Gran Turismo: The Real Driving Simulator

 PSP
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: Sep 30, 2009
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 138 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 138
  2. Mixed: 45 out of 138
  3. Negative: 12 out of 138
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  1. DWilliams
    Oct 6, 2009
    5
    Oh dear...Graphics? amazing! Physics? amazing! 4 cars on track? Laughable. No career mode? Despicable!! The reason I bought a PSP on release was for this game and Polyphony have made a complete hash of it. I'd rather have taken a hit in the graphics dept. to allow at least 2 more cars on track, preferably another 4. As for the lack of career mode...what were they thinking? probably Oh dear...Graphics? amazing! Physics? amazing! 4 cars on track? Laughable. No career mode? Despicable!! The reason I bought a PSP on release was for this game and Polyphony have made a complete hash of it. I'd rather have taken a hit in the graphics dept. to allow at least 2 more cars on track, preferably another 4. As for the lack of career mode...what were they thinking? probably something like ''lets not include a career mode incase it stops people buying GT5''.... well to be honest people would have bought both.... Idiots. Potentially an amazing game ruined by Idiotic decicions in Polyphony towers!… Expand
  2. jsdgpro
    Aug 30, 2012
    8
    It's pretty fun, the graphics are INCREDIBLE. It is a shame that you can't just buy the cars you want but have to race and then see what the dealership have in store for you, but overall it's pretty great.
  3. gamingisgreat
    Jul 14, 2015
    8
    GT for PSP is a solid driving game,the car list is extensive,the driving physics are solid,and the track selection is ridiculously large.

    GT PSP edition makes a solid start as you get a car and 100,000 to start the game.Car list rages from city cars to hypercars.The game however only lets you choose to by cars from 4 manufacturers and changes every 2 races.There is no career mode,but    GT for PSP is a solid driving game,the car list is extensive,the driving physics are solid,and the track selection is ridiculously large.

    GT PSP edition makes a solid start as you get a car and 100,000 to start the game.Car list rages from city cars to hypercars.The game however only lets you choose to by cars from 4 manufacturers and changes every 2 races.There is no career mode,but you choose everything before the race.Car,track,the amount of laps,and if you want to make the race one manuacturer only,the game's strength is the driving,which is the most important.

    Overall:Solid handheld racing game.    … Expand
  4. Fervillax
    Sep 2, 2020
    9
    Teniendo en cuenta las límitaciones técnicas que tiene una consola como psp y el año en que aparecio el juego, me parece que Gran Turismo aprovecha al máximo la consola para ofrecer una de las mejores experiencias que puedes tener en psp, especialmente en cuanto a juegos de carreras se refiere.
    Los gráficos simplemente son de los mejores que puedes encontrar en esta consola. Se echa de    Teniendo en cuenta las límitaciones técnicas que tiene una consola como psp y el año en que aparecio el juego, me parece que Gran Turismo aprovecha al máximo la consola para ofrecer una de las mejores experiencias que puedes tener en psp, especialmente en cuanto a juegos de carreras se refiere.
    Los gráficos simplemente son de los mejores que puedes encontrar en esta consola. Se echa de menos a lo mejor un poco más de profundidad en el "modo carrera" que es bastante más simple que en las versiones de la época para ps2.
    Aún así para mi es un juego sobresaliente que incluso en la actualidad da gusto jugarlo.    … Expand
  5. XDavidX
    Nov 23, 2015
    10
    The game is just amazing. I love play this game. For me this game is amazing ! Nothing more to comment because this game is amazing ! I rate this 10/10
  6. MiGiZA
    Jul 2, 2019
    8
    Gran Turismo PSP - the only best car simulator for everyone's favorite PlayStation Portable, which includes a huge number of cars and tracks. The only disadvantage of the game is that there is no damage physics.
