Gran Turismo 5 is proof that effort and passion truly can be put into a realistic racing sim. That being said, man I really don't like realistic racing sims. The game looks pretty good for the PS3, but not good enough to justify the fact that it took well over two hours to install itself from its disk. There seems to be a good amount of modes, plus a huge amount of different cars and customization options to choose from, and when not simply showing off its hyper realistic graphics, the presentation is pretty good as well. The problem is that the actual gameplay is just completely uninteresting to me. The driving is not that exciting and gets old really quickly. This is a pretty big problem in a game like this where you are expected to grind to progress through the game and get unlockables. The entire game is really meant for a certain type of person who would probably play it as their only video game for a significant period of time. If played in that manner, this would probably be a pretty decent game. But as it is, it's just not for me.