After yearsz living under the shadow of Gran Turismo, I really hoped this would be the breakthrough the series needed. I wasn't a fan of GT7 or Sport, and the promotional material for this game promised a LOT great things... Sadly, it under-delivered a lot of them. The graphics had a Watch Dogs level of downgrade. The game is incredibly buggy. One common bug in particular will make you lose progress in the last race. Car models and sounds are still subpar. The XP system is needlessly grindy and detracts to what would otherwise be a pretty decent tuning system.

The only thing this game got right was controls and physics, but they're meaningless when the rest of the game barely functions. Ditching the number wasn't a fresh start. It was a return to ground zero...