GT Sport was an amazing game, and successfully transformed Gran Turismo into a viable and popular e-sport, but for long-time fans of the franchise, it lacked meaningful single player content. With the release of Gran Turismo 7, developer Polyphony Digital is very much returning to the series’ origins, with the GT Campaign.
This is anchored by a three-dimensional map, where you can purchase cars, engage in license tests, and much more. Series creator Kazunori Yamauchi explains: “GT Campaign mode is a place where individual players will take their own unique journeys and gain life learning experiences.” You’ll be competing in various events all over the world, including – we hope – the Weekend Cup.
But the CaRPG doesn’t end there: you’ll also be tuning your vehicles, cleaning them at the Car Wash, and collecting them in the GT Café. This almost sounds a little bit like the card collecting in sports games like Ultimate Team: you’ll be tasked with completing “collections”, like Japanese compact cars, in order to earn in-game prizes and rewards.
This is shaping up really nicely: we’re sure it’ll still include all of the industry-leading online elements that were popularised by GT Sport, but it’s adding in all of the classic campaign content on top. We’re confident that Polyphony Digital will continue to improve and iterate on the game throughout the generation, so this could comfortably become the definitive sim racer on PS5.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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My only gripe with the campaign is that it requires a constant internet connection. I'm not very familiar with the series, but I wanted to try out GT7. But a constant internet connection required for the campaign? Eh......
This'll be my first GT I'm excited looks fun
Give me this game immediately.
Very excited for this. A proper return to the glory days of this series.
Is it me or do the in car driving parts not look different from GT SPORT?
Now, if only Thrustmaster can give us (an affordable) DD wheelbase ...
The classic campaign content is fantastic news. And go compete in the weekends.
F12021, Forza5 and GT7
I am in driving/car fan heaven for the next few months 😊🏁
This will be one of the first games I pick up when I've got my PS5 next year.
Can’t wait for this. Really hoping for full PSVR 2 support.
This mostly sounds fantastic, but I don’t like the suggestion that there will be an online game as a service cup in the single player section of the game. Along with the knowledge that it’ll be always on line as a requirement makes me a little nervous.
Hopefully it’ll support PSVR2
I hope I can turn of the potrait for the vendors (every sarah and luca) since it horronderous.
In GTsport i had to take driving lessons to unlock single player events and win cash for new cars. How is this any different?
As a solo player I thought GT Sport was a bit rubbish, this really looks like they're trying to capture the spirit of earlier entries, not least with them showing off Trial Mountain at every opportunity. For a while I've got my racing fix from Forza Horizon and F1 games, so hopefully this will be a genuine contender this time
@wiiware Yeah I hate that too lol.
@RBMango Can’t wait for it to kick me out if a race because my internet “saw a squirrel” after 45 minutes of white-knuckle driving…
Looks fantastic, haven’t played since GT2 and thinking about picking it up. I hope it’s got some good music to go with it. I remember it had like STP, Garbage, The Cardigans, Beck. I’m going to do some googling to see if I can find out what kind of soundtrack it will have.
I'm not really a racing fan or a GT vet. I have GT Sport but never really did much in it, have Forza 7 and enjoyed it a bit but never spent much time with it. I really like Forza Horizon as a "sandbox adventure game in which you happen to be a car." But got to admit, out of a very underwhelming showcase yesterday, this ended up being one of the things that piqued my interest most. Not a $70 buy for me by a long shot, but I'll definitely be watching the PSN sales for a year or two after launch and pick it up.
Going to have to get a racing wheel to play this. So glad campaign mode is back. Hopefully there are a ton of ordinary and obscure used cars like GT2.
The showing for this yesterday was pretty strange. A lot of photomode stuff...and static fake backgrounds. I already know what to expect from this. Just allow a full VR mode this time out and nail the haptics...and I'll be very happy.
Having owned and subsequently sold (due to space) a racing seat and wheel, I have strong reservations of buying a racing game again to play with a control pad.
But I'm hoping the dualsense haptics and adaptive triggers, which I don't doubt will be great in this game, will make it enjoyable.
Loved the original game, not played one since, but this looks so good
I couldn’t be happier for the re-direction of the series. I can see many hours disappearing into this…
@LewisHamilton cool avatar 😁👍
@Jimmer-jammer the clip showing the livery designer and moving sponsor logos around on the car - that alone will consume me
Can't believe it's been a while console gen since the last one. Already got my hopes up, gonna put a turbo on a Volvo estate because it amused me.
I was a Ninty fan before I saw the first GT on PSX. I even bought Japanese mags for the pictures back in the day, before ending buying that PSX, just to be able to play GT. The second game had 2 discs and one disc had a special rubber smell on it Let's hope for no further delays Polyphony is known for.
I confess, while i have gotten over GT as a series after playing GT 1-3, the return 8f the campaign does tempt me.
I think I might get a wheel and pedals for the first time ever. Can’t wait.
@RBMango Where did you see that GT7 campaign would be online only?
@GigaGaia There's a tiny asterisk in the PS blog post for GT7 that says the campaign requires an internet connection. I'm surprised more people aren't reporting this.
@RBMango I’m surprised you’re thinking it’s a big deal. Isn’t everyone’s PlayStation connected to the internet by default… or do you go out of your way to turn the net settings on and off? I understand some people unfortunately have crap internet, but again isn’t it always connected…?
@RBMango not trolling or anything, just wondering why this is an issue these days. Doesn’t everyone have the Internet always on?
@RBMango it only states that the features marked with an asterisk require an internet connection. They state the GT cafe (makes sense as it’s like a leaderboard in a way), scapes, some tracks that seem to feature advanced visuals streaming in what I assume is the PS4 version to get visuals closer to PS5 spec (like what MS do with flight sim on Xbox), and the livery editor. All those features are said to require internet but they don’t state that the core campaign mode requires it.
I’m really so very happy about this. The series pinnacle for me was Gran Turismo 3 on PS2 and if this is anything as good as that was then I’m really going to eat this alive.
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