  7. CosmicBandito69
    Nov 5, 2009
    9
    Sure it doesn't have career mode, but it races like a dream. I never got far in career mode anyways in GT4. It was too hard driving those crummy slow cars. I like the automatically adjusting difficulty level. Trust me, turn off all of the driving enhancements (except maybe traction control) and it feels fantastic. There is tons of stuff to do, don't listen to the haters. Sure it doesn't have career mode, but it races like a dream. I never got far in career mode anyways in GT4. It was too hard driving those crummy slow cars. I like the automatically adjusting difficulty level. Trust me, turn off all of the driving enhancements (except maybe traction control) and it feels fantastic. There is tons of stuff to do, don't listen to the haters. I'll play GT5 for career mode. Most of the time you are trying to squeeze in a "quick" race or two or ten. How many people are going to invest hundreds of hours for a career mode on a portable?… Expand
  8. Tubie
    Apr 12, 2011
    7
    All I can think about when I play this game is "wasted opportunity" why they didn't add a GT mode or why you can only have 4 cars in a race. All of these are drawbacks that pretty much kills this game.
  9. USG
    Nov 22, 2010
    6
    A disappointment to say the least. It ditched the career mode ("Gran Turismo mode") and all the player does is collect cars. Very little gameplay. At least the game has license tests; I can't say the same about the boring races with a few other AI. There's long loading times for each level and every menu, especially on a PSP-1000. Even though it's a car collecting game, the player has toA disappointment to say the least. It ditched the career mode ("Gran Turismo mode") and all the player does is collect cars. Very little gameplay. At least the game has license tests; I can't say the same about the boring races with a few other AI. There's long loading times for each level and every menu, especially on a PSP-1000. Even though it's a car collecting game, the player has to wait to buy which-ever car they want. Each game day a selection of only a few dealers show up, despite how the game is packed with cars. The few pros (such as graphics and frame rate) are easily outweighed. This game was not worth the positive speculation after it was originally announced, years before its release.… Expand
  10. bazzigoplay297
    Nov 22, 2020
    6
    Could it have been better.

    Surely it is the best racing game for PSP for graphic, but no Driver Licenses (the Soul of GT) and rotating cars in the shop are a very big let down
  11. JoelC.
    Oct 3, 2009
    5
    Jesus said "Any job worth doing is worth doing right,". And this is a half assed job. No career mode? Are you serious? It's a racing game with Gran Turismo on the front. Now you get a half assed score from me. 5 out of 10.
  12. AdamK
    Jan 1, 2010
    10
    Gran Turismo for PSP is a totally new game, one that is solely about the driving. No rush to finish the game, buy your favourite cars and go racing or drifting. With the limited purchase from 5 manufactures you experience cars you would have missed before. Passing the license tests does provide some new features but if you don't want, don't do it. The game never has you race Gran Turismo for PSP is a totally new game, one that is solely about the driving. No rush to finish the game, buy your favourite cars and go racing or drifting. With the limited purchase from 5 manufactures you experience cars you would have missed before. Passing the license tests does provide some new features but if you don't want, don't do it. The game never has you race anything you don't want to. It's brilliant, at first I was disappointed when I read what people described as a lack lustre game, but it is so much more fun without what one reviewer called the grind of career mode( he meant it positively). The game gives you total freedom with amazing cars, that's how it should always have been.… Expand
  13. RandyC
    Jan 19, 2010
    7
