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Gran Turismo 7

The licence tests are simply brilliant, challenging you to find time you would otherwise feel just wasn’t there.

Kazunori Yamauchi proudly explained, in interviews ahead of Gran Turismo 7’s launch, that the game’s core development team has remained unchanged despite 25 years of working on the series. It shows. GT7 looks, sounds and feels like that PS1 classic, only now in Ultra HD on PS5. The devs have learned from several mistakes along the way, honed its triumphs, and the result is pure class.

The latest entry in the series is certainly not brash and flashy like Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, nor has it disappeared up its own exhaust pipe like GT5. It’ll be familiar to anyone

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