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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=6534

Gran Turismo 4 Blasts onto Shelves
Games Press 11:10 31/01/2005

26th February, 2005 – After four years in the making, the game that creator Kazunori Yamauchi called "More than a sequel but, in fact, a redefinition of what a video game can be", is complete. Polyphony Digital, Inc., the acclaimed developer of the eagerly anticipated Gran TurismoTM series and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, the game's publisher, today announced that Gran Turismo 4 will blast onto the shelves across PAL territories on March 09.

With over 700 cars, more than 50 race tracks, new music, new manager and photo modes, better-than-real-life graphics and enhanced simulation, this is the "must-have" driving game of the year.

Developed hand-in-hand with the motor industry's leading marques, Gran Turismo 4 offers drivers the ultimate ride. Built with, and tested against, the real cars, real circuits and real test drivers, every car in the GT4 paddock performs, handles, sounds and behaves exactly like its metal equivalent – giving you the chance for a no-limits test drive of the world's finest cars from the Aston Martin DB9 Coupe, Audi Le Mans Quattro, Nissan 350Z or Ford GT to the Mercedes SLR McLaren.

10 Additional Cars for the PAL Version... GT4 was released in Japan on December 28, 2004 with an extensive list of 700 cars. When the game is released in Europe and Australasia, driving fans will be treated to an additional 10 cars including the stunning new Alfa Romeo GT, the beautiful Audi Nuvolari Quattro, the award-winning modified Golf IV R32 from HPA Motorsports, the record-breaking Auto Union V16 Type C Streamline Race Car, the controversial Chaparral 2J Race Car and the 1993 Le Mans-winning Peugeot 905.

The Best Tracks... GT4 boasts a 52 track line-up including world-famous circuits such as Suzuka and, for the first time, the notorious Nurburgring Nordschleife and La Sarthe at Le Mans. There are also city courses in Seoul, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Seattle, Assisi, Capri and Monte Carlo, power and speed drag-strips, original, dirt and snow tracks (including in the Swiss Alps and Chamonix) and driving parks – many of which can be driven in reverse.

The Best Settings... new technology blends real-time action with a photographic background to immerse the player in real landscapes including New York City, Paris and the Grand Canyon. Detailed vehicle and environment mapping create broadcast-quality graphics – from competitor car reflections and light on the player's vehicle to sparks flying as your exhaust pipe clips! The team spent six-weeks on location taking tens of thousands of photographs at each track to ensure realistic modelling of the track characteristics down to a 15mm level of detail.

The Best Sounds... The roar of the engine in Gran Turismo is a recording of every individual real car, based on the team's extraordinary visits to museums, factories and test tracks in their quest for audio perfection. While driving or watching a replay you can enjoy music from classic rock to drum 'n' bass with artists including British band Kasabian, rock group Eagles of Death Metals, the enigmatic DJ Freq Nasty and break-beat master Bushwacka. The widest variety of music ever in a video game is completed with classical music from Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Debussy and others.

The Best Control... consider yourself manager material? The new GT4 B-Spec Mode lets you become the race manager. This is the first time that non-gamers can take part in the gameplay by deciding on race pace, pit-stop strategy and tuning to help their drivers win. B-Spec lets back seat drivers take control in a mode that creator Yamauchi describes as "The GT you can enjoy while drinking a cup of coffee".

Best Shots... GT4's all new Photo Mode lets you shoot and print perfect photos of your favourite cars at your favourite tracks or, as a virtual tourist, at one of 15 famous city locations including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Las Vegas Strip. Budding photographers can choose their camera, add special effects and download to a memory card or USB memory stick. Photo Mode and the in-game replays achieve better-than-real-life visuals by allowing cameras to be placed close to high speed racing cars and enabling new angles to be achieved in always-perfect lighting. The Best Tuning ... For the ultimate petrol head, GT4 offers a new engine tuning mode. Novices can select a Quick Tune Up to fine-tune the car's power and weight and adjust transmission and tyres. Enthusiasts can manually tune their vehicles at the Tuner Manufacturer Village, home to nine tuning shops that specialise in brakes, exhaust, turbo, drivetrain, suspension and tyres. Gamers can pimp their rides by adding front and rear spoilers or by switching rims.

