On the eve of the series’s next-gen iteration, SCE UK boss, Ray Maguire has told Eurogamer that although things have evolved a fair bit since the Last GT game released, people still love Gran Turismo.

“We have to understand that the gaming landscape has changed and recognise that, but at the end of the day, I want it all,” he told the site.

“I don’t just want Angry Birds and Doodle Jump, I want Gran Turismo as well.

“Consumers will decide what they want to entertain themselves with at a certain point in time. Some of it will be a deep experience, some of it will be a very casual experience, but they’ll all fit together in a wider universe.

He also added, irrespective of the test of time, Kaz and team are still as passionate about GT as they were before:

“It took the machine to the limits, and it continued to do that all the way through to the last iteration,” he said.

“What’s interesting is that there’s been nothing until now on GT. That’s because the hardware that we have now allows for so much more freedom.

“The passion and the drive for excellence that Kazunori has is taking him all the way through to try and push the technology we have now.”

Ahead of the series’s anticipated fifth title and its launch worldwide tomorrow, SCE UK boss Ray Maguire has told EG that, while gaming tastes and technology may have evolved, the world is still keen on Gran Turismo.

Gran Turismo 5 release tomorrow the world over bringing a smile to many a gamer’s face.

Bad Company 2, particularly in its beta stage, isn’t perfect. However, not only is it a heck of a lot of fun, but it has the potential to be one of the best shooters of 2010.

The beta only comes with one game mode, Rush, and one map, Port Valdez. Rush pits two teams of up to 16 players each against each other, one to attack, and one to defend. The defending teams objective is to protect two crates from destruction. The attackers objective, naturally, is to destroy them, either by planting explosive charges or by shooting them.

Although you only get one map to play around with, you do get to experience several of the vehicles in the game. ATV quad bikes are great for flanking your enemies and running down snipers. Light tanks are very useful for attacking large groups of infantry. Then of course, there is the main battle tank. Heavily armoured and armed, this thing rolls slowly across the map, and is ideal for taking on fortified positions while foot soldiers use it as cover. If that wasn’t enough, you can even get in an Apache attack helicopter, a large armed transport chopper or use a remote control UAV to call in Hellfire missiles. All these vehicles make battles’ scenes of barely organized chaos, as tanks open up on each other and missiles rain down around you.

There are no holds barred with the weapons either. Although leveling up in BBC2 is a fairly lengthy process, it is very rewarding. New weapon unlocks, special abilities and ‘specializations’ help to create a very diverse battlefield. And this is what the game thrives on; diversity. There are three main classes in the game, and while you start off as a fairly generic soldier, you soon become very unique. Snipers can call in mortar strikes. Soldiers can throw out ammo boxes for resupply. Medics can heal wounded players and even revive the recently deceased. The engineer can repair vehicles, as well as blow them up.

The ticket system is another nice feature that encourages the attacking team to press forward at all times. Each death on the attackers team results in the loss of one ticket. Given that you only start off with 100 tickets, and you gain tickets by destroying M-COM stations, you had better lock and load soldier.

The beta isn’t quite there though; servers don’t display ping, sound issues, crashes, and there are a whole host of little niggles and annoyances. However, these are small issues in a huge game, and I am confident that by the time the game is released on March 5th, most, if not all, of these problems will be addressed.

Until then, stay tuned!