PlayStation Celebrates 25 Years Of Gran Turismo With Retrospective Video

The Gran Turismo collection has lengthy been a favourite of sim-racing fanatics, and at present marks a particular milestone for the franchise. Gran Turismo: The Actual Driving Simulator was launched on PlayStation in Japan on December 23, 1997, which means that the collection has formally crossed the quarter-century mark. To have a good time 25 years of Gran Turismo, PlayStation launched a particular weblog put up and a retrospective video.

The weblog put up comes by the use of Kazunori Yamauchi, creator and producer of the franchise and CEO of Polyphony Digital. Within the put up, Yamauchi recounts how the collection got here to be, together with his authentic plans for the collection stretching way back to 1992.

“I used to be fascinated by actual time 3D graphics that many had been ready for, and created and offered plans for every kind of video video games, not simply restricted to race video games however RPGs, journey video games, motion video games, puzzle video games, and extra,” he wrote. “In consequence, Gran Turismo took a extra fantasy race sport format within the ‘Motor Toon Grand Prix,’ turning into one of many first 1st celebration titles for PlayStation, but when a plan for one thing apart from a racing sport had been the one which was permitted, there’s a good likelihood that I may need been making a title apart from Gran Turismo at present. Thereafter the Gran Turismo mission began from gathering a workforce of two half time artists and three engineers.”

You’ll be able to learn the total weblog put up right here. As a part of the celebration, PlayStation and Polyphony Digital additionally launched a four-and-a-half minute retrospective video recalling every period of the Gran Turismo franchise. The video is ready to “Day to Reside” by Alusville, which is featured on the Gran Turismo 6 soundtrack. You’ll be able to see that video under.

The latest entry within the Gran Turismo franchise is Gran Turismo 7, which launched on March 4, 2022. Although the sport featured numerous irritating components to its economic system and construction, the core racing gameplay maintained the rock-solid pedigree of the long-running franchise, inflicting the sport to earn a 8.75 out of 10 in our evaluate. In reality, Gran Turismo has usually fared effectively within the eyes of critics, with a lot of the video games incomes excessive marks from Recreation Informer.

Try our historic evaluate scores from the franchise under.

• Gran Turismo – 9.5 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 2 – 9.5 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec – 9 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 4 – 9.25 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 5: Prologue – 7.75 out of 10
• Gran Turismo (PSP) – 7 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 5 – 9 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 6 – 8 out of 10
• Gran Turismo 7 – 8.75 out of 10

Which Gran Turismo sport was your favourite? Did that video fire up any long-dormant recollections? The place would you prefer to see the collection go from right here? Tell us within the feedback part!