Gran Turismo 4 Finished, Sequel Planned

A kid's version of Gran Turismo as well as a fifth installment planned--which will finally have damage modeling.

According to Gran Turismo producer and Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi, Gran Turismo 4 is now gold and on schedule for its December 3 release in Japan.

In addition, Yamauchi revealed at a party held for the completion of the game that two new Gran Turismo titles are being planned.

The first, which he called "Gran Turismo for Boys" will be geared for children 8 years and under, and be either low-priced or just completely free--more as a way for kids to get into cars than to make a profitable game.

"For cars, if you're not exposed to them as a kid you just won't like them," said Yamauchi. "That's why we need to bring car enthusiast entertainment to kids--that's how we're thinking of using [the franchise of] Gran Turismo."

Yamauchi also commented on his vision for Gran Turismo 5, saying that damage modeling will be a "big theme"--and implied that the complexity of featuring it was a factor in its absence of previous installments.

"With Gran Turismo games until now cars couldn't crash or flip over. It is more difficult to faithfully represent this than to simple model a car running," said Yamauchi. "You have to bring to life all the secret factors in cars, as well as have the cars deform according to the laws of physics. But we'd really like to put this feature in Gran Turismo 5, and think it will be one of the big themes for the game."

Gran Turismo 4 is slated for release on December 14 for the PlayStation 2 in North America.

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