Gran Turismo 5 will be released this fall

British online store Play.com announced the release date of the racing simulator Gran Turismo 5: pre-orders of the game are scheduled to begin shipping on 27 November 2009. When asked by Western journalists, the store clarified that this information came directly from the publisher Sony Computer Entertainment. Today, however, the shipping date was changed to 4 December. Sony itself and the creator of Gran Turismo 5 the studio Polyphony Digital declined to comment.

The fifth installment of the popular series, recall, has been in development for at least three years and has been repeatedly delayed during that time. In early 2008 year Polyphony released a peculiar paid "demo" Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which to date has been purchased by nearly four million owners of PlayStation 3. The latest version of Prologue contains 70 cars and 6 tracks. Gran Turismo 5 will include more than a thousand car models, 80 tracks, several game modes and will be able for the first time in the series to boast a damage model.

The main competitor to Gran Turismo 5 - Forza Motorsport 3 - was sent to press the other day and will be released on Xbox 360 at the end of October.

Source: playhard.ru