Gran Turismo 6 - PS3 [Digital Code]

Lifelong fan, but I don't like this game much. I've played every single Forza and Gran Turismo, plus I race on PC as well. I favor hard sims, I'd rather be on iRacing competing against real drivers than playing an arcade game like Need for Speed. So I should be right up this game's alley... and I'm not. This game is laughable.The install. WOW. Getting this game today is a nightmare. My console was setup with a wireless connection and the initial download took- I kid you not- 10 HOURS! My Xbox 360 on the same shelf can download a game in a couple hours, tops. Luckily I work from home so I just let it run then plugged in a wired connection because I knew the game needed more updates- the extra updates took AT LEAST 2 MORE HOURS! THIS GAME TOOK 12 HOURS TO INSTALL! I can't even fathom how you could engineer this so poorly. It's really astonishing. Multiple people online have complained about this, so it's not just me.Graphics. A lot of people claim it's "unfair" to talk about the graphics because a new Forza came out on the next generation consoles while this game was still fresh. That doesn't matter, because to me GT6 looks like a PS2 game. There are odd graphical problems like texture "baking" where bad aliasing causes lines and objects in the distance to shimmer like you're seeing them in a desert heat. This is something that should have been relegated to the PS2 era, it's distracting and silly for a PS3 game.Too much focus on the wrong thing. For instance mans try to defend the game talking about how there are so many more cars in GT6 than Forza, but most of the cars in GT6 are carbon copies of other cars, and lower in detail. There are 2 tiers of cars- basically new ones, and cars ported from PS2. Most of the cars in the game are ported from PS2 and don't have proper interior views as well as being of generally lower visual quality. Many of these games are also either 100% copies or vastly similar to other cars, such as their being screens full of Mazda Miatas or Nissan Skylines- even serious collectors don't need this many copies of cars when many of these cars were absolutely the same during several model years so there was no need to make a new version for each year. This is sort of a theme throughout the game- lots of "stuff", but a lot of it is not well thought out. Personally, I hate the Lunar Rover missions. There's a lot of puzzling ideas in here as well, like the path of the rover is littered with obvious "outcrops" of rocks, which are clearly props put in by the devs randomly which don't look anything like the actual surface of the Moon. The prop rocks flip you rover over, which is easy to do in zero gravity, so you have to wait for the rover to right itself which is both slow and takes you out of the mission. So you have an event, you can play it, but it's pretty terrible. Having 10,000 kinds of rice crackers will never add up to a steak dinner- I wish that effort had been placed on things like including more detail on the cars.Terrible audio. Fans have spent many words trying to defend the sound in GT6, but it really does sound mostly like they recorded one home vacuum cleaner and digitally modified the sound three or four times then called that selection sufficient to represent hundreds of cars. It's absolutely unacceptable, and sounds pretty similar to PS1 and PS2 games. It's hilariously bad compared to the equivalent Forza. Add-ons like turbos are often laughably bad.Lots of design decisions are objectively bad, and dated. A great example is that GT6 continues to have a menu system where for every single one of the hundreds or thousands of events you'll participate in, you do your race then you get a menu screen where you have to scroll all the way to the right to select the "exit" option to go to your next event. Only in a multi-race championship will the default option be "continue". This is simple user design straight out of the 1990s. Every single motion or click your user has to do to move on to what they want, you lose engagement. If you want to prevent a user accidentally exiting a race, put the Next/Exit button one step away from the Replay button. Don't hide it on the far side of the screen where you have to scroll over just to even see it. I also really hate most of the event screens- you get a laughably bad backdrop that looks like a background on a Windows '95 computer with simple text on top of it. Sometimes there will be jarring issues with this text, like the backdrop will be a nature scene yet the text has a reflection on the bottom like it's being placed on a shiny surface. When did the grass and brick walls get the same uniform reflection? It's dumb, and bad.So the game is a mess. The actual car simulations are pretty good, but for ever positive (cars move under braking very realistically) there's a corresponding negative (tires overheat and cool off way too fast- some builds of cars will be impossible just because the weird tire model causes problems). If you're really jonesing for a new sim like I was, it's still GT at its core, so it's an okay drive. But it's definitely a bargain bin title. I wouldn't have been happy if I'd paid the new price for this, and I have zero intention of purchasing future games in this series if they're going to remain this dated.

Keep in mind most of the low reviews you see are based on the launch version of GT6, which had issues. The latest version adds and refreshes a lot of features. You no longer need to grind for money thanks to the generous rewards of Seasonal Events, which have a nice payout even if you finish in last place. Theres an AI mode so you can see how a track should be run or if you are just getting frustrated and want to pass it and move on. 1201 cars to choose from but many arent interesting. Too many slow family sedans that you'll never race, and more than a few cars which are basically identical. But plenty of fun to be had with the one or two hundred that ARE worth driving.Loads of races, some of which can be quite frustrating, but all of them are winnable if you practice a lot and learn how to tweak your performance. Good online features like seasons, quick play, and a community, including car clubs.Almost all of the cars have full customization options properly fitting a driving simulator. The handful that cant be customized are specialty cars more for fun than competition, and those are usually excellent vehicles anyway.I only have two major complaints and one of them is easily fixable.First is the default PS3 controller really isnt too good for racing games, particularly this one. I bought an inexpensive replacement with better thumbsticks and that problem went away immediately.My real problem is you ALWAYS start in last place on any single player mission. The only time you get random placement is during online matches. This can make winning certain tough events quite annoying. Other than that I have no serious issues and enjoy playing GT6 for hours at a time. Theres always something new to purchase or customize, and plenty of different play modes to keep me interested.Highly recommended at any price.

Amazon should remove GT6 Digital Code from their store. There's a bug that prevents you to update the game and therefore play it. There's a work around, but it's literally going to take you hours to make it work. I'm not exaggerating. Here are the steps from the official forum:1. Backup any save data file to PS Plus or on a USB drive and delete existing save data file from the PS3 prior to update process (If you don't have any progress, then you can skip this step.)2. Within the Games tab of the XMB select Game Data Utility3. Highlight GT6 Game Data and press the “Triangle" button and select DELETE (if there is no data, then go to the next step)4. While connected to PSN, highlight the GT6 game disc/game file from the XMB5. Press the “Triangle” button and select “Check for Updates”6. Accept the update prompts and begin patch process via the XMB7. Allow the first 6 patches to download and install.8. Once the 6th patch has finished installing, press the “Circle” button to cancel the download process9. Scroll left while on the XMB, and highlight the Settings Tab10. Scroll down to the Network Settings tab>Internet Connection and select DISABLE (this step will prevent the title from trying to complete the remaining TPPS patch process)11. Boot GT6 and follow the in-game prompts until the main menu appears. (this step will create new save data which will later be deleted)12. Once the initial in-game installation process is complete, press the “PS” button and Quit the game to return to the XMB13. Return to the Settings>Network Settings>Internet Connection screen and select ENABLE14. Highlight the GT6 game disc/game file and press the “Triangle” button and “Check for Updates”15. Once the first patch has completed it’s download/install process press the “Circle” button to Cancel16. Repeat steps 10-15 until all TPPS patches have been installed.17. Copy save data from step 1 back to the PS3 system (overwriting any existing save data that may have been created during the update process)