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Gran Turismo Sport only has a total of 162 cars, paling in comparison to Gran Turismo 5 and 6’s over 1,000 cars. It also lacks vintage vehicles, but series producer Kazunori Yamauchi promised that these vehicles alongside more tracks will be made available post-release. This has dismayed fans who primarily enjoyed the series’ car collecting aspect. However, it’s worth noting that Gran Turismo Sport has made significant improvements in bringing each vehicle to life in terms of visual fidelity and superb audio quality.
Polyphony Digital touts that the level of detail in each car is so meticulously recreated that they are all futureproofed for succeeding titles. Also worth noting that only a few vehicles in the later entries had true attention to detail. Not all cars were created equally in the last two entries on the PS3, with the majority of the vehicles having PS2-like assets. For instance, only 200 out of the 1,000 cars in Gran Turismo 5 are considered “premium” or richly detailed in appearance. Premium vehicles are also the only ones with an interior cockpit. This isn’t the case with Gran Turismo Sport as all vehicles were astonishingly recreated.
Gran Turismo Sport is not the first game in the series to add new content via post-release updates or DLC, with Gran Turismo 5 having several paid car packs. However, it remains unclear whether new content will be downloadable freely or for a price.
Regardless, the Gran Turismo series has been regarded for its fantastic visuals and presentation, not sheer quantity. Nonetheless, seeing the first Gran Turismo game on the PS4 omit hundreds of cars is disappointing.
The track count is also small, only having 40 layouts across 17 courses. While disappointing, familiarizing oneself with each track and replaying them over and over again to get the best lap time has always been the core of Gran Turismo’s racing experience.
