A free Gran Turismo spin-off designed for brand spanking new gamers is about to be launched later this week, but it surely’s not a stay service recreation.
Gran Turismo is understood for being a fairly hardcore driving simulator, to the purpose the place it has even turned players into actual racing drivers.
The collection has all the time attracted a devoted viewers but it surely’s unclear precisely how nicely the most recent instalment, Gran Turismo 7, has bought. Although final December developer Polyphony Digital described it as a ‘success’, with a ‘actually excessive variety of energetic customers’.
Either method, Gran Turismo 8 goes to be a very long time coming, so within the meantime Sony is hoping to broaden past its area of interest viewers with a brand new free-to-play title, awkwardly referred to as My First Gran Turismo.
In a PlayStation blog post, My First Gran Turismo is described as a ‘particular free-to-play invitation’ to the collection that’s designed to be ‘each approachable and immersive’.
Based on the trailer, it seems to be like a trimmed down model of Gran Turismo 7, the place you may drive certainly one of 18 vehicles round three well-known tracks from the collection’ previous, particularly Kyoto Driving Park, Deep Forest Raceway, and Trial Mountain Circuit.
Along with race occasions, the free-to-play title sports activities three time trials, three music rally phases, and license assessments.
‘We’ve made positive the expertise is intuitive, permitting anybody to get behind the wheel and grasp the necessities, resembling cornering, braking, and acceleration,’ mentioned Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi. ‘By taking part in it, customers will construct confidence one lap at a time, tackling new challenges that’ll steadily refine their driving expertise.’
My First Gran Turismo additionally helps PlayStation VR2 on PlayStation 5 similar to Gran Turismo 7, so that you can provide the digital actuality portion a check drive as nicely.
When is My First Gran Turismo launched?
My First Gran Turismo shall be obtainable without cost from the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 from Friday, December 6 at 12am native time.
Although it’s free-to-play there’s no indication but that it’s a stay service recreation, with thus far no point out of any microtransactions.
This is the most recent announcement in honour of PlayStation’s thirtieth anniversary, following an replace which introduced again the unique PlayStation boot-up sequence.
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