Nice to see that console players can experience this game also.
Absolutely, with this and GT7 I am having a wonderful time with racing games at the moment. I wasn't even going to buy GT7 for a while because of this release but so many of the reviewers I tend to listen to were having such a good time with the game that I couldn't resist.
I would have been very happy with just this for a very long time as it's so good at what it does.
it's certainly not the best looking driving game at the moment, as people point out but they're not the largest of studios and they've really concentrated on getting the handling right and really can feel that they're really throwing a
lot of numbers around in terms of the handling model.
That's not to suggest that it doesn't look good because playing the PS5 version is fantastic, it's certainly not pushing any boundaries in terms of visuals in these versions and it could certainly do with a bit of a polish here and there but I am very happy with how it looks. The last gen versions were a bit of a mess really but I am more than happy with this.
Admittedly, it takes such concentration when playing it on a pad (got rid of my last wheel years ago) that it could be either the best or worst looking game ever produced and I'd be concentrating so hard on just not crashing/exploding/dying in the game that I likely wouldn't notice the difference. As Oliver mentioned in teh analysis, they've actually done a really good job with the DualSense controls but you'll obviously never get the same range of movement and sensitivity as you'll get from a decent wheel.
I really can recommend this to people but just be prepared that if you're not used to this level of simulation that it is going to take time to be able to keep up with what it expects of you. I do recommend people picking up the GT4 in particular, simply because GT4 will always be far more interesting than GT3 in terms of racing and also because if you are new to this sort of thing, it does give you a slightly shallower learning curve to deal with.