at 16:03
Polophony is a bunch a asswipes i want a discount on my signature edition MOFO’s!! :biggrin:
ewie
November 15, 2010 at 16:38
Acording to lands this is the best game ever.
But.
Only certain tracks are complete 2 (all features)
and only 20% (stand corrected ) of all cars are complete – have some damage and high definition . where the rest is just half baked.
And you waited how many years for this ?
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:08
@Sploit
Here’s the thing, why don’t you play the game and make your on opinion
I dunno looking at this vid is it really that unattractive, the course editor is where you can create weather for in infinite amount of tracks.
Don’t listen to the haters, you’ll never get evr1 to agree and if you think like a sheep you will always get average things like mcdonalds and forza and think its great!
Watch this vid and buy this game next week honestly ill buy the game off you im serious if you dissapointed!
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:10
ewie you misinformed grunt
The Course editor is flexible enough to add dynamic weather on any track you create, so why you moaning
Honestly
Play the Game not the news ewie
and dont call me lands ffs!
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:22
HATERS GONNA HATE!
FOR THOSE WHO WANT THE TRUTH!
FOLLOW….THE LINK GT FAITHFUL ONLY
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:23
YOU CAN MAKE INFINTE AMOUNT OF TRACKS WITH WEATHER!
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:24
THE TRUTH SHALL SET U FREE IN THE WORLD OF GT!!!
GRRRR!
I HATE WHINY BITCHES SO FFING BAD!
lans
November 16, 2010 at 00:27
Weather AND Daytime settings for every Course Maker-Track!!!!!
Gavin Mannion
November 16, 2010 at 03:38
So you can just recreate the tracks that don’t have weather and add weather then yourself… ingenious plan.
😉
Fox1
November 16, 2010 at 06:54
This game should not be reviewed. Its just asking for trouble from fanboys that are going to slate the reviewer and Forza fanboys that are going to have the biggest lol of their lives.
Gavin Mannion
November 16, 2010 at 07:59
yeah Nick’s really looking forward to it 😆
Uberutang
November 16, 2010 at 09:06
They need to leave the door open for DLC…
Fox1
November 16, 2010 at 09:26
Send him some body armour please :biggrin:
Nick de Bruyne
November 16, 2010 at 10:39
@lans
That track editor doesn’t let you design specific tracks from what I saw, only pick a few rules and settings like amount of corners and how twisty the track is etc, etc.
Krypty
November 16, 2010 at 11:18
Who wants to play edited tracks anyway with weather. You want the officials tracks you numb nut lands.
Bobby Kotick for Dummies
November 16, 2010 at 11:29
Screw you guys, I’m still getting GT5!
Krypty
November 16, 2010 at 12:27
I totally agree, go buy the game. I think it is going to be a awesome game. My problem is that the company promised something and now they are delivering sub par.
And now some people are jumping up and down trying to defend it. Who wants a 1000 cars but 500 is almost the same. Rather go with with 200 – 300 and get exclusives.
Who wants always weather on edited tracks. I can promise you now only 2 – 5% of people will play edited tracks. You want all the official tracks that will be played multiplayer etc. If you have to download a new track every race for 5 minutes that is a no go.
At the end of the day it stays a GAME and is there to enjoy, if you want a REAL Driving simulator, go outside and climb in a car a drive around the block and make high pitching sound noises simulating that of the super cars.
NiteFenix
November 16, 2010 at 12:34
Maybe Polyphony just got tired of hearing people whine and bitch so they released GT5 and now they are officially starting on development of GT6 which will blow you all away with everything they ever promised and more.
lans
November 16, 2010 at 13:31
lands? @krypty i will crush ur face my name is not lands!!!!!!!!
lans
November 16, 2010 at 13:38
@sploit assuming and trying to downplay gt? Dont you have anything better to do?
Bobby Kotick for Dummies
November 16, 2010 at 13:42
He’s bored of Kinect already Ians, now he has nothing better to do.
lans
November 16, 2010 at 14:13
How can you be so down on a game that looks like this?
:/ methinks people have gotten crazy
mauro
November 28, 2010 at 11:12
How about someone actually finishes the game before criticizing it or reviewing it.
Stewie Griffin
December 6, 2010 at 11:57
lol… 2017 is the year…
Stewie Griffin
December 6, 2010 at 12:11
:whistle: Lmfao…
:w00t: is the best game ever,for the ps3
:sick: and the best simulator ever,for the ps3
:sleeping: is for the super fantastic numb AI console called PS3.
😉 yes that is the best you can have on the ps3.
:angry: GT5 is arcade and not a simulator!!!