GTR Revival: New Logo & First Screenshot Unveiled

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Having gotten the developer core of the GTR series back together, Straigth4 Studios is working on a new sim that should follow in the - certainly enormous - footsteps of both previous titles in the series. Now, the very first in-engine screenshot is available, courtesy of Studio Head Ian Bell, in addition to a logo for the project.

GTR and GTR2 have set new standards for endurance racing simulations in the mid-2000s, and GTR Revival wants to expand on this legacy: AI-based commentary and race engineers, varied content and a partnership with Reiza Studios seem like promising cornerstones for most of the team that had also worked on the original titles.

Not too much about GTR Revival was shown thus far, apart from detailed info on Straight4's personnel and their plans. Bell had promised to show in-engine footage soon on Twitter this week, and he delivered just a day later.

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The first in-engine screenshot of GTR Revival shows the cockpit of an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II. Image credit: Straight4 Studios

In it, the cockpit of an Audi R8 LMS GT3 (presumably the Evo II version, as it is the most recent one) is visible, entering the S do Senna at Interlagos - likely a nod to Reiza's involvement with Straight4. The screenshot shows off detailed visuals and interesting lighting with what looks like rain clouds rolling in over the Brazilian circuit.

GTR Revival is not another title in the line of GT3 simulators, though, as the Straight4 team has expressed its desire to create different content from throughout the years of racing history as well, and it could also mean the return of the car and track rosters of the previous GTR titles.

New Tire Model Coming​

Bell also confirmed the development of a new tire model for the title: The Seta model, which is rooted in the Madness engine Bell and his former team at Slightly Mad Studios created, will receive a successor called Seta 2 for GTR Revival. Seta had recently been the focus of Reiza's in Automobilista 2, as the Brazilians had discovered that remnants of the old ISI-based engine interfered with Seta to cause undesirable handling, resulting in the big improvements of the recent v1.5 update.


GTR Revival does not have a fixed release date yet, but Straight4 is aiming for a launch in late 2024.

Your Thoughts​

What do you make of the first screenshot of GTR Revival? What are your hopes for the title? Let us know in the comments below!
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I find it interesting how many people are discarding this as another gt3 racer, based on a single render and some hype posts from S4. We don't know yet what the content will be. Probably even S4 don't know yet for sure, that's why they were asking the community about it some time ago. There were interesting proposals on the table...
I for one would be perfectly happy with some (semi-historic) content from 2000s, as the Revival moniker implies.
 
With the recent improvements to AMS2, this title suddenly seems viable. It would be interesting to find out more about how much the two studios are helping each other.
 
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It's different because is another Project Cars game, with a mixed kind of cars and tracks.
It's not a GT racing sim. It's not a sim. It's a racing game with dumbed down car setups and an hidden low level stability control always active, tailored for console gamers, but advertised as a PC sim, because it makes it look cooler.
They sell it as the GTR2 sequel, but it's not and won't be nowhere near. Don't keep hopes.
They are replicating the Project Cars scheme, in every aspect. So expect the same stuff, with the same cons and bugs.
Well I hope that you're wrong, but you can't be, as you are obviously involved to the project and team and have that inside information I have no reason to disbelieve what you state is true.

It's such a shame, I'll have to walk away from my dream and stay with GTR2, but thanks for the heads up even though I'm destroyed by it :(
 
I really don't get the fuss some people make that moan about the fact that there are "again" GT3s and GT4 cars in a racing sim. So yeah, there are, but chances are the sim might be also doing some things better than a 10 year old sim that has the same class of cars? Or do you guys also complain about the fact that there is every year yet another current day first person shooter that yet again has the same guns like other games or the game the years before?
I mean, duh, its the most popular car class. The amount of people who like to drive the more 'exotic' stuff thats for example in AMS2 is really a minority, so i don't blame Devs/Publishers not necessarily pushing niche cars. It's hard as it is for simracing games and if you then go even more exotic chances are your game just won't take off at all.
 
New GTR ? Yeaaaaaah !!!
Madness engine... Nooooooooo T_T
what? were they not saying the game will be on unreal engine 5? or do i confuse something? was there not some render of an Audi for a game ian bell is working on some months ago?
 
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Nice tree(s). Bob Ross would be inspired.
tbh the trees look indeed really nice :)
i remember how i was making a fuss on the project cars 1 forums back in the day (must have been 2012-2013) that they had really bad looking trees.
then ian bell commented saying, sure, they could make it all look like Endor but it would tank performance :D
luckily we are now in an era of hardware and racing games where having proper(!) 3D trees (not just fake rotating 2D ones) in the first two or three tree lines is possible.
 
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what? were they not saying the game will be on unreal engine 5? or do i confuse something? was there not some render of an Audi for a game ian bell is working on some months ago?
Unreal for graphics, Madness SETA2 for physics.
 

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