Gran Turismo 7 Review - "Buy, Wait for Sale, Never Touch?" Micro-Transactions FREAKISHLY High! -IP 

I had a co-worker back in the 90’s who was obsessed with GT and had the most expensive steering wheel for it. She was in her 40’s at the time. I can only imagine her right now in her 70’s playing this, gripping her wheel and having a good time.

I will never forget getting Gran Turismo 1 for my original PlayStation and playing it for hours on end. My dad is a mechanic and also worked on some stock car racers (I unfortunately never caught on to it) and I remember asking him about stuff in the game and he was thoroughly impressed with what it offered. I cannot wait to add this to my collection.

You forgot to mention that without online connection, you can NOT play this game offline , except for a few one lap races. Even with a physical hard copy disc, if your internet is down or Sony is down, this game does not allow you to play. I don't know why it's made this way, but a huge bummer for an otherwise amazing game.

Love the fact that I’m seeing people coming back here to voice frustrations. No one should be happy with the latest “update.” Wait for it to be $20

Man, I spent countless hours playing Gran Turismo 4 back on PS2. Loved that game. These games are surprisingly deep and take a while to see everything they have to offer. It’s always been my favorite racing franchise. It’s good to see that Polyphony Digital is trying to take their crown back. For me they’ve always made the most impressive racing sims on the market. Love your vids Karak. Keep up the great work.

After the 1.07 patch this week, im gonna say wait for sale... They nerfed credits earned and removed the ability to sell cars. Legendary cars are like 3.5mil. People calculated it will take 30 hours of racing to unlock. It's the equivalent of $40USD for a GT40 You need to buy 3 for a trophy to get the plat The community is pretty upset right now. PD is really pushing microtransactions...

Sup! FYI MICROS in the game where you buy credits and get cars is insanely high. Its time, Join the patron and lets watch the world burn together while talking about games. www.patreon.com/AngryCentaurGaming

I think the only real downside to this game right now is that it requires an internet connection for all modes. Digital Foundry covers that part. It severely limits what you can play when in offline mode and constantly spams you with notices to say there's an error connecting.

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT I say this as a huge fan of the series from the very first game back in 1995. DO not buy this right now!! Bugs, microtransactions and lack of content is how I can best describe this game. Week two has been rough.

I'm happy to see them succeed. I don't care much for racing games but seeing the studios passion in those state of plays really made me get interested

It's a bit hard to justify this game since most of it is locked behind an Always-Online connection. Like, do the devs have an End-of-life plan once the servers are shutdown or will most of the game will end up bricked once all support ends? That to me is kind of a major deal breaker for most games.

Gran Turismo 7 deserved to have its offline / online modes on different discs

I always love how your reviews aren’t bias, and you give us the good, bad, and ugly of each game. Excellent review!

It’s insane how ACG pumps out these quality reviews, especially lately. Good work man 🤘🏼

Dude, I have no idea how you do this, but the pace with you are pumping out content is unreal. Keep up the good work.

i stan your reviews to the max, acg. just the way you describe and illustrate a game's design flawed or not, reminds me why i love video games every time down

I’m amazed at your ability to single-handedly play and review all these massive games. I often can play 6 hours a day and I’m not even half way through dl2, Elden ring and horizon. Great review as well. I like the audio breakdown, it’s a feature too often ignored in reviews. I’m a soundtrack off guy, one of my favorite thing about racers is that I can listen to my own music without detracting from the experience. Wish you could import music for the beats mode.

Awesome review! You’re such a pro! Somehow you’ve been able to post reviews of games like Gran Turismo and Shadow Warrior 3 before a major outlet like Game Informer has! Your channel is really great. Keep up the great work!

No mention of even the single player mode being mostly online-only? Dealbreaker for Hitman, and a dealbreaker here. It's a shame, I love both franchises but maybe I'm just going to have to be done with this hobby.

GT2 was my one of my first games as a kid, playing on my older bros PS1... It fills me with joy getting us both PS5's and getting GT7 day one! Haven't touched the game since then and I can't wait!!! 🤩

I still remember the first time I played Gran Turismo 1. Amazing games!

"Theres an online mode" I think you mean There is NO OFFLINE MODE.

Truly appreciate and enjoy your work. We are lucky to have you in the gaming community.

One thing our beloved Karak forgot to mention was that Gran Turismo 7 has an online-only DRM, which means you need to always be connected to the internet to play essentially everything, which is in itself a “Gran” dealbreaker for me.

