Life Begins at 170 mph
The camera is shaking, the egine sound makes me wide my ears and my fingers is tingle - both from the vibration from the road and the genuine feeling to drive quite to many horsepowers on the road over Brooklyn Bridge in blazing sunshine. The sun is shining through the windshield on my milion dollar car. Even if i take care of my 28 indispensable dream rides it's hard to keep the windshield complete clean. I have to regret that when the sun transform it to a hazy road that prevent me from watch clearly. I squint to try see trough. The sunhaze is just there in one second, but in one second you will get fairly far when you are travel in 186 mph. I drive stright into the banister with my beautiful Ferrari F430 and get passed by a line of pearls, shining metal sweet whose common expense fulfil the budget at a smaller state. The lap is over. But happy as before, because well at home in the garage. i see that my car is Completly unhurt and that is just to jump in and drive again. And not just that, I have also been tempt for a ride that i thought was impossible on tv - plasma or not.
It's not strange that the vissual gets so conclusive in a racing game - the whole genre is about giving illusion to the player of sitting in the driver seat, thought you actually sitting in the couch and stare on the tv. An rpg ( Role-Playing Game ) can look as terrible but still offer a fantastic journey. But a racing game dont get better than it's looks, and the first racing game to the Xbox 360 looks better then anything that have been seen before.
IT SOUNDS BETTER TO
Once i saw a parked Ferrari outside a cafe in Stockholm. it's the closest way i have been to a Ferrari, so i can't conclude how authentic the egine sound is in Bizarres newest creation. I can just easy and impartial establish that the cars - all of them - sounds complete damned fantastic, It bubble, roar , whine and boil. It's love and happines that is tingle in the stomach. Put together the vibration on the controller, the shaking camera from the internal view and Mozarts Dies Irae on the radio, then you will easy split the pulse to the max from the hours you got with Fear. And what is more scary than that: a little girl or the knowledg that you are surrounded by evil opponents that just wating on the right moment to put you to the wall as a stamp.
"DON'T FEEL SORY FOR ME" STOCKE-HOLM
It's sad but true: Stockholm dosen't exist anymore. that who practicaly was 23 per cent of the charm with Project Gotham Racing 2 is in other words gone. And you can maby understand that. I'm still amaze that our main capital got a portrait there and the odds that it should be back again was probably never particular low. instead we can burn tires in Tokyo, New York, Las Vegas and London - With a detour from Germany and there legendary and 15 miles long course Nürburgring ( that evidently transform to some sort of obligatorium in the context ) Do you get confused about free roam games when you dont know what to do next? calm down. Partly you not alone and partly you dont have to worry about it now. The Grand theft Auto illness have not affect the Project Gotham Racing-series yet. You not have to glide around the city to find a garage that can lower the car or instal neonlights. You not have to deign your own book mark and potter up with fingerpaint on the hood. You not have to nag the brakes on the front right and lower the airpressure on the rear left.
It's just jump in and race.
And there will be race. Your soloride gose through all of the avaiable citys, in a multi diffrent competitions. Most competition feels known by the fan of the series. It's a ordinary race ( as "pass over the finishline first" ) mixed with more altenetive games like driving between cones on a timelimit, drift as mush as possible or drive a lap on a specfic time. And left we have the series singnature: the so important and genuine Kudospoints.
The point with the points is that they will be shared to you when you do something that the boys and the girls on Bizarre Creations imagine is stylish. In front of all it's about driftning. Wish certain my object against. The whole point on a racetrack is to have as great road grip and as straight raceing line as possible. Everytime you skid you have actually cause a misstake. But not here. Here you will get points instead.
Especially problematic could it bee when you have to parry between a smal gate of cones and at the same time try to getting up to indicated kudopoint frontier. But this is not all. For players that feels home with the Need For Speed: Most Wanted are going to feel welcome in PGR 3. With the stolen, gametype eliminator. Last in after each lap eliminates out from the race until just two remains. And two drivers on a hot duel with a single opponet but a very potent one is always exciting. But overal i and my ambition have most fun when i drill with the speed test. Here it's about to get up to a indicated speed before you pass the finishline. To successful complete this you need have to fairly god understanding about whats the perfect raceingline. IT IS JUST TO HARD?