The Gran Turismo series has sold over 36 million copies and GT4 continues where Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec left off. Fuelled by game designer Kazunori Yamauchi's passion for cars, GT4 has taken producers Polyphony Digital four years to develop and is the largest video game ever made. It would take more than 120 days of playing 24-hours non-stop just to sample each car on every track for just five minutes.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

Yeah, I knew that. MGS3 has six days to sell big until GT4 hits :lol. And DMC3 is so doomed because of it.

 

[Meier]

It would take more than 120 days of playing 24-hours non-stop just to sample each car on every track for just five minutes.

Damn.

 

[AlphaSnake]

WTF? Have I been asleep for a month? It's not February 26th. :|

 

[Elios83]

Yeah, I knew that. MGS3 has six days to sell big until GT4 hits :lol. And DMC3 is so doomed because of it.

DMC3 is 25 March.I don't think there's a problem.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

DMC3 is 25 March.I don't think there's a problem.

Most people won't buy that soon a game after GT4 and you know GT4 is going to be the hit here.

 

[ourumov]

I just hope the soundtrack remains untouched...

 

[nubbe]

Looking forward too it and I don't even like car games. Hope it has a 60Hz mode…

 

[Guns N' Poops]

I just hope the soundtrack remains untouched...

The PAL soundtrack:

777 / Aquasky Vs MasterBlaster
A Million Miles Away / Ulrich Schnauss
Amped / Freq Nasty
Animalised / X-RAY SUN
B Is For Brutus / The Hives
Bigtime / The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Don't Think The Way They Do / Span
Drain the Blood / The Distillers
Emerge (Dave Clarke Remix) / Fischerspooner
Forget / differentGear
Fresh / Freq Nasty
Go With The Flow / Queens Of The Stone Age
Healer (House Mix) / Bushwacka!
Hell Above Water / Curve
I Only Want You / Eagles of Death Metal
In The Limelight / Whitey
Live In A Box / Spiderbait
Mother One Track Mind / The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Pray (Dave London Dub) / Syntax
Psychosis Safari / The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Quaman / Photek
Reason Is Treason (Jack Knife Lee Remix) / Kasabian
Rinsa / Photek
Shatter / Feeder
Stalemate / Hundred Reasons
Trash Technology / Warren Suicide
Uptight / The Hives
Wow / Snow Patrol
Freedom To Win / Masahiro Andoh
Get Closer / Masahiro Andoh
Green Monster / Masahiro Andoh
Kiss You Goodbye / Masahiro Andoh
Nobody / Masahiro Andoh
Drive You Crazy / Masahiro Andoh
Vette Lag / Masahiro Andoh
Moon Over The Castle (Orchestra Version) / Masahiro Andoh
Bullet / ANTIDOTE
Bubble'n Tweak / HALLUCINOGEN
Checker Flag / ETNICA
Inside Every Man (There's a Machine Waiting to Come Out) / KOX-BOX
Moon Over The Castle Short / Synthetic
Moon Over The Castle Long / Synthetic
It's All About You / daiki kasho
Soul Surfer / daiki kasho
Wicked / daiki kasho
What to Believe / daiki kasho
Good Days Bad Days / daiki kasho
Break Down / daiki kasho
My Precious / daiki kasho Leibestraum III / Franz Liszt
Air on the G string / Johann Sebastian Bach
Le cygne / Saint-Saens
Jesus bleibet meine Freude / Johann Sebastian Bach
Frühlingslied, Opus 67, Nr. 4 / Felix Mendelssohn
Rondo für Klavier D-Dur, KV485 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Je te veux / Erik Satie Canon / Johann Pachelbel
La fille aux cheveux de lin / Claude Debussy
Clair de lune / Claude Debussy
Reverie / Claude Debussy
Gymnopediel / Erik Satie
Prelude Opus 28, Nr.15 Des-Dur / Frederic Chopin
Suite für Violoncello Nr. 1 G-Dur BWV 1007 / Johann Sebastian Bach
Promenadenthema aus Bilder einer Ausstellung / Modest Mussorgsky
(Call Me) Super Bad Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / James Brown
Apology For Non-Symmetry / Chronic Future
Born Too Slow (Deepsky's Green Absinthe Dub Mix) / The Crystal Method
Car Crash / Dirty Americans
D-Greasy Rides / Bootsy & Friends featuring D-Greasy & Bino
Don't Mean A Thing / Boralis
Drop On You / Will.I.Am
Free Wheel Burning / Judas Priest
Funny Little Feeling / Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers
Gameplan / Mr. Natural
Getaway (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / Earth, Wind & Fire
Getting Away With Murder (Gran Turismo 4 Vrenna/Walsh Remix) / Papa Roach
Hold The Brakes / Apollo 440
Hot Rod Honeymoon / Jeff Beck
I Don't Care / The Roots featuring Dom
I Don't Want To Know / The Donnas
It Don't Mean Nothing / Will.I.Am
Let's Roll / Bootsy & Friends featuring D-M.A.U.B.
Machine Gun (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / The Commodores
Nitro / Dieselboy + Kaos, Vocals by J-Messinian
Non Listening / Papa Roach
Nothingwrong / Jimmy Eat World
Oh Yeah / Yello
Panama / Van Halen
Ready To Rock / X-ecutioners
Real Dream / Deepsky
Rockstar / Wylde Bunch
Roll Over DJ / Jet
Runaround / Arlo
Short Burning Fuse / Less Than Jake
Slip And Slide / A. Skillz
So Long Baby Goodbye / The Blasters
Start The Car / Apollo 440
Summer Song / Joe Satriani
Till The Break / A. Skillz
You Must Follow / Stratus
I Predict A Riot / Kaiser Chiefs
Michael / Franz Ferdinand
Swollen Summer / The Bravery
Can't Get Enough / The Infadels

