833: Gran Turismo 7 PS4 \\ Idris Elba sings in GT7 Music Rally--now blocked in Russia!
1Update 6/19/22: Just notified this video is now blocked in Russia by Sony Music Entertainment (SME) due to Idris' song, Vroom! No Vroom for Putin!
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Playing Gran Turismo 7 on a stock (non-Pro, non-HD-upgraded) PS4, while it is still downloading--so you're stuck playing this beat attack "Music Rally" minigame thingy with three tracks in which to run a little music race with time+ checkpoints.
The first of the Music Rally tracks, "Hooked on Classics 1&2," hit a copyright claim on YouTube, so I had to mute it. (Probably for the best, actually; that track is just terrible. ; P I tried YouTube's "beta" muting of just the music, but it had eh mixed success you could say.) Amateur stuff there, Digital Polyphony! Come on!
Ah-yep I'm the dope who didn't realize "2K" meant 1080p. : P Also I somehow didn't quite figure out that the minigame timer was the length of the music track itself, you know, that big red meter filling up at the top of the screen. = P
0:00 - start
3:02 - Display Settings
5:22 - Music Rally
6:52 - Controls configuration
8:22 - Assist Settings
8:12 - Hooked on Classics 1&2 - Alsace
11:06 - muted due to copyright claim, thanks DP! ;PPP (to 41'34)
42:52 - VROOM - Tokyo Expressway
51:40 - SURV1V3 - Trial Mountain Circuit
52:42 - Controller Settings
1:17:06 - GT Sport (comparison)
1:21:26 - GTS Dragon Trail Seaside F1500T-A ghost laps
1:30:19 - wrap-up & what's next!
44:08 - I know Idris Elba has an English accent, I thought at first this singing voice had an almost South African accent or something though, I dunno, I'm an uncultured idiot
According to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiki_Kasho , the song for the third track, "SURV1V3," is from Gran Turismo 5 Prologue; composed by Japanese video game--mostly GT series it looks like, back to GT3--composer Daiki Kasho, with "vocals by Jonathan Underdown from fade, lyrics by ayesha cole."
That second song, "VROOM," with Idris Elba singing was made for Gran Turismo 7; the official video on PlayStation's account is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quMjSrxpgQY , where you can see the magnificent Elba lounging it up on the hood of a muscle car thing pumping out colorful smoke. Idris isn't that bad for the environ-ment?? Anyway that song was nice and chill to race to, a real break from the audio horrors of the other two tracks, sheesh!
Oh right, 5 Prologue was the cut-down preview version of GT 5--December 2007, and 5 full didn't appear until Nov 2010!
That free download game on PS3 was Gran Turismo HD Concept (Dec 2006); GTHD full was canceled and became Prologue instead.
The second track, the Tokyo Expressway one, looks a lot nicer in 7 vs GT Sport--so much more detail in the lighting alone! Load times seem slightly faster than Sport, at least here in this weird minigame, which is all I've been able to play so far because my internet is slow. ":P From this little glimpse it seems basically like a nicely overhauled upgrade of Sport, which isn't a terrible thing.
And they fixed Sport's dropout-plagued rear-view mirrors!
The driving--I use motion control here, like I did in Sport--is at least as smooth as in Sport, maybe felt a hair sharper, too. I looked up reviews on GTPlanet and they had a similar and of course much more detailed impression--they said handling of oversteer, understeer, and traction control saw some improvement, primarily, whatever that all means.
Hm flipping through the video, the color also looks sharper in 7.
My driving was heinous but it isn't the motion control's fault!
Checked my PS4 today it says it's all downloaded now so next outing should be crashing into stuff in the actual game!
3/5/22
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