Gran Turismo Sport ( GT Sport ) is the 7th major instalment in Kazunori Yamauchi's popular racing series and the first exclusively released for the PlayStation 4. It's been 4 years since the previous instalment and I was ready to dust off my racing gloves, start the engine and hit the asphalt again.

Gran Turismo Sport is a bona fide virtual motorsport and that's awesome. But single-player modes are lacking and it's demonstrably outshone by Forza Motorsport 7 in virtually every area.

Ultra-solid driving with incredible depth of handling nuance; The cars look beautiful; especially glass effects; Online mode feels carefully curated and important

Completely clams up if the internet connection goes down; Weak crashes and familiar; last-gen feeling; Single-player is reminiscent of PSP Gran Turismo

Buy Gran Turismo Sport If you only owned a PS3 and accepted nothing but Gran Turismo as your racing game of choice, you had to exhibit lots of patience. A proper entry in the series didn't arrive until Gran Turismo 5 in 2010, four years after the system's release.

Many aspects of this new-generation Gran Turismo are fantastic. It looks absolutely stunning, sounds great, drives superbly, and delivers an excellent online racing experience. However, GT Sport is a little lacking when it comes to its content.

In its need to please as large demographic as possible, GT Sport is unmistakably deep but oddly sparse compared to its illustrious predecessors. The game feels more like a prologue to the inevitable Gran Turismo 7 , hopefully including everything that was left out here.

Let's not forget what's been lost for the series' PlayStation 4 debut, though. There's none of that old scope, and only a fraction of the old madness that made Gran Turismo so endearing.

Online play only. Career mode involves doing licences and tracks, on a pre chosen car. Am still to figure out why there is any need for a garage. Or collecting cars. Cant modify cars, did I mention no offline racing. Have to wait for 20 to 30 minutes to get on to one of three races.

In an age where established franchises seem to come front-loaded with as much content as the developers can stuff into them, there's something rather refreshing about Gran Turismo Sport. This baby is streamlined.

I bought the ps4 ....as im 44 seemed along time to wait to buy my first console ...but im so glad i did..graphics and speed are fantastic on this game ...

The space between releases for the Gran Turismo series has always been at the back of the minds of racing fans for many years. There's no two ways about it, developer Polyphony Digital is a studio that strives for perfection.