Project Gotham Racing 3 keeps the series fresh and fun! A great racing game that should belong in your 360 collection!!!
Gameplay-
PGR3 has an abundance of gameplay features. Racing in this game is very realistic, stylish and rewarding. Of course the Kudos points system makes a return to the series, which rewards you skill and money points/bonuses for cool and stylish things you do in a race. For example if you perform great drift motions on big turns on the track, your Kudos points will rise substantially. All of the great tricks and wins you accumulate are easily tracked and recorded to your profile seamlessly. There are over 80 sexy, speed demons in the game, which is a pretty good number of cars adding for a little more variety. There are many different types of races in PGR3, from normal street races to a mode where you have to beat the speed of the camera following your car! The control scheme of the game is easy to get used to after several thorough play-throughs, and it feels comfortable as you keep playing races. Overall the gameplay in PGR3 is great. Doesn't quite accomplish mass innovation, but still great and pure fun! 8/10
Graphics-
If you could describe PGR3's graphical prowess in one word...fantastic! The car models are damn near life-like. The shading and lighting is top notch. The tracks look incredible! You race in city's like London, Las Vegas, New York, and Tokyo and they exactly like their real life counter-parts! In one race I was racing across the Brooklyn bridge in New York. I live in New York and cross that bridge often and it was a blast to see it in a game! In another instance, it looks amazing when you drive from the first-person view! There's so much detail in the graphics. 9/10
Sound-
PGR3 exceeds in sound! Everything sounds real! From the engines humming, to crashing into a barrier, to rubber burning! The soundtrack tries to appeal to every genre, and it's pretty good. Yet I personally can't say much because I was playing music from the 360's hardrive while playing the game, lol. 10/10
Value-
It's racing game...on the Xbox 360. Xbox Live should come to mind instantly! That is where this games attains plenty of replay value. Racing online with friends and others offers plenty of fun for days to come. The online mode in PGR3 is great. Additionally, you can race offline, build custom tracks, take amazing photos, etc. There's plenty of content here to keep you coming back for more! 9/10
The Good, Bad and really Ugly!
PGR3 is a damn near perfect racing game that anyone can indulge into. Wonderful graphics, fun gameplay, plenty of replay value, it don't get much better. What PGR3 loses taste in is in-game advertising. There's ads you'll see in the environments from Samsung to Mcdonalds. There's too much ads from too many companies in this game. That's pretty much the only real drawback. It does get annoying seeing so many of those ads...
In conclusion PGR3 is great game. It can get real intense and addicting at times. You'll probably be playing this for hours on end until the next installment in the series!!!