Nothing says PlayStation like Gran Turismo. And even though I loved it in my Gran Turismo 7 review and have gone back to it a couple of times since, sometimes I find myself wondering: is it really that good? When the intro starts, with all the nostalgic photographs and video clips of The Beatles, Einstein, the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford's factory line, I remember that Gran Turismo has been known to disappear up its own exhaust pipe from time to time.
But then the black and white pictures leave the screen, replaced with game footage, and I remember. The cars thump over impeccably-rendered kerbs, kicking up dust as they race over bare earth and glide serenely over snow. There's even the Castrol-liveried Toyota Celica as seen in my beloved Sega Rally Championship, looking better than any other game. Better, perhaps, than real life. OK, I'm sold. Let's play Gran Turismo 7 again.
