Yahoo Autos This Video Puts Gran Turismo 7's Grand Valley Transformation Into Perspective
If you’ve been playing Gran Turismo since the beginning, you likely know Grand Valley Speedway like the back of your hand. That’s why it’s such a big deal that it’s arrived in Gran Turismo 7 after an absence in GT Sport. But it’s not just an eagerness to return to the track that got fans buzzing about the circuit’s big comeback. For GT7, developer Polyphony Digital completely transformed the scenery around Grand Valley, recontextualizing it as a Greatest Hits of sorts alongside the California coastline.
It’s proven a controversial move, with many fans preferring the original environment because, well, it came first and nostalgia’s hard to beat. A new video from MotoGamesTV, YouTube’s go-to source for side-by-side racing-game footage, has put this transformation into perspective, allowing us to compare the two renditions corner by corner.
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Even though you don’t have to look hard to see the stylistic differences, what strikes me about Grand Valley Highway-1, as it’s now known, is what little has changed past what your eyes can see. OK, so there are a few reprofiled sections of track. The Turn 5 hairpin is more bowed out now, and the entire last sector has been shifted, though not completely scrapped. This has resulted in a longer bridge back straight, followed by a more compact right-hander taking the place of that long, long bend under the tunnel that never seemed to end.
