While the differentiation may sound like something you have to pay extra for, the premium cars are in fact the ones developers Polyphony Digital have obsessed most over, recreating them as in-game models down to the most ridiculously intricate detail. Not because it improves gameplay in any way. Just because it’s the kind of thing that sends car nuts, well, nuts.
From individual lines on a radiator grill to upholstery to seatbelts to the fact they even have high and low beams for night racing, these cars look as close to the real thing as this generation’s hardware is going to allow.
You can check them out in this gallery. In case you can’t tell the difference, the real cars are on the left, GT5 cars on the right. Also, be sure to check back later tonight for more GT5 screens, this time with some beautiful shots showcasing the game’s tracks (including the Top Gear test track).
asimovy
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 10:41 AMThe handbrake in the first screenshot is on the wrong side of the transmission tunnel.
bigkid
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 10:57 AMThe Z letter on the steering wheel is also on the wrong side
Old_Skool_Gamer
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:06 AMLol. They spent so much extra time painstakingly recreating the interiors of some of the cars, delaying the games release, and stuff like this happens. That’s funny.
I would expect them to delay the game for another 6 months now to correct those mistakes.
Andrew Hobbs
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:06 AMThere are three pixels on the left of the steering wheel out of place as well. How did you miss that.
Khuntza
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 7:29 PMHurr Durr.. obviously the real life image has been flipped cause it was left hand drive.. Hence the ‘Nissan’ is reversed on the screen also..
Doesn’t really excuse the handbrake though.. guess the moddler of the center console missed the meeting where they decided it would be a right hand drive car..
BZD
Monday, October 11, 2010 at 12:47 AMActually it does. It is pretty normal the hand brake location is not changed depending on whether a car is LHD or RHD. For example tt’s the same in my Miata (which is a bit annoying btw).
Lots of things are the same regardles of driver side. The location of the fuel filler cap, the exhaust location…
attila
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:03 AMNope – its always on the left hand side of the tunnel – the photo of the real car is actually a left hand drive version and the photo has been reversed (as is clear from the Z on the steering wheel)
Swipe
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:29 AMtake the lighter fluid away from this guy, because you guys just got burrrnnned. by cold hard facts.
hehe
otherwise they look pretty darn good!
Sabmac
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM^ This. You guys didn’t notice the backwards ‘Z’? Why would the real car have a backwards Z?
Michael Barnes
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:23 AMIts for the passenger, duh!
Adaniel
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 1:49 PMThe photos of the cars are left hand drives mirrored to give the appearance of a right hand drive car for Australia.
The game images are actually right hand drive cars.
It is not a strange thing, for cars converted from left to right hand drive, a lot of times they do not move the hand brake postioning.
francis
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 11:06 AMSo this is why it’s costing $80 million or so to develop?
Matthew Buckner
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:11 PMTotally worth it!
kKagari
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:37 PMTHE REAL CARS…look better.
American Psycho
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 1:23 PMJust imagine that when you want to handbrake you have to reach over to the passenger side and pull it on.
Marc Chislett
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 5:00 PMMakes perfect sense for the hand brake to be where it is in that picture in a right hand drive car.
It also makes sense where the hand brake is on left hand drive car.
I take it you’re not from a country which drives right hand drive cars? But from one which has left hand drive instead.
Fracture
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 7:01 PMabsolutely love it, cannot wait .. SO EXCITED!!!
infamousDee
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 4:18 AMThis comparison is actually unfair to Gran Turismo 5. The screenshots show nothing but simple renders, with no lighting or reflections from surrounding objects to increase realism, as there would be during actual gameplay.