The time trial based ‘GT Academy’ version of Gran Turismo 5, which launches this Thursday, has the Indianapolis Speedway GP Circuit (as we said last week) and is just 220MB, according to
reportsthis morning. The two versions of the Nissan 370z are locked with R1s
for the tuned version and N3 for the normal street version and the demo
as a whole feels ’stripped down’. Apparently it’s your total time
that’s going to be taken into account, so you’ll need to be handy with
both versions of the car if you want to succeed.
To be honest, I’m a little disappointed. I know this is meant to
just be a proper time trial exercise for the GT Academy, but since GT 5
now won’t be out until
at least Summer next year,
more could have been done to give us, Polyphony’s rather patient
fanbase, something more than just one track and one car – something
they did with GTHD back at the launch of the console. Still, hopefully
we’ll get a chance to have some fun little TSA Challenges out of this
one for us mere mortals