Gran Turismo 5 Getting Mechanical Damage And More Updates

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said that mechanical damage will be added to Gran Turismo 5 via a patch this month. At the moment, damage only affects the bodywork of the car.

Other updates include:

== Flexible camera angles and “dynamic and wide-area lighting needs” are to blame for the sometimes blocky shadows. Yamauchi admits they are a problem and wants to improve them.

== Yamauchi appears to consider the possibility of removing the in-game HUD (heads-up-display features) at some point in the future.

== Online “lounge” functionality and other features will be added “one by one”.

== Polyphony Digital continues to work on fully supporting the Logitech G25 and G27, though Yamauchi admits he would like a “new steering device soon”…

== In-game rewards (such as the monetary prize in GT5 Prologue) for your performance in online events is something Polyphony Digital is considering, and may be implemented in a future update.

== Gran Turismo 5’s official, 2-disc sound-track will be released soon.

== Yamauchi wanted to implement a “free roam” gameplay mode in GT5, where players could drive around, respecting speed limits and obeying traffic laws, and even exit the car to walk around and explore the environment on foot.

== The YouTube replay upload feature had to be pulled from the final version of the game because it took a very long time to render and it consumed too much memory. Yamauchi is still considering it, however.

via GTPlanet