Please release a follow up to this.

Great first impressions as always. Can't wait to play this game!

the microtransactions turned me off... it was always really fun competing against my friends back in elementary school to brag or hearing friends brag about what car they bought in GT cause you'd know they actually worked hard to earn it. Now everybody can just buy with real money, thats really lame. kicks down the honour of having awesome cars, and that was the biggest deal to me in GT... so sad GT7 wont be for me after all... after more than a decade of not being into the direction GT has gone i guess its offcial GT is dead to me

So glad you reviewed this one. Hasnt been a big talking point in the gaming community lately. Been silently excited for it. Looks great!

So happy to hear this is a solid release. Haven’t played a GT game in years and have this one preordered. Can’t wait for Friday.

Dude you are the best reviewer! Legitimately neutral compared to a lot of others. I was always getting GT7 either way but awesome to hear it’s great.

Thanks for the great review. GT games and racing games in general have always been my favourite genre and its great to see GT back in such great form. Friday cannot come quick enough.

Dude, your review output has been insanely impressive over the past month. Massive respect! But also, please make sure you take time to relax 😌

The offline issue is a huge disappointment.

This is the place to go for the in-depth reviews.

I sub! Why you spoke about wheels! I’m a thrustmaster t150 user and THANK YOU for covering this!!!!! No one ever speaks or cover wheels! Bless you man!

I’m ready !! Just bought my second wheel for this game !!! I cannot wait to play tomorrow

I'd 100% wait for a large sale or buy used. It's online only so has like a 5 year life spawn and after that its done.

You should do an addendum now that the true version is available. The microtransactions and the always online requirement kills this game.

The way the cockpit cam moves around a little through corners and bumps looks freakin amazing

Really wish you mentioned the offline mode. Theres almost no content availible to play while offline. I feel for people who bought this expecting a single player experiance and getting nothing.

You need to revisit this after new patch 1.07...utterly ruined the game through greed

Im really looking forward to trying GT7 unfortunately i dont have the spare cash right now so i may need to wait for sale sadly, thanks for the review and the consistently great content you provide.

Another fantastic review man!! Thanks! Can’t wait to sink into this.

Great review in progress! Would very much love to receive that copy that you bought for one of your subscribers :)

Very happy to see that this game is gonna do wonders for racing fans. Even though racing games are not my particular goto I cannot deny the absolutely amazing detail and features that this game has to offer.

Excited for this game, keep up the amazing work

Thanks for the video. Love your channel, keep up the great work!

Appreciate the quick review, very well done. Thank you.

My hope is that the adaptive triggers will allow a better feeling for braking pressure/ ABS. That’s always been my problem playing semi realistic racing games with a controller

just so anyone new knows, the MXT aren't bad at all anymore. They made it easier to get credits, and even removed difficulty affecting credits. I'm sitting on 5 mil from just playing cafe mode, and circuit experience can net you easy millions in a matter of minutes.

'Realistic Driving Simulator' - No rain system at the UK tracks...

Loved the review! Can you do a review on wheels specifically for GT7? 😬

Aw man... microtransactions are an instant deal breaker for me. That means the game mechanics will be affected. Thanks for the review.

Coming back 2 weeks after launch. Firstly, when PDs servers go down, you can do hardly anything. The disappointment in the GT community at the moment, is the highest I have ever seen. I myself now understand why there is disappointment. This game doesn't offer a campaign mode like other gt games where you have the usual Amateur, Beginner, Endurance etc. You can't go into a mode to choose the cup you want race in, ie you can't do the Sunday Cup as you can in other games. You can't sell your cars for credits like the psn description says, again something you could in gt games. After 2 weeks, the credit system has been shown to be geared towards MTX. And very heavily. Just today PD have slashed the rewards for completing cafe races, the roulette tickets are geared very very heavily towards low rewards. It has time limited invitations to buy cars which induces fomo. It prompts to buy credits everytime you get rewarded credits from roulette. It has very little content that has pit usage and tyre wear and fuel usage. Unless you make a custom race, there's hardly any. I'm talking maybe 2 in 37 menu books so far. There is 1 grid start so far. The rest is typical start at the back. I am genuinely genuinely upset at this 2 weeks in. Everything they have put in the game is top work in terms of looks visuals sounds etc. Scapes is still incredible. But I've never had a gran turismo game put me off the franchise. Not even when I was lucky to get one of the faulty discs back in the ps2 game. Give us the campaign mode as its always been, with rewards so we can collect cars in the game. Get rid of the MTX.