    this is a review for GRAND TOURISMO for the PSP GO PROS: excellent graphics the best I have seen out of all the race games...The most realistic handling...The best multi-player game as long as you have friends to play CONS :the one thing that ticks me off about GT is the fact that there is no career mode CONCLUSION: I really like the game and I truly believe that anybody who considers this is a review for GRAND TOURISMO for the PSP GO PROS: excellent graphics the best I have seen out of all the race games...The most realistic handling...The best multi-player game as long as you have friends to play CONS :the one thing that ticks me off about GT is the fact that there is no career mode CONCLUSION: I really like the game and I truly believe that anybody who considers themselves as a racing icon must own this game the replays are unmatched...The graphics are a 10 in a 7 world...they just didn't add much replay ability to the game which is really sad considering they made it for a portable system… Expand
  14. SteveK
    Jan 5, 2010
    6
    I wanted to love it. I tried to love it. But it just came out as a poor cousin of the GT family. Sure, the graphics are great and it has the polish of a GT game, but it's missing something. It's not the lack of a career mode or customisation as such, it would have worked as a fun arcade game rather than a simulation, but there just doesn't seem any point to it. Buying cars I wanted to love it. I tried to love it. But it just came out as a poor cousin of the GT family. Sure, the graphics are great and it has the polish of a GT game, but it's missing something. It's not the lack of a career mode or customisation as such, it would have worked as a fun arcade game rather than a simulation, but there just doesn't seem any point to it. Buying cars makes no difference other than that you have yet another car. All AI players are in cars selected from those comparable in power to your own so there's nothing to be gained by having a higher power car or a specific make/model needed to enter a particular race. There's no point in choosing a harder compound tyre over soft as there's no tyre wear for it to make a difference. You can drive down the pit lane but all that seems to happen is you drive on auto under speed limiter without stopping and come out the other end. Surely the pits are there for a reason? Glaring issues like this mean it just feels .. incomplete. It's almost like they realised GT5 wasn't going to ship before Christmas so someone dusted off the half finished proof of concept demo that had been abandoned and spent a couple of months giving it a new coat of paint before shoving it out into daylight with very little warning as if to say 'Look what we were making instead'. The only saving grace in my opinion is the adhoc network play. Suddenly playing it does become fun compared to the tedious procession in single player. You still don't need to have stocked your garage with cars as Party Shuffle mode gives you random cars of comparable power. I think out of all the GT games so far, it offers the simplest and best social multiplayer experience for a group of friends. GT3s firewire based networking worked fine, but was a hassle and required buying proprietary equipment to use. GT4 only worked (officially) on a LAN and we found even that was pretty flaky. GT5P works well but you can only play against random Internet folk and not just challenge your friends to a race. Without multiplayer, I'd probably rate this a 3-4 as while it looks pretty but gets dull and tedious fairly quickly with no real incentives to keep playing. But the multiplayer does make the game more fun. Sadly it doesn't appear to support gameshare so you do all need a copy.… Expand
  15. AalL
    Oct 10, 2009
    0
    Over 5 years developing this crap??!?! Are you kidding?! Only 4 car dealers/day, no career mode, no online racing or timetables, no option to buy tuning parts, change color or even buy new rims. Definitely THE most disappointing mobile sequel of all time
  16. Travis
    Oct 16, 2009
    6
    While all the cars and tracks are cool there is too much missing. I expected a career mode, but what really bothers me is not being able to really tune the cars! That was half the fun of all the other titles, tuning a car piece by piece until the competition was left in the dust. Because only half the game is there I have to give it a lousy score.
  17. OliverH
    Oct 16, 2009
    5
    Just a nice car simulation game withouth all the fun of carreer mode , car tuning , buying part, buying what car you want , selling car ... so a gran turismo withouth the principal .... fortunately it free when you are buying a psp go.
