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Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night long

Posted May 20, 2010 at 10:53PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: gran turismo 5, playstation 3 updates
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UK's Auto Express confirmed that the Nürburgring circuit in Gran Turismo 5 will in fact have a night time mode as well. Not only that, but the Lexus IS-F that Yamauchi drove in the 24-hour race event last weekend will definitely be included in the game too.

 

 

 

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According to Auto Express' report:

 

 

The V8-powered saloon will appear in the new game – which Owen got to try during the event. Our man took the controls of a Sony PlayStation 3 to sample the complete Nürburgring 24 Hours circuit – for the first time in video game history. And he even got to try the new night racing feature.

 

Plus, for the first time, gamers will be able to fully experience the Nürburgring, recreating the 24 Hours race, which uses both the grand prix track and the 15.2-mile Nordschleife. The latter – dubbed Green Hell – can also be driven at night, to get an idea of what the pros go through during one of the world’s toughest races.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Via [Auto Express]

 

 


 

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+1 # RE: Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night longMabie A. 2010-05-21 00:27
hopefully the next information that comes out for Gran Turismo 5 will be the release date already.

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# RE: RE: Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night longWalo 2010-05-21 09:36
You have your hopes too high. :D

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-3 # so..AssassinXCV 2010-05-21 00:47
a 24 hour race in real life?? guess we'll be seeing more of those deaths related to gamers wanting to play rather than eat or sleep (world of war craft...)

how much gamer score do you think you'd get if they really did have a 24 hour race.


AND! in the last hour of the race, you fall asleep... wake up again in ten minutes and see that you are now in last place... be pretty pissed off that you wasted a day to come in last.

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+2 # RE: so..Guest 2010-05-21 00:59
They had 24 hour races for LeMans in GT4. You had the option of using an AI driver to help compete in the race. In reality, a car in a 24h race would usually have a team of 2 or more and would rotate after a set amount of time.

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+1 # RE: so..Guest 2010-05-21 01:06
I doubt that, otherwise there would have been countless deaths from Gran Turismo 4, as it included multiple 24 hour races. But there weren't. You had the option to enable "B-Spec", in which a computer player (that you control the pace of...sort of) which allowed you not to be there. You won a pretty large amount of credits, but the real prize was the car you won really.

If you aren't a serious fan of racing, you won't be attempting to drive the entire 24 hours anyway. Most of the people who look forward to GT would use the argument of "well, the real race driver's don't have the option to fall asleep", because they believe realism is very important to the experience. However, there are multiple drivers in real life. So, I believe there will be a computer player or some other system to assist in those extra-long events just as there was in GT4.

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# RE: so..jjcobra 2010-05-21 10:33
This feature was in GT2 as well, and it worked fine.

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# RE: Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night longGuest 2010-05-21 01:41
Gran Turismo 4 has a 24-hour race you failure...

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# RE: RE: Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night longjjcobra 2010-05-21 10:40
The part where he mentions for the "first time in history" He's talking about a very specific track being associated with a 24 hour race. This track is only the 2nd game realeased in the USA to feature a full length Nurburging, the last one being Grand Prix Legends.

Although, Nordschleife has never had a 15.2 mile variant. I'm guessing he's talking about the 16.123 mile combined course that only has 170 turns (yes thats a one seven and a zero)

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# 24 Hour RacesGuest 2010-05-21 08:28
I'm all for 24 hour races provding you can save at any point (pit stop) and return later to complete.

I have a life that just won't stop for me to play a computer game.

:-)

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# RE: Gran Turismo 5 opens Nürburgring circuit all night longakakluster 2010-05-21 09:17
I don't know if it is the countdown to the E3 or anything, butwe alsmost never had so much info about GT5 in so a short laspe of time (GT5 news almost everyday).
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maybe the release day is not that far, anyways i still hope for a october release.
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