Ok, before I say why today wasn't as good as it could have been I'm going to sum up what I learnt from playing GT4 today. When you play races you can choose whether you want MT\AT, no suprises there, the next option it which steering assist you want from Beginner to Professional, Beginner = TCS + ASM, Amateur = TCS and Pro = none, maybe there are handling differences too. Finally you can choose which tires you would like to use, racing or normal, perhaps equivelent to GT3s Race or Drift option.
Anyway there were a whole host of new cars, it was great seeing so many nice looking cars, also there were several tracks to try, all were new, it was cool, although a lot of the textures seemed to have been copied straight from GT3 with absolutely no graphical improvent whatsoever, the tracks were impressive, so was the look and feel of them, but I would have liked the proper race circuits to look different from Midfield on GT3.
Anyway GT4 was pretty cool, but nothing spectacular, however I really though Need for Speed: Underground was great.
But now back onto the topic, are Sony ******* stupid or what? The competition for GT4, to win a £16,000 Honda Civic Type R, a years broadband* conenction and GT4* when it comes out (* indicates all semi-finalists got this too I think) sounds great. But the way it was organised was so ****. They just picked people out at random over the 3 days and in the end pitted people against each other in a knockout series, you win you go through; this was complete bull****, I expected many machines of GT4 networked together to get the best players pitted against each other in the main events in the Duel area, not the crappy players that were lucky enough to be entered, there was one goodish racer in the pack, and I said he'd win when I saw him and his competition race, he was the better, but I would not call him good, average is a more appropriate term, a lot of you will say I;m jealous, and yes I am, but if you got to play the game yourself and then you see these people play in the Duel for those prizes, you would not expect them to not be able to keep the car on the road or change gears at the right time, or get basic things right like a racing line, out of the 8+ races I saw only one person had any kind of racing line at all, and he won. Had I the chance to enter this competition I am sure that I would have won, pitting me against the people who were in the competition, when I played GT4 I kept on the track, rarely crashed, came first against the CPU in every race and raced cleanly, unlike the competition entrants who none of them stringed together a decent lap throughout the whole set of races, there were people spinning off, hitting walls head on, shunting the opponent off the track and using the grass past the rumblestrips to corner, and slowly might I add, their laptimes were far from spectacular.
To cut a long story short GT4 = Potential to be as good if not greater than GT3
PS Experience and Sonys organisation = <unmentionable words>
Anyway there were a whole host of new cars, it was great seeing so many nice looking cars, also there were several tracks to try, all were new, it was cool, although a lot of the textures seemed to have been copied straight from GT3 with absolutely no graphical improvent whatsoever, the tracks were impressive, so was the look and feel of them, but I would have liked the proper race circuits to look different from Midfield on GT3.
Anyway GT4 was pretty cool, but nothing spectacular, however I really though Need for Speed: Underground was great.
But now back onto the topic, are Sony ******* stupid or what? The competition for GT4, to win a £16,000 Honda Civic Type R, a years broadband* conenction and GT4* when it comes out (* indicates all semi-finalists got this too I think) sounds great. But the way it was organised was so ****. They just picked people out at random over the 3 days and in the end pitted people against each other in a knockout series, you win you go through; this was complete bull****, I expected many machines of GT4 networked together to get the best players pitted against each other in the main events in the Duel area, not the crappy players that were lucky enough to be entered, there was one goodish racer in the pack, and I said he'd win when I saw him and his competition race, he was the better, but I would not call him good, average is a more appropriate term, a lot of you will say I;m jealous, and yes I am, but if you got to play the game yourself and then you see these people play in the Duel for those prizes, you would not expect them to not be able to keep the car on the road or change gears at the right time, or get basic things right like a racing line, out of the 8+ races I saw only one person had any kind of racing line at all, and he won. Had I the chance to enter this competition I am sure that I would have won, pitting me against the people who were in the competition, when I played GT4 I kept on the track, rarely crashed, came first against the CPU in every race and raced cleanly, unlike the competition entrants who none of them stringed together a decent lap throughout the whole set of races, there were people spinning off, hitting walls head on, shunting the opponent off the track and using the grass past the rumblestrips to corner, and slowly might I add, their laptimes were far from spectacular.
To cut a long story short GT4 = Potential to be as good if not greater than GT3
PS Experience and Sonys organisation = <unmentionable words>
these idiots who organized this event did not have a clue .... some idiot who cant even play GT games walked off with a new car and title of best player in the U.K 
sorry but i was not given the chance to race and i was there on the 1st session 