Just a suggestion to improve readability of the overlay text: it wouldn't hurt to have these on screen longer, maybe by factor two. As a non-native speaker it's sometimes hard to realize that there's text and get to the end by the time it stops being on screen. Could just be me but I've noticed this with other channels as well. Thx for the insightful review, as always!

Great review. You hit all points i was looking for in this game.

I always turn music off in racing games. I need to hear everything going on around me, and being a big gear head I would rather just hear the cars. I also almost never pre-order games anymore but this one i just had to. I'm 100% sure I will not he disappointed and the little credit bonus at the start will be nice.

There's something about the fixed camera in "third person" that I find pretty odd and stiff. Driveclub did "third person" better IMO.

I remember pretending to be sick to stay home and do a 100 lap race lol way back in the day. This is my first racer in quite some time and so far I’m enjoying it. I personally love the license tests. I’m getting a steering wheel set this time around, hopefully get my kids into this kind of game and not just Fortnite.

Watching your review 1st before anyone else's! Thanks for the videos.

Just to clarify. The game is always online.

Any racing fans do not buy Gran Turismo 7 in its current state. As a racing fan and GT fan this game should be called GT7 Prologue! There is hardly any single player content because a cafe mode with no voice acting and a few cups. There’s basically no good way to earn credits and have a goal steadily pushing you forward and they try to lean you toward microtransactions to get credits faster. You cant even sell your car and there’s only 400ish vehicles vs. 700 in some other racing titles. Also the roulette wheel is rigged and not true random and you barely get any spins! The game also has Ray tracing mode and performance mode but they don’t affect gameplay only replays on the PS5! While the racing, water effects and handling, and some stuff are good, Forza 7 stands up to this game and it came out in 2017. They should not have released it yet, but they’ve had since damn PS3 to make mainline game but this one not much better than Sport in it’s current state. They better release updates at least to fix it since it’s a live service. But at this rate it’s sad this what the GT franchise has become, they need to get it together because I strongly believe Forza Motorsport 8 is gonna come blow this out of the water if they don’t fix it. But Sony needs to get on this dev team to get the game in shape or they’re gonna lose a lot of players. Now they’ve updated and nerfed the money earned on certain races to help people get good cars is BS and not being able to play the single player when servers are down is dumb af. Don’t spend your money on this game until some of these issues are resolved, especially the ones regarding earning credits. Cause as of now they’re just trying to make it to where either you have to play the little content for 100s of hours or buy microtransactions to get credits to buy the great cars or upgrade yours. Complete trash and highly unfortunate because there’s a good game underneath all these terrible practices.

Excellent video👍🏻 might have a look at this one

good review I haven't gamed for a few years no this seam's much like GT5 by your descriptions a real fun game that had good online after a while so after watching all this new GT content hitting Utube I think I'll upgrade my consul and start having some sim fun again

This is coming from a guy who watches car reviews almost every day on RU-vid, I'm not into racing games but I'm glad this is a good game.

Never Touch. I have already beaten this incredibly short game and made less than 2M credits. They expect you to shell out real money if you want even 10% of the small number of cars.

Wow, this game looks so good! Keep up the good work, ACG has the best reviews. You're an inspiration bro!

Thanks for making this video I’ll be sure to pick this game up on march 4

I’ve never been super good at racing games but Gran Turismo 3 was what got me interested… GT7 looks amazing. I’m excited!!

I like how they used chilies as a scale for racing difficulty

I appreciate your honesty here @ACG. This is once again another game I'm going to have to pass up on buying. Once you said there were "One or two dropped frames on a few maps", then that once again prevents me from buying this game. I haven't bought a game in a very long time, and I use your reviews to make sure I'm getting my money's worth. If the devs can't provide a game without issues, then I can't bring myself to buy it. Thank you for your honesty!

Thx for the review! Can't wait to play the game. :)

I'm going to be playing this with a wheel primarily, but I'm actually excited to try it with the haptic triggers and gyro steering. It's just something that sets the console experience apart from the myriad of PC racing games.

