Gran Turismo 5

For Polyphony, it's all about the detail. Take one of Gran Turismo 5's premium cars to a night-time Kyoto in the Photo Travel Mode and you'll see where those six years since the last installment proper have gone; they're in the light refracting across the headlights, in the reflections that glisten across the perfectly sculpted bodywork and in the rivets and nuts that are each perfectly placed and painstakingly rendered. Forget photo-realism; catch it from the right angle and Gran Turismo 5 looks better than the real thing.

Get behind the wheel and that same attention to detail shines just as brightly, earning Gran Turismo 5 its billing as 'The Real Driving Simulator' and then some. Forza Motorsport 3's strength lay in its cornering as you struggle against its tire deformation system and Need for Speed Shift is about the experience at the redline as you hit maximum velocity. Gran Turismo's genius is in its braking zones. It's here that GT5's fantastic physics show their worth

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