Gran Turismo this is the most hit name in racing video games genre and is a enormously successful game series. First game of the franchise was launched in the year 1997. Gran Turismo stands for Grand Touring in Italian also known as GT. The series was specially produced for Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 gaming consoles. Its main developer is Polyphony Digital. Main feature of all the games of the franchise was large section of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed reproductions of real world. It has more car collection than any other game of the genre and is widely successful. Until April 2008, has shipped over 50 million units.

Gran Turismo 5 or GT5 is the fifth edition of the franchise. This game is a expansion of the Prologue version of Gran Turismo, which was released in Japan in October 2007. It is intended that it will give impression of the Final game. it is the first game of the main series to be featured on PlayStation 3. And as found in Prologue, Ferrari will feature in Gran Turismo series. Cars included from Ferrari also include Ferrari F2007 Formula One world Championship Car. In addition, it will also feature Top Gear Test Track from BBC motor show. Car number is increased to large extent as 140 vehicles featured in earlier games of the franchise, to 900 in GT5. Including cars from Nissan, lotus, Ferrari and even includes car from small manufactures like Maruti Suzuki. 16-player online mode will also feature in the game.

It was revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for four years, in an interview by Kazunori Yamauchi.120 Polyphony employees also worked on GT5 and the testing cost for the game is 50 times more than 1997’s Gran Turismo. GT 5 will release late in the year 2009. It is expected it will release around Christmas of 2009.

Earlier Gran Turismo games were criticized for lacking race variety, but this time they have included nearly every form racing in the game. racetracks are stunningly realistic and include the London City track, Eiger Nordwand and Suzuka. You can also race in reverse directions. The new physics engine delivers next generation vehicle handling and sticking to the Gran Turismo’s heritage this new physics engine provides never seen realism and credible handling specific to each car. Not seen in earlier games a new cockpit view is also included and is differs with cars. AI opponents are also seems developed.

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