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Not really. Not as I understand the definition anyway.
There are lots of missions in Novice class right up to Super, but the only genuinely races occur in the karting events, and those are more of a novelty than what I would buy a GT game for. Virtually every other event is nothing more than a chase-down of the car at the front who has been given a 10 to 20 second lead (depending on event).
I went back to GT4 recently because I wanted to do some proper license tests with my new racing sim set-up. I then decided to go through a few races and, I have to say, I dearly miss lining up on a grid with all the other cars and jostling for position in the first corner.
Sure, you could enter in a vastly over-powered car and waltz to victory every time if you were that way inclined, but whatever. I love starting a race and seeing, for example; "A Spec: 100 points race..." and knowing I was in for a decent challenge.
Sadly there is no such thing in GT6. It's the same old mundane and boring procession every damned event; rolling start, watch 1st place streak into the distance, drive like a lunatic in the brief few laps you have and catch him before it's over. Rinse, repeat.
I get the sneaking suspicion there are no grid starts any more (aside from the aforementioned karting) because PD can't create AI worth a damn, and so they have to fabricate a challenge in the most crass way possible: just give the other cars a head start every time. It's pathetic. There's also the issue of the AI cars being made of solid iron meaning any slight coming together between us and them means a spin-out of tedious inevitability, and an even bigger lead gained by those cars at the front - if I don't simply restart in frustration. Just another maddening way PD made the game "challenging"...
On the plus side, the driving itself is still absolutely sublime. I've said elsewhere here that no other game feels as good as GT does when it is doing what it does best: hurtling around Nurburgring or Spa (or any one of countless beautiful tracks) in a premium car, cockpit view, no HUD, the dead of night, stars twinkling... it's absolutely astounding.
If only they added some races. It would be an amazing game.
There are lots of missions in Novice class right up to Super, but the only genuinely races occur in the karting events, and those are more of a novelty than what I would buy a GT game for. Virtually every other event is nothing more than a chase-down of the car at the front who has been given a 10 to 20 second lead (depending on event).
I went back to GT4 recently because I wanted to do some proper license tests with my new racing sim set-up. I then decided to go through a few races and, I have to say, I dearly miss lining up on a grid with all the other cars and jostling for position in the first corner.
Sure, you could enter in a vastly over-powered car and waltz to victory every time if you were that way inclined, but whatever. I love starting a race and seeing, for example; "A Spec: 100 points race..." and knowing I was in for a decent challenge.
Sadly there is no such thing in GT6. It's the same old mundane and boring procession every damned event; rolling start, watch 1st place streak into the distance, drive like a lunatic in the brief few laps you have and catch him before it's over. Rinse, repeat.
I get the sneaking suspicion there are no grid starts any more (aside from the aforementioned karting) because PD can't create AI worth a damn, and so they have to fabricate a challenge in the most crass way possible: just give the other cars a head start every time. It's pathetic. There's also the issue of the AI cars being made of solid iron meaning any slight coming together between us and them means a spin-out of tedious inevitability, and an even bigger lead gained by those cars at the front - if I don't simply restart in frustration. Just another maddening way PD made the game "challenging"...
On the plus side, the driving itself is still absolutely sublime. I've said elsewhere here that no other game feels as good as GT does when it is doing what it does best: hurtling around Nurburgring or Spa (or any one of countless beautiful tracks) in a premium car, cockpit view, no HUD, the dead of night, stars twinkling... it's absolutely astounding.
If only they added some races. It would be an amazing game.
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