Gran Turismo 4 Prologue
Forget the clinical license tests and used car lots of GT4. Prologue had one focus: the and its newly added reverse layout. The menu music wasn't the usual lounge jazz; it was moody, lo-fi electronica. The background screens showed tuned Japanese sports cars parked under highway overpasses at dusk— Initial D meets a melancholy Murakami novel.
Gran Turismo 4 Prologue was so successful in Japan (selling over 1 million copies) that it created a template. Polyphony would later release Gran Turismo HD Concept (for PS3) and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue using the exact same strategy. However, GT4 Prologue remains the most significant because of its obscurity. Gran Turismo 4 Prologue



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