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Gran Turismo PSP has finally got a street date: 1st October 2009. No specific regional dates were given.

Confirmed by Kazunori Yamauchi on stage during Sony's E3 presentation, the PSP title was shown to be working on the new PSP Go, although it will be available on UMD as well.

It was stressed that the title will be a full Gran Turismo game, not stripped down in any fashion. Featuring 800 cars, and 60 layout variations of 35 tracks, the game is said to pelt along at a very healthy 60fps.

Single-player will feature racing and time trial modes, with multiplayer taking the form of ad-hoc wireless for up to four people.

DTS wrote: I'll believe it when I have the game.

DTS wrote:It's designed in such a way that makes racing with realistic physics accessible to the layman. (Alright there's no car damage, except tyres in harder races, and the cars don't flip or roll, but otherwise it is realistic). There's an Arcade mode for quick playing, but the real meat is in the simulation mode (or whatever they called it, forgot).

In the simulation mode, you buy a relatively cheap 2nd hand car and win money by doing small-time races, which you can use to upgrade it with new parts to help you win more. To enter harder races and championships you have to first pass racing driving tests, or licence tests. Once you've passed a set of tests you get a relevant racing licence from it. The tests are done on sections of tracks that are used for racing on in the rest of the game. This means that aswell as forcing you to learn to racing drive, you learn sections of the tracks specifically. The tests are done with various test cars, not the car you bought yourself.

As you get better qualified with licences you get access to better races and championships with more prizemoney. For some of these you win more money, some you win money and a car. You can sell the car or use it. Souping up your cars gradually as you get enough money to do so is great.

So, it doesn't drop you in the deep end with a full spec racing car, it builds up to it gradually in such a way that you have to learn to race well to get faster cars and race in faster races and championshps.

Winning the Pagani Zonda Race Car by the requisite way of racing in a Pagani Zonda cars only championshp is great cause that way you have learnt to race the Pagani Zonda effectively before you attain the more powerful Race version of it.

It's a brilliantly designed game and redefined the racing simulator. Before Gran Turismo, all racing games were either arcade-oriented pieces of unrealistic cake, or inpenetrable nerdy shite (for want of a better term). I don't know much about the "clone games" but I think I'd have read about it somewhere if they started you off "small" and worked you up to "big" like Gran Turismo does. I think they just dump a load of desirable cars in there and make the driving feel "fun, but sort of realistic".