  18. Andyman
    Oct 25, 2009
    5
    I'm right there with Joel C. on this. GT was supposed to be out in 2005! Here it is 4 years later, and only now do we get it... and it doesn't even have all the features of the first game in the series, which is 11 years old, and was on a console that the PSP can emulate! WTF? Where's the career mode? Where's the upgrade shop? Only 4 cars in the race? Day-limited I'm right there with Joel C. on this. GT was supposed to be out in 2005! Here it is 4 years later, and only now do we get it... and it doesn't even have all the features of the first game in the series, which is 11 years old, and was on a console that the PSP can emulate! WTF? Where's the career mode? Where's the upgrade shop? Only 4 cars in the race? Day-limited access to dealers rather than 24/7 access? Are you freakin' kidding me? Sure, it plays great and all, but with this absurd lack of features, there's almost no point. Extremely disappointing. Thank God for my 360 and Forza 2 and 3. Wake up, Polyphony.… Expand
  19. Macca
    Oct 2, 2009
    7
    So, the long wait is over, and whilst knowing that there were going to be some important features missing in the PSP version, I still wanted to have it. Graphically the game is a triumph for the PSP even if it does have some glitches, like pixelated white dots every now and then that are reminiscent of the old Ps1 version, but the smooth 60fps makes up for that. Obviously, with no career So, the long wait is over, and whilst knowing that there were going to be some important features missing in the PSP version, I still wanted to have it. Graphically the game is a triumph for the PSP even if it does have some glitches, like pixelated white dots every now and then that are reminiscent of the old Ps1 version, but the smooth 60fps makes up for that. Obviously, with no career mode you have to think what it is you are working for. Well, there is the Challenges mode that has made it, and the single player races are fun providing you turn off all the driving aids - left on the game is simply way too easy. Your aim is to collect as many of the 800 vehicles on offer by earning money in either the challenge mode or by participating in single player races. You get an option to set the amount of laps you want, and the more laps you choose the higher the cash reward should you win. All the tracks (not tried them all yet) are available from the off, and there are 45 of them, and some of them are very long. One of the features I loved the original GT's for was the long races that needed lots of stamina to get through, and this feeling remains in the PSP version. Overall, this game hasn't delivered what GT fans had wished for, but it cannot be denied that the game is still fun to play in single player, although the lack of proper multiplayer (ad-hoc only) is something I feel this game needed.… Expand
  20. LukeD
    Oct 2, 2009
    10
    A towering achievement. Basically, it's GT4 ported to the PSP. When you see it running you can't believe it. When you try rally racing on the Grand Canyon track you won't believe your eyes. 60 fps and graphically, just about everything is there that was in GT4, the resolution of the texture has just been turned down a bit. Staggering track and car selection with lots of A towering achievement. Basically, it's GT4 ported to the PSP. When you see it running you can't believe it. When you try rally racing on the Grand Canyon track you won't believe your eyes. 60 fps and graphically, just about everything is there that was in GT4, the resolution of the texture has just been turned down a bit. Staggering track and car selection with lots of real race cars and all of the best Gran Turismo tracks. There is even Valencia and it's just as good as in GTR2. Physics are as good as GT4, with some improvements, which is hard to believe. Control has a learning curve, but is very well tuned for either the analog nub or D-Pad. This is Gran Turismo, through and through. The license tests are there, they are just called Challenges. Unbelievable graphics, simulation physics, vast amounts of content; everything is beyond what you would ever expect on a handheld. An absolute must buy.… Expand
  21. Justin
    Oct 3, 2009
    0
    Worst driving game ever.
  22. LordM.
    Oct 3, 2009
    9
    How can a Reviewer not say anything about the CUSTOM SOUNDRACK feature?.... It is a first on the GT series, and you'll unlock it after 5 or 10 minutes of playing the game.... It seems most reviewers didn't play the game at all or something, because every review just talks about the same "no career" thing and nobody lists Custom Soundtrack as a Plus or Good thing about the game.
  23. Nigel
    Oct 30, 2009
    9
    The best racing game out there. It's like a mini GT5. The only thing keeping it from a 10, is that there's no career mode, and if you don't have friend to play, and share cars with, it'll get boring, really fast. So if you love the series like me, and you've got a PSP, and a friend to play ad-hoc with, grab $40 and go buy it.
  24. JamesP
    Oct 5, 2009
    9
    An excellent game. Highly under reviewed due to the lack of co-op.. but it really doesn't need it. Game performs flawlessly. 60fps, 830 cars, 60ish tracks (30 unique?) An amazing experience. Some of the most amazing graphics and physics ever conceived for a portable racer.
