I'm sorry, you've got me confused. Is it no excuses 'cause you paid for it, or do you give it some allowances due to the price break? You can't have both.
The fact of the matter is it was very easy for me to get more than my moneys worth out of Prologue, it leaves me excited for the full game, and still offers plenty of playability, all on the cheap!👍 .
a lot of arguments here is saying that GT5P lacks all the missing features because it is a Beta, not a full game. My point is, it
is a full game, it is a full game that is 35% cheaper than other full games, so it is OK to compare them, but price difference need to be taken into consideration. for example, it would be fair to ask for GT5P to have 65% of the cars, tracks and features as Forza 2 (i wouldnt personally ask for that, but that to prove a point).
does GT5P have enough content and merit to justify its cost when compared to Forza 2, i think that is the golden question.
personally i think it is very close. but it is not quite there yet.
1, number of cars dont matter to me, each car need to be tuned differently for each race of different PP and to each track, that alone creates so many variations of the samr car. so the number of cars in GT5P actually satisfies me. (i only wish it had MRS, because that is a car I am considering buying and modding myself)
2, number of tracks is slightly low, highspeed ring and daytona oval can be excluded from serious racing as they are too simple. i'd say maybe 3 more complex tracks will be enough, much like how many GT1 had.
3, damage is not needed in my book at all, does any one demand tekken 6 to show character face having bruises everytime they get punched? or Uncharted 2 show Drake bleed everytime he gets shot? so why the fascination with cars showing damage in a race? in fact i find damage in GRID to be distracting.
4, the inablity to race with friends over LAN or net is a huge missing part. I dont see why that is so hard.
5, realism in physics is what most people look for in a racing sim, and that is where GT5 excels, that is why i dont mind if GT5 doesnt have 4000 cards and 50 tracks and car damage.
If you want to compare a piece of a game to a full one, it's only fair to rate each other against what is included in both. You can't really detract from Prologue for not having features that match up with the other game
let me clarify..
I wish only what you said is true..
unfortunately GT5P is NOT "a piece of a game", for the simply fact that despite you already paid for GT5P, if you want GT5 full version, you have to pay the full price. If sony allowed all GT5P owners to hand in their disc and pay the difference (30 in USA and 50 in NZ), and get the full game, then I would actually agree with you.
at current rate, GT5P should really be called GT5, and GT5 full version should really be called
GT6.
Only if we would take drag-race from Helsinki, 'who is 1st in Saunalahti Bridge' I maybe could be competitive, but let me tell that's insane. Long straight between Suomenoja and Kivenlahti is madly bumpy when speeds are over 200kmh. I have quite new Bilstein suspension, so I could maybe survive alive from that straight. 
Good that we still have even few snowy weeks in Finland... so easy to get kicks without huge speeds.
I'm just kiddin before all the GT fanbois come rolling in
it doesn't look like he has ever done a track day event either. I would hope someone doing a serious review on race sims would at least have some real world experience. For what it is worth, a must on an average street car before you take it to a road course is better brake pads, racing brake fluid, and fresh tires, more sticky than stock helps too. You don't need much else, at least not in the beginning. So when he said he had done an intake and exhaust, etc. on what most consider a crap track car, (I see a lot of different cars at my local track day events, a camaro is not often one of them) then saw the quality driving I guess I was not surprised. For what some aftermarket exhaust probably set him back he could have done two or three track events at least.
lets just drink it up hahah
