Hi.
Like I metioned some 40 pages earlier I was at the GamesCom as well - and boy, was it loud. One booth tried to be louder than the next to draw attention, but it made it very noisy and exhausting.
So, let's get to the good stuff: rushing through the halls to the GT-stands.
At first I was very very disappointed, in a small corner there were 2 stands with prologue running...then I thought: this can't be it, really, this would be a joke...but it wasn't, it was the PSL stand...
phew...off and raiding the hall in search of the GT-stands.
Found them in the big Sony stand.
Quite a lot of rigs there, but only 1 with 3D - and I must say it wasn't overwhelming. It looked good, but I really disliked, that the edges of the HUD weren't spot on, you saw them both, and that was irritating. But blasting down the Fuchsröhre on the Nordschleife was quite impressive, like a rollercoaster, but I don't think 3D is up to its full potential yet.
Except for 1 rig with 2:00 minutes time-constraints the other rigs weren't limited in this way...which made for quite a wait because most people were driving the Nordschleife, either the 24h or the normal version. But after waiting some 20-30 minutes I finally got in the seat and pushed the exit button as much as possible, till I was in the main-menu.
Like I wrote I didn't get any info on GT5 or anything, so the little icon saying: track-creator made for quite an awesome start.
Next I went for the arcade mode, no aids, hardest AI and the beautiful Miura on hard racing tyres (tyres for rain conditions were selectable, thus chossing those didn't make it rain
) on pro-mode on the 24h-layout of the Ring.
Quite a handful to drive, especially since you could hear nothing which made a mess of my shifting. A remarkable thing was the behaviour of tyres on grass...like you're on ice, don't try to floor the gas and don't even touch the brakes...you'll be spinning of and into the barriers in no time...
But all the spinning and crashing had its good side as well:
The damage was barely visible, just a few scratches, nothing that hasn't been seen before. But I couldn't belive my eyes at first: skidmarks!
And they were beautiful. And spot on. They begin where you lost the car and end where the grass starts.
Apart from that I don't think this was very different from the E³ build concerning the Ring itself.
My next choice was the incredibly detailed Zonda race car on Monza, a track quite familiar from F1CE, FC and SCC. I felt quite at home from the beginning, just the barriers at the chicanes were a bit irritating since I never saw those in any of the other games before.
The Zonda was quite hard to drive, even with soft racing tyres, with the back trying to overtake you immideatly when you overdo the gas. Contrarily to the Miura the Zonda felt quite nervous under braking as well, although this felt more obvious on the counter-straight than at aproching corner 1.
All in all it was awesome though.
Then I went for Blizzards booth to get a bit of plying time on Diablo 3...waiting time was more than 3 hours...fortunately my girlfriend was so kind to get her, my brother an me a beer to shorten the wait, 2 times ^^.
After that and a small Currywurst we went back to the GT-stands.
There we headed for Dunsfold Park and I took the 330 for a spin, literally.
I was quite nervous and since the TGTT is as flat as the boneville flats it was hard to find the apex, despite having seen it like a gazillion times on the show...
But another thing came to attention: a person not so aquainted with both GT and the TGTT got lost a bit and just drove the circle of the upper eight of the tracks a few times, which lead to lapping by the AI drivers. This was made visible by a blue flag on the screen, which I didn't notice on any of the other tracks before, although people got lapped here an there every few minutes.
Well, that's about it.
If anything of interest comes to mind I'll let you guys know.
I really need to focus on specific things first then 
