Gran Turismo 5’s GT Academy contest gives the winners a chance to take their driving from the virtual world to reality and race a real car in real life but certain flaws in the game have cropped up and thrown the standings into disrepute.
One of the users on the Gran Turismo enthusiast site and forum, GT Planet, had noticed that the three best times in the race all used the same ‘shortcut’ by cutting across a chicane, completely bypassing two corners by driving right over the grass.
Naturally, the rest of the competitors and players alike are calling for heads to roll and complaining that it would be completely ridiculous if those times are allowed to stand. Naturally, we have to agree on this.
Eventually, the folks at the SCEA threw those times out reconfigured the course to eliminate the chances of that event repeating itself.
The question remains though that the game itself doesn’t penalise blatant disregard for illegal manoeuvres like that and if another competitor were to find a ‘shortcut’ like that without anybody finding out, how does that lend the contest credibility?
On the other hand, there are those that argue that if the game does allow for it, why isn’t it allowed to stand. In the words of the legend Smokey Yunick himself, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.”
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Source: GT Planet
