GT4 intro cinematic

Just four more days until Gran Turismo 4 ships in the US market. I can barely contain my enthusiasm! Though, sadly, my own personal internal hype machine for GT4 died about two weeks ago. I'm now merely excited, rather than moist with anticipation.

To tide you over, here's your chance to see the absolutely gorgeous intro movie from the game. Say what you will about Polyphony, they know how to create a gorgeous, captivating intro to their releases. Even Prologue's intro rocked, and that was a joke of a game.

No word yet on if we're getting the special European features of the game in the US market. You see, the fine folk in Europe, who have to wait until next month, are getting 12 extra cars. Now I don't especially care about that (though the Volkswagen is nice). What I DO care about is the feature to switch from driving (A-Spec) to management (B-Spec)
during pitstops. That would make the endurance races far more realistic as you could simulate the mandatory driver changes that are required under the rules in all endurance races that I know of.

Of course, given how SCEA have treated the US market before with GT, my guess is we'll just get the plain Japanese version, meaning it's all or nothing in the endurance races. And there are three 24 hour races. And no, you can't save the game midrace. Ridiculous design decision.