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In the months since its release, almost a year, Gran Turismo 5 has seen an impressive number of patches, if you count that is a console game. We are in production levels for the PC than once (even modern games for PC, now I see so many). Sign that the creative team has recognized the deficiencies of many standard game, trying to correct them with various changes culminating in more than a maxi patch 2.0 gigabytes.

Other action taken by the latter "patch" cover all key aspects of GT5, but often are not simple fillers and a real answer to silence criticism. It shows the internal view for standard vehicles, almost surreal in its minimalism: a crop with the darkened silhouette of the moving hands on the wheel and the nothingness all around (even missing hood and body). While many had requested this view, certainly related to the interiors of premium cars, not a fake hardcover Gran Turismo 5 makes it seem even further back than the competition. A small exception is in the standard car pools, which now have a cabin completely modeled, as they represent a minority among the eight hundred models.

Moreover GT Life's career has not been touched in a sensitive and that useless drawing is already widely criticized him last year: no damage performance, no obvious retouching of the AI cars driven by the computer, only the ability to save in endurance races (useful but not sufficient). Today, more than the exit, the historical mode of Gran Turismo 5 looks like the least fun and, together with standard vehicles, the item "age" this title than other modern racing games. Not by chance, you have to exit and go to Arcadia GT Life mode to realize the major innovations introduced by patch 2.0, as the configuration of the weather. On tracks that require it, we can choose how to change the track conditions and how quickly, beginning to end dries in the rain. You can also decide how it is affected the adhesion of the tires and the surface, so as to have only the effect on the aesthetic or even driving. Very well done, on tracks like Monza, variable lighting in different areas of the track, passing from one area to the serene cloud.

Good news coming from the boots, the whole game shortened and optimized in step menu-track. Now, in a few seconds you get to the track and we can make all the adjustments as the game finishes loading drivers and cars. Returning to the Arcadia fashion, we can configure the ability of our opponents and their behavior, more or less aggressive on a scale of one to ten. The differences are not radical, but you see, even in the rivalry between the cars driven by the same computer. Raising this indicator can be seen more counters and duels between rival cars, while lowering the CPU goes into the usual "Indian files" that you see during your career. Among the new approaches is also possible to save three settings for the selected car, so ready to have a setup specifically for a certain type of race or path, which takes into account the model chosen. For fans of NASCAR, there are eleven models of the 2011 championship and aspiring photographers can make their avatar in the images, as well as use new depths. Support also comes the "official" to target Logitech G25 and G27 steering wheels, with a wider choice of configurations. There's also a new intro movie to download separately (over half a gigabyte) through Gran Turismo TV channel online. The presentation "2.0" is, as always, spectacular and also shows the contents of the DLC, including the track and the circuit of Spa Night for go-kart. Of course you pay extra content is published on the PlayStation Store and separated from the patches that you are free and installs automatically when the game starts (with a PS3 connected to the Internet).