EU, as in Europe. No news for us yet on a Gran Turismo 5 demo.
The European PlayStation Blog confirms that a demo of the long awaited PS3 version of Polyphony Digital's only claim to fame is coming December 17th. They're calling it the GT Academy 2010 Time Trial, where all of Europe will race down to the top twenty from each country, all using the above pictured car, a Nissan 370Z. A posting of top times is required by January 24th. Then, the top twenty nationally will go on to the GT Academy. Win it all and become a real frickin' race driver, thanks to Nissan and Sony.
I'd bet they give us the demo too. Not the cool contest, though.
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2:20 PM on 12.03.2009
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Bah, living on the land. I live in freaking Utah and I'm still going to be getting this when they put it up.
Also, Omega Boost and Tourist Trophy weren't bad games.. right?
Omega Boost was amazing.
Oh well, at least this shit is coming to light.
Second: This game is never coming out.
The demo will be available to North America, just GT Academy is not. (Which is gay, but whatever...)
Unless the full damage features are in it, of course.
Have you even played Prologue or know anything of GT5? Are you aware of the previous GT Academy that just concluded with a series podium finish? Doesn't seem that way. Fuck off troll.
You are aware that I own boxed copies of every single Gran Turismo game to date, and it is common practice to grind on corners instead of doing them properly.
And yes, it worked just fine in Prologue as I remember a lot of people complaining on this very site that people were abusing that technique to bolster their times unfairly.
That's an extreme version of the principle I'm on about. I think about 4/5 tracks you could do that on and win with no participation at all.
It still exists that you can crash into a corner to get around it quicker than you would otherwise.
Hell, the same happens on Forza 3, just your time is invalidated for doing so.
The Spanish PlayStation Store is in on this, right?
Since about Spec-3 got GT5:p there is a pretty severe penalty for hitting a wall at speed... I don't even know of any places left that work for that. The biggest issue now is cutting the grass on Suzuka before the hairpin, but most people dont do it.
And if you really owned all the games you wouldn't make a statement like this:
"And yes, it worked just fine in Prologue as I remember a lot of people complaining on this very site that people were abusing that technique to bolster their times unfairly."
If you owned the game you wouldn't "remember people complaining"... you would just play the damn game and say "I see it all the time."
But alas, you're a liar, typical of the internet.
yes Spain is part of the EU :-)