The career mode suffer a bit of to easy to sail through it. But as luck would have it there is an option you are able to change between 5 diffrent difficulty settings. from novice level and all the way up to hardcore.
Itself i try to establish through the game as a experienced player of the second hardest difficult, because i consider it's to creapy that how well the description "for drivers with confidence and styl" agree on my self. In some other way i had to reassess., but to nag difficuly in raceing games is something of a favorite.
Do you also like the highlights in Grand Turismo 4 was the licensetest? Then you are going to love Project Gotham Racing 3. Its all about set the difficulty so mush it gives a real challange. On the hardcore level should even the lead designer of Bizarre been entertained until the next game in the series comming up. The higer difficulty you complete, the more kudospoints and credist you will get. For the credits you buy new cars; the kudospoints conclude what rank in the game you should be placed on, from 1 to 10.
Apropos of credits they are to easy to earn. After some hours you have a so well filled account that you could practically cash up with any car you want. And it's not some cheap rides it's about. If you play a half day you have earnd enough credits to buy a Ferrari F430, Mclaren F1 or Koenigsegg - three of the game and the worlds most absolute toppobject. It's dismal that not be able to walk around and wait for something thats almost impossible. Sure, i can fill my three empty garage with unreasonabel luxury cars, but the joy of this fact is not as smal as you might think. And because you cant pimp your rides or not even tune them, it never feels like your own the cars as the same way as the fourwheels in Grand Turismo 4 or Forza Motorsport 2.
But there is a moment when the cars are shining a litle extra and are showing from it's more personal side: on the night. Outside it's dark, but in the careful reproduced internal view of a cupe, with a complete working dasboard with hand and gauge. and the light from dashboard is cosy as it was when you were litle child and your mom where driving you home. You watching at the gaug and numbers and dreaming away - until a sound wake you up and make a fact that there is three seconds left until start.
Because the opponents adjust after what cinde of car you are driving, it's actually regular unessential what you choose to drive. Take the one that feels best. the one who speaking to you. The one who is most elegant., it's in your hands. Then it's exciting to discover the different peculiarity of the cars. Changes can make difference between rather win or lose.
A speed test can be mush easy to complete with a RUF but hard to complete with a faster car wish is mush more hard to controll.
The feel of driving, and sorry to be a bit tedious, is filthy convincing, because the content of graphic, sound and controll are so strong. My inner tuner is confused about som techinical detail thats not represented. As the chose between antilock braking system or cars that realy get damage affects on it. or the possibility to turn off all what antispin and traction control is about, to just bring a higer feeling of driving. Everything that is in Forza Motorsport 2. Ford Mustang, for exempel is wild as a bull in the last sad game, is leisurely and cinde in Project Gotham Racing 3. The car is practically not fighting with you and makes no touble as obvious far as you dont are driveing to recklessand incautious when you exeting a curve. But i buy and swallow the kindness, Because here it's about the smallest possible complications offer as mush high contact raceing entertainment that is possible. And from there it have full deliver.
IT'S ALIVE!
When i feel that the career mode get a bit humdrum. I will walk around the garage and polish my cars or playing the retro Geometry Wars that is standing in a corner. Or a drive one of the many multiplayer modes. The Game contain quantity of multiplayer modes. And if you dont have any xbox live friends ( or more badly, no Xbox live - and in that case why? ) then you can pretend. Your Xbox assits gladly with ai-opponents (CPU) to race against. Xbox 360 center mush more around Live and internet the the previous and this is the game who leads the way. Everything you do can be compared with the players on the earth. And if you wana know what rest of the worlds best players are doing right now or what they did yesterday that will work fine to. Watch Gotham TV and see how they are driveing and try to match them. Or invite them to a lap on capture the track, where the players split up on teams and race to get the best part-time of there team. You can also earn career points online if you get tired on driveing against the CPU. The online part is extensive and increase the enormous alternetives that that already is avilable. In some way its like the previous, but mush nicer. It's just so mush nicer that it brings a whole new experience or rather the same experience but mush stronger. You wonderd what the next-gen of consoles can do fot you? The answer is that it could show the raceing games of tomorrow and show what it have to gett up to, to keep up in the war of the throne. It can offer a Genuine Supriseing trip. It can dazzle you more then one way. And it can make your day to a more happy one.
I just have one word or maby several: The in-car view, The in-car view!