Sony To Offer Mercedes SLS AMG To GT5 Gamers

24 Dec 2010 at 08:37:34 by Dave Gibbon

This coming Monday Sony is to launch a Gran Turismo 5 competition, with the winner collecting a real-life Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG worth €180,000.

Furthermore, 15 regional winners from across 22 countries will enjoy a Mercedes-Benz Driving Event.

To enter the competition, owners of the Signature Edition should  make sure they have downloaded all the latest updates to GT5. Then  they will need to redeem their voucher code via PlayStation Store on their PS3 and register their details on www.Gran-Turismo.com.

Once they have completed these steps they will be able to access the Signature Edition Challenge from within Gran Turismo 5. The Challenge takes place in Gran Turismo 5’s B-spec mode – where players take the role of team director with their own AI drivers doing the racing.

Describing the event, Sony wrote: “The Challenge is being held over a series of five races on different circuits. The choice of B-spec mode opens the competition to more than purely the fastest GT5 racers, and there will be no limit on the number of times entrants can complete the races.  In-game leaderboards for each region will display the top 50 race times for each circuit, as well as the top 250 combined times across the five races.

“Entrants with the fastest total time from each region at the closing time (23:59 (GMT) on 31 January 2011) will be invited to take part in the second phase of the competition – the Mercedes-Benz Driving Event where winners from each international region will compete against each other in a series of real driving challenges under the scrutiny of judges. Points will be awarded for each challenge with the winner taking home the stunning SLS AMG.”

Commenting on the Signature Edition Challenge, Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi said: “We have enjoyed a brilliant working relationship with Mercedes-Benz throughout the production of Gran Turismo 5 and the stunning prize that they have offered for this competition is a testament to that. I am particularly happy that we have developed such a balanced challenge which both newcomers to the Gran Turismo brand, and more experienced racers, will find equally enjoyable.”

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