Project Gotham Racing 3 review video
The popular PGR franchise zooms onto the Xbox 360, expanding many of the Project Gotham Racing features that gamers have grown to love. Project Gotham Racing 3 creates the ultimate roster of the hottest supercars in existence, introduces them to the high-definition era, and drops them into a completely new gaming world, where style rules the road. Gamers drive with style and daring to earn Kudos in front of large crowds, and win badges to reward their skills in all areas of the game. Racers define and create individually customized gameplay, and can race each other — online or offline. The Project Gotham Racing franchise is designed by Bizarre Creations, a long-established independent games developer, based in Liverpool, England.
Bizarre crafts a polished, blazingly fast racer that’s made to last. Watch this Project Gotham Racing 3 video review.
Features in Project Gotham Racing 3:
* The original Kudos challenge. Speed alone will not win this race. PGR 3 rewards the best drivers for their ability to execute bold moves as they race. Powersliding, pulling off a 360, getting airtime, staying on the race line, drafting and getting up on two wheels will earn gamers Kudos points for their style and skill.
* The ultimate supercar collection. Gamers can live out all their dream car fantasies as they own more cool cars than they ever thought possible. Players can take the wheel of any of the 80 authentically modeled and licensed supercars from manufacturers such as Ferrari, Dodge and Lamborghini. With fully modeled interiors, functioning dashboards and individually recorded engine roars, life truly begins at 170.
* A world of living, breathing cities. PGR 3 transports gamers to intricately modeled popular locations, including New York, Tokyo, London, Las Vegas and Nurburgring. The tracks are brought to life and populated by thousands of people in the crowds — all motion-captured — making “PGR 3” a racing game that really has to be seen to be believed.
* GothamTV takes gamers online with Xbox Live. PGR 3 exploits next-generation worldwide connectivity to let drivers show off in front of a global online audience. With GothamTV, gamers can watch the top players in the world on live news feeds, get live ticker-tape information when friends break records, and compete with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Drivers can choose to casually involve themselves in the online side of GothamTV or set out to climb the ranks and conquer the entire institution of worldwide PGR 3 racers.
* Customized gameplay. Gamers have asked to race their own way, and now they can. No longer are gamers forced to race cars they don’t want or battle through the game just to see a city they want; how gamers play the game, and in which car, is now in their hands. And if they want to show their friends, they can go online and challenge them.
* Real life in the living room. Gamers can take their Xbox 360, PGR 3, a television with HDTV and a Dolby 5.1 setup, plug it in and take it away. With individually recorded engine sounds, ambient recordings at every real-life location and GothamTV’s unique user interface, PGR 3 gamers are stepping into a whole new reality.
To quote the video review: “Microsoft and Bizarre Creations have fashioned a beautiful, fast-moving racer in a style Xbox gamers are all too familiar with. The game is gorgeous, deep in modes and challenges, and well balanced, even if it’s nothing more than a minor leap in gameplay over its predecessor. On the one hand that doesn’t bother me a bit. The game wasn’t broken before, and now it’s more accessible. It’s even fatter with modes and online gameplay and challenges, credits, medals, kudos, and trophies than before. On the other hand, there is nothing drastically or even moderately next generation about the racing itself. It handles almost identically to PGR2, the AI balance is similar and the courses and kudos tricks are all in-line with the previous games. There are slight differences, but not many nor enough. Still, as a launch title for Xbox 360? Hell, this is without hesitation on my top five list. It’s a no-brainer, must-have launch title.”
Presentation — 8.5
Graphics — 9.0
Sound — 9.0
Gameplay — 8.5
Lasting Appeal — 9.0
Overall — 8.8
