GT Academy 2012 Game Details & Screenshots, Brings Content to Gran Turismo 5
As announced earlier this week, GT Academy 2012 is about to kick off next month in four different regions around the globe.
Now, more details about the free Gran Turismo mini-game through which the competition will be held are being released. The demo will consist of 8 weekly rounds of increasingly difficult driving challenges, starting May 1st.
Curiously, the demo will introduce several new analytic features not seen in previous games. According to the Japanese press release, the total number of challenge attempts and the total number of miles driven by all participants will be recorded and displayed in the game’s menu. Additionally, the number of players who achieve a “gold” ranking in each challenge from each respective participating country will be sorted and displayed on an international leaderboard.
The announcement also confirms that “rewards” or “gifts” earned in the GT Academy 2012 game can be transferred for use Gran Turismo 5.
Finally, the press release also confirms the mini-game will be available to players in Japan. Although they will not be eligible for the GT Academy Race Camp or Driver Development Program, top players will be eligible to participate in a “special event”, of which more details will be announced later.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 2:06 am - #BWX
Looks like it might be the infamous ”Driver’s Club” that Kaz said was ”coming very soon” more than a year ago but never was heard from again. It looks like maybe some of that content was worked into GT Academy and had a GT Academy sticker slapped on it or something.
”GT Academy 2012 Game Details & Screenshots, Brings Content to Gran Turismo 5”
What content?
That misleading if what you’re talking about is:
”The announcement also confirms that “rewards” or “gifts” earned in the GT Academy 2012 game can be transferred for use Gran Turismo 5”Well if that’s all, then there isn’t necessarily any new content comming to GT5 and the title of this story is a farce.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 3:34 am - #NJ72
Only says content, not new content. Tool.
P.s. sorry for multi posts (if they’ve occurred, my phone is having a moment)
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April 22nd, 2012 at 7:02 am - #Neilson248
Stop bitching
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April 22nd, 2012 at 9:11 am - #BWX
Any NEWS banner with the words ”BRINGS CONTENT to GT5” better be talking about NEW content, or it isn’t worth mentioning, and as I said, misleading.. TOOL I explained in my post exactly why your predictable reply doesn’t apply.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 12:40 pm - #crcn11
Wow calm down BWX getting angry won’t help you, it’ll only make you look like a tool.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 12:48 pm - #TokoTurismo
^ lol. I knew BWX is “Mr. Angry or Mr. Grumpy.” Thank you for proving it BWX. >:)
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April 21st, 2012 at 11:55 pm - #DA6righthand
I’m not complaining about what is upcoming but I’m assuming this is dlc-equivalent seeing that it’s announced roughly at the expected dlc release interval. I’ll take what I can get but I’d prefer to see PD spending money on dlc, gt6, instead of these gt-academies. Must appeal to the masses and whenever I scroll through the comments here in the
news section, there seems to be 1000000
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April 22nd, 2012 at 12:03 am - #hobanator24
GT Academy is mostly controlled by Nissan and PD. Plus PD is such a small company that not many people are working on GT Academy, GT6, and GT5 dlc (I think its around 140 people total in PD). I think sice the gifts in GT Academy are transferable in GT5, than we should give PD some credit for the lack of info this past month.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 7:03 am - #Neilson248
Some people want gt academy
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April 25th, 2012 at 6:49 pm - #Quakebass
See what happens and how many people start “grumbling” when GT Academy is canceled or delayed. People are grumbling because they were expecting some DLC and it didn’t come out… yet. If GT Academy is delayed, people will grumble about that, too.
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April 21st, 2012 at 7:31 pm - #DaScouser101
Most Probably Gift car tickets paint items ect…………………. the cars that are in the screens are already in gt5 they just have a gt academy logo on so probably nothing new but theres only 1 way to find out bring on may 1st :D
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April 21st, 2012 at 8:27 pm - #Foxiol
I heard somewhere that we are going to get a brand new 0 KM Fiat Panda 1000 Premium as a gift. With a livery from M&M.And the best part is that we can change the numbers!! ;)
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April 21st, 2012 at 11:14 pm - #Dekropttiv
@Foxiol I hope you kidding. That sounds incredibly unrealistic. Plus, I’d be pretty mad if they wasted a premium car on a Fiat Panda.
