We’re big fans of racing games here at paultan.org, and when Gran Turismo Sport hit store shelves on Tuesday, we immediately got ourselves a copy. It turns out that Malaysia actually features quite a fair bit in the game, with eight locations in the game’s new Scapes feature.
Scapes is an extension of the series’ famed Photo Mode, which enables players to place their virtual cars inside a real-life photograph using high dynamic range rendering. Each photo features all the light energy information from that scene – including reflections and the sun’s location and brightness – and the results are nearly indistinguishable from an actual real-world image.
There are over 1,000 locations in Scapes, and Malaysia is one of only three countries in South East Asia to be featured in the game, the others being Brunei and Vietnam. Among the places included are the Petronas Twin Towers (taken from the roof of a carpark on Jalan Binjai, which has since been demolished), the Sultan Abdul Samad Building and a number of locations in Melaka, near Jonker Street.
Couple that with the fact that you can now customise your number plates in the livery editor, and you could really fool others into believing you actually took that photo of a supercar in front of a charming old kopitiam. Unfortunately, however, you can’t actually drive in Malaysia in the game – there’s still no Sepang Circuit on Gran Turismo Sport‘s track list.
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Sepang is a modern classic. The fact that its not in Gran Turismo just shows that ppl at SIC are not good enuf for their job.
lol
Using your logic, Singapore also got no class and not worthy enuf for their job also la because not in the game, whereas Brunei and Vietnam, with no F1 tracks, are featured….
the picture with the KLCC is actually at the recently demolished multistorey car park at lorong kuda. the view at the top most floor is really nice.
well there will be an underground MRT station soon in the future
only when they add the thousands of poth holes, manholes, dusty road debris and mat rempit criss crossing the road will this gt game can be called the real driving simulation
True that…..
Its a racing sim, and the article says u dun get to race in MY locations, just putting ur car into MY sceneries.
Win
wow beautiful indeed
Remove the GT watermark and you can be a Poyo and “Showoff” your new car to people…
as a GTS beta tester it’s actually easy to spot a GTS scapes image. Car lighting (headlamps/brake) do not have sufficient anti-aliasing treatment and unnatural bloom effect.
the car is left hand drive…think twice before you show off your “poyo” to others….ekekekekkekeke
Nice info ! Hopefully, GT Sport will revive the Gran Turismo franchise, because Forza Motorsport is all the rage these days.
It is also incredible to see how far video game graphics have come in the last two decades alone. I’m guessing we’ll all have the chance to drive our favourite cars in a full simulation not long from now, with VR, 4D/5D/6D etc.. It will be the closest we can get to the real thing, but at a fraction of the real cost.
After all, what is reality, but the stimulation of our many senses ? For all we know, we could be living in a simulation right now.
Malacca ! ?
Note to Blue Modenas Kriss owner with BGT2159 license plate, your motorcycle’s value has just increased significantly. Sell it off to highest bidder (probably GT Sport fanatic).
Hafriz, come on post your D Ring time here using any 200hp car.
I don’t really have the time to play the game, unfortunately, though I do have it.
And besides, I’m more of a Forza 7 guy myself ;)