Get a car out of shape and hands down, GT6 is the most realistic virtual driving experience ever. That’d add some real play value – why not turn off your safety net if you’ve built up a big lead over the field? Loading times are par for the course – GT6 runs on PlayStation 3 only, rather than the more powerful, sleek new PS4, with its remodelled touchpad controller. In fact, once you’ve set up your preferences at the main menu, they’re locked in until you go back and change them – shunning the option to fiddle in the race. In GT6, you still can’t make these changes from the pause menu during a race. If the conditions change (rain, tyres going off) you might dial the traction or stability control back up, or if you’re in something really serious, adjust your brake balance. Say you’re at a track day, or racing in real life. Where the user interface falls down is in setting up the car to your own tastes. It’s a clear representation of where GT has learnt from Forza: Sony admits: ‘We’ve learned to know and respect our enemy’. The menus are cleaner looking and simpler to navigate, streamlining the set-up process and turning the creation of a race and choosing of a car from a chore into a kid-in-sweet-shop joy. Whether it's flexing its investment and idea muscle in the right area is open for debate. You sense that with GT6, Sony is actively showing off.
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Forget new wheels and turbo upgrades – there are 952 choices of helmet style alone for your driver avatar, and 1300 race suits. With attention to detail like that, it’s no wonder GT6 also goes to town on tyre wear and degradation simulation, and a baffling array of car set-up personalisation. In real-time 24-hour endurance races, the game will automatically simulate changes in ambient and track temperature, and sun height.Īfter dark, the sky above Le Mans accurately replicates the starts visible on the night of 22-23 June 2013.
All 12.4miles of the Nurburgring Nordeschliefe (absent from Forza 5) is present, and you can vary anything from time of day to wind direction and the chance of rain. New tracks include Australia’s Mount Panorama (Bathurst) circuit, Spa Francorchamps, as well as the revised Silverstone complex. There’s a real mix of new metal, though, right from the classic Alpine A110 and Ferrari 250 GT of the 1960s, up to the 2013-model year Pagani Huayra, with its updated aero package, and last season’s GT3 endurance racers.
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More cars will be available to download at a later date, but unlike archrival Forza Motorsport 5, Sony’s GT6 isn’t going after the lucrative but controversial buy-in-game model in earnest. There are 120 brand new cars for GT6, though headline new poster cars like the McLaren P1, LaFerrari and all Porsches are conspicuous by their absence. Most are updated versions of GT’s existing models, improved with even sharper, photorealistic graphics and more life-like handling, thanks to the game’s totally new physics engine – ‘even better handling was the biggest request from gamers’, says Sony.
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