Top Gear on Gran Turismo 5 tomorrow

via Computer and Video Games


A "significant update" for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be hitting PSN tomorrow, Sony's PlayStation Blog has revealed.

The real meet of the patch though seems to have bugger all to do with actually playing games, but downloading free and pay-per-view video content on Gran Turismo TV.

From tomorrow GT5 Prologue owners will be able to purchase episodes of Top Gear and Japanese show Best Motoring for a discounted price of $0.99 each (less than 50p - but only for the first two weeks).

Users are able to fast forward, rewind and skip chapters during video playback and up to eight episodes can be downloaded at once. See the full content list here.

"Whether you're in the mood to tour Ferrari's factory in Italy with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, or to be insulted by Jeremy Clarkson talking trash about your favorite cars, or even sitting down to watch some mad Japanese race drivers play 'car soccer', there is a variety of choices for all types of car fans," says the PS blog.

Before you get your angry comment-typing keyboard fingers out though, take note of the gameplay tweaks included in the patch. Look out for fixes in "penalty judgments, more tire choices for Time Trial and improved physics during collisions between cars during online races". Lovely.

I don't think the americans will appreciate the subtlety of british humor. :)