Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo is a racing game designed by Kazunori Yamauchi and is the first entry in the critically acclaimed simulator racing series bearing the same name. After five years of development time, it was…
Gran Turismo is a racing developed by Polyphony Digital, released 23 December 1997 on PlayStation. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Gran Turismo is
Gran Turismo is a racing game developed by Polyphony Digital and released in 1997. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation only. It runs on Custom Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gran Turismo is a 1997 sim racing video game developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was directed by Kazunori Yamauchi and produced by Shuhei Yoshida. It is the first game in the Gran Turismo series.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Gran Turismo series
Gran Turismo is the first of 32 entries we hold in the Gran Turismo series. The next entry was Gran Turismo 2 in 1999. Its critic score of 73 is 7 points below the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec at 100.
How it was received
Gran Turismo holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 294 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 50 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Gran Turismo launched on 23 December 1997, within three weeks of Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, The Last Blade and Strikers 1945 II. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, The Last Blade, Strikers 1945 II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gran Turismo yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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