The game I expected so much, and got so little, I really can't believe that this demo is made by GT4 developers
But GT5P is not perfect at all, they don't have perfect graphic, they have so little events that you can finish this game in one day. I played GT4 for 2-3 years and I still have cars to get...
On line playing is not working properly. For example, a few days ago I tried to play Suzuka on line. I finally started to play after 15 disconnect massages. "You have been disconnect from the server", and some similar massages are more often than playing the game. I can play London tracks, even there is a lot disconnect massages, but if I try to play some events where there is a lot of participants, than it is almost impossible and really frustrating. You get disconnect massages on the beginning of the race and during the race. I have NAT type 2 (it is good internet connection).
Obviously Polyphony have seriously troubles with on line playing with so much participants, and they didn't prepare for on line properly.
Except that, it is almost impossible to play events with more participants, when you play, you see that on line made by GT is unfair. I can say it is fun, but it is unfair. For example, I'm in front of player, he kick me behind and I finish at wall or in sand, and he doesn't get penalty and he continue to drive like nothing happened. So, I lost the race because someone un-properly kicked me? Or, I drive, someone kicked me from the side with no reason at all, I finished on grass of Daytona, he didn't get penalty, and I got shortcut penalty!!! There are so many situations like that, and I must say that only rare players try to passed cars properly, they all try to past through the car?
In events of the game penalty politic is even more frustrating than in on line. AI drive on one ideal line, and there is no chance that they will move from it. If you reach the corner before AI and they kick you, it is penalty for you, because you find yourself on his way! So, AI doesn't need to use breaks they just drive and they can't get penalty. We have one way rule on tracks, it is not driving it is war against crazy AI cars.
I think physical damage would fix this problem, and penalty is unfair and it is not a god idea. I know it's much more easy for GT to solve car cheating problems with penalties, but for now it's not a good and fair solution.
To play without any penalties (only maybe shortcuts penalties) and without physical damages, it would be much more fair to play than playing with this unfair penalties.
Events: You have 57 events - 40 (C, B, A, S class) and 17 in dealership. A lot of people describe those events, so I don't repeat. One advice, in dealership events you can use quick tune options to improve your car and then it would be much more easy for you to play with AI (Quick tune unlocks after the finish C, B and A class). Most of events are easy, but some of them are so hard that it's almost impossible to passed them. There is no awards for all silvers and golds, so don't waist your time on it, because you will lose your mind for nothing. If you have all the cars, you could finish all events for a few hours, and I say it again, it is like this demo doesn't made by the same GT developers who made the GT4. I expected I will need at least 2 or 3 months to finish all events and maybe 6 months to get all cars. That is the less I can get from GT, but this is just a very small demo. GT5P is for now so faraway from the end, that we can expect GT5 for 5-10 years if they want to be on GT4 level. I really hope I am wrong, because I love GT games.
HD graphic doesn't impress me at all. It's to shining or it's to dark so you may have seriously troubles with your eyes when you playing it. You can see cockpit view only in some parts of tracks, for example in London, I see only the steering wheel and light on instruments, and everything else is black. I must park my car on some specific parts on the tracks to see a cockpit view. I have very quality HDMI cable, LCD Sony TV (his commercial - the best of) and I don't believe the problem is in my equipments. Also on some other game (like GROW2...) the graphic is on some parts of the game so dark it is almost unplayable. Why we don't have some options in game to move those black shadows and enjoy in beautiful cockpit view. Yes, cockpit view is awesome, but hard to view on 95% parts of the tracks. I drive the car in real life, and I can confirm that those shadows are not real at all, on day light I can see the cockpit view all the time, not just on some brighter places.
Second thing I don't like in HD graphic is that it is too flashing, so you can have serious trouble withe your eyes when you look in it. I think GT must try make graphic more natural, considered the fact we don't play the game with sun glasses.
Without those small troubles (but for me big) the graphic is awesome, the car details are amazing, beautiful, wooooow... I think that other game developers will not get this level of graphic perfections and car details for a million years.
The tracks are beautiful.
Car physics is awesome. You have cars for everybody and you can adjust the cars on many different ways (for advanced and for less advanced players).
I must say that new internet patch of GT is very good, because they allowed you to compete and win with more different cars, not only with Lotus Elise and Nissan GTR '07.
My respect to all players who made high scores on arcade and on-line time trials. You are awesome.
I'm very pleasantly surprised with two players battle. You can play off line against your friends. In a lot of new racing games you can't. Only that's missing in 2 players battle is a cockpit view, but I'm sure we will get it in some of updates.
Garage missed some information, on line ID of the players, information of the game progress, internet and other player's statistics... You only have shown cars in orders obtained, or you can sort them according to manufacture, performance points or power. Something like garage in GT4 would be great, but improved with on line statistics and other interesting details, like most used cars, and such things.
News options and GT-TV is a great and rare idea, other game developers could do the same.
Please: give us more events, more cars, constantly cockpit view (fix those black shadows), a little less flashing graphic and the most important FIX INTERNET so we can enjoy in on line playing without being unfairly penalised and disconnected. Every day I look in news department and hope I will find some info about that.
Best regards from Croatia to all GT players in the world.