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Gran Turismo Sport also has some of its own quirks, with the penalty for being rear-ended by an overeager player a little too harsh at the moment - though that's a known issue that'll hopefully be addressed come launch next week. But eventually it does make some sense, especially when up against more seasoned competitors who appreciate that rubbing really isn't racing. Blame isn't apportioned in incidents, something that can feel unfair when you're starting out in the jostle of other amateur drivers. It's not without its faults, and an initial sense of frustration. There's a bit more respect between rivals, something which will hopefully blossom once the system properly beds in. Other console racers have appropriated their own versions - Forza has its Trueskill system, while Project Cars 2 introduced Slightly Mad Studios' own variation on the theme - but Gran Turismo Sport does well by copying iRacing pretty much wholesale, and even in the early demo, its impact is noticeable. It all leads to a surprisingly weighty sense of consequence to events, and - once you've worked your way up the ranks a little - to clean racing.

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Keep it clean, and you'll have a better safety rating and, in turn, will be entitled to race with other drivers who are also able to show a little restraint out on track. In short, clatter into another car, career off the track or collide with the scenery and that score will plummet. It's still very lightly implemented - this is the result of spending 10 laps driving like I was in a BTCC race - but with mechanical damage on it can have a profound effect on your car. Damage has changed slightly for this Gran Turismo. How best to instil that in players? Quite simply by attaching a score to your own personal safety - perhaps because people who play games value high scores just as much as they do their own personal well-being.

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When you're sitting in front of a TV screen, controller or plastic wheel in-hand, there's not quite the sense of danger that comes on the racetrack.

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What makes it work - and, perhaps more importantly, why do racing bores like myself keep bringing up iRacing, a PC game that's coming on for a decade old and one with a relatively small, if very dedicated, community? It's because iRacing sets a gold standard for online racing, and its big ideas have taken a bafflingly long time to find their way into other games.Д¬hief amongst those is the safety rating, which is primarily a way to emulate the sense of risk that comes in real racing. Gran Turismo Sport really does feel like an 'iRacing lite' for consoles. The online racing is several steps beyond what's gone before and, judging from a few days with the generous demo that's been live this week, Polyphony Digital has fulfilled one of its main objectives for this new game. That 'Sport' suffix for the series' PlayStation 4 debut sets an expectation which this new Gran Turismo happily meets. It has not, historically, really delivered when it comes to the racing side of things, though. Gran Turismo has has always done a great job of the driving. 'The real driving simulator', runs Gran Turismo's long-serving tagline, a point of pride as well as something of a distinction - whether made consciously or not - between itself and its competitors.

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