PGR3 IS BACK BETER LOUDER AND FASTER
The quote can now be "Life begins at 170". This is the motto of Project Gotham Racing 3. And there's a reason behind this. There may be only 80+ cars in the game but that's because Bizarre decided to only include cars which had a top speed of at least 170MPH.
But some of the cars in the game have a top speed of 170MPH, and if you combine that with the tracks you have in the game, you have hardly a chance in hell of actually hitting 170MPH.
But the speed demons are in this game to make up for it. The Ferrari Enzo, the McLaren F1, and the Callaway Sledgehammer Twin Turbo. Now you may find this hard to believe but the Sledgehammer is actually the fastest car in the game with a top speed of 254MPH!
But it will take you somewhere around a minute to get to that speed because of its really slow acceleration. Plus the tracks haven't got long enough straights for you to pull it off. Not even the Nurburgring!
Which brings me to the tracks now. Yes, the Nurburgring is in the game. But there are 5 different versions and 4 point to point races here. You have the Half F1 Circuit, the Full F1 Circuit, the Nordschleife, the Nordschleife Long, and The Behemoth.
You also have 4 different cities to race around. London, Las Vegas, New York, and Tokyo. London is designed for, let's say... mediocre cars. Las Vegas for the powersliders. New York for the fast and the furious. And Tokyo for the old and slow.
But it doesn't end there. The Solo Career mode is just jam-packed with loads of different races, you have Race Against The Clock mode for setting your records, you have Online Career mode to compete against the world, or if you just want to race for fun offline or online you have Playtime mode.
And now this brings me to Xbox Live. It's probable the greatest thing to happen to online gaming; and the worst. Because with PGR3 you can get the best experience online because there is practicly no lag at all online, you have a TrueSkill ranking system to match you up with equal opponents, but it gets bad from there.
One of my friends says that on PGR3 you will always lose no matter what. And he is right. Yes you can win a race but thanks to the new feedback system on Xbox Live you'll also lose.
You can leave bad feedback on someone for various reasons. You can aviod them for unsupporting conduct which means crashing into others on purpose. You can avoid them for quitting the game, not knowing how to play the game, not being good enough, or even for being too good!
This is no joke. People can give you bad feedback for being better than them! Why is it like this?!
But back to PGR3 and its bad parts. No matter how many times you crash the car into the walls and barriers the damage isn't realistic. There is hardly any damage at all. Only visual damage.
Also many people are disappointed at the range of cars you have. More people were actually better off racing the slower cars like the Mini Cooper or the Ford SVT Lightning.
Lost of people are praying to Bizarre to include them later on in the Marketplace. But I'm not. I'm fine with what is in the game. There are a few slower cars for those people who don't like going fast. You have the Ferrari 355 F1 GTS, the Nissan Skyline, and the Lamborghini Miura P400 SV, to name a few.
My final word is that if you prefer to powerslide and race your way to victory then buy PGR3. But if you're the kind of person who prefers the speed of a Segway then go get PGR2. Just stay away from Gran Turismo 4. Who in their right mind wants to go back to the son of the horrible PS3 with its old-gen graphics and horrible controllers? And who really needs 800 cars?!
Just get basicly every racing game that comes out for the 360. Because the 360 is here to stay .