@DaScouser Actually, I think the GT Academy Z34 and R35 are slightly different since they have the GT Academy 2012 License plate on the,. So they probably have some slight differences. My best guess is we’re getting a GT Academy Leaf and a “New” GT Academy Z34 and R35 -
April 22nd, 2012 at 12:25 am - #Foxiol
@Dekropttiv: Of course i was kidding. lol. “Incredibly unrealistic” in my mind means funny. That´s why i put those details. LOL
You guys are so worried about a DLC or something that can´t get a simple and bad/low profile/idiotic joke. haha
Imagine how lame could it be that car with an M&M livery…
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April 21st, 2012 at 6:34 pm - #70hemi
“rewards” or “gifts” can be transferred… Does that mean we could get special cars from this app to GT5?
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April 22nd, 2012 at 12:41 pm - #crcn11
Yes it looks like it, probably GT Academy cars.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:55 pm - #DaScouser101
until its delayed lol
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April 21st, 2012 at 5:34 pm - #tpark103
Speaking of delayed, any word on photo modes release outside of Asia?
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April 21st, 2012 at 5:35 pm - #tpark103
Speaking of delayed, any word on photo modes release outside of Asia?….
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April 21st, 2012 at 6:05 pm - #another_jakhole
I’m pretty sure it was said it’ll come with the update.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:43 pm - #occasionalracer
This looks like it’s going to be nicely organized event!
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:43 pm - #DaScouser101
do you have to have a wheel to take part jordon ? you may think this is a noob question ?
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:49 pm - #occasionalracer
No. Last year out of the 32 first round winners only one qualified with a DS3, he didn’t advance to round 2 as he needed to familiarize himself with a wheel for the first time. They can’t expect every participant to own a wheel, but it goes to show that if you want ANY chance of winning…. you better have your skills sharpened with a wheel..
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:50 pm - #another_jakhole
Whoops. That quote was to answer your question, which is no, you don’t need a steering wheel to participate.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:50 pm - #another_jakhole
Thanks, occasionalracer. I didn’t know about that.
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April 21st, 2012 at 6:22 pm - #markyboy92
I also qualified with a DS3, i found i could get within about .2 ‘ish’ of would i could do with the wheel, but probably x3 the laps using it as i was just not consistant on the absolute limit with the DS3
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:39 pm - #DaScouser101
i think kaz should become a member of gt planet haha
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April 23rd, 2012 at 8:57 am - #Progress823
You never know. Toko Turismo may be Kaz in secrecy lol…. If so, Toko, can you let us know what new features are coming to GT5????
Lol, just kidding, or maybe…..
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:38 pm - #DaScouser101
about not needing another demo ?
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:35 pm - #DaScouser101
what did he said another………..
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:38 pm - #another_jakhole
Read the Older Comments. It’s on the last page of comments.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:32 pm - #another_jakhole
That was to Kobooi.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:31 pm - #another_jakhole
This guy is truly pathetic. I don’t feel bad for him though.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:29 pm - #DaScouser101
am guessing they may not be allowed due to the fact they became finalists the previous year but thats just my opinion i would like to know the answer to your question to
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:27 pm - #DaScouser101
i dont have a answer to your question but i just found a new use for my xbox haha
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:51 pm - #another_jakhole
hahahahahaha
Seriously funny.
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:23 pm - #GT5_ProBob
I still can’t believe that some people are moaning about the amount of stuff that PD throw our way. So we don’t get monthly DLC like 4orza but I’d personally rather play a great game with over 1000 cars, infinite track layouts (via the course creator) and the best physics seen on any home console for free, rather than some arcade racer (in comparison to GT) that I have to pay a subscription to play online to show everyone that I’ve also paid for cars that look nice but handle like a well balanced sack of potatoes (but they’re still potatoes) on a console that’s best suited to holding fire doors open 8-P
I’m not gonna get anywhere near the top but I’m gonna have fun giving it a go and seeing how I stack up against my mates. The other thing that I haven’t seen mentioned is if previous finalists are allowed to enter this year. If I remember rightly, previous finalists weren’t allowed to enter last years event, anyone got any info on this??
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:51 pm - #another_jakhole
Welll said. :tup:
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April 21st, 2012 at 7:08 pm - #MuoNiuLa
lol The GT defending on here is always comical.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 7:11 am - #Neilson248
Finally someone with common sense on the forum! Thanks for posting GT5_ProBob
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April 22nd, 2012 at 8:25 am - #MuoNiuLa
Bash Forza and make GT seem so superior = common sense.
You people’s view of common sense is quite frightening.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 10:25 am - #Progress823
Other than monthly DLC, please explain what is so superior about Forza. F**k a livery editor, would be nice, but I can do without it. I have played both (as I mentioned in a previous forum), and I find that Forza is more of an arcade racer. It’s fun for a kid just learning how to play a game, but it quickly gets boring for me, and now apparently my brother (brought PS3 yesterday just for GT5).
