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Gran Turismo 5 – 2.0 Update Details & Previews

Posted on October 5th, 2011 in Console – 34 Comments

A week ago, Gran Turismo 5 creator Kazunori Yamauchi announced that a big “Spec 2.0″ update would be coming to the Playstation 3 racer for free in the third week of October.

Now, first details on the update have been revealed and it is quite extensive indeed, adding a bunch of new features and content to the title.

Most importantly, the 2.0 update adds a simplified interior views to the over 700 standard car models in GT5 that came with no cockpit in the initial version. Furthermore, the new version will also allow to save during endurance races and fast forward and rewind in replay.

The new version also adds some new content as new NASCAR Sprint Cup Cars and the Schulze Motorsport Nissan GT-R N24 in which Yamauchi contested the Nürburgring 24h race with will be added to the game.

Features of the 2.0 Update

- Simplified interior views added to all standard cars.
- User control of the weather change feature.
- Settings sheet which allows you to save multiple car settings.
- New Spec 2.0 opening movie.
- Improved UI response and usability.
- Replay forward/rewind.
- Mid-race save feature for endurance races.
- Expanded online lounge features (narrowing down car types, shuffle races…).
- Expanded Photo Travel features (you can now take photos of cars together with your avatar).
- Added “NASCAR Pit Scene” stage to Photo Travel.
- Added 11 new 2011 NASCAR models.
- Added the Nissan GT-R N24 Schulze Motorsport
- Improved physics and artificial intelligence.
-Support for the Logitech G25/G27 steering wheel.

Below are a bunch of previews, showing off some of the new features such as the new interior views. Following the release of the 2.0 update, Polyphony Digital will be starting to offer DLC content as a “racing car pack”, a “course pack”, and a “racing gear pack” have already been confirmed to be in the making.

Via GTPlanet


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  • Ross Siggers

    Aah, looks to be a great update. Good to see not all of the standard interiors are just black; Also like to note that the caterham as always seemed to be the best looking car in GT4/GT5standard.

  • Alex Sawczuk

    Wish we could “borrow” their lighting model ;) . The current generation of consoles are really showing their age now arent they though.

  • Saleem Hodge

    Wow in car view for all cars and full support for the g27! I guess it is time to blow the dust off of this title and show it some love again!

  • Alex Ventura

    Feels like the “new” iphone… all show and no go. Those simplified interiors are pathetic.
    Almost makes me want to buy a 2nd hand X360 to play Forza 4.

  • racedriver

    They are doing a gret job with these updates. I never thought they were going to do since the game has already sold to nearly 7million in less than a year. Good job

  • Terrell Olvera

    Wow, this update adds everything that really bothered me about GT5.  For myself, the worst thing about GT5 was the lack of online sorting, but now that they are adding it, shuffle races should be a lot easier to find.  G25/7 support and mid-race saves top it off for me.  
     
    Saving multiple setups is another great additon. I don’t have any other major complaints, but there is one thing I would *love* to see added…more tuning support!  Tire temperatures, improved telemetry, etc. would be awesome.  Even a system similar to that in Shift 2 would be worlds better than what we have now.   
     
    Maybe that will make it into a future update.

  • Raymond Tsui

    Finally… support for the G27. About damn time.

  • Ghoults

    For me the biggest thing about this update is the improved ai and physics. Also the cockpit views for all cars sounds really nice but it does nothing for me unless they fix the ridiculous amount of headbobbing…

    AI is really really bad now though and is in dire need of big improvements imho. I really hope pd also improves the car classes so you can have races in arcade mode where you can race full fields of similar cars like superGT, vintage sportscars and lmp cars instead of having vintage ford gt40, GT500 nsx and ferrari 330 in the same race where you are using audi A4 dtm car yourself.

    Physics updates are also nice and I hope they do more than just fix the bugs with the setups.

  • Van Sanhnikone

    The new iphone will cost you.

    This update is FREE.

  • Pashalis Gergis

    - Simplified interior views added to all standard cars. ;)

  • Big Ron

    You tell us, the concole generation is aged, but you want to borrow the lightning model? Isn´t that a big contradiction. You actually find no PC-game with such a good lightning model.

  • Alex Sawczuk

    Well track wise, it has simple shaders, with out even bump mapping and simple multiplication maps. The TSOs are low poly. The textures are really low res in places, look at the number plates. And then it can’t handle enough polys to have proper cockpits. Yeah i’d say its aged.

  • Big Ron

    Oh my god, the old comparision of texture resolutions between console and PC *DONT_KNOW* The console never had resolutions like PC, even you should know that.But where is the problem? GT5 still looks great even with lower resolution textures at some places.

  • Nicolas Grignon

    Yeah….. euh… wait a minute… the black interior like on the PSP?  like one said… how pathetic…

  • Nicolas Grignon

    Yup, it’s like kaz is no more leader, but the outsider who is desesperate to catch up… Maybe spec III in few years will be what GT5 should have been from the begining.

  • AeroMechanical

    Looks like some nice improvements, but I can’t bare the thought of going back to that horrible, horrible grind.  The physics aren’t good enough so that I can be entertained mastering a single car.  That would be okay if they made up for it in variety, which they theoriteically do, but the grind to achieve that variety involves doing the same race in the same car over and over and over again.

    What it needs is an offline-only mode with everything unlocked.

  • Big Ron

    @Nicolas Grignon
    If you would be informed and would have watched some screenshots, you wouldn´t need to write this comment ;)

  • Lennart

    That’s his point! The lighting model doesn’t look outdated.

  • Pashalis Gergis

    Exactly.. And oh well it says SIMPLIFIED…

  • Alex White

    Catch on up what exactly? 

  • Alex White

    Cockpits are fine in all the premium cars. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwX-_ft5Ieg

  • Norbi Wo

    damm, cockpits looks ugly :D

  • Crimson7

    Yay! Now I can do endurance racing properly.

  • Ben

    The feature missing for me to get back into GT5 is “recover savegame from stolen PS3″ :(

    CLOUD SAVEGAME PLEASE

  • Big Ron

    with a premium account and you got your cloud saving

  • WillKill K

    I’ve never owned GT5, but are those screenshots really the interior? The dials looks like pictures and everything is very low res. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions, but those interiors are worse than some most mods for rFactor.

  • Daz

    Don’t use the cocpit view for racing GT5, so the lame addition of the standard interior’s doesn’t bother me as much as some.

    Interestng to read of improved physics and AI. Hope they are actual improvments.

    Endurance save game option was a no-brainer. Nice to see replay FWD/RWD feature added.

  • svizzy

    probably put the camera into the same model u see from the chase cam hence nothing in the closed cars. could have done this for the release of the game.

  • Bakkster

    Catch up on Forza 4…

  • Alex White

    Those are standard cars, in other words, Cars from GT4. :)  

    Check out a few videos of the premium cars, they are so, so much better 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrJe2XokCBk&feature=related

  • Alex White

    In what possible way is adding cockpits for a few hundred cars ‘Lame’ ? 

  • Alex White

    Because they are standard cars. Not premiums. Premiums are pretty :D

  • Alex White

    Forza needs to catch up on Gran Turismo. Gt5 has already sold about 6.5 million copies. 

  • Clive Lomax

    Have to say the greatest thing about this update is now the H pattern shifter on my G25 WORKS! I really enjoyed trying it for the few spare minutes I had last night and Im dying to get into it again.. PADDLE and SEQ shifters…BOOOOO!

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