 

[Solid]

Stupid date. MGS3 and RE4 ownz that month. No buy at launch.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Stupid date. MGS3 and RE4 ownz that month. No buy at launch.

Something gives me a feeling that out of GT4, RE4 and MG3, if any one game is going to be doing the owning it'll be the one that goes VROOOM.

That soundtrack isn't bad. Some stuff that'll definitely be turned off, but plenty of stuff that I'd not only listen to but do so voluntarily. Slightly suprised (but pleasantly so) by some of the classical entries, unless they're remixes in which case they're getting switched off. And that's the 2nd time that I've played a game with Fischerspooner on the soundtrack and the 2nd time it's been a remix of Emerge. What's wrong with the original version? Answer: Nothing.

 

[gofreak]

Any chance of getting 1080i out of the european version?

 

[Guns N' Poops]

Any chance of getting 1080i out of the european version?

Jak 2 PAL had progressive scan as option, SOCOM 2 PAL had a HDD option. That said=SCEE tends to leave all features in their PAL versions even if they are useless.

 

[ourumov]

The PAL soundtrack:

777 / Aquasky Vs MasterBlaster
A Million Miles Away / Ulrich Schnauss
Amped / Freq Nasty
Animalised / X-RAY SUN
B Is For Brutus / The Hives
Bigtime / The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Don't Think The Way They Do / Span
Drain the Blood / The Distillers
Emerge (Dave Clarke Remix) / Fischerspooner
Forget / differentGear
Fresh / Freq Nasty
Go With The Flow / Queens Of The Stone Age
Healer (House Mix) / Bushwacka!
Hell Above Water / Curve
I Only Want You / Eagles of Death Metal
In The Limelight / Whitey
Live In A Box / Spiderbait
Mother One Track Mind / The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Pray (Dave London Dub) / Syntax
Psychosis Safari / The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Quaman / Photek
Reason Is Treason (Jack Knife Lee Remix) / Kasabian
Rinsa / Photek
Shatter / Feeder
Stalemate / Hundred Reasons
Trash Technology / Warren Suicide
Uptight / The Hives
Wow / Snow Patrol
Freedom To Win / Masahiro Andoh
Get Closer / Masahiro Andoh
Green Monster / Masahiro Andoh
Kiss You Goodbye / Masahiro Andoh
Nobody / Masahiro Andoh
Drive You Crazy / Masahiro Andoh
Vette Lag / Masahiro Andoh
Moon Over The Castle (Orchestra Version) / Masahiro Andoh
Bullet / ANTIDOTE
Bubble'n Tweak / HALLUCINOGEN
Checker Flag / ETNICA
Inside Every Man (There's a Machine Waiting to Come Out) / KOX-BOX
Moon Over The Castle Short / Synthetic
Moon Over The Castle Long / Synthetic
It's All About You / daiki kasho
Soul Surfer / daiki kasho
Wicked / daiki kasho
What to Believe / daiki kasho
Good Days Bad Days / daiki kasho
Break Down / daiki kasho
My Precious / daiki kasho Leibestraum III / Franz Liszt
Air on the G string / Johann Sebastian Bach
Le cygne / Saint-Saens
Jesus bleibet meine Freude / Johann Sebastian Bach
Frühlingslied, Opus 67, Nr. 4 / Felix Mendelssohn
Rondo für Klavier D-Dur, KV485 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Je te veux / Erik Satie Canon / Johann Pachelbel
La fille aux cheveux de lin / Claude Debussy
Clair de lune / Claude Debussy
Reverie / Claude Debussy
Gymnopediel / Erik Satie
Prelude Opus 28, Nr.15 Des-Dur / Frederic Chopin
Suite für Violoncello Nr. 1 G-Dur BWV 1007 / Johann Sebastian Bach
Promenadenthema aus Bilder einer Ausstellung / Modest Mussorgsky
(Call Me) Super Bad Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / James Brown
