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Winning events, completing challenges and license tests, and showrooms with a rotating selection of rare, desirable vehicles are all ways of picking up new cars. Trying to catch ‘em all has always been a big part of Gran Turismo, and 7 takes that to glorious new highs, in both the way you expand your garage and the context that surrounds that. The celebratory nature of the Cafe extends to the car collection, too. This is what I mean when I say that Kaz’s love of cars runs through every facet of Gran Turismo 7.
It’s serene and calming, a quaint little coffee in the woodlands where you can look longingly out the window at your car and just enjoy the ambience. I don’t mean you can go there and order a coffee (maybe that’s a feature to think about for PlayStation 6, if you’re listening, Sony), but just in terms of atmosphere. That’s a sentence I never imagined I’d ever write.)īeyond even its valuable role as a museum, the Cafe is just… well, a cafe. (Again, I couldn’t be further from a gearhead, but the Cafe managed to make me genuinely interested in the Mustang-Camaro rivalry, the significance of the compact car boom, and the intricacies of how engine position and wheel configuration affect vehicle handling. They’re not dense lectures or dry snippets that feel like they’ve been ripped from a textbook, but quick, accessible, and most of all interesting little vignettes that go a long way in bringing people along on the journey into the fascinating world of cars. Each menu is a chance for the cafe owner, Luca, to share some knowledge about the significance of certain vehicles or drop an introductory lesson on some of the intricacies of automobile design, or for guests-in the form of real life car designers, collectors, and other experts-to add their own insights. On a purely functional level, it’s the means by which you progress through the singleplayer game and unlock new features, courses, races, and so on-with each new menu (quest), you’re asked to complete some event or collect a certain set of thematically-linked cars, gradually opening up more of the game and acting as a sort of extended tutorial and introduction to Gran Turismo’s depths.īut more than simply an introduction to the game, it’s an introduction to car culture as a whole. Part quest hub and part museum, the Cafe serves as you guide to Gran Turismo 7’s version of a campaign mode.
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To put it another way, Gran Turismo 7 is everything the series has spent 25 year building up to: the ultimate celebration of cars, their history, and the culture that surrounds them. The passion that runs through every ounce of this game is infectious-even as someone who is decidedly not a “car guy”, I can’t help but get swept up in it. The opening credits for Gran Turismo 7 is a 10 minute montage that runs through the history of car culture, produced with the kind of overwhelming love with which a parent produces a slideshow to play at their kid’s wedding. I don’t think anyone anywhere loves anything as much as Kazunori “Kaz” Yamauchi loves cars.
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