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Gran Turismo - Top Gear!

  • 24-10-2007 12:38pm
    #1
    Mitch Connor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,837 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7059887.stm

    Gamers will be able to download episodes of BBC Two show Top Gear inside video game Gran Turismo 5.
    Forty episodes of the popular motoring show will be available on a dedicated Gran Turismo TV channel accessed via the PlayStation 3's online network.

    Gran Turismo is the world's most popular racing video game series, with more than 47 million copies sold.

    The test track used by Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond will be recreated inside GT5.

    Virtual drivers will be able to race the hundreds of cars licensed inside the game around the track featured in the show.

    Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is due for release in 2008. GT TV will also feature news and features about the motoring world.

    "We're sure that players will be as thrilled as we are when they get the chance to put their own driving skills to the test on the Top Gear Test Track in GT5, as well as enjoying classic episodes of Top Gear via GT TV," said Kazunori Yamauchi, president of the game's developers Polyphony Digital, in a statement.

    Simon Danker, director of digital media at BBC Worldwide said: "We're thrilled to make Top Gear accessible to Gran Turismo gamers."
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    Awesome.

    Wasn't going to get the game, had no real interest in it. But now, its nailed on to the wanted list!

    So very awesome.


Comments

  • #2
    Zapp Brannigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    Cool! I don't like racing games but I might actually give this a bash of solely only to drive on the TG track!


  • #3
    Niall0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Niall0


    Great News ! I love top gear.:D


  • #4
    steviec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,653 ✭✭✭steviec


    Fantastic announcement. I'm looking forward to the game even more now. My favourite tv show and one of my favourite game series wrapped into one!

    I'm hoping Polyphony really milk this and have a test track challenge type thing, where you pick one of the cars stig took for a lap, the game plays you the video of his lap, then puts you on the track in the same car with your time running against his.

    I'll be doing that anyway even if its not a feature and I have to write down the stig's times myself, but it would be nice if they integrated it like that. And the game better include the Suzuki Liana of course.


  • #5
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    This is brilliant. The Top Gear track :)


  • #6
    Niall0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Niall0


    steviec wrote: »
    Suzuki Liana of course.
    Theyve upgraded to a chevrolet lacetti now;)


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  • #7
    Canonfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Canonfan


    Very successful in terms of marketing.


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