When you first start this game you realise how big it has now gotten. There are just so many countries with different car manufactures it takes about 20 minutes just to check them all out. There are many extra tuning options now, and more specific tuning companies as well, like Spoon Sports, Blitz, HKS and many others. They all seem to have the same parts, so I don't know if there is any difference, but you can only go to certain tuning shops depending on the current car your using.
There has been an explosion in the evens categories in this game, some you can't even look at until you meet a required condition. There are now more licences, but they are pretty standard, one nice thing though is that once a licence is complete you get a car as a reward. As a bonus to fans also, is that you can transfer up to 100,000 Cr. from a GT3 save, and the first two licences from GT4: Prologue, I didn't bother as I really didn't see the point. Sure you get a head start in the game, but GT is about building up you cars and cash.
Second hand cars are now back in the game, and allow you to grab a bargain. I picked up a Honda Civic Type-R '97 for 9,990Cr which is a great starting car. After an oil change and a new engine management chip I was blazing.
I only got around to completing the Sunday Cup, which is very easy and only 5 races long. How ever GT4 has a very solid feel to it now. Cars respond much more realistically now and have a much better sense of speed to them.
I also checked out Photo Mode, and have put a couple of quick images below from it. If you want to loose hours from your life this is the thing to use. It's very easy to use, but just offers so many options and locations you want to keep trying new things with it. Defiantly worth checking out once you acquire some really hot cars.
Another thing that is just a minor peeve of mine is that there are so many utterly useless cars in this game, yet the one that I really wanted to be included, the Mazda SP23 isn't there. Once you see some of the cars you really just wonder, sure there are 700 cars, but I really don't know how many version of the Skyline you need in one game.
