Three new cars for GT5 Prologue

By Tom Bramwell Published 3 October, 2008

Free update also tweaks things.

Sony has patched Gran Turismo 5 Prologue to include three new cars and a host of tweaks.

The new cars are the "GT by Citroen" concept car, the Ferrari California and the Lotus Evora, all of which you can check out in our Gran Turismo 5 Prologue screenshot gallery.

The patch, which should download during the startup for GT5P (it did for us anyway), also tweaks the penalty system, race events and other miscellaneous bits and bobs.

Time Trial events will now punish you with an invalidated lap rather than enforcing speed penalties, apparently, and race events have received tweaks to difficulty levels and increased winnings for finishing first.

Elsewhere wireless controller response and the audio balance between sound effects and music are said to be improved, and Drift Trials races now feature rolling starts.

Sony warns on its blog that the new update will reset rankings, arcade Time Trial times, Drift Trial records, quick tune settings and custom key configurations, and that replays over a certain age will no longer work either.

In order to find out whether your replays are okay, check with the in-game manual to see if you have the second update. If you don't, replays won't work. If you do, only stuff created since you last patched will work.

Check out our Gran Turismo 5 Prologue review and gamepage for the latest shots, news and threads related to Prologue.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • chris_ace #1 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 11:55:13 13-12-2011

  • superjag86 #2 3 years ago

    Nah, I'd be happy if they release more cars and tracks for Prologue. Later when there's enough cars they can then release a "GT Mode" option via DLC or something.
    Honestly I hope they go down the Criterion method of releasing massive content updates for free!

  • Arwin #3 3 years ago

    They made these cars anyway, it's partly to do with the Paris auto show ...

    Hopefully they'll release a new track sometime soon though, we really (well I certainly do) need a new track. If that won't happen, then it won't be able to compete with LittleBigPlanet for a long time yet for me (but then what can ;) ).
    Edited by 1 at 03/10/08 @ 10:26

  • rhubarbandcustard #4 3 years ago

    Excellent move by Polyphony and Sony. Criterion Studios have definitely raised the bar with free DLC.

    I'm sure I had read that more tracks for Prologue had been confirmed. Correct?

    If so, £1.99 a track and I'm in.

  • PlaysK #5 3 years ago

    If you take a look at the recent promo video of the Ferrari California, you will see the Nürburgring in full glory. It seems the full nordscheife is ready for GT5.
    Private races ?

  • myke6699 #6 3 years ago

    According to GT5P site, today's update is just the start to the full Spec III version. I'm sure there will be new tracks but the promised damage modeling which isn't that important in my book (just give me a good penalty system) might have to wait till the full GT5 although with Polyphony Digital, nothing is predictable.

  • Darren #7 3 years ago

    A fix for the tearing (particularly on the London track) and the slowdown would be preferable to extra content IMO. I like GT5 Prologue but it doesn't feel as polished as the earlier PS2 games. Still I guess this is really a work-in-progress not a finished game, right?

  • lambtron #8 3 years ago

    I've hardly played it. Found it extremely dull after doing a 100% of GT4. That and the inability to play friends online has made it pretty much worthless in my book. That was something that was possible on the original Xbox FFS.

  • Dark_Era #9 3 years ago

    am glad with this updat, finally PD have adressed an issue i've had with GT for year, in time attack u could cut corners and still get away with it, and the engine restriction for a few seconds wasn't the answe, good on ya PF, and ohhhh the "GTbyCitroen" is a cool looking concept car, actuall designed by the PD guys.

  • RustyBullet #10 3 years ago

    Every time they release an update i get my hopes up. Lets hope this one makes it more like a racing game. I still think they have a long way to go to catch up with Forza for me. Iam just glad that Wipeout HD is decent.

  • sonmi451 #11 3 years ago

    new cars are great. also the money awards are now higher. but i've noticed a major new glitch in arcade time trial mode - the framerate is really jerky. absolutely fine in race mode, which doesn't seem to make sense considering all the extra cars. i've tried time-trial with different cars on both the High Speed Ring and the Alps track, everytime it suffered constant frame-rate problems.
    i'm guessing there will be another patch very shortly.....

  • m0thr4 #12 3 years ago

    I would trade these free cars in for proper support for he Logitech G25's clutch. I'm sick of having to press triangle at the beginning of every race and then having no idea whether or not it has worked (because, occasionally, it doesn't) unless I press the clutch and gas simultaneously. Why can't they include a menu setting for this?