  25. ConradB
    Oct 6, 2009
    8
    Gran Turismo on the PSP really does look like Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Graphics are excellent, the driving experience is every bit as good as on the PS2, and the cars look superb. It was great to see all the familiar tracks again, and have them available right from the start. There are few things I didn't like very much. First, load times are quite long. Too long for a modern game. Gran Turismo on the PSP really does look like Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. Graphics are excellent, the driving experience is every bit as good as on the PS2, and the cars look superb. It was great to see all the familiar tracks again, and have them available right from the start. There are few things I didn't like very much. First, load times are quite long. Too long for a modern game. Second, since there do not seem to be any new cars, this version of Gran Turismo feels old, like it should have been released in 2004 or so, but wasn't, and no one updated the cars. I mean, time moves on and a 2003 Evo or WRX just aren't that exciting anymore. I really miss some sort of career mode or completion percentage or series of races to be won, or a cup, or anything that gives an incentive to go on. As is, the sole incentive is to make more money so you can buy another car. A must-buy for Gran Turismo fans, but Polyphony missed an easy home run.… Expand
  26. CoreyF
    Oct 10, 2009
    6
    Rating this game is simple. Take all the things from GT on the consoles which are all great, but minus a career mode. Without a career mode the game just feels empty and there is no desire to race to earn anything. I am really dissapointed with this game.
  27. GaryK
    Oct 12, 2009
    6
    This "game" is nothing more than a very impressive techinical showcase. I've had it on pre-order for months and was very disappointed when I played it. It looks great and the handling is very good but the sound is terrible and there is no real gameplay at all. I've played it a handful of times and have tried to like it but the game is terrible. What were the developers thinking This "game" is nothing more than a very impressive techinical showcase. I've had it on pre-order for months and was very disappointed when I played it. It looks great and the handling is very good but the sound is terrible and there is no real gameplay at all. I've played it a handful of times and have tried to like it but the game is terrible. What were the developers thinking when they "finished" this game. Have none of them actually played it. Look out for my copy on eBay soon if you're after a bargain. Glad I didn't get the digital download, at least I can get most of my money back :(… Expand
  28. JonV
    Oct 16, 2009
    8
    Not too bad.... Good graphics - pity there is no rwal career mode - seems to take an age to save and load, but to me the driving experience is good - give it time and you'll get the hang of it - car settings are 'customisable' to a certain extent... NUT to me this is th best driving game on the PSP
  29. davidb
    Oct 19, 2009
    6
    very disappointed mainly due to the lack of a real career mode If all you want is a handfull of one off races then it still playes a good race but for me it was always about the whole package, this feels more like gran turismo concept than a proper full release. a real shame as i have been looking forward to this for a long time and a pokemon/driving car collecting title is not what i very disappointed mainly due to the lack of a real career mode If all you want is a handfull of one off races then it still playes a good race but for me it was always about the whole package, this feels more like gran turismo concept than a proper full release. a real shame as i have been looking forward to this for a long time and a pokemon/driving car collecting title is not what i expected at all. With a little more meat on it's bones could have been brilliant, so nearly but not quite.… Expand
  30. JamesD
    Dec 9, 2009
    7
    Gran Turismo on the PSP is a slick package with relatively impressive visuals and a lot of content in terms of tracks and cars. However,with no career mode, no long lasting game modes and numerous problems with car collection makes it a solid if relatively unimpressive sim experience.
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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 73 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 33 out of 73
  3. Negative: 1 out of 73
  1. Gameplanet
    90
    Gran Turismo for the PlayStation Portable is a faithful reproduction of the original PSX game that achieved so much success in the 90's. Although missing online functionality, it's still the best racer you'll find for the platform.
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  2. Games Master UK
    79
    Great looks, impressive handling, good tracks and cars. But where's the career mode? [Dec 2009, p.64]
  3. AceGamez
    70
    Gran Turismo PSP is Polyphony's Pokémon and, as such, one that's more for the Jay Lenos amongst us rather than the James Hunts.
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