How Realistic is Gran Turismo 5? Very Realistic!
January 21, 2010 by srfto
Polyphony Digital just recently showed a video of the game’s ‘Data Logger Visualization Technology’, which tracks a real life racer driving a lap and converts it to their video game.
‘Data Logger Visualization Technology’ captures every movement of the driver and also how the car handles in real life, such as calculating the G-Force, braking, acceleration, and other details that would help replicate the same scenario as a real racer would drive around a lap.
Toyota Motor Corporation and “Gran Turismo” held a event to show off this new feature and announced their collaboration to use this feature in a new project:
This collaboration is used to control the real world automotive vehicle CAN (Controller Area Network) using the GPS information and location information, “Gran Turismo” in real time to visualize what that is driving the vehicle.
CAN export to USB memory location information and that information, “Gran Turismo” and loaded into a simulation engine, “Gran Turismo” was visualizes as a video replay, you can also play as a ghost, help you analyze your driving or you can.
CAN has the right to information about G Force and handle and brake, accelerator operations, and includes rotational speed of each wheel and engine speed, allowing a highly accurate reproduction of the combination of vehicle and location information .
Pretty cool stuff, but if you ask me, Polyphony Digital has to release the damn game soon before I stop caring about how realistic the game is. No set date of release yet, but it is rumored to be hitting later this year..
Check out the video after the jump.
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Seriously? No!
I refuse to watch a video with a mandatory 30 second advertisement. If I wanted to stick something up my ass, I’d use my own fingers.
Yeah, video was OK – I’m using Firefox and it didn’t block it (through dig though). The commercials are pretty annoying, especially when you have to rebuffer between. On the other hand, I’m not looking to stick anything there…
Thanks, now I don’t watch it either
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Not if you know how to drive a car. It’s a simulator not a Need for speed game
never coming out… so who cares
what?…although the deveploer is known for long lead times between its games, GT marches on… they got to 4 didnt they?
that looked really unimpressive to me. The game footage looked much different than the real footage, and not any better that half a dozen other racing games already out there.
While watching the vid I am thinking the same thing. I am going, Forza 3 looks as good if not better. So I dont get all this hype and why this game has been in production for so long. It is not all that and a bag of chips like we area hearing.
Forza 3 looks looks shit all compared to this
Dont say “after the jump” tool.
graphics are amazing.
@James
you spent approxamatly 10-15 seconds looking at the fuckin’ page..bitch more
grid looks better.
GRID is in a league of it’s own. Best racing game out there.
been waiting for too long, gran turismo always been the best driving simulator game out there, worth the wait
I have played the Prologue edition that came out forever ago, and am not impressed. I have Forza 3 and it is much better. The graphics are amazing, there are a million cars, and the physics feel better. You can actually feel how close you are to the edge when you push the car. While playing GT i never felt that. I would race a track that i know from Forza and would go into a turn slightly too fast and the car would just slide off the track with no feeling that it was going to do that. It just didn’t feel right.
realistic graphics are only half the pie, high framerates are the other. If the fps drops below 60, it looks like a videogame.
because the human eye can only detect the difference at approx 30+ fps 60 is hardly required, now as long as the peak and lowest fps number don’t differ too much it will provide a realistic look then an actual arbitrary number of frames per second
I’m so sick of this false statement.
The difference between 30fps and 60 fps is very noticeable. For competitive PC frag gaming you can tell the difference between 60fps and 100fps as well (CRT monitor).
Maybe you’re thinking about movies running at only 24fps? Well that’s because they have blurring from the camera. each frame blurs into the next, while video games are akin to a flip book.
Why should I watch an ad before watching an ad?
Because you need to buy buy buy.
Interesting clip, but the graphics quality is piss poor. I do like the leaning effect the seem to have given the cockpit view, very similar to Forza3. However Forza’s graphics look nicer, and we still don’t know much about GT5’s physics
gt5 needs more shaking of the car
Thanks, won’t bother watching the video either.
This is the internet not TV, don’t force me to watch a god damn commercial.
The article & video show you how close the in-game car compares to the real thing.
If you want to play a game, buy GRID or any other arcade game.
This is a simulator. And it’s just as boring to some as the real-life counterpart.
For other people, The perceived realism is exactly what they are looking for.
You see, there is something for everyone.
No need to be a fanboy.
P.s. Piss of with the ads already.
If you want real go with iRacing. Track are laser scanned and vehicle dynamics are second to none. I’m sure GT5 will be a great game but for true simulation iRacing is on top.
What do you mean… “after the jump”? The video is right below your words. What does that even mean?