Did you mention the micros in the review and how disgusting the entire system is? F2P style with timed cars that you can only buy with an invitation without them you wont be able to buy many of the high end supercars they are greyed out as well as removing the option to sell our cars to compliment their insatiable greed !!! I scanned through the video and cant find the breakdown of microtransactions being some of the worst in a AAA game

Thanks for speak about the gyroscope I was afraid they would remove it.. glad they didn't, the gt sport had the best gyroscope system on controller that I've seen, I had hundred of hours playing that way and wish to never return to analog

Finally a review that acknowledges the gyro steering option in GT. I discovered it in GT Sport and it was an halleluiah moment for me, as it gave me a level of control i never achieved before with a pad. In the absence of a steering wheel, this is the best option i can think of for a racing game and i don't understand why other developers don't embrace it.

So glad to see Gran Turismo back to proper form after Sport. The ability to take a car that has no business being in the race its in, and winning, is something I greatly missed. Cannot wait to play this one, but good God, I can't even imagine how much space this is going to take up. Sport was 112 gb and it barely had any customization.

I’m glad you mentioned the gyro steering. It’s something that makes a huge difference playing racing games on controller

Good review as always! I've never been much for racing games but I've gotten really into horizon 5, so I don't know if I'll enjoy the more sim gameplay of GT 7

Great review! Definitely on the wish list after Wonderlands

I've waited about 10 years for this... since GT5. I'm so ready :)

When my grandfather passed away years ago he gave me his copy of Gran Turismo 1 in its original box along with the manual and instruction booklet I still have it on my shelf today as a sign of respect now I have a tradition I buy one racing game for Generation to honor my grandfather's memory I'm going to buy Gran Turismo 7 I'm going to try and earn the cars I want without spending a dime on microtransactions

Keep em coming ACG..... the hardest working man on You Tube. Any damage modelling this time? The AI seems better than in previous versions right?

Soundtrack is 🔥🔥🔥 Who knew Idris Elba could rap?!?

I am so happy this game reviewed well. I love racers, but I usually play on Xbox platforms. This will be my first Gran Turismo game. I think it will make a good palette cleanser between long sessions of Horizon Forbidden West or Elden Ring.

I have a lot of respect for the director and creator, Kaz. He loves his series so much and I had no idea he was a well respected racer as well.

Another detailed review , thank you

Played the game yesterday: your enthusiasm matches min :-). I absolutely adore the game. So much (car) love put into it.

Love gyro aiming, really interested to see how well gyro steering works

You need to do an adjusted review "score" telling people to avoid this game like the plague until it's horrendous grind inducing, MTX pushing gameplay is fixed.

"Your mileage may vary..." *Peter Griffin laugh*

Best review I have seen yet. Keep up the good work. I wish I could give you two subs.

It's raining games and I love getting soaked. Still taking my time with Horizon Forbidden West and put a ton of time in photo mode as it is stunning. But GT7 is coming in soon as it is part of a subscription of Top Gear magazine in the Netherlands so that is cool as I love the GT games. Good to hear single player is great as that is my thing. As always, thank you for making another great review Karak.

A good GT again.... nice! Glad to have a proper and good GT game back! GT has always been a wonderful Sim lite racing series. The audio sounds really improved this time! Thanks for the video this looks like the best GT has been since GT4 (wasn't big on GT6 or Sport especially). GT7 looks awesome though, looks like them going back to basics

Excellent reviews my dude! I'm not the biggest racing fan, but I'm going to share your review with some people at work who are.

It's been a while since I've played a Gran Turismo game. I spent a pretty good amount of time playing Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec and Gran Turismo 4 back in the day. Though, I barely played Gran Turismo 5. That's pretty much it. Having said that, Gran Turismo 7 is gorgeous. The cars are stunning and they are impressively detailed. The game is a lot of fun to play and there is a lot of content that's being offered. However, an Internet connection is required at all times in order for the game to function. It makes absolutely no sense to require an online connection for a game that has a single player campaign. That's a deterrent in itself to be honest. At least the review was top notch as always. You've been pumping out video after video for the past month and each one has been informative and enjoyable. You've been working very hard and I greatly appreciate it. Keep doing what you are doing. God bless and stay safe!

Can't wait to play this, this year is absolutely stacked with great games 🔥

I´ve never been a driving simulator person, but I gotta say, the trailer for this really had me pumped.

Thank you, I love your reviews and impressions.

Gyro steering is awesome so happy they brought it back. It's so much better than the sticks by far.