Apology For Non-Symmetry / Chronic Future
Born Too Slow (Deepsky's Green Absinthe Dub Mix) / The Crystal Method
Car Crash / Dirty Americans
D-Greasy Rides / Bootsy & Friends featuring D-Greasy & Bino
Don't Mean A Thing / Boralis
Drop On You / Will.I.Am
Free Wheel Burning / Judas Priest
Funny Little Feeling / Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers
Gameplan / Mr. Natural
Getaway (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / Earth, Wind & Fire
Getting Away With Murder (Gran Turismo 4 Vrenna/Walsh Remix) / Papa Roach
Hold The Brakes / Apollo 440
Hot Rod Honeymoon / Jeff Beck
I Don't Care / The Roots featuring Dom
I Don't Want To Know / The Donnas
It Don't Mean Nothing / Will.I.Am
Let's Roll / Bootsy & Friends featuring D-M.A.U.B.
Machine Gun (Gran Turismo 4 Pop Rox Remix) / The Commodores
Nitro / Dieselboy + Kaos, Vocals by J-Messinian
Non Listening / Papa Roach
Nothingwrong / Jimmy Eat World
Oh Yeah / Yello
Panama / Van Halen
Ready To Rock / X-ecutioners
Real Dream / Deepsky
Rockstar / Wylde Bunch
Roll Over DJ / Jet
Runaround / Arlo
Short Burning Fuse / Less Than Jake
Slip And Slide / A. Skillz
So Long Baby Goodbye / The Blasters
Start The Car / Apollo 440
Summer Song / Joe Satriani
Till The Break / A. Skillz
You Must Follow / Stratus
I Predict A Riot / Kaiser Chiefs
Michael / Franz Ferdinand
Swollen Summer / The Bravery
Can't Get Enough / The Infadels

OMG...how many shit I see there....At least there are the songs from the Japanese one. Dunno but lately I don't seem to understand the decisions of some publlishers when it comes to music. First B3 and now this !

 

[Vashu]

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me!!!!

Great news, great great news.... ^_^

 

[VictimOfGrief]

Okay so when is the US release date?

 

[GamePnoy74]

So Europe finally gets a release date for GT4, here in the US lately we've been getting, uh...commercials =P

Where's our release date? =/

 

[AlphaSnake]

So Europe finally gets a release date for GT4, here in the US lately we've been getting, uh...commercials =P

Where's our release date? =/

Most likely the week before. It's supposed to be 3/2/05.

 

[Wario64]

I hope the US soundtrack remains the same. I like the daiko kasho tracks

Was Moon over the Castle present in the PAL versions of GT1-3?

 

[ourumov]

No Wario. For GT1 they used music from Chemical Brothers in the intro...and the others had the same than US.

 

[megateto]

Well, all I want to know now is when the GT4+Logitech FF Pro bundle is going to come out and how much it is gonna cost...

February is going to be so hard... living on pasta for a whole month. My health is going to suffer, but I'm sure I won't mind.

 

[GamePnoy74]

Meh, nevermind about the GT4+Driving Force Pro bundle...Logitech, release this in the US:

I'll start buying lotto tickets once this is announced lol ^_^

 

[ram]

I hope the US soundtrack remains the same. I like the daiko kasho tracks

Was Moon over the Castle present in the PAL versions of GT1-3?

note:

as i posted in the other gt4 topic, the pal version of gt4 has other intro music (moon over the castle is not used as introduction music, intead they use some no name brit pop band).

 

[Defensor]

Meh, nevermind about the GT4+Driving Force Pro bundle...Logitech, release this in the US:

I'll start buying lotto tickets once this is announced lol ^_^

Hmm, how much for that Logitech frame? I have the Driving Force Pro wheel and a Sparco seat already. I need that to complete my racing setup!