Spent a few hours acquiring licences and a few races completed.  I've levelled up to 10.

So, after 10 levels...

I've played the GT series since the beginning.  GT was the reason I purchased a Playstation and Playstation2.  Keeping with the trend I managed to secure a new 320GB Slim Console last week with GT5.  Thankfully I had an outstanding insurance credit so it was half price.  The short of it.  They spent this much time on this game for what?  I am hugely disappointed at what they have delivered.  The intro had me entertained and that is just about where it ended.  I have completed the first three licenses to get a feel for several cars and how they handle.  I don’t know whether I am so used to the physics that Forza3 has or the XB360 controller but the handling on various cars feels jerky.  It’s difficult to explain.  It feels like the cars pull quite violently in some cases.  Other concerns obviously include the huge loading times.  I was surprised having spent over 40 minutes to install the game that the load times were as long as they are.  The cars detail on standard cars feel like they’ve been stripped right out of GT4 and dropped into this game with little effort.  I have seen a few of the premium cars and they are far nicer.

 

I won’t give up on it now.  I’ve already seen patches 1.01 and 1.02 arrive today.   I would like to get a hold of the release notes.  Any links anyone?  Is there anything in-game where you can check what has been introduced?  There was a little news pieces.  Might check that…