From cars featured in Need for Speed: Carbon (NFS), let us now move to the best-selling PlayStation game ever! It is none other than the Gran Turismo (GT) racing game series developed by Polyphony Digital and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA). Like the NFS, Gran Turismo also features a bunch of high performance vehicles from different American and international automakers. The Gran Turismo 4 features about 720 cars like Mazda models equipped with Mazda fenders and more than 50 race tracks for the players to choose from.
The highlight of the game is that you should first get license before entering a prestigious racing event. How to get a license? Well, just like in the real world, there are also driving tests and challenges for you to get a license. But I'm telling you these test drives are very difficult and grueling that even a professional driver couldn’t complete all of them in a single round.
Now for the cars, they are grouped into three main categories in the game: New Cars, Used Cars, and Special Models. All cars in each category have a corresponding price. You should earn money to get your favorite high performance car. Check out the cars featured in Gran Turismo racing game series in the official website at www.us.playstation.com/PSone/Games/Gran_Turismo/OGS. It would be a very long list if I post all of those cars in this blog entry.
Anyway, check out these trivia about the game:
* The band The Cardigans said in interviews that the name of their album Gran Turismo is because they played the first game a lot during the tours and recording sessions. The song My Favourite Game is a reference of dedication of the band to the game. Polyphony Digital and SCEA later returned the favour; a remix of "My Favourite Game" replaces the main theme of
* For all installments of the series, Japanese watch maker Seiko has been credited as the official time keeper of the games' races. However, in the credits section of the game manuals for GT2, GT3 and GT4, it is stated that "The timing data used in the game is generated by Sony Computer Entertainment using its own method and not by Seiko Corporation"
* Gran Turismo was referenced in the The Streets song "The Irony Of It All" from the album Original Pirate Material
* Gran Turismo was also referenced in the Eiffel 65 song "My Console" from the album Europop, though the song mentions many early Playstation titles.
* Gran Turismo was also referenced in The King Of Queens, where in a certain episode, you could clearly see Doug racing on Tahiti Road
* The younger clone version of Lieutenant Colonel Jack O'Neill can be seen playing Gran Turismo 3 in the Fragile Balance episode of Stargate SG-1
* In the movie The Fast and the Furious, one of the characters can be briefly seen playing Gran Turismo on a PlayStation mounted inside his car.
* In The Movie Wild Hogs, Doug Madsen's son is seen playing Gran Turismo 4 on the Autumn Ring track.
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