>>715935752it's pretty good, for a game stuck in development hell with visibile screen tearing in 1080p mode
aside from that pretty sovlful, I skipped all the internet drama back then but apparently it just wasn't the improvement everyone expected from a title with so much time in development that's also a follow-up to gt4 is probably to this day considered as the peak of the series if you consider the whole package
they also kinda messed up with the career and especially some of the cars that didn't get high definition internals
soundtrack is nice, it looks good and there's stuff to do, also photo-mode is just something you need to try once to see it yourself, presentation wise it holds up quite well
online is dead (you can still unlock all the DLCs tho, look it up), however in gt6 on the other hand they kinda revived it recently, so if you were to choose between the two then I would say
pick gt5 for a better campaign experience and stuff that wasn't ported to gt6, pick gt6 if you just want more shit (it has more cars and tracks) and it also has different driving physics, beware of install times for gt6, probably the longest install of the entire ps3 library with mgs4 somewhere close