Gran Turismo Sport Critic Reviews

After a long wait, Gran Turismo Sport is here, and it is racing perfection beyond measure. This is the best racing game that I have ever played, overflowing in beauty, grace, playability, and precision. Driving a go-kart, a fusion-engine concept race car, or a standard Ford Focus all provide a wealth of fun and unique challenges. Gran Turismo Sport is a triumph, and will be played voraciously by racing fans for years and years to come.

With servers that seem to have held up nicely and a lively community so far, Gran Turismo Sport is a well-rounded new Gran Turismo installment that should keep casual and hardcore fans happy for a while. The daily/weekly grind for vehicles, ranking and miles appear to do a good job in attracting players to revisit the game regularly, which is certainly important for a social gaming experience such as Gran Turismo Sport.

Instead of getting bogged down in car numbers and career modes, Gran Turismo Sport focuses purely on the racing; creating one of the best racers of this generation.

Gran Turismo Sport is a game that is both very good on the track and incredibly important for the future of the genre and the eSports fascination at large. While I would still love to see a return to a traditional game in the form of Gran Turismo 7, Sport is in a league of its own and makes going back to games even outside its genre, like competitive shooters, that much more difficult because of how forward thinking it’s online suite is. The focus on sport and competition is the game’s most impressive asset, putting it in the category of the greats that came before it.

Provides a limited off-line experience but some excellent online opportunities.

The fun driving mechanics and astounding graphics show a lot of potential, but due to missing online features and a lack of volume this game is still very much a diamond in the rough.

Gran Turismo comes to PlayStation 4 clearly focused on the online content and on the eSports, forgetting too much about the single player mode. Polyphony Digital has decided to bring something new to the saga thanks to better gameplay mechanics and realism.

Gran Turismo Sport is one of the best racing games of the year.

If you are looking for a game where you can run without complications and not repeat a single circuit, it may not be the best option, but if you are looking for a driving simulator, where you dedicate yourself to a car model and make it an extension of your body to beat hundredth to hundredth the time and be one of the best online, no doubt GT Sport will give you what you are looking for.

If you want to dive deep into the genre of racing simulation, Gran Turismo Sport is a great place to start.

Gran Turismo Sport marks a new era for the series and its online system is now a benchmark for the racing genre. It looks great, it feels great and it provided us with some of the most intense and “clean” racing experiences of our lives.

Gran Turismo Sport is the logical evolution of the franchise, which is now focused on online competitions bringing the world of eSports to the consumer. We miss more vehicles and circuits for individual enjoyment.

This is like iRacing for PS4. I rarely had that much fun and tense position battles within competitive online racing on a console. The driving physics are great and the fairness system executed nicely. Unfortunately it falls a little short on the content side as well as for soloists.

Handles beautifully and has a promising online mode - but it's been passed by the competition.

With GT Sport, the Gran Turismo series steers towards eSports and accelerates its transition to multiplayer online gameplay only. The solidity of its racing rules & regulations and gaming netcode will be fundamental to its success.

Fun and satisfying driving game with an awful lack of content that makes this game dismissable.

The new Gran Turismo lacks a bunch of expected features but you can feel the passion for the cars as soon as you start playing it.

It's a bit of a shame, then, that GT Sport feels more like one of the old Prologue releases than a full-on entry in the series. Like I said at the top of this review, the game is fabulous, but there's just not quite enough of it. I'm sure that Polyphony Digital will add new cars, tracks, and events going forward, and it'll be interesting to see how Sport Mode evolves over time, but the bottom line is that right now, GT Sport feels more like an appetizer than a main course. It's exquisitely-crafted and phenomenally tasty, but leaves you wanting more.

In its need to please as large demographic as possible, GT Sport is unmistakably deep but oddly sparse compared to its illustrious predecessors. The game feels more like a prologue to the inevitable Gran Turismo 7, hopefully including everything that was left out here. To best summarize the experience that is Gran Turismo Sport is as if Ferrari made a sport model of Ferrari 458. It would be stripped of the passenger seat, electronics and comforts like radio, heated seat and power windows, and the suspension would be harder too. It still would be Ferrari, beautiful to look at and beast to drive, but you’d wish it had more to it.

Gran Turismo Sport breaks from the standard of the series and focuses on online races and eSports, but in the process loses some content. Technically speaking, the game is a real masterpiece and pushes the PS4 hardware to its limits, though dynamic weather is not present. Even if the physics model is upgraded from GT6, there are still old problems, but driving is still very fun with a good driving wheel.