You know, after watching the trailer a few times, I don't quite like it. Now, don't get me wrong, I love me some Forza, but the trailer was way too focused on the aesthetics of the game rather than the nuts and bolts of the matter, the racing!!! Instead, we get the cars spinning and these crazy maneuvers, which are all very cool, but fail to get across the main aspect of the game, and that the game is a racing game. Not a driving game, a racing game.
Grand Turismo trailer
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The Grand Turismo trailer above really hit home for me. When you see the Le Mans cars come on at around 1:46, I was taken back. That screamed racing to me. And throughout the trailer you see actual racing.
Finally, before you call me some Grand Turismo nut, know this: I've never played one of the Turismo games before. And I'm more of a Forza fanboy. But going off these trailers, and the very fact that Turismo allows 16 (!) online players as opposed to Forza's 8 (pathetic) I'm really swayed to go get Grand Tursimo. I don't know if anything is set in stone yet, but Forza would very much help themselves by bumping the online play to at least 12.
8 online players for Forza equals the single most disappointing fact about the game. Especially when I saw something (which was obviously fraudulent information) that hinted towards 24 players allowed in online play.
Shame.