PGR3 is a pretty damn good launch game. It looks pretty, it controls pretty. However, something's missing.
PGR3 is an oldschool racer. In the career mode, there are several trophies to win. Before each race you can choose difficulty. If you go with easy, it IS really easy. The only way to get some challenge is if you choose 'Hard' at least. Hardcore is sometimes too hard, though.
There are many race types, but only a few are really enjoyable. Classic race, overtake, coin challenge, drift challenge, time trial... and many more.
But honestly, it's nothing extra. There are too many drift and time trial challenges. More race would have been better.
Anyhow, there are city and nuburgring races. City races are most of the time pretty boring. 3 locations: London, New York, Las Vegas. There's no traffic, you can't leave the race track aswell. There's no free roam mode... but there's a route creator, however, you have VERY limited creativity there.
Nurburgring is fun, at least. Several sprint and circuit routes. Gotta love the german.
Graphics... the best looking race game. The cars are incredible, they are so pretty, they wanna come off the screen. THe enviorment is good too, however, not as great as the cars. But what's amazing is the dashboard view. The only complaint I have is the incompatibility with 1280x1024 VGA resolution. To people like me who use monitor to play, well, that resolution is the best. Plus, on my 5:4 17' TFT 1024*768 looks crappy.
And I should mention that with some cars in dashboard view, the painting on the sides of the windshield is a little pixelated. Nothing big, just a little annoying.
The controls are fair, arcadish, though the cars react a little too quick , after playing NFS and FlatOut, it's hard to get used.
There's online career mode, where you can play the same challenges as in offline career, the only diff is that you play with human oppenents.
Overally, PGR3 is good, not revolutionary, no.. not at all. It's missing free roam, real challenges(no weather change for example..).
One more note: There's content on XboxLive! which you can download. Content contains several cars. It's a great idea, however,y ou gotta pay for it... That's bad. I paid 60euro, I don't wanna pay anymore...