For those playing at home, this will be my third time writing just about the trailer that’s accompanied Gran Turismo Sport. The first piece takes us all the way back to January when I wrote about the just-released debut trailer:

 Sadly, from what should have been an easy trailer to nail, we’re left with an awkward piece that fails to thrill and opts to show us a parked Mazda Miata and its interior. 

A few months later, Sony followed up with a more extensive trailer that still missed the mark.

 Maybe it’s just me but I can’t help but think the creative team behind the trailers are either bored or in need a shot of caffeine. It’s almost as if they’ve inhaled their own prestigious exhaust fumes for too long, focusing instead on some grand mosaic piece instead of delivering an action packed, high-octane trailer. For crying out loud, the trailer doesn’t even include car sounds and that’s when it hit me. 

What a baffling affair, right? How do you fail to convey energy and a sense of speed in a Gran Turismo trailer? Whatever their methods, Polyphony had managed to do it twice but lucky for us, the third time seems to be the charm.

It’s almost as if somebody at Sony listened to what I had to say because the above trailer is pure brilliance – not only does it play into the almost opera-like/grandiose nature that the series has come to represent, but it’s fast paced with cars front-and-center, plenty of high-revving sounds – and it’s technical.

An aspect that’s always set apart the GT series from other racing sims has been their in-depth games mechanics and the level of visual details Polyphony Digital packs into them. With the power of PS4 Pro and PS VR, Gran Turismo Sport is able to offer new features and visuals that competitors simply can’t match, making them noteworthy in a trailer which can present their own problem – how do you convey these technical achievements without taking the viewer out of what matters the most – gameplay?

In the trailer above, we get it all, and it’s so beautifully blended in together that it manages to turn the game’s technical achievements, like HDR shine, into something exciting to watch. Much respect to whomever put that trailer together. What do you think – are you just as impressed as I was by it?