While many games feature some sort of online component these days, players tend to expect their single-player experiences to be left intact when playing offline, but such is not the case with Polyphony Digital’s huge new racer, Gran Turismo 7. In playing the game ahead of launch, we’ve found that nearly the entire game is made unavailable when playing offline. In fact, the game is whittled down to little more than a demo mode if you’re not connected to the internet while playing.
Gran Turismo 7 features a great number of modes and experiences, and all but one of them, World Circuits, is made unavailable if you play GT7 without an internet connection. This is something Sony detailed last fall, when series creator Kazunori Yamauchi said most of the game needs to be played online “to prevent cheating overall from people trying to modify the save data.”
