{"id":96307,"date":"2009-12-23T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:58:00","slug":"review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-wvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96307","title":{"rendered":"Review: Gran Turismo 5 Demo requires serious skill [w\/VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toys\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toys\/Games<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/22\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"335\" width=\"600\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/gt5-demo-screen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Click above to watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/22\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;re waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Polyphony Digital&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/GranTurismo5\/\">Gran Turismo 5<\/a>. It&#8217;s getting more difficult to sit on our hands all the time, so it&#8217;s a good thing that Polyphony has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/gran-turismo-5-demo-coming-to-psn-on-dec-17-gt-academy-returns\/\">time trial demo<\/a> to wet our whistle. The demo is available free of charge for anyone on the Sony Playstation 3 network, and we recently got hold of the 200+ mb file for ourselves (it took about 30 minutes to download via high-speed cable Internet) to get a sense of whether the game is worth our elevated anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>The time trial demo features both a stock and a tuned version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/370z\">Nissan 370Z<\/a>. The goal is to manage the best single lap in each vehicle on a special road course layout of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and our experience with the demo shows that beating every GT5 fan out there for a chance to win a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/gran-turismo-5-demo-coming-to-psn-on-dec-17-gt-academy-returns\/\">Indianapolis 500<\/a> is going to be no easy task. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/22\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/\">Hit the jump<\/a> for our first impressions of the game, along with video of a hot lap captured by Dave Hinkle over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/\">Joystiq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\">Gran Turismo 5 Demo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/370z_001_ba_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/370z_002_ba_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/370z_003_ba_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/370z_004_ba_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/gran-turismo-5-demo\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/370z_005_ba_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: Joystiq]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Review: Gran Turismo 5 Demo requires serious skill [w\/VIDEO]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/23\/review-gran-turismo-5-demo-requires-serious-skill-w-video\/\">Review: Gran Turismo 5 Demo requires serious skill [w\/VIDEO]<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:58:00 EST.  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