I hate the game. But I can understand how some people just love playing those real, nice cars. Those manufacturers are idiots about making sure their cars don't look damaged.

I've got to say, the main reason I won't buy a GT game is because of the no damage. Not that I'm a huge racing game fan anyway, but if the game looked that good, had realistic physics, and had damage I might be tempted to at least give it a look. But, like Niero said that's why Burnout is the better choice as far as I'm concerned.

It has to do with the specific licensing of those cars by those makers. It's about a realistic game using realistic cars. Trust me, I've heard this a million times from devs who work on these games.

Some manufacturers are OK with it in certain circumstances.

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I hear it's big in Britain.

<i>Enough people are preferring Burnout over this so it's only a matter of time before these suits get it.</i>
Which explains why GT4 has sold over 7 million copies and Burnout isn't even close. GT4 has been prided over realism for, oh, forever, while Burnout just tries to capture the thrill of crashes. Many people prefer to play GT4 for that reason, and while it's still cool to crash things, the racing in Burnout is pretty abysmal. That and 750 cars, many of which are so important to history and evoltion of cars that kids these days have no idea what is so important about them. Besides, you shouldn't be crashing anyway; that's kinda the point.

Did Ferrari also make them lower the front of the car? WTF, it's like touching the asphalt... hehe. Assfault.

Yeah, it is dropped, good catch bhive.

@ bhive01
the ferrari in GTHD is braking, and the weight is transferring forward. the car leans forward when braking heavily, thats why it looks lower. look around the car and you can tell it is approaching a turn. the GTHD pics have cars that are moving versus real life ferraris that are idle.

on the whole damage thing, i thought i remember hearing somewhere (maybe magic box) that Yamauchi said there will be damage modeling. i would rather wait and see them do it right, than the half assed damage modeling in forza and other games. but you all realize what youre asking for, right? i bet GT damage modeling is gonna make the game much harder. if they make damage realistic, then you can total your car on the last lap and get a big DNF.

So i'm guessing from reading all these replies that there won't be any damage in GT5?

Exactly. Gran Turismo has been trying to grab the arcade market with their Rally Mode since part 3. At some point the reality of car damage needs to be in this game if it's going to be the best racing simulator. I'm not saying the cars have to explode into 5000 pieces and flip, but I want some deep dents!

Ok all of you nuttchugging fuckwads...I can take it the ignorance surrounding this "game" no more. Kazunori allready said in multiple interviews that GT5 WILL have damage. It has not been done b4 NOT because of car manufacturers saying do not do it. They did said it for the 1st GT when Kaz had to practically beg them to let him put their cars in the game. After the 1st GT sold millions the car companies were beating down his door. The reason (and he says this in the interview) is that he wanted to do it right. The PS1 and PS2 were not capable of producing accurate damage. The PS3 on the other hand...IS more than powerful enough to do the damage like Kaz wants it. So boys and girls the finished GT5 will have damage, online, and of course hundreds of cars. By the way, GTHD is running on an early version of the GT5 engine. Key word here, EARLY. He also said that there will be future updates to the demo b4 GT5 comes out. So, just like Gran Turismo 2000, (remember that one boys and girls?) GTHD will look like dated when the finished GT5 is released. I still remember at E3 2000 when people were saying that the demo for GT2000 was to good to be true...it only had one car on one track at a time...sound familiar? That is all.
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P.S. If I can find the interview that I mentioned...I will post a link to it...might take a while though...it is more than a year old.
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Here is another one...my work is done.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/564/564826p1.html

Forza 2 FTW!