You'll have to tell the man what to do, at least stuff that has to do with cornering, speeding up or surpassing other cars. In case you get bored of the driver's seat, you can enjoy the B-spec mode that allows you take control of the pit and be the manager of your driver.

Every track in GT4 can be played in its normal version or the reversed one, increasing the game's replayabillity. If the human opponents or the AI don't provide enough competition for you, feel free to take on a time trial and try to defeat those ghosts. Speaking of which, you should know that you can change the units of measurement from the options menu by selecting miles or kilometers or horse power for the torque. The currency in GT4 is credits and if you're familiar with the GT series, this won't surprise you. The first may seem a bit of a pain as you really need to think your moves ahead and buy the stuff you need being limited by the amount of cash you have.

Once you've skipped, I mean watched the intro cutscene, you are taken to the main menu where you can choose to play a Career mode called Gran Turismo or the arcade mode. Have you ever driven 700 cars? I think that not even 1% of the gamers worldwide can brag with such driving experience, unless they've played Gran Turismo games since the first one was released. In these four years that passed since the third game was released, Polyphony Digital had all the time in the world to correct the faults of the previous game and add new modes and cars to the already gigantic database. There aren't many driving simulators for the consoles, let alone series that define the genre. After the perfect Gran Turismo 3 game, Polyphony Digital had to pull a pretty big rabbit out of their hat to please the fans and I have to admit that they did a pretty good job.

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