In no means is GT5 perfect, but it trumps Forza in the driving experience alone.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 1:59 pm - #another_jakhole
THANK YOU^^^ I would have said that, but I didn’t know someone was going to bring Forza up again. The main reason that GT5_ProBob commented was about the constant complainers and bashers.
And I guess Muonialiaasfsffs doesn’t think the constant bashing is stupid. I only defend GT/PD when people are saying ignorant things or are acting like jerks.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 2:19 pm - #King1982
You guys need too open your eyes and smell the coffee. Forza is infinitly better than GT5 by a long haul. You guys are really happy with the crap that PD throws at you? Hahah You guys are funniest fanboys ever. Always defending all the bull that pD made. (No i love standards blablabla) (O yeah another Sklyline raceversion woohoo) LMAO everytime i read this forum. Fm4 owned GT5 on very level. Simulation, Customization, Tuning, car selection, Porsche, UI, Community, Livery, paintbooth, Racing, Online, Autovista, Auction House, Rivals mode, Jeremy Clarskon, MONTHLY DLC (eat that), Physics and Tyre simulation is ten times better and more realistic than gt’s. By a big margin. Wake up you guys. This is not 1998. It’s 2012 and FM4 is king of the Hill now. Want open World? Not gonna Happen Forza Horizon is on the way and will be another deadblow too the gt franchise
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April 22nd, 2012 at 2:26 pm - #another_jakhole
Your comment’s been wasted. I don’t think most of us take your first two sentences seriously. I stopped reading after that.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 2:49 pm - #TokoTurismo
Forza fanboy alert, Forza Fanboy alert, TAKE HIM OUT BOYS! Seriously King1982, if you love Forza so much. Do us all a favor, and leave GTP and move on to the Forza fourms. Your not wanted here period. I just stop reading your “wasted” sentence because to me, your nothing but a BIG fanboy of Forza and just want to spread the whole site that you are. So pathetic. I’ll laugh if Forza Horizon wasn’t what everyone was expecting it to be. HAHAHAHA! XD You’re like, so standard…
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April 22nd, 2012 at 3:10 pm - #TokoTurismo
Oh, and one more thing. You mainly like Forza because they bring DLC monthly, not because of the game. Which are always “CAR PACKS” and never “TRACK PACKS”. I agree with Turn 10 though. Because you guys didn’t bother with the track pack they released for FM3, so don’t count on getting any track packs or making Turn 10 struggle of getting you one.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 7:13 pm - #NEXLVL
Very well put GT5_ProBob. Sometimes it is nice to hear the voice of reason among the crowd of haters.
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April 22nd, 2012 at 8:55 pm - #MuoNiuLa
Ugh, again. I must sincerely question the thought process of you guys. How does basically bashing Forza and the 360 and putting GT on a pedestal equate to being reasonable and common sense? This may actually blow your minds, but Forza actually does a lot of things right too that GT can learn from.
And if you want to say something against the complainers fine, but if you have to unfairly bash the competition to prove your point, it doesn’t make you look any better.
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April 23rd, 2012 at 1:24 am - #Pit Crew
@king1982 what you been smoking exhaust fumes?
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April 23rd, 2012 at 2:13 pm - #Quakebass
@King1982
Well, if you’re statement is true, why do we still have all these GT fans claiming GT5 is better?
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April 21st, 2012 at 4:16 pm - #DaScouser101
chances of any one of us getting through all of the rounds are very slim but lets be happy that we are getting something new still want more dlc but anything new is a bonus
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April 23rd, 2012 at 1:35 am - #Pit Crew
i bet king 1982 is a former gt5 player couldn’t tune couldn’t compete online so turned to forza to redeem himself yet still trolling gtplanet looking for gt5 info and thinks hes clowning us gt5 faithfull. is the circus intown missin one of their performers.
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April 21st, 2012 at 2:52 pm - #moondaddy79
Very well put. What’s next indeed. If gt wasn’t around and always coming up with new things and pushing the boundaries of the technological art form that we call gaming. Well, there wouldn’t even be a gtplanet. Let alone a GT Academy.
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April 21st, 2012 at 2:46 pm - #NEXLVL
It’s nice to watch the evolution of a franchise. I keep wondering what will come next. Not ever expecting anything like this. Some times I get board with GT5 and have to walk away, and race through other games just to realize my appreciation and respect for the title. And now we know what’s coming for the future, I can’t help but ask myself. “What’s next”.
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April 21st, 2012 at 1:45 pm - #hazellnut134
What will the soundtrack be? Maybe there will be some nice jazzy lounge songs for unlock in GT5…
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